Priscilla

Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars and super-Eddington accretion

User Felix Fürst, ESAC.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:45-14:15

On the evolution of the disk and corona in accreting black hole binaries

User Javier Garcia, Caltech.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:15-13:45

Lessons from Apollo 50 Years Later

User John Lattanzio (Monash University).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

Radiation from Global Topological Strings using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

User Amelia Drew (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 14 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Kavli Lectures

Characterizing Exoplanets' Atmospheres to Unveil Planetary Origins, Climate and Habitability

Kavli Lecture

User Jean-Michel Desert (Amsterdam).

Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Pseudorandomness and random quantum circuits in different geometries

User Aram Harrow, MIT.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Prospects for CMB polarisation B-mode delensing with the Simons Observatory

User Anton Baleato.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:45-14:15

Extending the fundamental metallicity relation to non star-forming galaxies

User Nimisha Kumari.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Title to be confirmed

User Antony Lewis, University of Sussex.

Monday 10 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Scattering Map on Oppenheimer-Snyder Spacetime

User Fred Alford (University of Cambridge).

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies

User Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

The structure of the proton and the exploration of the high-energy frontier

User Maria Ubiali, DAMTP.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Real-Time Classification of Explosive Transients Using Deep Learning

User Daniel Muthukrishna.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:45-14:15

Powerful Sound Waves from AGN Jets

User Christopher Bambic.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Probing the Inflationary Field Content with Primordial Gravitational Waves and more

User Matteo Fasiello (ICG, Portsmouth) .

Monday 03 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Black Hole Stability Problem in Higher Dimensions: An Instability Theorem

User Gabriele Benomio (Imperial).

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays

User Sherry Suyu (MPA).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Common origin(s) for the Dark Matter density and baryon asymmetry

User Laura Covi, Goettingen.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Getting rid of hydrogen in evolved massive stars

User Avishai Gilkis.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

Final CMB lensing results from Planck

User Anthony Challinor.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Non-Gaussian gravitational waves from inflation

User Eiichiro Komatsu(MPIA).

Monday 27 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Strong Cosmic Censorship in charged black-hole spacetimes

User Kyriakos Destounis (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Tecnico).

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts

User Pawan Kumar (UT Austin).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

The Surprising Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes

User Jacob Bourjaily, Niels Bohr Institute.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Gaia wide binaries challenging a Newtonian prediction

User Xavier Hernández (IA, UNAM).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

Combining absorption and emission features in an investigation of quasar outflows

User Amy Rankine.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Bootstrapping Inflationary Fluctuations

User Guillherm Pimentel (UvA).

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Toward General Relativistic Cosmological N-body Simulations

User David Daverio (University of Cambridge).

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

The landscape of galaxy cluster cosmology

User Steve Allen (Stanford).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves

User Tessa Baker, QMUL.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Modelling the mass-SFR relation at high redshift

User Emma Curtis Lake (KICC).

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

Astrophotonics: The Next Wave in Astronomical Instrumentation

User Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland).

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Non-Gaussian Statistics of Cosmic Microwave Background Secondary Anisotropies: Signals and Primordial Contaminants

User Colin Hill (IAS/CCA) .

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Superradiant scattering by a black hole binary

User Leong Khim Wong (University of Cambridge).

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

What's wrong with accretion discs?

User Chris Nixon (Leicester).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

A Weak Gravity Theorem

User Mehrdad Mirbabayi, ICTP.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Models of Diffuse Ionised Gas in star-forming galaxies

User Bert Vandenbroucke (University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

The Impact of Photo-ionization Feedback on Massive Star Formation

User Nina Sartorio (University of St Andrews).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmology from the boundary

User Paolo Benincasa (Niels Bohr) .

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Testing general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalogue GWTC-1

User Nathan Johnson-McDaniel (University of Cambridge).

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

A new perspective on the Universe in the era of multi-messenger astronomy

User Samaya Nissanke (Amsterdam).

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Life, the universe and everything . . . with Anne

User Ana Achúcarro, Leiden.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Challenges from Galactic chemical evolution for galaxy evolution

User Gerry Gilmore.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Astrophysical bias of Type Ia Supernovae and the Hubble Constant Tension

User Mickael Rigault (CNRS | IN2P3).

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Tensor non-Gaussianity and Partially Massless Fields

User Garrett Goon (University of Cambridge).

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Getting close to the brightest black holes with NICER

User Phil Uttley (Amsterdam).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Analytic results for two-loop five-particle amplitudes

User Johannes Henn, Max Planck Institute for Physics.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:15-15:15

30 years of Relativistic Reflection

User Andy Fabian.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:45-14:15

Lyman Continuum Photons from z = 3 Galaxies

User Max Pettini.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:15-13:45

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

New Results from the Event Horizon Telescope

User Heino Falcke (Radboud University).

Thursday 18 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Massively multiplexed spectroscopy for the coming decades: the science and status of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer

User Alan McConnachie (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada).

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:15-13:45

House Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Photometric Distances Near and Far in the Age of Gaia

User Josh Speagle (Harvard).

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:15-13:45

On the local well-posedness of Horndeski theories

User Áron Kovács (University of Cambridge).

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Deconstructing stellar halos in the Local Group

User Alan McConnachie (U Vic).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Milky Way bar kinematics with VVV and Gaia

User Jason Sanders.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Unravelling Cosmic Acceleration with Gravitational Waves and Large-Scale Structure

User Lucas Lombriser (Geneva).

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Building anti-de Sitter spacetimes

User Claude Warnick (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 08 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Eddington Lectures

Heavy elements in red giant stars

Eddington Lecture 2019

User Amanda Karakas (Monash).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

A Classical-Quantum Correspondence

User Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:15-15:15

AGN-driven outflows in simulated dwarf galaxies

User Sophie Koudmani.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-14:15

Why do galaxies stop forming stars?

User Asa Bluck.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The CMB as a backlight

User Alexander van Engelen (CITA Toronto).

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Collisions of axion stars with black holes and neutron stars

User Katy Clough (Oxford).

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Proper-Motion Studies of Galactic Globular Clusters

User Laura Watkins (ESO).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Z' Explanations of Neutral Current B Anomalies

User Ben Allanach, DAMTP.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Extracting cosmological information from weak lensing bispectrum

User Dipak Munshi (UCL).

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Compact binaries and the gravitational self-force

User Adam Pound (Southampton).

Friday 22 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Transformative advances in post-main-sequence planetary system science

User Dimitri Veras (Warwick).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Perturbation Theory and Beyond in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

User Marco Serone, SISSA.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Sausage-Mania — more Mouth-watering Recipes

User Wyn Evans.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-14:15

The Gaia Sausage - our Galaxy’s last major merger

User Vasily Belokurov.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Gravitational Wave Decay into Dark Energy

User Giovanni Tambalo (ICTP).

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Kelvin's theorem and Hamilton-Jacobi fluid theory in gravitational wave astrophysics

User Charalampos Markakis (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Kavli Lectures

Galactic Winds and the Circumgalactic Medium

Kavli Lecture

User Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wilson Surface Central Charge from Holography

User Andy O'Bannon, Southampton.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

Cosmic Harmonies: Travels in Musical Time and Space

User Tim Watts.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-14:15

Celebrating Women in Astronomy and E&D update at the IoA

User Clare Worley, Richard McMahon, Ian Parry.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

CMB Observations for Large-Scale Structure

User James Bartlett (APC).

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Near-extremal black holes at late times, backreacted

User Shahar Hadar (Harvard).

Friday 08 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Wide-field submm surveys of the nearby and very distant Universe

User Steve Eales (Cardiff).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Holography, Black Holes and Siegel paramodular forms

User Alejandra Castro, Amsterdam.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 14:15-15:15

The race to find the first stars

User David Aguado.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:45-14:15

Dynamic Characterization of Galaxies in the first 1.5Gyr of the Universe

User Gareth Jones.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Weak lensing by large-scale structure as an accurate probe of cosmology and much more!

User Henk Hoekstra (Leiden).

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

The stability of Minkowski space using the r^p-weighted energy method

User Joe Keir (University of Cambridge).

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Helium Stars, Heavy Metals, High Velocities and Explosions

User Simon Jeffery (Armagh).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

The story of a simple universe

User Enrico Pajer, DAMTP.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Black hole masses for tidal disruption events

User Thomas Wevers.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Charged Vector Inflation

User Hassan Firouzjahi.

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Conformally isometric embeddings and Hawking temperature

User Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Star Formation, GMCs, and Galaxies

User Norm Murray (CITA).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Relating black holes and quantum information via quantum field theory: Computational Complexity and AdS/CFT

User Johanna Erdmenger, Wuerzburg.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Constraints on dark energy and modified gravity from combined large-scale structure probes

User Alessio Spurio Mancini.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:45-14:15

How to Read a Light Curve

User Emily Sandford.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Sidetracked Inflation

User Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (IAP).

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Black-hole binaries in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity

User Helvi Witek (King's College London).

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Nano-particles in Proto-Planetary Discs

User Jane Greaves (Cardiff).

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Testing General Relativity with Cosmological Observations

User Ruth Durrer, Geneva.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Comoving stars in the Gaia era

User Semyeong Oh.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:45-14:15

Exoplanets in High Resolution

User George Hawker.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:15-13:45

Solid Adiabatic Modes and Soft Theorems

User Sadra Jazayeri (University of Cambridge).

Friday 30 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Reionization after Planck

User Piero Madau (UCSC).

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Detecting light dark matter with atomic clocks and magnetometers

User Diego Blas, KCL.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Mirror instability and particle transport in galaxy clusters

User Sergey Komarov.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Studying the Expansion of the Universe with quasar spectra

User Andreu Font-Ribera (UCL).

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Aretakis instability as a critical phenomenon

User Peter Zimmerman (AEI-Potsdam/Golm).

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

The first quasars in the early universe

User Chris Done (Durham).

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

Generating new physics models from machine learning

User Sven Krippendorf, LMU.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Mapping the Transient Sky with Gaia

User Simon Hodgkin.

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

Intergalactic Lyman continuum photon budget in the past 5 billion years

User Prakash Gaikwad.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The future of 21cm intensity mapping: New paradigm, or not worth the trouble?

User Phil Bull.

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Extracting non-Gaussian information from the Large-Scale Structure

User Oliver Leicht (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Sackler Lectures

Gravitational wave science - observations and a forward look

Sackler Lecture 2018

User Sheila Rowan (Glasgow)..

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

Conformal Higher-Spin Gravity

User Xavier Bekaert, Federation Denis Poisson.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Supermassive Black Hole Dynamics and Feedback: Coevolution with Nuclear Star Clusters

User Pawel Biernacki.

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

The H2 gas mass in planet-forming discs - a massive problem

User Mihkel Kama.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Future cosmology from arcminute CMB data

User Erminia Calabrese.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scattering of three impulsive gravitational waves and other low regularity problems

User Maxime Van De Moortel (DPMMS and Stanford).

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Spiral arms in galaxies and GMC formation

User Clare Dobbs (Exeter).

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

Decoding the "DNA" of prediction, from the smallest to largest scales in nature

User John Joseph Carrasco, Northwestern University & IPhT.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Solo Dwarfs: Exploring Dwarf Galaxies near the Local Group

User Clare Higgs.

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

Ionised Gas Kinematics in Dust-Obscured Quasars at z>2

User Matthew Temple.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Extrema counts of 3D density fields as a new test of primordial non-Gaussianity

User Matteo Biagetti.

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Black Holes for Massive Gravitons

User Rachel A Rosen (Columbia).

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Multi-messenger study of the Milky Way with LISA, Gaia and LSST

User Valeriya Korol (Leiden).

House Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

The structure of galactic thick disks

User Marie Martig (LJMU).

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

Local measurement schemes for quantum field theory in curved spacetimes

User Chris Fewster, York.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Formation & Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets

User Hilke Schlichting.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:15-14:15

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Dark matter revealed by the first stars?

User Rennan Barkana.

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole

User Peter Millington (University of Nottingham).

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Shaken up: Gaia DR2 and the warped Milky Way disc

User Ralph Schoenrich (Oxford).

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

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

User Ivan Todorov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Astrometric effects of a stochastic gravitational wave background

User Deyan Mihaylov.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:45-14:15

Constraining Neutrino Mass with the Tomographic Weak Lensing Bispectrum

User William Coulton.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

CMB B-modes: observations, systematics and novel non-Gaussianity

User Adri Duivenvoorden.

Monday 22 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Strong cosmic censorship in de Sitter spacetimes.

User Felicity Eperon (University of Cambridge).

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

A chemical survey of planets in our galaxy

User Giovanna Tinetti (UCL).

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

Black Hole Entropy form Soft Hair

User Malcolm Perry, DAMTP.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

Journey to CyberSecurity World

User Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares.

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

Detecting relativistic effects in galaxies and cluster

User Hongsheng Zhao.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The Effect of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmological Parameter Estimation

User Nick Kaiser (ENS, Paris).

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Minimal surfaces in semiclassical gravity

User Josh Kirklin (University of Cambridge).

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler

User Tim Bedding (U Sydney).

Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

The String Theory Swampland

User Joe Conlon, Oxford.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 14:15-15:15

AGN feedback in galaxt clusters, and the physics of thermal conduction

User Chris Reynolds.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:45-14:15

Radio Sky: Near and Far

User Anastasia Fialkov.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Evaluating Cosmic Dawn

User Anastasia Fialkov (KICC).

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cosmic Censorship in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime

User Gary Horowitz (UCSB).

Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

How galaxies form stars

User Andrey Kravtsov (U Chicago).

Thursday 04 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

HOSTS: Solving the exozodi problem for exo-Earth imaging

User Mark Wyatt.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:45-14:15

Clumpy Line Driven Winds

User Sergei Dyda.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:15-13:45

Galaxy population synthesis modeling in the golden age of the Milky Way & Local Group research

User Stefano Pasetto, Carnegie.

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 13:15-13:45

Understanding wind-mode feedback in the X-ray brightest AGN

User Anna Ogorzalek (Stanford).

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 13:15-13:45

Finding the water trail of the star and planet formation

User Daniel Harsono (Leiden).

Wednesday 29 August 2018, 13:15-13:45

Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves

User Tjonnie G. F. Li.

Friday 13 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

What Obscures AGN: Insights from Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy

User Mislav Balokovic (Harvard CfA).

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 13:15-13:45

Spatially resolved star-formation histories and the connection to galaxy physical properties

User Kate Rowlands.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 13:45-14:15

How to publish a paper in Nature

User Leslie Sage.

Wednesday 27 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

Mapping the Extreme Environments Around Black Holes

User Dan Wilkins (Stanford).

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13:45-14:15

Reverberation and Ultrafast Outflows in Tidal Disruption Events

User Erin Kara (Maryland).

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

Gravitational Waves from Axion Stars

User Thomas Helfer (King's College London).

Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Violent quenching: fast multiphase gas outflows from post-starburst galaxies

User Jim Geach (Herts).

Thursday 14 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

The cosmological constant problem and its sequester

User Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

CMB delensing: sharpening our view of the infant Universe

User Anthony Challinor.

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

Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion

User Tom Comerford.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Modeling and measuring the cosmic density PDF

User Oliver Friedrich (Munich).

Monday 11 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations in a generalised wave gauge

User Thomas Johnson (University of Cambridge).

Friday 08 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Understanding Intense Star Formation through Observations and Modelling

User Elizabeth Stanway (Warwick).

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Studying the population of black holes in the Milky Way with microlensing

User Lukasz Wyrzykowski.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 13:45-14:15

Axions and their astronomical imprints

User David Marsh.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Lighting up Einstein’s Dark Universe

User Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden).

Monday 04 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Stellar core collapse in scalar-tensor theory with massive fields

User Roxana Rosca (University of Cambridge).

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Toward A New Calibration of the Hubble Constant

User Wendy Freedman (Chicago).

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

CFT from EFT at large charge

User Riccardo Rattazzi.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Stellar structure and substructure of the Milky Way halo

User Gyuchul Myeong.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:45-14:15

Clustering of Lya-emitters at 3<z<6 in MUSE-Wide

User Catrina Diener.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

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

Know thy Star, Know thy Prebiotic Chemistry

User Paul Rimmer (Cavendish).

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Microscopic Origins of the Weak Scale and the Power Spectrum of the LHC

User Matthew McCullough (CERN).

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

O/H-N/O: the curious case of NGC 4670

User Nimisha Kumari.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:45-14:15

On velocity dispersions of massive compact galaxies

User Luis Peralta de Arriba.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Using orbits to probe ultra-light dark matter

User Diego Blas (KCL).

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

User Dr Jonathan Gair (University of Edinburgh).

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Addressing the Missing AGN Problem

User Belinda Wilkes (SAO).

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

The Conformal Standard Model

User Hermann Nicolai, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Hypervelocity discoveries with Gaia DR2

User Douglas Boubert.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:45-14:15

NGC 300 ULX1: The Fourth Musketeer

User Dom Walton.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Multi-field Inflation and Hyperbolic Geometry

User Diederik Roest (Groningen).

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scattering of linear waves in the interior of Reissner–Nordström black holes

User Christoph Kehle (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Stellar rejuvenation around massive black holes in the Galactic center and metal-rich quasars, and gravitational wave sources in AGN disks: Analog of planetary systems around massive black holes

User Douglas N. C. Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Inflation and Post-Inflation in String Cosmology

User Fernando Quevedo, DAMTP and ICTP, Trieste.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Cosmology from galaxy clusters and CMB lensing

User Inigo Zubeldia Lafuente.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:45-14:15

Understanding Analyses of Related Data Sets

User Steven Gratton.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

kSZ tomography and its applications to cosmology

User Moritz Munchmeyer (Perimeter).

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Fast Radio Bursts

User Ben Stappers (Manchester).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

A better way to observe high-redshift gas

User Matt Bothwell.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:45-14:15

Mapping the inner accretion region of AGN with X-ray variability

User Will Alston.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

GR interpretation of Newtonian simulations for structure formation

User David Wands (ICG Portsmouth).

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Kepler Planets - retention and loss of their atmospheres

User James Owen (Imperial).

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Quantum black holes: a macroscopic window into quantum gravity

User Sameer Murthy, King's College London.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Overview of Gaia Data Release 2: contents, properties, limitations

User Dafydd W. Evans, Francesca De Angeli.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:15-14:15

The SkyHopper Space Telescope: Big Science with a Tiny Telescope

User Michele Trenti (University of Melbourne).

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

Interiors & atmospheres of Super-Earths

User Caroline Dorn (Universitaet Zurich).

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

Accretion dIscs in not-so-compact binaries

User Koji Mukai (Goddard Space Flight Centre).

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

Spatially Resolving Outflows at the Peak of Cosmic Star-Formation

User Bethan James (STScI).

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

Gaia and microlensing - an opportunity for Black Holes search

User Kris Rybicki (Warsaw).

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

Dark matter spikes around Kerr black holes

User Francesc Ferrer (WUSTL).

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

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

User Martha Irene Saladino (Radboud).

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

Simulating Neutron Star Mergers

User Tim Dietrich (Nikhef, Amsterdam).

Friday 16 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

From Seeds to Monsters: Supermassive Black Holes Over Cosmic Time

User Priya Natarajan (Yale).

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

**Cancelled due to strike action

User Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham .

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:15-15:15

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The spin evolution of supermassive black hole

User Davide Fiacconi (IoA).

Monday 12 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scalar hairy black holes in four dimensions are unstable

User Bogdan Ganchev (DAMTP - University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Eddington Lectures

The Chemistry of Planet Formation and the Making of Habitable Planets

Eddingtion Lecture 2018

User Karin I. Öberg (Harvard University).

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

From AdS to BEC (dynamics in spatially confined Hamiltonian systems)

User Piotr Bizon, Jagiellonian University.

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

Tuning the stellar parameters of Red Giants using spectroscopy and asteroseismology

User Clare Worley.

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

Equality and Diversity - Athena SWAN and Juno

User Ian Parry.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

CMB polarisation: challenging but worth it

User Agnes Ferte (UcL).

Monday 05 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

1. Boundary conditions behind the no-boundary proposal; 2. Critical behaviour in gravitational waves from EMRIs

User Thomas Hertog (Leuven).

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Steve Longmore (LJMU).

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

**Cancelled due to strike action

User Sameer Murthy, King's College, London.

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

Signatures of black hole seed formation across cosmic time

User Colin DeGraf.

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

Planet Formation in Stellar Clusters

User Andrew Winter.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Title to be confirmed

User Martin Crocce (Barcelona).

Monday 26 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Conservation laws and late-time tails of waves on black holes

User Dejan Gajic ( DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Friday 23 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Boris Gaensicke (Warwick).

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

The Flattened Road to Acceleration in String Theory

User Alexander Westphal, DESY, Hamburg.

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

The Evolution of Massive Galaxies from 0 < z < 5

User Adam Muzzin (York University, Toronto).

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

On Non-Circular Accretion Discs

User Elliot Lynch.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmology with neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping

User Alkistis Portsidou (QMUL).

Monday 19 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Non-Spherically Symmetric Collapse in Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes

User Hans Bantilan (Queen Mary University of London, DAMTP).

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

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The Sackler Lectures

Cosmology and Astrophysics from CMB Measurements

Sackler Lecture 2017

User John Carlstrom (Chicago).

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

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

User Yiping Shu.

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

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

User Marco Tazzari.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmology from large-scale structure: concordance and discordance

User John Peacock (Edinburgh).

Monday 12 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

Cosmology from the Kilo-Degree Survey

User Catherine Heymans (IfA, Edinburgh).

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

STOP. THINK. CLICK.

User Kieren Lovell.

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

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

User Becky Canning (KIPAC, Stanford).

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmological Probes of Light Relics

User Benjamin Wallisch (DAMTP).

Monday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Neutron stars as gravity laboratories

User George Pappas (University of Nottingham).

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Bram Venemans (MPIA).

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

Superluminality and predictability

User Harvey Reall, DAMTP.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:15-15:15

Self-consistent models of our Galaxy in the Gaia era

User Eugene Vasiliev.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The Early Universe Information Bottleneck

User Jonathan Frazer (DESY).

Monday 29 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

New results on the perturbed remnants of binary black hole mergers

User Lionel London (University of Cardiff).

Friday 26 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

The deaths of massive stars

User Ben Davies (LJMU).

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

Massive molecular gas flows and AGN feedback in galaxy clusters

User Helen Russell.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Dark Energy after GW170817

User Paolo Creminelli (ICTP Trieste).

Monday 22 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Farzana Meru (IoA/Warwick).

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

Stop. Think. Click.

User Kieren Lovell.

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

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

User Zephyr Penoyre (Columbia).

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

Polluted White Dwarfs: Insights Regarding Exo-Planetary Systems

User John Harrison.

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

A theory of what Background Independence is, with GR and Kendall's Shape Theory as examples

User Edward Anderson, Paris 7 - Denis Diderot.

Friday 01 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego).

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

Lyman-Alpha Emitting Galaxies During Cosmic Reionization

User Lewis Weinberger.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Deciphering CMB measurements with volunteer computing and Bayesian thinking

User Marius Milea.

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space for the massive and massless Einstein--Vlasov systems

User Martin Taylor, Imperial College London.

Friday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

User Blake Sherwin (DAMTP).

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

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

User Blake Sherwin, DAMTP.

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

The shapes of dark halos

User Edward Lilley.

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

Simulating rotating core-collapse supernova progenitor stars

User Avishai Gilkis.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

A conclusive test of cold dark matter

User Carlos Frenk (Durham).

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

On `hard stars' in general relativity

User Grigorios Fournodavlos - DPMMS University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years

User Michael McDonald (MIT Kavli Institute).

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

Constructing Quantum Field Theories Non-perturbatively with Hamiltonian Methods

User Slava Rychkov (CERN, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris).

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

Using tidal disruption events to study supermassive black holes

User Thomas Wevers.

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

VIRAC: NIR Astrometry in the Galactic Plane and Bulge

User Leigh Smith.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Two simple modified-gravity models: K-mouflage and Goldstone (ultra-local) models.

User Patrick Valageas (Saclay).

Monday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gravitational waves and the two-body problem in general relativity

User Luc Blanchet (GReCO, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

Friday 10 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Neutron star mergers: past, present and future

User Nial Tanvir (Leicester).

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

Knots and Vortices

User Paul Sutcliffe, University of Durham.

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

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

User Peter Kosec.

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

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

User Anais Gonneau.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, *Special Location* MR9.

Probing the dark Universe with DES and beyond

User David Bacon (Portsmouth).

Monday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Sebastian Hoenig, University of Southampton.

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

Is the Standard Model breaking down in flavour physics?

User Ulrik Egede, Imperial College, London.

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

Secular resonance sculpting in debris disks

User Ben Yelverton.

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

Using multiwavelength variability properties to infer the structure of AGN

User Douglas Bouisson.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

A novel approach to cosmological observables: the observer 3-cylinder formalism

User Ermis Mitsou (University of Zurich).

Monday 30 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Strong gravity as a probe for fundamental physics

User Thomas Sotiriou (University of Nottingham).

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Supernova Dust

User Mike Barlow, University College London.

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

Holography and the self-tuning of the cosmological constant

User Elias Kiritsis, APC Paris and University of Crete.

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

The Disk Reflection Spectrum of NLS1 IRAS 13224-3809

User Jiachen Jiang.

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

The life cycle of cool gas in cluster cores

User Stephen Hamer.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmological scalar fields

User Clare Burrage (Nottingham).

Monday 23 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Inferring final state properties from LIGO-Virgo observations of black-hole and neutron-star binaries

User Nathan Johnson-McDaniel, DAMTP, LIGO-Virgo Collaboration.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

New Frontiers in Exoplanet Characterization

User Jayne Birkby (University of Amsterdam).

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

Connecting the weak gravity conjecture to the weak cosmic censorship

User Jorge Santos, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

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

An astrometric search method for gravitational waves using Gaia

User Deyan Mihaylov.

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

The first detection of the EM counterpart of a gravitational wave

User Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

R^2 dark energy in the laboratory

User Philippe Brax (Saclay).

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

On the well-posedness of Lovelock and Horndeski theories of gravity

User Giuseppe Papallo (University of Cambridge).

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The Tarantula Nebula - A template for extragalactic star forming regions

User Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield).

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

Loop Quantum Gravity

User Carlo Rovelli, Marseille, CPT.

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

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

User Craig Mackay.

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

Towards a measurement of the neutrino mass in cosmology

User Daan Meerburg.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Searches for fundamental physics with X-ray telescopes

User Francesca Day (DAMTP).

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Gaia - the mission and first science

User Gerry Gilmore (IoA).

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

The Quest for the Axion

User Andreas Ringwald, DESY.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

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

User Nic Walton (IoA).

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

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

User Yang Huang, KIAA Peking.

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

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

User Kyoko Onishi (Ehime University).

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

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

User Suhail Dhawan (Stockholm).

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

On a recent proof of the instability of AdS for the Einstein-null dust system

User Mihalis Dafermos (DAMTP).

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

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

User Giovanni Rosotti.

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

Updating the global star formation law

User Mia de los Reyes.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Non-linear structure formation in non-standard cosmological models

User Kazuya Koyama (Portsmouth).

Monday 12 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Conformal BMS Group

User Sasha Haco.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Probing the dynamics of gravity with gravitational wave detections

User Michalis Agathos (DAMTP, Cambridge).

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

Holography and quantum info: from novel probes of bulk matter to complexity of quantum fields

User Michal P. Heller (Albert Einstein Institute / National Centre for Nuclear Research).

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

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

User Clare Wethers.

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

Unveiling young massive stars with near infrared spectroscopy and submillimetre interferometry

User John Ilee.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Title to be confirmed

User Jordi Miralda Escude (ICREA Barcelona).

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Superluminous supernovae - cosmic origins and evolution

User Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Tests of strong gravity and new physics with gravitational waves

User Emanuele Berti (Mississippi & IST Lisbon).

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

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

User Thomas de Boer.

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

Modelling supernova feedback in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

User Matthew Smith.

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

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

Galaxy clusters as hydrodynamics laboratories

User Elke Roediger (University of Hull).

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

Generalized global symmetries and dissipative magnetohydrodynamics

User Nabil Iqbal (Durham).

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

Accreting white dwarfs from Gaia alerts

User Elme Breedt.

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

Hunting for Dippers with Machine Learning

User Christina Hedges.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Do the laws of nature vary across the universe?

User John Webb (UNSW).

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Astrophysics with the first gravitational-wave events: from supernova asymmetries to multiple black-hole generations

User Davide Gerosa.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The growth of disks and bulges

User Stijn Wuyts (University of Bath).

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

The multiple facets of symmetry in Einstein gravity

User Geoffrey Compere (ULB).

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

Observational signatures of warps in circumbinary discs

User Attila Juhasz.

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

Chemical enrichment of giant planets and discs due to pebble drift

User Richard Booth.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The telescope that keeps on giving

User Anze Slosar (Brookhaven).

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Isotropising anisotropic cyclic cosmologies

User Chandrima Ganguly.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

A new generation of multi-dimensional stellar structure models

User Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter).

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

Exoplanet recycling in massive white-dwarf debris discs

User Rik van Lieshout.

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

Quasar Host Galaxies at z~2 with ALMA

User Dr. Manda Banerji (University of Cambridge).

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Planck CMB delensing

User Julien Carron (Sussex).

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Does feedback matter in star cluster formation?

User James Dale (University of Hertfordshire).

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

Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from lattice QCD

User Sinead Ryan (TCD).

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

Microseismic event detection using machine learning and Bayesian inference

User Saptarshi Das.

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

New empirical calibrations of strong line metallicity indicators

User Mirko Curti.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Observational properties of feebly interacting dark matter

User Tommi Tenkanen, Queen Mary (University of London).

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gravitational wave extraction in higher dimensional numerical relativity

User William Cook.

Friday 28 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The Hubble Space Telescope: 27 Years of Cosmic Discovery

User Jennifer Wiseman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

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

Quantum Universe

User Neil Turok (Perimeter).

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

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

User Dr. Robert Izzard (University of Cambridge).

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

The spiralling signatures of planet formation

User Farzana Meru.

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

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

User Holly Preece .

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

Observable signatures of clouds in exoplanetary atmospheres

User Arazi Pinhas.

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

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

Novae and Supernovae: Intimate Connections

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

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Deciphering cosmological information from nonlinear structures

User Robert E. Smith (Sussex).

Monday 13 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

End point of the ultraspinning instability and weak cosmic censorship

User Markus Kunesch.

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

Friday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Eddington Lectures

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

Eddingtion Lecture 2017

User Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University).

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

EFT-land for cosmology

User Claudia de Rham (Imperial).

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

Lensed quasars in DES and Gaia

User Cameron Lemon.

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

Exploring AGN Feedback Models in Cosmological Simulations

User Nick Henden .

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies

User Elisa Chisari (Oxford).

Monday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Large D Effective theory of Gravity

User Ryotaku Suzuki.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Dwarf Galaxies - Fossils of Galaxy Evolution

User Eva Grebel (University of Heidelberg).

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

Black Holes and Thermoelectric Transport

User Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial).

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:15-15:15

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Axion Cosmology and the Lightest DM Candidate

User David Marsh (KCL).

Monday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Stirring a black hole

User J. Markeviciute.

Friday 24 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The Plurality of Worlds

User Amaury Triaud (IoA, Cambridge).

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

Discrete conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces

User Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin).

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

Peering Through The Clouds: Retrieving Properties of Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres

User Ryan MacDonald.

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

Mixing in Massive Stars

User Adam Jermyn .

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

How Robust is Inflation to Inhomogenous Initial Conditions?

User Eugene Lim (KCL).

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Xavier Barcons (IFCA (CSIC-UC)).

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

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

User Pablo Lemos Portela.

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

Stellar streams around the Magellanic Clouds in 4D

User Camila Navarrete .

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmological Imprints of the Ultra-Large Scale Universe

User Jonathan Braden (UCL).

Monday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Reproducing Black Hole physics in fluids

User Antonin Coutant.

Friday 10 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH Zurich, Institute for Astronomy).

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

Screened Modified Gravity - Laboratory Tests and Black Holes

User Anne Davis (DAMTP).

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

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

User Ricardo Amorin.

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

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

User Jasleen Matharu .

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

B modes: component separation using Gibbs sampling in the context of the SPIDER experiment

User Benjamin Racine (UiO Oslo).

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gravitational Memory Charges of Supertranslation and Superrotation on Rindler Horizon

User Professor Masahiro Hotta.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Planets Within and Around Binary Stars: Extremophiles of Planet Formation

User Roman Rafikov (DAMTP, Cambridge).

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

Looking for New Physics with the Higgs boson

User Veronica Sanz (University of Sussex).

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

Self-Consistent Emission Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres.

User Siddharth Gandhi.

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

Searching for bio-signatures with direct imaging/spectroscopy

User Ian Parry.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Insights into non-linear structure evolution from controlled linear initial conditions

User Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

Monday 30 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Astrometric Effect of Gravitational Waves

User Christopher Moore (University of Cambridge).

Friday 27 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Galactic Palaeontology

User Eline Tolstoy (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute).

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

The causal set approach to the problem of quantum gravity: Kinematics, Dynamics and Phenomenology

User Fay Dowker (Imperial).

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

Rapidly Variable Relativistic Outflows from AGN

User Michael Parker.

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

Phylogenetics and the chemical evolution of the Galaxy

User Paula Jofre.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

How isotropic is the Universe?

User Daniela Saadeh (UCL).

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

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

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

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

Large Spin Pertubation Theory

User Fernando Alday (Oxford).

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

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

User Amy Bonsor.

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

White Dwarfs, Gaia, and The Age of the Galaxy

User Ted von Hippel.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The equation of state after inflation

User Kaloian Lozanov (IoA, University of Cambridge).

Monday 16 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Delensing CMB B-modes: results from SPT.

User Alessandro Manzotti (Chicago).

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

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

User Takayuki Tamura (ISAS, JAXA).

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

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

User Iva Karovicova (Heidelberg).

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

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

User Guy Davies (Birmingham) .

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

The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later

An extraordinary Friday GR seminar outside of usual term dates

User Béatrice Bonga.

Tuesday 20 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Shaken and stirred: turbulence and rotation in molecular cloud cores

User Benjamin Lewis (Exeter).

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

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

User Giuliano Ioro (Bologna).

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

Cosmology via Massive Burst of Star Formation

User Ricardo Chavez.

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

Studying accretion onto black holes using QPO phase lags

User Jakob van der Eijnden (University of Amsterdam).

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

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

The LMC - A large and messy neighbour

User Denis Erkal (IoA, Cambridge.

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

Self-force approach to the two-body problem in GR

User Leor Barack (University of Southampton).

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

Predictions for the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization

User Girish Kulkarni.

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

Observational constraints on the growth of solids in protoplanetary discs

User Marco Tazzari.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

New constraints on extensions of the standard cosmological model

User Eleonora Di Valentino (IAP Paris).

Monday 28 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Waves on Microstate Geometries

User Joe Keir.

Friday 25 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford).

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

Are there additional laws of black hole thermodynamics?

User Jonathan Oppenheim (University College London).

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

Powerful winds from hungry black holes

User Ciro Pinto.

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

Deepening questions on the path of carbon from disks to planets

User Mihkel Kama.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The final results of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

User Shun Saito (MPA Garching).

Monday 21 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Non-Abelian black holes and microstate geometries

User Pedro F. Ramírez.

Friday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Detecting and Characterising Giant Planets with Direct Imaging

User Beth Biller (IfA, University of Edinburgh).

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

Recent Progress in 3d Gauge Theories

User David Tong (DAMTP).

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

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

User Sebastian Marino.

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

Crater 2: A cold giant orbiting the Milky Way

User Gabriel Torrealba.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Consistency and predictivity of the EFT of LSS

User Guido d'Amico (CERN).

Monday 14 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Do we have to modify gravity in the very early universe?

User Chunshan Lin - YITP, Kyoto University.

Friday 11 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

The Observational Quest for the Earliest Galaxies: Progress & Challenges

User Richard Ellis (ESO/UCL).

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

Mismatches on the identification and classification of AGN

User Estelle Pons.

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

CMB lensing from within the Milky Way

User Rupert Allison.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Large-deviation statistics of the cosmic density field

User Cora Uhlemann (University of Utrecht).

Monday 07 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Gravitational waves via Kerr/CFT

User Shahar Hadar, DAMTP.

Friday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Big Questions in Exoplanetary Science

User Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA, Cambridge).

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

Bottom-up: from neutrino mixing to physics at the Planck scale

User Alexei Smirnov (MPI Heidelberg & ICTP Trieste).

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 14:15-15:15

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Parametrising general linear cosmological perturbations

User Macarena Lagos (Imperial College).

Monday 31 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Non-linear dynamics and the (in)stability of AdS

User Fotios Dimitrakopoulos, Amsterdam.

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

Friday 28 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Sackler Lectures

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

Sackler Lecture 2016

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

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

Classical Spacetime and Quantum Cosmology

User James Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara).

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

NuSTAR Observations of V404 Cygni in Outburst: Reflection and Jets

User Dom Walton.

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

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

User George Lansbury.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

ACTPol results and prospects for CMB S4

User Thibaut Louis (IAP, Paris).

Monday 24 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Gravitational wave detections as probes of strong gravity

User Michalis Agathos DAMTP, LIGO-Virgo Collaboration.

Friday 21 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

User Chris Carilli (Astrophysics, Cambridge).

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

Probing the astrophysics and particle physics of WIMPs with direct detection experiments

User Anne Green (University of Nottingham).

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

Peeking into a neutron star

User Nathalie Degenaar.

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

The formation and dynamics of supermassive black hole

User Davide Fiacconi.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

The Separate Universe Approach to Soft Limits

User Zachary Kenton (QueenMary).

Monday 17 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The NUTs and Bolts of Squashed Holography

User Thomas Hertog (Leuven).

Friday 14 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Amelie Saintonge (UCL).

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

Recovering the spacetime metric from a holographic theory of gravity

User Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).

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

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

User Nimisha Kumari.

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

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

User Douglas Boubert.

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Non-Gaussianity as a Particle Detector

User Hayden Lee (University of Cambridge).

Monday 10 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Instability of supersymmetric microstate geometries

User Felicity Eperon.

Friday 07 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Star Formation in a Hard X-ray Selected AGN Sample

User Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland).

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

New quasar results from the Dark Energy Survey

User Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge).

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

Finding Earth-like planets

User Amaury Triaud.

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

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

User Michele Ginolfi.

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

Gaia Data Release 1 - data quality & future releases

User Dafydd Wyn Evans.

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

Gaia Data Release 1 - content & science potential

User Nic Walton.

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

Time Evolution of Giant Molecular Cloud Mass Functions on Galactic Disks

User Masato Kobayashi (Nagoya University, Japan).

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

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

User Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney).

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

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

User Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Institute).

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

Galaxy Evolution with KMOS

User Laura Prichard (Oxford).

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

Morphologically dependent galaxy quenching and the role of AGN feedback

User Rebecca Smethurst (Oxford).

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

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

User Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Observatory, Poland).

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

Stellar haloes as probes of galaxy evolution

User Payel Das (University of Oxford).

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

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

User Dominika Wylezalek (John Hopkins University).

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

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

User Gregor Traven (University of Ljubljana).

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

Colliding Black Holes in AdS

User Hans Bantilan (Queen Mary).

Friday 17 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

User Jonathan Crass (University of Notre Dame).

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

The brightest supernova explosions: current knowledge and future research

User Cosimo Inserra (Queen's Belfast).

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

House Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Radio observations of exoplanets and their host stars

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

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

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

Hitomi and the X-ray spectrum of the Perseus Cluster

User Andrew Fabian.

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

Computer vision & Machine Learning: An Application in Digital Pathology

User Ali Dariush .

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

Encounter-driven fragmentation in irradiated self-gravitating discs

User Farzana Meru .

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

Improving our knowledge on planetary systems using dynamics

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

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Simple emergent power spectra from complex inflationary physics

User Mafalda Dias (DESY).

Monday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Superluminality, Black Holes and EFT

User Garrett Goon (DAMTP).

Friday 03 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Planck and the Optical Depth to Reionization

User George Efstathiou (IoA, Cambridge).

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

Adventures in Little Data

User Paul Ginsparg (Cornell).

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

The Temperature of the Emptiest Regions of the Universe

User Alberto Rorai .

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

The dusty tail of disintegrating exoplanet KIC 12557548b

User Rik van Lieshout .

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

Direct detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets

User Sascha Quanz (ETH, Zurich).

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

The Gravity Dual of Boundary Causality

User Sebastian Fischetti (Imperial).

Friday 27 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Alberto Vecchio (University Birmingham).

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

Quantum Gas in a Box

User Zoran Hadzibabic (Cavendish Laboratory).

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

The Gaia-ESO Survey: investigating the globular cluster sample

User Clare Worley.

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

ISM modelling in cosmological simulations; a critical study

User Matthew Smith.

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

House CMS, Potter Room (B1.19).

Extra Seminar: Naked Black Hole Firewalls

User Don N. Page (Alberta).

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

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

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmology with gravitational waves

User Nicola Tamanini (CEA Saclay).

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Stellar collapse in Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity

User Helvi Witek (Nottingham).

Friday 20 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death

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

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

Black hole collapse in large-c CFT

User Julian Sonner (Geneva).

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

Gaia - Experience and results from the first operation cycle

User Francesca De Angeli.

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

Tracing the main sequence of star formation in X-rays

User James Aird.

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

Quasars into the epoch of reionization

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

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)

User Florian Beutler (ICG Portsmouth).

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

Characteristic relativity in cosmology: the geometry of the Universe from data, and gravitational waves in de Sitter spacetime

User Nigel Bishop (Rhodes University).

Friday 13 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

The Most Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe

User Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona).

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

The Magellanic Origin of the DES Dwarfs

User Prashin Jethwa.

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

Testing feedback models with high-redshift metals

User Laura Keating.

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

Early galaxy formation processes: clues from Near-Field Cosmology

User Stefania Salvadori (Observatoire de Paris-CNRS).

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

House CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Testing gravity using astrophysics

User Jeremy Sakstein (ICG Portsmouth).

Monday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Information Paradox and String Theory

User David Turton (IPhT, CEA Saclay).

Friday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

LEAP - Lightning, electricity, atmospheres of planetary objects

User Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews).

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

A Review of the 750 GeV Di-Photon Excess

User Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

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

OPTICON - the EC Coordination network in OIR astronomy

User Gerry Gilmore.

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

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

User Thomas de Boer.

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

Acoustics of a simple holographic model with momentum relaxation

User Shahar Hadar (DAMTP).