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The Cavendish Astrophysics Group at the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, jointly with the Institute of Astronomy (I.o.A) and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (KICC), holds an informal seminar series at 11:15 UK time on Tuesday mornings, (mostly) during term time.

By default, content is delivered in person by AP group students and researchers, the idea being to create a kind of “preprint server” for those of us who have more formal seminars and conference talks in their future lightcone. You can present anything, even just an exciting plot. We gather in the first-floor coffee area of the Battcock, but often also offer Zoom access for those who cannot attend in person. Doughnuts will be provided (but unfortunately not on Zoom).

These talks were previously known as “Battcock coffee/doughnut seminars” but were renamed as the “Hills Coffee Talks” in honour of our late colleague Richard Hills.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Will Handley; 89662; David Buscher; Dr Dolev Bashi; Charles Walker. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

0 upcoming talks and 48 talks in the archive.

A new legacy of Cavendish radio astronomy: high dynamic range imaging of 3CRR

UserDr. Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

Exploring Pathways from Chemistry to Complexity in Dynamic Environments

UserSkyla White (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2026, 11:15-12:00

The SuperSharp story - a space tech company spun out of Cambridge Astronomy

UserIan Parry (IoA and CTO of SuperSharp Space Systems Ltd).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2026, 11:15-12:00

Measuring the diffuse Galactic synchrotron spectral index and curvature between 45 and 2300 MHz

UserDr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2026, 11:15-12:00

Constructing Radio Foreground Maps with REACH

UserDaniel Robins (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2025, 11:15-12:00

Real-Time Wideband Widefield Mutual Coupling Compensation for SKA-Low

UserDr. Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2025, 11:15-12:00

Insights into the Epoch of Reionization from galaxies in the first billion years

UserDr. Lily Whitler (Kavli Institute for Cosmology).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 11:15-12:00

Creating a physically accurate CEM model of the REACH for global 21-cm cosmology

UserDr. John Cumner (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 11:15-12:00

Measuring Advanced Light Sources and their Optics using Interferometry and Self-Cal

UserBojan Nikolic (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2025, 11:15-12:00

The Origin and Polarization of Fast Radio Bursts

UserDr. Weiyang Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2025, 11:15-12:00

Optimizing Data Delivery and Scalable HI Profile Classification for the SKA Era: Infrastructure and Science Challenges at the Spanish SRC

UserDr. Manu Parra-RoyΓ³n (Astrophysics Institute of Andalucia - Spanish National Research Council).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 08 July 2025, 11:15-12:00

Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars

UserProf. Rene Breton (University of Manchester).

HouseMartin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

ClockTuesday 17 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

The enigmatic long-period radio transients

UserProf. Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockThursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Intuitive knowledge systems for discovery

UserAkeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Bayesian anomaly detection for Cosmology - 21cm, Supernovae, and beyond

UserSamuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

HouseMartin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cygnus X-3 in 2024: many giant radio flares!

UserProf. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseMartin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2025, 11:15-12:00

Exoplanet Detection with SPIRIT: Infrared CMOS Photometry and the Discovery of the Hot Neptune TOI-2407b

UserClΓ udia JanΓ³ MuΓ±oz (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent GravityΒ to resolve cosmological tensions

UserSinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

UserDr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

Unifying foreground emission characterisation across the radio and microwave regimes: implications for cosmology

UserDr. Melis Irfan (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2025, 11:15-12:00

Characterising Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at z>6

UserDr. Yuki Isobe (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

Radio AGN with the LOFAR all-sky survey

UserProf. Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 11:15-12:00

To be or not to be: Are JWST-discovered AGN real black holes?

UserDr. Xihan Ji, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge.

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

JADES census of broad line AGN and their hosts

UserIgnas JuodΕΎbalis (KICC).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Isotope ratios in transiting and directly-imaged exoplanetary atmospheres

UserSiddharth Gandhi (Warwick).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2024, 11:15-12:00

Applied artificial intelligence to cosmological data analysis

UserDr. Boris Bolliet (Assistant Teaching Professor, Cavendish Laboratory and KICC).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2024, 15:30-16:15

Unveiling the ionising properties of galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation with NIRCam

UserDr. Charlotte Simmonds (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

Inside-out growth in the Early Universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc

UserWilliam Baker (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Diffusion meets Nested Sampling

UserDavid Yallup (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Blue Phase Liquid Crystals & Their Potential for Astronomy

UserOana Niculescu (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA

UserYuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 11:15-12:00

Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope

UserDr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

UserDr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 19 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

UserDr. Dolev Bashi.

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Real-time pipelines for SKA β€” Progress and challenges

UserDr. Ying-He Celeste LΓΌ (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 11:15-12:00

Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST

UserDr. James Kirk, Imperial College London.

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

The History of MRAO

UserMalcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 16 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

UserDr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

What are the Clouds of Venus made of?

UserPaul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY

UserClark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HouseCoffee area, Battcock Centre.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

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