Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

******* CANCELLED ********* The Convergence of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Supercomputing

Joint talk with Cantab Capital Institute for Mathematics of Information

Dr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow/MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Friday 20 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The SkyHopper Space Telescope: Big Science with a Tiny Telescope

Michele Trenti (University of Melbourne).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Interiors & atmospheres of Super-Earths

Caroline Dorn (Universitaet Zurich).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The details in the DEVILS: Exploring the co-evolution of galaxies and halos over the last 8 billion years

Luke Davies (ICRAR).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 13 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Accretion dIscs in not-so-compact binaries

Koji Mukai (Goddard Space Flight Centre).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Spatially Resolving Outflows at the Peak of Cosmic Star-Formation

Bethan James (STScI).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaia and microlensing - an opportunity for Black Holes search

Kris Rybicki (Warsaw).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 28 March 2018, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The Escape Fraction of Ionising Photons from Early Galaxies

Richard Ellis (UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 23 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dark matter spikes around Kerr black holes

Francesc Ferrer (WUSTL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gone with the wind: The impact of wind mass transfer on the orbital evolution of binary stars

Martha Irene Saladino (Radboud).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Acceleration of tropical cyclogenesis by self-aggregation feedbacks

Caroline Muller (ENS Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A Hard Ionizing Spectrum in Ly-alpha Emitters: Implications for the Ionizing Output of Early Star-Forming Galaxies

Kimihiko Nakajima (ESO and UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 16 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

From Seeds to Monsters:  Supermassive Black Holes Over Cosmic Time

Priya Natarajan (Yale).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Analysis of Gravitational Wave Data

Michalis Agathos - DAMTP.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Atmospheric Retrieval

Note unusual date

Kevin Heng (Bern).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stokes-Smoluchowski-Einstein-Langevin theory for active colloidal suspensions

Ronojoy Adhikari (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The spin evolution of supermassive black holes

Davide Fiacconi (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 09 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

The Eddington Lectures

The Chemistry of Planet Formation and the Making of Habitable Planets

Eddingtion Lecture 2018

Karin I. Öberg (Harvard University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

One format to rule them all? How to generate high quality data for research and industry: notes from the National Physical Laboratory.

Marina Romancikova - NPL.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Unmasking hidden systems with NGTS

Max Guenther (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tuning the stellar parameters of Red Giants using spectroscopy and asteroseismology

Clare Worley.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Equality and Diversity - Athena SWAN and Juno

Ian Parry.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

CANCELLED - Mathematical methods in reacting flows: From spectral to Lyapunov analysis

Luca Magri (Engineering).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring the Galaxy's alpha-element abundances and globular cluster populations with hydrodynamic simulations

Rob Crain (Liverpool JMU).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 02 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Galactic Centre: a template for understanding star formation and feedback in a high-pressure environment

Steve Longmore (LJMU).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

A Data Intensive Approach to Modelling the Evolution of Technology

Erik Gjesfeld - McDonald Centre for Archaeological Research.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Gravitational Instability in Protostellar Discs

Cassandra Hall (Leicester).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Signatures of black hole seed formation across cosmic time

Colin DeGraf.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Planet Formation in Stellar Clusters

Andrew Winter.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wetting and elasticity: 2 experimental illustrations

Jose Bico (ESPCI Paris).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A New Paradigm for Old Galaxies?

Matt Auger (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 23 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

White dwarfs as tracers of cosmic, galactic, stellar & planetary evolution

Boris Gaensicke (Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 22 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

'The Social Anthropology of Data Centres: Debunk(er)ing Data Objectivity

A.R.E. Taylor - Department of Social Anthropology.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Exoplanet discussion session

Vinesh Rajpaul & Josh Briegal (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Evolution of Massive Galaxies from 0 < z < 5

Adam Muzzin (York University, Toronto).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

On Non-Circular Accretion Discs

Elliot Lynch.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonlinear nonmodal stability theory

Rich Kerswell (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Far-infrared emission from AGN and why this changes everything

Myrto Symeonidis (UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 16 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

The Sackler Lectures

Cosmology and Astrophysics from CMB Measurements

Sackler Lecture 2017

John Carlstrom (Chicago).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3.30 pm).

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From Black Holes to Battlefront

Chris Doran - ARM.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Polluted White Dwarfs: Constraints on the Origin and Geology of Exoplanetary Material

John Harrison (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring the Dark Sector of the Universe: A Strong Gravitational Lensing Perspective

Yiping Shu.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A multi-wavelength view of planet forming regions: unleashing the full power of ALMA

Marco Tazzari.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From dry to wet granular media

Alban Sauret (CNRS/Saint-Gobain).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmology from the Kilo-Degree Survey

Catherine Heymans (IfA, Edinburgh).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Learn how to become an AI Super-hero in research

Kenji Takeda - Director, Azure for Research, Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch), Visiting Fellow Alan Turing Institute.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

The CHEWIE survey of giant exoplanet atmospheres

Monika Lendl (Graz).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

STOP. THINK. CLICK.

Kieren Lovell.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Cluster AGN Topography Survey: Disentangling AGN and Large-Scale Structure

Becky Canning (KIPAC, Stanford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Effects of microscale features on the macroscale dynamics of swimming suspensions

Eric Keaveny (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Impact of Lya pressure on metal-poor dwarf galaxies

Taysun Kimm (Yonsei).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 02 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The birth of giants: quasars and their host galaxies in the reionisation epoch

Bram Venemans (MPIA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Challenges of Big Data in Science

Ian Bird - CERN.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Planet formation in the lab: liquid impacts as analogs for planetary collisions

Maylis Landeau (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Self-consistent models of our Galaxy in the Gaia era

Eugene Vasiliev.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Exploring transition and turbulence in shear flows via nonlinear optimization

Stefania Cherubini (Politecnico di Bari).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

An ALMA view of galaxies in the Epoch of Reionisation

Renske Smit (Cavendish).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 26 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The deaths of massive stars

Ben Davies (LJMU).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From Metrics to Models - Data Science at a Fashion Tech Startup

Erika Nitsch and Jim Downing - Metail.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution

Matteo Brogi (Warwick).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Massive molecular gas flows and AGN feedback in galaxy clusters

Helen Russell.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Coffee stains, cells receptors, and time crystals: lessons from the old literature

Ray Goldstein (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Spirals, rings, gaps and asymmetries: using disc structure to infer planet formation processes

Farzana Meru (IoA/Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Tackling Data Science using High Performance Computing: opportunities and trends

Filippo Spiga - Cambridge University Computing Service.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Planet Formation Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stop. Think. Click.

Kieren Lovell.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The telltale heartbeat: how planets on eccentric orbits reveal themselves through tides

Zephyr Penoyre (Columbia).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Meetings

What to expect from Gaia Data Release 2

Giorgia Busso & Simon Hodgkin.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Quasars in the epoch of reionization

Eduardo Banados (Carnegie Observatories).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 15 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Polluted White Dwarfs: Insights Regarding Exo-Planetary Systems

John Harrison.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Swimming in a turbulent world

Mimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

IR Spectroscopic Tracers for Galaxy Evolution Studies: the Spitzer/Herschel database

Juan Fernandez Ontiveros (IAC Tenerife).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 01 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Weather on Brown Dwarfs: New Insights from Synoptic Spectrophotometry and Fluid Instability Models

Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

HyDRA: A New Paradigm for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets

Sid Gandhi (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Lyman-Alpha Emitting Galaxies During Cosmic Reionization

Lewis Weinberger.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology

Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Evolution of the UV luminosity function of AGN out to redshift 7

Girish Kulkarni (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 24 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

Blake Sherwin (DAMTP).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The shapes of dark halos

Edward Lilley.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Simulating rotating core-collapse supernova progenitor stars

Avishai Gilkis.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Galaxy formation simulations: "subgrid" vs physics

Matthew Smith (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 17 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years

Michael McDonald (MIT Kavli Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The effect of N-body interactions in pebble accretion scenarios

Gavin Coleman (Bern).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Using tidal disruption events to study supermassive black holes

Thomas Wevers.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

VIRAC: NIR Astrometry in the Galactic Plane and Bulge

Leigh Smith.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Directed percolation transition to turbulence

Bjorn Hof (IST, Austria).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Neutron star mergers: past, present and future

Nial Tanvir (Leicester).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Dynamics & chemistry in the youngest planet-forming discs

John Ilee (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Studying Super-Eddington Accretion with High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy

Peter Kosec.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The X-Shooter Spectral Library (and other cool stuff)

Anais Gonneau.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulence and dynamo driven by tides and libration in planetary cores

Michael Le Bars (IRPHE, Aix-Marseille Universite).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The physics of AGN-driven galactic outflows

Kastytitis Zubovas (Vilnius).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 03 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Tori, disks, and winds — the AGN dust emission at high angular resolution

Sebastian Hoenig, University of Southampton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Meteorite paleomagnetism: Constraints on planetary migration and the formation of the first solids

James Bryson (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Secular resonance sculpting in debris disks

Ben Yelverton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Using multiwavelength variability properties to infer the structure of AGN

Douglas Bouisson.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Confined helical swimmers and coupled oscillators: two studies in elastohydrodynamics

Lisa Fauci (Tulane University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernova Dust

Mike Barlow, University College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Outside influence: the effects of the star-forming environment on planet formation

Richard Parker (Sheffield).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Disk Reflection Spectrum of NLS1 IRAS 13224-3809

Jiachen Jiang.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The life cycle of cool gas in cluster cores

Stephen Hamer.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A self-sustaining process theory consonant with the singular nature of turbulent wall flows

Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The thermal history of the Intergalactic Medium

Ewald Puchwein (IoA) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 20 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Frontiers in Exoplanet Characterization

Jayne Birkby (University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Searching for insight in the Kepler era

James Owen (Imperial).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

An astrometric search method for gravitational waves using Gaia

Deyan Mihaylov.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The first detection of the EM counterpart of a gravitational wave

Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A contemporary chronicle of ocean wave / sea ice interaction research: context, models, delusions and impacts

Vernon Squire (University of Otago).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Using RAVE and TGAS to understand each other, and the Galaxy

Paul McMillan (Lund).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 13 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Tarantula Nebula - A template for extragalactic star forming regions

Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

A Catch of Transits - Exoplanet Diversity As Revealed by Transiting Systems.

Note different location to usual

Daniel Bayliss (Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

GravityCam: detecting larger numbers of Earth size planets using gravitational microlensing

Craig Mackay.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Towards a measurement of the neutrino mass in cosmology

Daan Meerburg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Insect flight: from Newton's to Neurons

Jane Wang (Cornell University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gaia - the mission and first science

Gerry Gilmore (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 05 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

A new exhibit in the planetary zoo: Hot, rotating rocky planets

Note unusual date/time

Simon Lock (Harvard).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cells, Planets, Stars and Galaxies. Projects@CASU: creating image and spectroscopy analysis systems for data intensive science

Nic Walton (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth

Niel Brandt (Penn State).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Chemical and kinematical studies of the Milky Way based on the LAMOST Galactic Spectroscopic Surveys

Yang Huang, KIAA Peking.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 09:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 09:00-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop

Organiser: Manda Banerji.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Monday 25 September 2017, 10:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

ALMA high-resolution observations of molecular gas kinematics in nearby galaxies

Kyoko Onishi (Ehime University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Measuring the Hubble constant with Type Ia supernovae as near-infrared standard candles

Suhail Dhawan (Stockholm).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 30 August 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The temperature of the IGM after patchy hydrogen reionization

Laura Keating (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 18 August 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

XZ: X-ray spectroscopic redshifts of obscured AGN

Charlotte Simmonds.

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Monday 14 August 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Non-gravitational entropy and energy `profiles' in clusters - Implications for AGN feedback and Pre-heating

Subhabrata Majumdar (Tata Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 28 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Stellar feedback in the multi-phase interstellar medium

Thorsten Naab (MPA Garching).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Disk Demographics with ALMA: Insights into Planet Formation

Megan Ansdell (Hawaii).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring the IGM at the End of Reionization

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Diagnosing feedback with the Lyman-alpha forest at z~0.1

James Bolton (Nottingham).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Extremely metal-poor galaxies: Chemical laboratories of the early universe

Enrique Perez-Montero (IAA Granada).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

AGN jet feedback on a moving mesh: cocoon inflation, gas flows and turbulence

Martin Bourne (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Meetings

The dynamics of rings around irregular bodies

Bruno Sicardy (Observatoire de Paris).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Woolly Owl (Oxford/Cambridge)

18th Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 June 2017, 11:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Heating up atmospheres: optical high-resolution spectroscopy of hot gas giants

David Ehrenreich (Geneva).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The evolution of photo-evaporating proto-planetary discs in binaries

Giovanni Rosotti.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Updating the global star formation law

Mia de los Reyes.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Riemann problems for nonlinear dispersive PDE

Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Beyond the stellar-halo mass relation: links between the dark matter halo and galaxy size and the total globular cluster population.

Mike Hudson (Waterloo).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the dynamics of gravity with gravitational wave detections

Michalis Agathos (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Eccentric planets & Debris disks Interactions: Mean-motion resonances, Exocomets, and Exozodis

Virginie Faramaz (IA-PUC Santiago).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring the Star-Forming Hosts of Reddened Quasars at z~2

Clare Wethers.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unveiling young massive stars with near infrared spectroscopy and submillimetre interferometry

John Ilee.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Contact-line motion with mass transfer

Matt Saxton (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A conclusive test of cold dark matter

Carlos Frenk (Durham).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Superluminous supernovae - cosmic origins and evolution

Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 01 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Dreaming of Atmospheres

Ingo Waldmann (UCL).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The fall of the Northern Unicorn: Proper motions of the Monoceros stream and ring

Thomas de Boer.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Modelling supernova feedback in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

Matthew Smith.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mean flows and large-scale vortices in rotating convection

Céline Guervilly (Newcastle University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy clusters as hydrodynamics laboratories

Elke Roediger (University of Hull).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

SuperWASP, the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, and Doppler Tomography

Note different location to usual

David Brown (Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Accreting white dwarfs from Gaia alerts

Elme Breedt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Hunting for Dippers with Machine Learning

Christina Hedges.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

TBC.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:30-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Emission line mapping of galaxies at high resolution: optical radioastronomy

John Beckman (IAC Tenerife).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 19 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The growth of disks and bulges

Stijn Wuyts (University of Bath).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 18 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

(Pierrehumbert) Climate dynamics of lava planets. (Zanazzi) Circumbinary Disk Dynamics around Eccentric Binaries

Note unusual date and time

Ray Pierrehumbert (Oxford) & JJ Zanazzi (Cornell).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:00-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Observational signatures of warps in circumbinary discs

Attila Juhasz.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Chemical enrichment of giant planets and discs due to pebble drift

Richard Booth.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Driving upwelling by heating the lower stratosphere

Alison Ming (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Some exciting news from MUSE

Marc Sarzi (Hertfordshire).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 12 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A new generation of multi-dimensional stellar structure models

Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Processing of ices in protoplanetary disks: why chemistry matters when making planets

Catherine Walsh (Leeds).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exoplanet recycling in massive white-dwarf debris discs

Rik van Lieshout.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Quasar Host Galaxies at z~2 with ALMA

Dr. Manda Banerji (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optimal stirring for maximal mixing (NB: Batchelor Lecture)

Charlie Doering (University of Michigan).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Observing Quasars that Switch Off. And back On again: What we are learning, and still don't understand, about the active central engines.

Nic Ross (University of Edinburgh).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Does feedback matter in star cluster formation?

James Dale (University of Hertfordshire).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

(Marino) What can ALMA tell us about planetary systems? (von-Boetticher) EBLM J0555-57Ab: A Saturn-size low mass star at the hydrogen burning limit

Sebastian Marino & Alex von-Boetticher (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Microseismic event detection using machine learning and Bayesian inference

Saptarshi Das.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

New empirical calibrations of strong line metallicity indicators

Mirko Curti.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Applications of optimization and optimal control to some fundamental problems in mathematical fluid dynamics

Charlie Doering (University of Michigan).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Oscillations in fluid dynamics

Beth Wingate (University of Exeter).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Galaxy clusters at sub-millimeter wavelengths

Gianfranco De Zotti (Padua Observatory - INAF).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 28 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Hubble Space Telescope: 27 Years of Cosmic Discovery

Jennifer Wiseman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 27 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Primordial Planetesimals of the Solar System

Andrew Shannon (Penn State).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

(Ex-?)Binary stars in the Galactic thick disc

Dr. Robert Izzard (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The spiralling signatures of planet formation

Farzana Meru.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Zooming in on the internal structure of z~6 galaxies

Andrea Pallottini (Centro Fermi and Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Ellipticals lensed by ellipticals: 10 billion years of growth

Lindsay Oldham ( IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 07 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Modelling the Milky Way with Gaia DR1 and beyond

Jason Hunt (Toronto).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tidal Synchronisation of Close sdB Binaries: The Role of Convective Cores.

Holly Preece .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Observable signatures of clouds in exoplanetary atmospheres

Arazi Pinhas.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Willful fluids and the pertinence of laboratory experiments

Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 March 2017, 16:10-16:50

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Architectural fluid mechanics: From simplified models to low energy buildings

Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (University of Lisbon).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 March 2017, 14:50-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Views of the entrainment and mixing by turbulent plumes from following the plume and conditioning on its structure

Henry Burridge (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 March 2017, 14:00-14:40

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Do iceberges melt like glaciers?

Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 March 2017, 11:50-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From yard sticks to 3D fields in a turbulent world

Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 March 2017, 11:00-11:40

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Particulars of particulates

Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Seeking the Gold Standard Measurement of Star Formation at the End of the Rainbow

Rob Kennicutt (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 17 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Novae and Supernovae: Intimate Connections

Michael Shara (American Museum of Natural History in New York/IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport of particles at an air-liquid interface

Emilie Dressaire (NYU).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Life and adventures of supermassive black hole binaries: the mythical final-parsec problem

Eugene Vasilyev (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

The Eddington Lectures

Physical Manifestations of Evolution, Regularity and Chaos In and Around Our Galaxy

Eddingtion Lecture 2017

Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Breaking the activity barrier in exoplanet radial-velocity surveys through solar investigations at HARPS-N

Raphaëlle Haywood (CfA Harvard).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Lensed quasars in DES and Gaia

Cameron Lemon.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring AGN Feedback Models in Cosmological Simulations

Nick Henden .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Coherent structures in turbulent shear flows

Ashley Willis (University of Sheffield) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dwarf Galaxies - Fossils of Galaxy Evolution

Eva Grebel (University of Heidelberg).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Characterising exoplanet interiors

Caroline Dorn (National Centre for Space Research & Planetary Sciences, University of Bern).

Bullard Lecture Theatre, in the Wolfson Building at Madingley Rise.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 10:00-10:45

Exoplanet Meetings

(Delrez) Probing the emission spectra of ultra-hot Jupiters using ground-based occultation photometry. (Meru) Understanding the morphology of the protoplanetary disc, Elias 2-27

Laetitia Delrez & Farzana Meru (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

A hitchhiker’s guide to planet evolution: how to unravel the coevolution of planet interiors, fluid envelopes and life

Vlada Stamenkovic (Dept of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 15:00-15:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Abiotic chemical cycling on Earth and beyond

Ollie Shorttle (Dept of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:05-12:50

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Geophysical influences on surface habitability - from Earth to rocky exoplanets

Lena Noack (Dept of Reference Systems and Geodynamics, Brussels).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 10:00-10:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

The Composition of Rocky Planetary Bodies: Earth and Exo-planetary

Amy Bonsor (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 09:00-09:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Two stories on Ostwald ripnening in microfluidic devices

Charles Baroud (École polytechnique).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The circumgalactic gas and metals around star forming and elliptical galaxies

Sijing Shen (Oslo).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Plurality of Worlds

Amaury Triaud (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Heated snowballs, Batman! a.k.a. Interior and atmospheric structures of hot watery super-Earths

Scott Thomas (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Peering Through The Clouds: Retrieving Properties of Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres

Ryan MacDonald.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Mixing in Massive Stars

Adam Jermyn .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Buoyancy and chemical effects in geophysics

Silvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The effect of AGN radiation pressure on dust

Tiago Costa (Leiden Observatory).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Athena X-ray observatory in the late 2020s Astronomy landscape

Xavier Barcons (IFCA (CSIC-UC)).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 16 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Exocometary gas in debris disks

Luca Matra (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Using Planck to explore oscillations and features in the primordial power spectrum

Pablo Lemos Portela.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar streams around the Magellanic Clouds in 4D

Camila Navarrete .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optimal transport and mesh adaptivity for global atmospheric modelling

Hilary Weller (University of Reading) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The upper bound on the lowest mass halo

Prashin Jethwa (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A 3D View of the Dark Universe: illuminating intergalactic gas with fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission

Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH Zurich, Institute for Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Population Statistics of Planet and Brown Dwarf Formation via Gravitational Instability

Duncan Forgan (St. Andrews).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Star formation and metallicity of low-mass galaxies out to z~1: Recent progress from deep spectroscopic surveys

Ricardo Amorin.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The shut down of star formation in galaxies at z~1: obtaining direct evidence for its environmental dependence

Jasleen Matharu .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Understanding the epoch of reionisation and the first galaxies with 21cm and line intensity mapping

Jonathan Pritchard (Department of Physics, Imperial College London).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 14:45-15:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

The emerging fields of astrostatistics and astroinformatics: understanding early, mid and late cosmic evolution

Jason McEwen (Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London (UCL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:45-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Understanding Dark Matter through dwarf galaxies and stellar streams in large surveys of the sky

Sergey Koposov (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 15:30-16:15

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Optimising Type Ia Supernova Distances & Cosmology: Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Optical and Near-Infrared Light Curves and Spectra

Kaisey Mandel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 14:20-15:05

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Deciphering the dynamical Universe via large scale Bayesian data interpretation

Jens Jasche (Technische Universitat Munchen).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:30-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Atypical late-time singular regimes accurately diagnosed in stagnation-point-type solutions of 3D Euler flows

Miguel Bustamante (University College Dublin) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Interpreting ALMA observations of the ISM in a normal galaxy at z=7.1

Stefano Carniani (Cavendish) and Harley Katz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planets Within and Around Binary Stars: Extremophiles of Planet Formation

Roman Rafikov (DAMTP, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

(Universal Life) Consequences of Heavy Bombardment Periods on Chemistry of the Early Earth

Martin Ferus (Prague).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Self-Consistent Emission Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres.

Siddharth Gandhi.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Searching for bio-signatures with direct imaging/spectroscopy

Ian Parry.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Cracking Cosmic Dawn

Anastasia Fialkov (Harvard University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 30 January 2017, 12:15-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid deformation of the solid Earth: Bending and breaking rock and ice

Jerome Neufeld (BPI/DES/DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

ANALOGS OF PRIMEVAL GALAXIES: CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF YOUNG DWARF GALAXIES AT z~3

Ricardo Amorin (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Palaeontology

Eline Tolstoy (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Understanding Planet Formation by Studying the Evolution of Hot Neptunes and Super-Earths

Eric Lopez (Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rapidly Variable Relativistic Outflows from AGN

Michael Parker.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Phylogenetics and the chemical evolution of the Galaxy

Paula Jofre.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Spin-down in a rapidly rotating cylinder container with mixed rigid and stress free boundary conditions

Andrew Soward (Newcastle University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A Muse Analysis of a Brightly Lensed Galaxy at z~5

Renske Smit (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102: a long time ago in a galaxy far-far away

Jason Hessels (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The early formation scenario for super-Earths

Chris Ormel (Amsterdam).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

How does planetary material arrive in the atmospheres of white dwarfs?

Amy Bonsor.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

White Dwarfs, Gaia, and The Age of the Galaxy

Ted von Hippel.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Imaging of dust and molecular gas in high-redshift galaxies

Padelis Papadopoulos (Cardiff).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Delensing CMB B-modes: results from SPT.

Alessandro Manzotti (Chicago).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

X-ray spectroscopy of the intracluster medium. - Hitomi meets the Perseus cluster -

Takayuki Tamura (ISAS, JAXA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 January 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Valuable insights into the mass loss mechanism of AGB stars given by high spatial resolution techniques

Iva Karovicova (Heidelberg).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 January 2017, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Correcting Gaia TGAS parallaxes with the help of the red clump and asteroseismology

Guy Davies (Birmingham) .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 January 2017, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The Role of the Environment and Structural Transformation in the Quenching of Satellite Galaxies

Joanna Woo (ETH Zurich).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 16 December 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shaken and stirred: turbulence and rotation in molecular cloud cores

Benjamin Lewis (Exeter).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

LITTLE THINGS in 3D: robust determination of circular velocity of dwarf irregular galaxies

Giuliano Ioro (Bologna).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmology via Massive Burst of Star Formation

Ricardo Chavez.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Studying accretion onto black holes using QPO phase lags

Jakob van der Eijnden (University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Controversies in turbulence: Are we making progress?

Julian Hunt (UCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Increasing the metallicity of metal-poor stars in the Galaxy by accretion from the ISM

Girish Kulkarni (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 December 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The LMC - A large and messy neighbour

Denis Erkal (IoA, Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Exoplanets and Bright Stars with the Kepler-2 Mission

Ben Pope (Oxford).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Predictions for the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization

Girish Kulkarni.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Observational constraints on the growth of solids in protoplanetary discs

Marco Tazzari.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

The Gaseous Features of the Magellanic System

Bi-Qing For (U Western Aus).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

How to frack into and out of trouble

Herbert Huppert (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A sharper view of Pal 5's tails: Discovery of stream perturbations with a novel non-parametric technique

Denis Erkal (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Phase-resolved spectroscopy of the discs and the jets in the Galactic microquasar SS433

Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Prospects for detecting biomarkers in exoplanetary impact ejecta

Philippe Thebault (Observatoire de Paris).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Powerful winds from hungry black holes

Ciro Pinto.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Deepening questions on the path of carbon from disks to planets

Mihkel Kama.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Quasar Outflows and Black Hole Masses

Liam Coatman (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 18 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Detecting and Characterising Giant Planets with Direct Imaging

Beth Biller (IfA, University of Edinburgh).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Needle in a haystack: Distinguishing planets from false positives and red noise with the Next Generation Transit Survey

Max Guenther (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

ALMA: HD 181327 and η Corvi debris discs, evidence of exocomets

Sebastian Marino.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Crater 2: A cold giant orbiting the Milky Way

Gabriel Torrealba.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Droplet interactions in microscale inket printing

Alice Thompson (University of Manchester).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Proving a negative: what is the gas/dust ratio in protoplanetary disks?

Different time and place to usual

Jonathan Williams (Hawaii).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Observational Quest for the Earliest Galaxies: Progress & Challenges

Richard Ellis (ESO/UCL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

HARPS-N Observes the Sun as a star

Xavier Dumusque (Geneva).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Mismatches on the identification and classification of AGN

Estelle Pons.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

CMB lensing from within the Milky Way

Rupert Allison.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Quantum simulator with a fluid of light

Natalia Berloff (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Big Questions in Exoplanetary Science

Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Chemistry and evolution of the oldest white dwarf planetary systems

Mark Hollands (Warwick).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale

Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Sackler Lectures

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

Sackler Lecture 2016

Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)..

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3.30 pm).

Thursday 27 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Unveiling cloudy exoplanets: from Hubble to JWST

Jo Barstow (UCL).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

NuSTAR Observations of V404 Cygni in Outburst: Reflection and Jets

Dom Walton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A hard X-ray view of the distant AGN population with NuSTAR

George Lansbury.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Buoyancy flux, upwelling, and closure of ocean meridional overturning circulation

Ali Mashayek (MIT).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Strong lensing in the age of ALMA

Matus Rybak (MPA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Chris Carilli (Astrophysics, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Efficiency of Planetesimal Ablation in Jovian Envelopes

Arazi Pinhas (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Peeking into a neutron star

Nathalie Degenaar.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The formation and dynamics of supermassive black hole

Davide Fiacconi.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Internal waves and stratified turbulence in the nearshore coastal ocean

Stephen Monismith (Stanford University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The role of gas flows in driving galaxy evolution: clues from the cold interstellar medium

Amelie Saintonge (UCL).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 13 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The transiting dust clumps of a young Sun like star

Grant Kennedy (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Effect of diffuse background in spatially-resolved star-formation studies

Nimisha Kumari.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A dipole on the sky: hypervelocity stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud

Douglas Boubert.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Matthew Scase (University of Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation in a Hard X-ray Selected AGN Sample

Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 06 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Search for young transiting planets with the YETI network

Ronny Errmann (University of Jena).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

New quasar results from the Dark Energy Survey

Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Finding Earth-like planets

Amaury Triaud.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The dynamics of supermassive triple black holes in galactic nuclei

Francesco Haardt (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 September 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Streams of molecular gas in the cosmic web around a massive primeval galaxy

Michele Ginolfi.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 28 September 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Constraining halo and satellite properties with proper motions

Tobias Fritz (University of Virginia).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 September 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Tracing the evolution of passive galaxies at z~1.4-2 with KMOS

Alessandra Beifiori (MPE Garching).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 16 September 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaia Data Release 1 - data quality & future releases

Dafydd Wyn Evans.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 September 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaia Data Release 1 - content & science potential

Nic Walton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 14 September 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mechano-responsive nano-textured hydrogels

Alex Yarin (UIC).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 September 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mechano-responsive nano-textured hydrogels

Alex Yarin (UIC).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 September 2016, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Blindly Measuring the Hubble Constant (Again!)

Matt Auger (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 September 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Time Evolution of Giant Molecular Cloud Mass Functions on Galactic Disks

Masato Kobayashi (Nagoya University, Japan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 07 September 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optimization-based flow analysis

Peter Schmid (Imperial College).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 05 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Dynamical constraints on the galaxy-halo connection

Harry Desmond (Stanford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 12 August 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Aspects of non-standard cosmology: galactic satellites

Adi Nusser (Technion Haifa).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 August 2016, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Meetings

White Dwarf Planetary Systems

Siyi Xu (ESO).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 03 August 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Simple Experiments in Fluids: from Biolocomotion to Geophysics

Jun Zhang (Courant Institute) .

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent Taylor Couette Flow

Bruno Ekhardt (Universität Marburg) .

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 21 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Milky Way - evidence for Seyfert activity in the recent past

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A Westerbork blind HI survey of the Coma cluster: first results

Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Galaxy Formation with SPARC: Tully-Fisher, Core-Cusp, Stellar Feedback, and a variety of insights from the local Universe

Harley Katz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A potential mechanism for a singularity in the Euler Equations

Michael Brenner (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Local Analogs for High-redshift Galaxies: Interstellar Medium Conditions and Metallicities in High-redshift Galaxies

Fuyan Bian (ANU).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Galaxy Evolution with KMOS

Laura Prichard (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Morphologically dependent galaxy quenching and the role of AGN feedback

Rebecca Smethurst (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 13:15-13:45

sk532's list

Low surface brightness imaging with camera lenses and CubeSats

Anthony Horton (AAO).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 05 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Hungry black holes - tidal disruption of stars in the nuclei of galaxies in OGLE and Gaia surveys.

Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Observatory, Poland).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 June 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar haloes as probes of galaxy evolution

Payel Das (University of Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 June 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Suppression of star-formation by quasar driven winds in gas-rich host galaxies at z<1

Dominika Wylezalek (John Hopkins University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

On the lookout for peculiar stars: Diagnostics/classification of spectra in large spectroscopic surveys

Gregor Traven (University of Ljubljana).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Nebular emission line ratios in z~2-3 star-forming galaxies: exploring the impact of ionization, excitation, and abundance patterns

Allison Strom (Caltech).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Gravitational Wave Update

Chris Moore (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 16:00-16:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

iLocater: Breaking the 1m/s radial velocity precision barrier

Jonathan Crass (University of Notre Dame).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The brightest supernova explosions: current knowledge and future research

Cosimo Inserra (Queen's Belfast).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Radio observations of exoplanets and their host stars

Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Radio observations of exoplanets and their host stars

Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A never ending journey. Singularities, slip, substrates and structure: challenges of modelling the moving contact line problem

Serafim Kalliadasis (Imperial College London).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Constraining the distribution of AGN accretion rates across the galaxy population

James Aird (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Hitomi and the X-ray spectrum of the Perseus Cluster

Andrew Fabian.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 09 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The K2 Satellite: Planets, Stars and Systematics

David Armstrong (Warwick).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Computer vision & Machine Learning: An Application in Digital Pathology

Ali Dariush .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Encounter-driven fragmentation in irradiated self-gravitating discs

Farzana Meru .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Improving our knowledge on planetary systems using dynamics

Alexandre Correia (Department of Physics, University of Aveiro).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Extra Exoplanet Talk - Connecting the chemical properties of exoplanets and their atmospheres to planet formation

Ralph Pudritz (McMaster).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Connecting the chemical properties of exoplanets and their atmospheres to planet formation

Ralph Pudritz (McMaster).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Harmonic and stochastic wavepackets in jets

Lutz Lesshaft (École polytechnique, CNRS).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 03 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planck and the Optical Depth to Reionization

George Efstathiou (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The (evolving) story of circumbinary planets - real life Tatooines

David Martin (Geneva).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Temperature of the Emptiest Regions of the Universe

Alberto Rorai .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The dusty tail of disintegrating exoplanet KIC 12557548b

Rik van Lieshout .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Direct detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets

Sascha Quanz (ETH, Zurich).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instabilities and pattern formation on the pore scale

Anne Juel (Uni. of Manchester).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?

Kyle Oman (U Victoria).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger

Alberto Vecchio (University Birmingham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

A forecast for high winds and clouds: Exoplanet atmospheres at low and high resolution

Tom Louden (Warwick).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Gaia-ESO Survey: investigating the globular cluster sample

Clare Worley.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

ISM modelling in cosmological simulations; a critical study

Matthew Smith.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Gas flows as fuel for star formation in distant galaxies: a spotlight on strong absorption line systems

Michele Fumagalli (Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, University of Durham).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd Batchelor Lecture: Sports ballistics

Christophe Clanet (École polytechnique).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Did LIGO detect dark matter?

Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death

Nanda Rea (CSIC-IEEC, Barcelona/University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The Rossiter McLaughlin effect reloaded: Convective Problems and New Solutions

Heather Cegla (Belfast).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaia - Experience and results from the first operation cycle

Francesca De Angeli.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tracing the main sequence of star formation in X-rays

James Aird.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Quasars into the epoch of reionization

Richard McMahon (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

1st Batchelor Lecture: Physics of weightlifting

Christophe Clanet (École polytechnique).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Convection and skin formation in drying colloidal dispersions: laboratory experiments and implications for planetary mantle dynamics

Anne Davaille (Uni. Paris-Sud, CNRS).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A new approach to cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and large scale structure

Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Most Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Molecular Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Atmospheres

Christina Hedges (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Magellanic Origin of the DES Dwarfs

Prashin Jethwa.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Testing feedback models with high-redshift metals

Laura Keating.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Early galaxy formation processes: clues from Near-Field Cosmology

Stefania Salvadori (Observatoire de Paris-CNRS).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd Year PhD Student Talk Competition

DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2016, 13:30-17:40

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

LEAP - Lightning, electricity, atmospheres of planetary objects

Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 05 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Unveiling the small rocky planets with HARPS-N

Ati Motalebi (Geneva).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 16:15-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Disc Instability is Dead, Long Live Disc Instability

Note unusual time

Duncan Forgan (St Andrews).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 15:30-16:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

OPTICON - the EC Coordination network in OIR astronomy

Gerry Gilmore.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The formation history and total mass of globular clusters in the Fornax dSph

Thomas de Boer.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wall-bounded turbulence is not due to the wall

Javier Jimenez (Uni. Politecnica de Madrid).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The formation of massive black-hole binaries: understanding the Advanced LIGO detections

Philipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The Astropy Project and open-source software development in Astronomy

Room changed

Thomas Robitaille.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:15-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Spectral Binaries: An Approach for Measuring the True Binary Fraction of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Room changed + unusual time

Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15:30-16:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Haloes of the Milky Way

Angus Williams .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shaping galaxies with AGN feedback

Martin Bourne.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

The circumplanetary disk and the late accretion of giant planets

Judit Szulagyi (ETH).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The circumplanetary disk and the late accretion of giant planets

Extra seminar

Judit Szulagyi (ETH).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Closing the loop: adjoint-based methods for flow stability, control and mixing

Colm Caulfield (DAMTP/BPI).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stimulated Feedback In Galaxies and Clusters

Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo, Canada).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Cloudy with a chance of rain

Hannah Wakeford (NASA/GSFC).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

M101-OT: a massive stellar merger in the Pinwheel Galaxy

Nadia Blagorodnova (Caltech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Nature or Nurture?: Probing External Feedback on Young Stars in W3

Serena Kim (Steward Observatory).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Making do with less: optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets.

Joseph Paulsen (Syracuse University).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Selection bias in dynamically-measured super-massive black hole samples: its consequences and the quest for the most fundamental relation

Francesco Shankar (Southampton).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stimulated Feedback In Galaxies and Clusters

Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo, Canada).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Monday 11 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The abundance and spatial distribution of ultra-diffuse galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters

Remco van der Burg (CEA Saclay).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution

Meg Urry (Yale University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Tuesday 15 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stability analysis of planar interfacial jets and films: does surface tension stabilize, and what about the viscosity ratio?

Outi Tammisola (University of Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

The Eddington Lectures

Kepler, the Architectures of Exoplanet Systems & Implications for Planet Formation

Eddingtion Lecture 2016

Eric Ford (Penn State University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Characterising Exoplanet Populations with Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling and Approximate Bayesian Computing

Room changed

Eric Ford (Pennsylvania State University).

Battcock Meeting Room, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

PICSAT: A space mission dedicated to the transit of Beta Pictoris b

Sylvestre Lacour (L’Observatoire de Paris, France).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mixed up by Buoyancy

Andy Woods (BP Institute).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

MApping the Most Massive Overdensity Through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH): A New Survey of High-Redshift Protoclusters

Xiaohui Fan (Steward Observatory).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 March 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The mass function of stars and black holes in globular clusters

Mark Gieles (University of Surrey).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Transmission spectroscopy of hot gas giant atmospheres

Tom Evans (Exeter).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dynamical Constraints in Super Earth Systems

Matthew Read .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way dwarf spheroidals

Jason Sanders.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Global Parallel Computation, Networks and Geometry

Peter Braam (Braam Research LLC, USA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Galaxy Bimodality and Post-Starburst Galaxies

Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The structure and decay of turbulence at high-Reynolds-numbers

Gregory Bewley (Max Planck Institute Göttingen).

SPECIAL LOCATION - MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gamma Ray Bursts in the Era of Rapid Followup

Carole Mundell (University of Bath).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Gaussian process tools for exoplanet detection and characterisation

Vinesh Rajpaul (Oxford).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shaping galaxies with AGN feedback

Martin Bourne .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The midplane conditions of protoplanetary discs: a case study of HD163296

Dominika Boneberg (IOA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Interstellar scintillation – near and far

Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego, USA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Pattern formation in confined nematic systems: the interplay between geometry, anisotropy and singularities

Apala Majumdar (University of Bath).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Gravitational Waves: reviewing the discovery and its implications

Christopher Moore (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exo-zodi - the evolution of dust in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars

Grant Kennedy (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Discussion about the possibility of a ninth planet in the Solar System (Batygin & Brown 2016)

John Papaloizou (DAMTP).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The shape of the Milky Way's dark halo

Adam Bowden .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Out of the Dust: Unveiling the population of quasar host galaxies

Clare Wethers .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

A giant cloud of hydrogen escaping a Neptune-mass exoplanet

David Ehrenreich (Université de Genèva).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability associated with internal solitary waves

Magda Carr (University of St Andrews).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Gaia Alerts: A flare from stellar tidal disruption

Morgan Fraser (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 12 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

NB Postponed to Easter Term:The most massive black holes in the early universe


Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

SUPER-SHARP: direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets

Ian Parry (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:15-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Effect of the rotation and tidal dissipation history of stars on the evolution of close-in planets

Emeline Bolmont (Namur).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 15:30-16:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

AGN Coronae in the NuSTAR Era

Anne Lohfink.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Burning Questions in Stellar Evolution: Exploring Uncertainties in Mixing & Nuclear Reaction Rates

Ghina Halabi .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The dawn of star formation: a local perspective

Piercarlo Bonifacio (Observatoire de Paris, France).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Understanding development – A computational morphodynamics approach

Henrik Jönsson (Sainsbury's Laboratory).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium

Andrea Pallottini (SNS Pisa and Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The chemical heritage of protoplanetary disks: new insights from ALMA and Rosetta


Catherine Walsh (Leiden University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Hot Jupiters with Companions: Results of the Long-term CORALIE Survey

Marion Neveu-VanMalle (Cavendish).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

New results on disc photoevaporation

Cathie Clarke .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining the Shape of a Halo with Tidal Streams

Denis Erkal.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The cosmological velocity field: from Slipher to modified gravity

John Peacock (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Evolution

Paul Nandra (Max-Planck-Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story

Helen Wilson (UCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

First results from MaNGA

Francesco Belfiore (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 29 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Meetings

The puzzling nature of a hot super-Earth exoplanet

Brice-Olivier Demory (Cavendish).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Searching for the Accreted Galactic Halo in the APOGEE Survey

Keith Hawkins.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Can we detect super-Earths in proto-planetary discs?

Giovanni Rosotti .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The James Webb Space Telescope: Capabilities, status and scientific timeline

Pierre Ferruit (ESA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A first principles look at accretion and planet formation

Phil Armitage (University of Colorado, JILA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Monday 25 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dispersion of swimming microoganisms in confined flows

Martin Bees (University of York).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Interactions between Supermassive Black Holes and Hot Atmospheres in (Early type) Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters

Bill Forman (Harvard).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 22 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Variability of Accreting Black Holes

Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The first low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary with evidence of a circumbinary disk

Ed Gillen (Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The formation of slow and fast rotating elliptical galaxies

Benjamin Moster .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Measuring the inner accretion disk in X-ray binaries

Michael Parker .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Galaxy assembly in 2<z<6.5 from the VUDS survey

Olivier Le Fèvre (Laboratoire D’Astrophysique de Marseille, France).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Extracting cosmological information from current and forthcoming galaxy surveys

Will Percival (University of Portsmouth).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Monday 18 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis

Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Extremely metal poor stars in the Galactic bulge

Andrew Casey (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Possible clues that some gas giants form with 1 AU of their star

Amaury Triaud (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Li-rich Giant Problem

Andy Casey .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining the early stages of stellar evolution with eclipsing binaries

Ed Gillen (Cavendish).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Meetings

The growing field of post-main-sequence exoplanetary science

Dimitri Veras (Warwick).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 06 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Combining radiative-transfer modelling and high-resolution observations at both ends of the stellar life cycle

Peter Scicluna (ASIAA Taiwan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Meetings

Inside-Out Planet Formation

Jonathan Tan (University of Florida).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:45-17:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Laboratory demonstration of high-contrast in broadband light at small angular separations using the EXCEDE starlight suppression system

Dan Sirbu (NASA Ames).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 16:00-16:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmological neutrino mass detection in the next five years

Rupert Allison (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A comprehensive study of ionised outflows in X-rays in active galactic nuclei (AGN)

Sibasish Laha (QUB, Belfast).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 13:15-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The medieval science of the rainbow: from a 13th century treatise to Mie scattering and log-polar colour mapping

Tom McLeish (Durham University).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The case for radiation pressure driven outflows

Andy Fabian (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 December 2015, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Massive stars, a strong case for cosmic marriage

Rob Izzard (IoA, Cambridge).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 03 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The disk origin of planetary elemental abundances

Mihkel Kama (Leiden).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The kinematic SZ effect with DES and SPT: Measuring the speed of galaxy clusters from the CMB

Bjoern Soergel (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Searching for Metal Absorbers up to redshift 7

Sarah Bosman (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Are Bulges and Disks Real? *** Seminar cancelled ***

Michael Merrifield (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mechanical energy conservation in turbulent jets and plumes: entrainment relations and unsteadiness

Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Cosmic Dawn and 21-cm Cosmology: From Theoretical Concepts to Monumental Observations

Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy evolution in proto-clusters

Nina Hatch (University of Nottingham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Exoplanet transit light-curve modelling

Hannu Parviainen (Oxford).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Modelling and observations of molecules in discs around young stars

John Ilee (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Disky dwarf disruption and the shape of the Galactic halo

Simon Gibbons (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Molecular Gas, Star Formation and Galaxy Dynamics from z=2.5-0

Linda Tacconi (MPI fuer Extraterrestriche Physik, Garching, Germany).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Properties of dark subhaloes from gaps in tidal streams

Denis Erkal (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

X-ray Binaries and ULXs

Peter Jonker (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

ESO/VLT observations of exoplanet transmission and emission spectra

Monika Lendl (Space Research Institute, Graz).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Mapping lensed quasars: accretion discs, broad line regions, and outflows

Nick Bate (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Resurrection of a gas disk from exocometary ices in the 23 Myr-old beta Pictoris system

Luca Matrà (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Chemical Tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a population of stars with globular cluster chemical compositions in the field of the galactic bulge

Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale flow in the ocean

Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Resolving the flow around black holes

Mike Curtis (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Brown dwarfs and their disks: new results and old problems

Antonella Natta (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Collisional Features in Saturn's F Ring

Nick Attree (QMUL).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shadows of two colours. Using circumbinary planets to help study atmospheres and planet formation

Amaury Triaud (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Transition of EMRIs through resonance: higher order corrections in resonant flux enhancement

Deyan Mihaylov (Institute of Astronomy).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Prestellar cores in the ALMA era

Malcolm Walmsley (INAF, Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory, Italy).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulence in stratified shear flow

Paul Linden (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Sterile neutrino dark matter: galaxy formation and other stories

Mark Lovell (U Amsterdam).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 06 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

The Sackler Lectures

The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes From Seeds to Maturity

Sackler Lecture 2015

Jenny Greene (Princeton University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3.30 pm).

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:00