Probing the epoch of galaxy assembly with MUSE

Trevor Mendel (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 19 April 2024, 11:30-12:30

Chemo-dynamical evolution of disks over cosmic time

Emily Wisnioski (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 12 April 2024, 11:30-12:30

Effects of primordial black holes on early star formation

Boyuan Liu (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 15 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Obscured AGN across cosmic time

Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 08 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

The chemical abundance pattern of a nitrogen-loud AGN in the early Universe

Xihan Ji (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 01 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Light from the Cosmic Dawn: origin and observational signatures of the first black holes

Alessandro Trinca (Rome).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 16 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

The quest for the earliest black holes: a theoretical perspective

Rosa Valiante (Rome).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 09 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Problems with (our) galaxy formation simulations and some new angles

Taysun Kimm (Yonsei).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

IoA/KICC Open Day

Matthew Bothwell & Hannah Strathern.

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 02 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Tracing the Milky Way’s Assembly History

Daniel Zucker (Macquarie).

Ryle Room + online.

Friday 26 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

Galactic Archaeology with Globular Clusters

Stephanie Monty (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 12 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

Warps, bending waves and corrugations in the Milky Way

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 08 December 2023, 11:30-12:30

The extreme masses of the dark matter haloes hosting z > 6 quasars: two new pieces of evidence

Tiago Costa (Newcastle).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 01 December 2023, 11:30-12:30

Challenging our understanding of high-redshift galaxy formation with JWST observations

Harley Katz (Oxford).

SPO room + online.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

AGN in Clumpy DisCs (ACDC): How does ISM structure shape multiphase outflows?

Samuel Ward (Newcastle/ESO).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Blown away: relative velocities and the first galaxies

Luke Conaboy (Nottingham).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 10 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

The structure of the interstellar medium as probe of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution

Jindra Gensior (University of Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 03 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Towards homogeneous studies of high-z protoclusters

Seunghwan Lim (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 20 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Observations of kinetic feedback in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) hosts

Sthabile Kolwa (Johannesburg).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 06 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

LINCC Frameworks - developing software for large-scale analysis of data

Neven Caplar (University of Washington).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 11:30-12:00

Constraints on DM and the cusp/core problem with MUSE

Nicolas Bouché (CNRS & CRAL).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 22 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Reionizing the Universe: A Brief History of Baryons and the Cosmic Web

Piero Madau (UCSC).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Super-massive black holes across cosmic time

Johannes Buchner (MPE).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 15 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Not so Slow: Do Galactic Bars Slow Down?

Gus Beane (Harvard).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

What we think we know about reionization

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 07 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Kinematics of galaxy bulges, disks, and ionised gas from 3D spectroscopy

Sree Oh (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 23 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Probing the early Universe with the oldest stars in the Milky Way

Anke Arentsen (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 16 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium and Intergalactic Medium through Lya and MgII Emission

Yucheng Guo (Lyon).

Battcock F17 + online.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Galaxy kinematics within the cosmic web

Stefania Barsanti (ANU).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 09 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Unveiling the Interstellar Medium in High-Redshift Galaxies

Kimihiko Nakajima (NAOJ).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Internal kinematics of Gaia DR3 wide binaries

Xavier Hernandez (UNAM).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 02 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

The effect of cosmic rays in the evolution of a Milky Way-like galaxy and its circum-galactic medium

Francisco Rodríguez Montero (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 19 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Mapping dark and luminous matter with cosmological simulations

Dr. Sownak Bose (Durham).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 05 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

The Lyman-alpha cosmic web in IllustrisTNG

Chris Byrohl (Heidelberg).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

Science with Very Large Cosmological Simulations

Simeon Bird (UC Riverside).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 17 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

AGN revisited: from dwarf galaxies to new black hole accretion models

Sophie Koudmani (CCA).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 17 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

Using galaxies to study supernovae and supernovae to study galaxies

Or Graur (University of Portsmouth).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 10 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

JWST view of star formation in local galaxies

Francesco Belfiore (INAF Arcetri).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 03 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

The Nature of Dark Matter from high-redshift Cosmic Web

Vid Irsic (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 27 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Current constraints on escape fractions

Charlotte Simmonds (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 20 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Exploring early galaxy evolution in the JWST-era with novel statistical and machine learning techniques

Christopher Lovell (University of Portsmouth).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 13 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Pandora: exploring galaxy formation with radiation, magnetic fields and cosmic rays

Sergio Martin-Alvarez (Stanford).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 16 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

An updated view on the properties of the first galaxies from the first JWST observations

Nicolas Laporte (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 09 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

Constraining Cosmic Baryons and Dark Matter with the Lyman-alpha Forest

Brant Robertson (UCSC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 02 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 25 November 2022, 11:45-12:45

The Fornax3D survey with MUSE - final results and future spin-off directions

Marc Sarzi (Armagh Observatory & Planetarium).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 18 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Barred galaxies in ΛCDM: Uncovering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies

Francesca Fragkoudi (Durham).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 04 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

A resolved view of z>6 quasar host galaxies

Romain Meyer (Heidelberg).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 21 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies in the Era of JWST Studies

Yuki Isobe (University of Tokyo).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 07 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Decoding the Origin of the Elements

David Weinberg (Ohio State University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Pushing the frontiers of gravitational encounters and collisionless dynamics

Uddipan Banik (Yale).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 30 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Cold clouds in the hot intracluster medium

Ricarda Beckmann, Kavli Institute, Cambridge.

in person & via zoom .

Friday 23 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Modeling the Circumgalactic Medium

Yakov Faerman (UW Seattle).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 16 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Multi-phase AGN feedback on pc and kpc scales.

Cristina Ramos Almeida (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 26 August 2022, 11:30-12:30

Some Surprising Results from the Simba Simulations

Romeel Dave (IfA Edinburgh).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 12 August 2022, 11:30-12:30

Supernova and AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies

Sophie Koudmani (IoA).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 22 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

The Sherwood Relics simulations - patchy cosmic reionization and its imprints on the IGM and Lyman-alpha forest

Ewald Puchwein (AIP Potsdam).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 15 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

First results from the THESAN radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the Epoch of Reionization

Aaron Smith (MIT).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 08 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

The search for primordial gravitational waves: latest results from BICEP/Keck

Clem Pryke (UM Minneapolis).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 01 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

Modeling H-alpha emission in galaxies: insights into star formation and time variability

Sandro Tacchella (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 27 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: Evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback

Joanna Piotrowska (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes

Melanie Habouzit (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 25 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

A Color-Independent Approach to Galaxy and Quasar Evolution through Absorption Spectroscopy

Jens-Kristian Krogager, University of Lyon (CRAL).

via zoom .

Friday 18 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

The growth of supermassive black holes in the absence of mergers and the effect on their host galaxies

Rebecca Smethurst (University of Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 11 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

Do We Have a Standard Model of Cosmology?

George Efstathiou .

Hoyle lecture theatre (sign-up required) and zoom .

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

The fundamental plane of massive galaxies: confronting observations with realistic simulations

Anna de Graaff (Leiden).

via zoom .

Friday 18 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

A giant molecular halo around a z ∼ 2 quasar

Claudia Cicone (Oslo).

via zoom .

Friday 11 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

Solving Reionization with Resolved Lyman-alpha

Rohan Naidu (CfA) .

via zoom .

Friday 04 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

The Thesan Project - simulating the high redshift Universe

Mark Vogelsberger (MIT).

via zoom .

Friday 28 January 2022, 11:30-12:30

Exploring the Cold Universe: From Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, Interstellar to Circumgalactic Media at z ~ 5 - 7

Seiji Fujimoto (Copenhagen).

via zoom .

Friday 10 December 2021, 11:30-12:30

How are red and blue quasars different?

Victoria Fawcett (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 26 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter

Alis Deason (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 19 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

XQR30 - a legacy sample of z>6 X-shooter QSO spectra probing reionization and the growth of supermassive black holes

Sarah Bosman (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 12 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the ARTEMIS simulations

Adam Dillamore (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 05 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

The nature of the first galaxies and reionisation: challenges in the era of SKA, Roman and JWST

Anne Hutter (Groningen).

via zoom .

Friday 29 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Probing ISM Physics at High-Redshift with Simulations and Local Analogues

Harley Katz (Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 22 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Driving multi-phase outflows with AGN

Tiago Costa (MPA Garching).

via zoom .

Friday 15 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Fundamental Plane: between galaxy evolution and cosmology

Francesco D'Eugenio (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 08 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

The effect of inhomogeneous reionisation on the Lyman-𝛼 forest

Margherita Molaro (Nottingham) .

via zoom .

Friday 01 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

The causal origin of the angular momentum and of the properties of galaxies

Corentin Cadiou (UCL).

via zoom .

Friday 03 September 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Cosmic Dawn simulation project: galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization

Pierre Ocvirk (Strasbourg) .

via zoom .

Friday 28 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Tracing AGN feedback signatures from small to large scales across cosmic time

Dominika Wylezalek, Universität Heidelberg.

via zoom .

Friday 21 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Black holes in globular clusters

Mark Gieles (Barcelona).

via zoom .

Friday 14 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Resolving the impact of outflows and small-scale structure in the CGM with TNG50

Dylan Nelson, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg.

via zoom .

Friday 07 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Lyman-𝛼 as a tracer of cosmic reionisation

Thibault Garel (Geneva).

via zoom .

Friday 30 April 2021, 11:30-12:30

The S5 survey and the discovery of the fastest known hypervelocity star

Sergey Koposov (IfA Edinburgh).

via zoom .

Friday 16 April 2021, 11:30-12:30

Probing reionization with the Lyman-alpha forest and the CMB

Xiaohan Wu (Harvard).

via zoom .

Friday 26 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Evolution and Limitations of AGN Feedback in Massive Galaxies

Michael McDonald (MIT).

via zoom .

Friday 12 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Studying massive black holes with tidal disruption events

Hugo Pfister (NBI Copenhagen).

via zoom .

Friday 26 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Dance of the Milky Way and the LMC

Denis Erkal (Surrey).

via zoom .

Friday 19 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

Feeding and feedback from little monsters: black holes in dwarf galaxies

Mar Mezcua (ISS Barcelona).

via zoom .

Friday 05 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

The origin of the first supermassive black holes

Ricarda Beckman (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 22 January 2021, 11:30-12:30

Small-scale structure of the pre-reionization IGM in quasar proximity zones

Frederick Davies (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 11 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Rapidly Forming Haloes as a Route to Massive Black Holes

John Regan (Maynooth).

via zoom .

Friday 04 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Impact of AGN Feedback on Simulated Dwarf Galaxies

Sophie Koudmani (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 27 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Hubble Constant from Time Delays: Breaking Degeneracies with External Datasets

Matthew Auger (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 20 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Connecting large and small scale perturbations of the Galactic disc

Chervin Laporte (Kavli IPMU Tokyo) .

via zoom .

Friday 06 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Population III stars: effects of UV radiation, baryon-dark matter streaming velocity, and redshift

Mihir Kulkarni (Columbia).

via zoom .

Friday 30 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Understanding galactic morphology using cosmological simulations with controlled initial conditions

Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

via zoom .

Friday 23 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

The chemical enrichment of near-pristine systems: possible quenching following Reionization.

Louise Welsh (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 16 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

New Methods for Identifying Lyman Continuum Leakers and Reionization-Epoch Analogues

Harley Katz (Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 09 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

A consistent and robust measurement of the thermal state of the IGM at 2<z<4 with a large sample of Lyman-alpha forest spectra

Prakash Gaikwad (IoA) .

via zoom .

Friday 02 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Supernova clustering and galactic outflows

Matthew Smith (CfA Harvard).

via zoom .

Friday 25 September 2020, 11:30-12:30

The (chemical) history of the Milky Way told by its mergers

Oscar Agertz and Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory).

via zoom .

Friday 24 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

A lockdown perspective on cosmic tensions

George Efstathiou (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 17 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Fifth Force Constraints from Galaxy-Scale Tests

Aneesh Naik (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 10 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Understanding the epoch of reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters

Lewis Weinberger (IoA) .

via zoom .

Friday 03 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Tidal disruption of stars

Thomas Wevers (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 26 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Star formation inside galactic outflows

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 19 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

The demise of the Sagittarius galaxy

Eugene Vasiliev (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 05 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Probing Cosmic Dawn with the most distant galaxies

Nicolas Laporte (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 29 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Biggest Splash

Vasily Belokurov (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 22 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Powering galactic superwinds with small-scale AGN winds

Tiago Costa (MPA Garching).

via zoom .

Friday 15 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

IGM-galaxy cross-correlations during reionization

Romain Meyer (UCL).

via zoom (hopefully).

Friday 17 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Seeing the Milky Way Disk Evolve

Neige Frankel (MPIA Heidelberg).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 06 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Lyman-alpha emitters in QSO proximity zones

Sarah Bosman (UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 21 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

The detection of ionised carbon in a Lyman break galaxy with surprisingly warm dust at z = 8.31

Tom Bakx (Nagoya University).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 14 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

How is star formation in galaxies quenched?

Asa Bluck (Cavendish).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 29 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

QSOs with Gaia

Yiping Shu (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

The dynamical scaling laws of disk galaxies

Federico Lelli (ESO).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 08 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z > 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Lyα forest spectra

Prakash Gaikwad (IoA) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Structure formation with Fuzzy Dark Matter

Anastasia Fialkov (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 18 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Angular momentum of early type galaxies based on extended kinematics

Ortwin Gerhard (MPE Garching).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 27 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Constraining models of warm and self-interacting dark matter with quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses

Daniel Gilman (UCLA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 13 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

A Lensed View of Low-Mass Dark Matter Structures

Matt Auger (KICC).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 02 August 2019, 11:30-12:30

Galactic archaeology with stellar streams

Rodrigo Ibata (Strasbourg).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 26 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

When the spectral lines in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 went on holiday

Gary Ferland (U Kentucky).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 28 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

An Update on the Zwicky Transient Facility

Shri Kulkarni (Caltech).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 07 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

How to Quench a Dwarf Galaxy: The Impact of Reionization on Cosmic Structure

Harley Katz (Oxford).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 31 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Star-forming clumps at high redshift and their importance for galaxy evolution

Anita Zanella (ESO).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 24 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Towards an understanding of black hole binary formation through gravitational wave observations

Hongyu Shen (Urbana-Champaign).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 17 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Move, multiply, and measure cold gas around galaxies

Max Gronke (UC Santa Barbara).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 10 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Formation and evolution of stellar clusters: the E-MOSAICS simulations

Marta Reina-Campos (Heidelberg).

Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 03 May 2019, 10:15-11:15

The formation and evolution of different galaxy components with MaNGA

Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca (Nottingham).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 26 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Kinematics and dynamics of molecular gas in high redshift quasars

Alessandro Lupi (SNS Pisa) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 12 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Can supernova feedback regulate properties of dwarf galaxies?

Matthew Smith (Flatiron Institute).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

The tale of two halos: a couple of super cool results from the Gaia DR2

Vasily Belokurov (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 22 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

Compact HII galaxies

Ricardo Chavez (UNAM).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 01 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

The discreteness-driven relaxation of collisionless gravitating systems

Beraldo e Silva (U Central Lancashire).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 22 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

Massive outflows of cold gas and their role in the baryon cycle of galaxies

Claudia Cicone (OABrera, Milano).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 15 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

Searching for the fastest stars in Gaia DR2

Tommaso Marchetti (Leiden).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

Splashback as a physical boundary of galaxy halos: theoretical predictions, observational detections, and implications for galaxy evolution

Andrey Kravtsov (U.Chicago and IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

Valeriya Korol (Leiden).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

Emission Line Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies: Predictions of Lya, Infrared, and Nebular Lines for ALMA and JWST

Harley Katz (Oxford).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

Magnetised clouds in the Galactic corona: Fuel for future star formation?

Asger Gronnow (University of Sydney).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 12 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

The Emergence of Structure during the Epoch of Reionization

Martin Haehnelt.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 05 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Dynamical Formation of Compact Object Mergers

Carl Rodriguez (MIT).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 21 September 2018, 11:30-12:30

Metallicity Gradients in Star-Forming Galaxies using SAMI and TYPHOON

Henry Poetrodjojo (ANU).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 07 September 2018, 11:30-12:30

The Epoch of Helium Reionization -- The Final Phase Transition of the Universe

Gabor Worseck (Potsdam).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 31 August 2018, 11:30-12:30

Discovery of a 4-sigma deviation from the Concordance Model of Cosmology using the Hubble Diagram of Quasars.

Elisabeta Lusso (Durham).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 10 August 2018, 11:30-12:30

Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxies

Roberto Assef (Universidad Diego Portales).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 27 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

The FABLE simulations: A feedback model for galaxies, groups and clusters

Nick Henden (IoA) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 20 July 2018, 11:30-12:30

Dust in the early Universe

Raffaella Schneider (Rome).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 29 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Revisiting relaxation in globular clusters

Chris Hamilton (DAMTP).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 15 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Dynamics of warped discs

Chris Nixon (Leicester).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 08 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

New constraints on Lyman-α opacity with a sample of 62 quasars at z > 5.7

Sarah Bosman (UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 18 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Merging black holes in nuclear star clusters

Fabio Antonini (University of Surrey).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 11 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Concerns about Modelling Foregrounds and the 21-cm Signal in the EDGES data

Ewald Puchwein (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 04 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

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

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

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

The spin evolution of supermassive black holes

Davide Fiacconi (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

A New Paradigm for Old Galaxies?

Matt Auger (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

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

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

Quasars in the epoch of reionization

Eduardo Banados (Carnegie Observatories).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

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

Galaxy formation simulations: "subgrid" vs physics

Matthew Smith (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

The physics of AGN-driven galactic outflows

Kastytitis Zubovas (Vilnius).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

The thermal history of the Intergalactic Medium

Ewald Puchwein (IoA) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

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

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

The temperature of the IGM after patchy hydrogen reionization

Laura Keating (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

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

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

Stellar feedback in the multi-phase interstellar medium

Thorsten Naab (MPA Garching).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Exploring the IGM at the End of Reionization

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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

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

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

A conclusive test of cold dark matter

Carlos Frenk (Durham).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Some exciting news from MUSE

Marc Sarzi (Hertfordshire).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Galaxy clusters at sub-millimeter wavelengths

Gianfranco De Zotti (Padua Observatory - INAF).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

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

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

Ellipticals lensed by ellipticals: 10 billion years of growth

Lindsay Oldham ( IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Modelling the Milky Way with Gaia DR1 and beyond

Jason Hunt (Toronto).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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 circumgalactic gas and metals around star forming and elliptical galaxies

Sijing Shen (Oslo).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

The effect of AGN radiation pressure on dust

Tiago Costa (Leiden Observatory).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

The upper bound on the lowest mass halo

Prashin Jethwa (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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

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

Imaging of dust and molecular gas in high-redshift galaxies

Padelis Papadopoulos (Cardiff).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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

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

Quasar Outflows and Black Hole Masses

Liam Coatman (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Strong lensing in the age of ALMA

Matus Rybak (MPA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Constraining halo and satellite properties with proper motions

Tobias Fritz (University of Virginia).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Blindly Measuring the Hubble Constant (Again!)

Matt Auger (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Dynamical constraints on the galaxy-halo connection

Harry Desmond (Stanford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Aspects of non-standard cosmology: galactic satellites

Adi Nusser (Technion Haifa).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Missing dark matter in dwarf galaxies?

Kyle Oman (U Victoria).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Did LIGO detect dark matter?

Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

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

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

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

Gravitational Waves: reviewing the discovery and its implications

Christopher Moore (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Gaia Alerts: A flare from stellar tidal disruption

Morgan Fraser (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

The metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium

Andrea Pallottini (SNS Pisa and Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

First results from MaNGA

Francesco Belfiore (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Extremely metal poor stars in the Galactic bulge

Andrew Casey (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

The case for radiation pressure driven outflows

Andy Fabian (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

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

Properties of dark subhaloes from gaps in tidal streams

Denis Erkal (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Resolving the flow around black holes

Mike Curtis (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Sterile neutrino dark matter: galaxy formation and other stories

Mark Lovell (U Amsterdam).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 06 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies growing up: Constant gas mass and thick discs

Greg Stinson (MPIA Heidelberg).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

News from POLARBEAR

Giulio Fabbian (SISSA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 16 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift Universe

Hamsa Padmanabhan (Pune).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

Star Formation around Dusty Quasars at z~2

Susie Alaghband-Zadeh (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Observing the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in the 20 to 300 micron region

Eric Becklin (UCLA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 September 2015, 11:30-12:30

The Milky Way's Biconical Nuclear Wind: Feeding the Fermi Bubbles

Andrew Fox.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

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

Rare Views of Ordinary and Extraordinary Galaxies

Brenda Frye (Steward).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 31 July 2015, 11:30-12:30

Cold Dust in High Redshift X-Ray Luminous AGN: A SCUBA-2 View

Manda Banerji (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 July 2015, 11:30-12:30

S7 - Probing the physics of AGN through integral field spectroscopy

Mike Dopita (ANU).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 July 2015, 11:30-12:30

The Kinematic Assembly of Disk Galaxies

Susan Kassin (STSCI).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 26 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

The coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes

Timothy Heckman (Johns Hopkins).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 12 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies in the Reionization Era

Dan Stark (Steward Observatory).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 June 2015, 11:30-12:30

Evidence for a significant contribution of rare bright sources to the ionising UV background at z~ 5.6-5.8

Jonathan Chardin (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 29 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

The Metagalactic Ionizing Background: A crisis in UV photon production

Mike Shull (U Colorado Boulder).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 22 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

Modelling the evolution of mass and spin of supermassive black holes with hydrodynamical simulations

Yohan Dubois (IAP).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

The interstellar dust characteristics in nearby galaxies

Ilse de Looze (Ghent and IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

Resolving AGN in the SAMI Galaxy Survey

James Allen (U Sidney).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:30-12:30

From the IGM to galaxy clusters: Recent progress in the hydrodynamical modelling of cosmic structures

Ewald Puchwein (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 April 2015, 11:30-12:30

Outflows from starburst and AGN

Sara Cazzoli & Stefano Carniani (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 March 2015, 11:30-12:30

Discovery of a large number of Ultra Faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds

Sergey Koposov (University of Cambridge).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 March 2015, 11:30-12:30

A Hubble diagram for quasars

Guido Risaliti (Arcetri).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 March 2015, 11:30-12:30

A clean sweep for dust in Nearby Galaxies with Herschel

Matthew Smith (Cardiff).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 06 March 2015, 11:30-12:30

Mapping the z>2 Cosmic Web Using the 3D Ly-a Forest

Khee-Gan Lee (MPIA Heidelberg).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

A close look at fast cold gas in the halo of a z > 6 QSO

Claudia Cicone & Tiago Costa (Cavendish&IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Uncovering Blue Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies

Bethan James (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 06 February 2015, 11:30-12:30

Self-Gravity, Resonances & Orbital diffusion in stellar discs

Jean-Baptiste Fouvry (IAP).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 January 2015, 11:30-12:30

AGN -- Host Galaxy Relations and their Evolution

Matt Auger (IoA) .

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 January 2015, 11:30-12:30

UKIRT, NASA, and Lockheed Martin: The Missing Satellite Orbital Debris Problem

Greg Madsen.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 December 2014, 11:30-12:30

Connecting star formation to galactic dynamics

Florent Renaud (U Surrey).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 28 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

Wide-field substructures in the Local Group

Brendan McMonigal.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

First Results From CHAOS: The Chemical Abundances Of Spirals Project

Danielle Berg (Wisconsin).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

Modeling the sub-grid side of galaxy formation

Pierluigi Monaco (Trieste).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 31 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

The edge of galaxy formation

Justin Read (Surrey).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

No talk scheduled (no room)

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Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

The MESSIER satellite: unveiling galaxy formation

David Valls-Gabaud (Paris).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Talk cancelled

Speaker not available.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 26 September 2014, 11:30-12:30

The Local Group as a cosmological probe: dwarf galaxies, stellar streams, and stellar halos

Nicolas Martin (Strasbourg).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 September 2014, 11:30-12:30

Empirical Models of Galaxy Formation - Constraints and Predictions

Ben Moster.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 29 August 2014, 11:30-12:30

Substructure in Andromeda's outer halo: the view from PAndAS

Nick Bate (U Sydney).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 22 August 2014, 11:30-12:30

AGN feedback in a multi-phase medium

Sergei Nayashkin (Leicester).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 July 2014, 11:30-12:30

New Constraints on the IGM Neutral Fraction at z=6-7

George Becker (KICC).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 11 July 2014, 11:30-12:30

Using IFU data to disentangle the starburst-AGN connection

Rebecca Davies.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 July 2014, 11:30-12:30

Possible Variation of Fundamental Constants: the impact of recently uncovered systematic errors

Jonathan Whitmore (Swinburne).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 20 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Using DLAs to study the physical conditions of gas in high redshift galaxies

Marcel Neeleman (UC San Diego).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei: Energy- versus momentum-driven outflows

Tiago Costa (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

XXI century reverberation mapping: inferring black hole mass, geometry and dynamics of the broad line region in active galaxies

Anna Pancoast (UCSB).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

M87 and its globular cluster system

Adriano Agnello.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 16 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Canis Major overdensity and Monoceros ring explained in terms of pure Milky Way structure

Martin Lopez Corredoira.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Exploring the edge of the Universe with ALMA

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

The strangeness of Andromeda II

Wyn Evans (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

The European ELT project

Isobel Hook (Oxford and INAF-Rome).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 11 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

The role of gas flows in regulating star-formation

Nicolas Bouche (Toulouse).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

ATLAS lifts the Cup: Discovery of a New Milky Way satellite in Crater

Vasily Belokurov and Sergey Koposov (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 28 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

News from RAVE

Georges Kordopatis (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

The evolution of the structure of galaxies

Matt Auger (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 07 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

Where do galaxies end?

Mike Shull (IoA and U Colorado Boulder).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 28 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

The gas content of AGN host galaxies

Fabio Vito (Bologna).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon Detector

Richard Gaitskell (Brown University).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

How galaxies acquire their mass and angular momentum at high redshift

Julien Devriendt (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 31 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

Measuring adiabatic contraction in SINGS galaxies

Harley Katz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

The galaxy mass-metallicity relation and the implied metallicity of the IGM

Yingjie Peng (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

Probing the intergalactic medium and dark matter with the Lyman-alpha forest

George Becker (KICC).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

Galactic Structure and Dynamics: Disc and Halo

Ralph Schoenrich (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 December 2013, 11:30-12:30

Milky Way satellites in Cold and Warm dark matter

Massimo Ricotti (U Maryland).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 06 December 2013, 11:30-12:30

H_0 revisited

George Efstathiou (KICC).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 29 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

GRB host galaxies to explore galaxy formation and evolution, from the local universe to very high redshift

Sandra Savaglio (MPE Garching).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 22 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

The alignment of the spin of galaxies with their large-scale environment

Christophe Pichon (IAP Paris).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

Probing the metallicity and ionization state of the circumgalactic medium at z~6 and beyond

Laura Keating and George Becker (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

Dark matter cores in the Fornax and Sculptor dwarf galaxies: joining halo assembly and detailed star formation histories

Thomas de Boer (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

Size evolution, quenching and morphological transformation

Marcella Carollo (ETH Zurich).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

More from galaxies on a moving mesh

Debora Sijacki (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 18 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

Warm dark matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: New constraints from high redshift Lyman-α forest data

Martin Haehnelt (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 11 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

Fossil imprint of a powerful flare at the Galactic Centre along the Magellanic Stream

Greg Madsen (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

Mass-Loss Rates in Galactic Outflows

Crystal Martin (UC Santa Barbara).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 27 September 2013, 11:30-12:30

Modelling the 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization

Tirth Choudhury (NCRA Pune).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 September 2013, 11:30-12:30

The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies survey: luminosity function at z~8 and spectroscopic follow-up

Kasper Schmidt (UC Santa Barbara).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 13 September 2013, 11:30-12:30

Observing Star-Forming Galaxies in the Heart of the Reionization Era

Richard Ellis (Caltech).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 August 2013, 11:30-12:30

Observing the formation of individual galactic halos at z~3

Michael Rauch (Carnegie Observatories Pasadena).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 August 2013, 11:30-12:30

What's Wrong with Dwarf Galaxies?

Piero Madau (UC Santa Cruz).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 26 July 2013, 11:30-12:30

Revealing the properties of the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies from near-IR to submm observations

Maud Galametz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 19 July 2013, 11:30-12:30

No Galaxies Discussion Group

Summer conference "Mind the Gap":.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Astronomy.

Friday 12 July 2013, 09:00-18:00

The evolution of the dust and gas content of galaxies

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 July 2013, 11:30-12:30

The dark matter crisis: problems with the current standard model of cosmology and steps towards an improved model

Pavel Kroupa (Bonn).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Revealing (negative) AGN feedback through broad wings of CO emission lines

Claudia Cicone (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Strong Lensing as a Cosmological Probe: Obstacles and Solutions

Thomas Collett (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 07 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

Forming massive seed black holes by direct collapse

John Regan (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 31 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Simulations of damped Lyman-alpha systems

Simeon Bird (Princeton).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cold dark matter: cusps and cores

Andrew Pontzen (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cancelled -- A fundamental relation between the metallicity, gas content, and stellar mass of local galaxiesCancelled -- Cancelled

Matthew Bothwell (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 May 2013, 00:00-00:00

Galaxies discussion group cancelled. Speaker is ill.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 May 2013, 00:00-00:00

Nearby Galaxies as Revealed by the Herschel Space Observatory

Rob Kennicutt (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 19 April 2013, 11:30-12:30

First cosmology results from Planck

George Efstathiou, Anthony Challinor and Paul Shellard.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 11:00 am).

Friday 22 March 2013, 11:30-13:00

JWST and MOONS: the future of multi-object NIR spectroscopy

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

The Lyman break analogue Haro 11: spatially resolved chemodynamics with VLT FLAMES

Bethan James (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 March 2013, 10:15-11:00

The final parsec problem

Simon Karl (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 March 2013, 10:00-11:00

What is up in the Milky Way

Victor Debattista.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 22 February 2013, 10:00-11:00

Illuminating the Dark Universe with quasar-induced Ly-alpha emission

Sebastiano Cantalupo (UC Santa Cruz).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 February 2013, 10:00-11:00

First extra-galactic results from ALMA

Jeff Wagg (Cavendish).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 February 2013, 10:00-11:00

Progress with strong lenses from CASSOWARY

Vasily Belokurov and Matt Auger (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 February 2013, 10:00-11:00

A vast, thin plane of corotating dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy

Mike Irwin (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 January 2013, 10:15-11:00

The ultra-massive black hole candidate in NC1277: X-ray emission and implications

Andy Fabian and Martin Haehnelt (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 18 January 2013, 10:00-11:00

Cosmological Zoom-In Simulations: Connecting the Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation

Piero Madau, UC Santa Cruz.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 December 2012, 11:30-12:30

astro-ph discussion: CLASH: Three Strongly Lensed Images of a Candidate z ~ 11 Galaxy (http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3663)

Richard McMahon and Michele Trenti, IoA.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 07 December 2012, 11:30-12:30

Finding the Remains of Murdered Haloes and Galaxies: The Streams Going Notts Comparison Study

Pascal Elahi, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Bootes 1 - Measuring very early chemical evolution, and (almost) the first stars

Gerry Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Lensed Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and Dark Matter Substructure

Yashar Hezaveh.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 16 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Lackner and Gunn: The effect of Environment on Discs and Bulges (2012arXiv1210.4556)

Astroph discussion led by Yingjie Peng (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

The coupling between the core/cusp and missing satellite problems

Sergey Koposov (University of Cambridge).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 26 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

Blindly Measuring the Hubble Constant

Matt Auger.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 19 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

The rapid demise of Lyman-alpha emitters at the tail end of the Epoch of Reionization

Martin Haehnelt (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 12 October 2012, 10:15-11:15

99% Invisible: Uncovering the dusty galaxies which lie beneath the confusion noise floor

Marco Viero (JPL).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 05 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

The Large-Scale Correlation of the Lya Forest and DLAs from BOSS

Jordi Miralda-Escude.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 28 September 2012, 11:30-12:30

A Mixed Origin of the Milky Way's Thick Disk

Glenn Van de Ven (Heidelberg).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 September 2012, 10:00-11:00

The Dynamics of the Outer Parts of Omega Centauri

Gary da Costa (ANU).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 31 August 2012, 11:30-12:30

130 GeV lines from the Galactic center and subhalos: artifacts or WIMPs?

Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 August 2012, 11:30-12:30

The Gaseous Environments of High-z Star-Forming Galaxies

Gwen Rudie (Caltech).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 August 2012, 11:30-12:30

The Mass Distribution of the Fornax dSph: Constraints from its Globular Cluster Distribution

David Cole.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 29 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

Damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) Absorption Systems and their Fundamental Plane

Marcel Neeleman (UCSD).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 08 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

Dust in Galaxies as Revealed by 1 and 2D Spectroscopy

Natalia Vale Asari (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 01 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

3D Extinction Mapping Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

Stuart Sale (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Early-type galaxies: the last 12 billion years

Sugata Kaviraj (Imperial).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 18 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidals and Elliptical Galaxy Lenses

Adriano Agnello (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 11 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Astrometry Lost and Regained

Erik Hoeg (Copenhagen).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Towards Observational Isochrones

Floor van Leeuwen.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies

Kristy McQuinn (University of Minnesota).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 30 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

Stellar Astrophysics with Hermes and Skymapper

Stefan Keller (ANU).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 23 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

Weighing Galaxies: Inference from New Lenses and Cosmological Simulations

Phil Marshall (Oxford).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 09 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

Strangulation in GIMIC Cluster Galaxies

Yannick Bahe ( IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 02 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

IFU Observations of high redshift Ultraluminous Infra-red Galaxies

Susie Alaghband-Zadeh (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 24 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

Breaking the Mass-Anisotropy Degeneracy in the Milky Way Halo

Alis Deason (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

Modelling the Tidal Interaction of the Magellanic Clouds

Jonathan Diaz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 10 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

H-alpha/FUV Ratios in Resolved Star Forming Region Populations

Maciej Hermanowicz (University of Cambridge).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

Automated Stellar Spectra Parametrisation for Galactic Archaelogy

George Kordopatis.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 27 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

The Star Formation & Chemical Evolution Timescales of Two Nearby Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Thomas de Boer (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

Studying Stellar Streams: Properties and proper motion of the Saggitarius stream and velocity dispersion of the Orphan stream

Sergey Koposov (University of Cambridge).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 25 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

The Link Between Accretion Luminosity and Star Formation in QSO Host Galaxies

Dave Bonfield (Hertfordshire).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 18 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Mapping the Dust Properties in Nearby Galaxies: What's new under the eye of Herschel

Maud Galametz (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 11 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Luminous Starbursts & Quasars in the Redshift Desert at z~1-3

Manda Banerji (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 04 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Insights into Galaxy Evolution, Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Strong Lensing

Matt Auger (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 28 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Satellite Profiles of Galaxy Groups and Clusters in SDSS

Jon Budzinski (IoA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 21 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Presentation of Thesis Projects

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 14 October 2011, 10:00-12:30

The surprising relationship between Lyman break galaxy spectroscopic features, environment, and kinematics

Jeff Cooke (Swinburne).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 15 July 2011, 11:30-12:30

Star Formation Trends in High Redshift Galaxy Surveys: The Elephant or the Tail

Martin Stringer, Durham.

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 17 June 2011, 11:30-12:30

Evaluating the Optical Depth of HII Regions and Starburst Galaxies

Sally Oey (University of Michigan).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 03 June 2011, 11:30-12:30

Galactic Collisions

Thorsten Naab (MPA).

Kavli LMR, IoA.

Friday 20 May 2011, 11:30-12:30