Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Direct Images of the Cosmic Web of Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Gas

Oleksii Sokoliuk, Aberdeen University.

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Chasing the First Stars With Outliers

David Aguado, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Chasing the First Stars With Outliers

David Aguado, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 13:15-13:45

Galaxies Discussion Group

Unveiling the shape of the ionizing spectrum of galaxies

Anne Verhamme (University of Geneva).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 11 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Double black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters: eccentricities, spins, masses, and the growth of massive seeds

Debatri Chattopadhyay.

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 13:15-13:45

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Dr. Manu Parra-Royón (Astrophysics Institute of Andalucia - Spanish National Research Council).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Double black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters: eccentricities, spins, masses, and the growth of massive seeds

Debatri Chattopadhyay .

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 01 July 2025, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

WST: science. status and plans

Prof Roland Bacon (CRAL, Lyon, FR and WST Collaboration Coordinator).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Building.

Tuesday 01 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

The Most Ambitious Radio Astronomy Endeavour of the 21st Century? Science, Technology and Engineering Dialogues in a Large-scale Project

Prof. Howard Reader.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 01 July 2025, 11:15-12:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle

Louise Beer.

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 13:15-13:45

Cosmology Lunch

The Hubble Tension and Primordial Magnetic Fields

Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University).

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

Monday 23 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Well-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity

Aron Kovacs, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Nucleosynthesis at the isotopic level: how chemical abundances enhance our understanding of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies

Madeleine McKenzie (Carnegie).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 20 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Unveiling the nature of dark matter with small-scale cosmic structure

Risa Wechsler (Stanford/KIPAC).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Thursday 19 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Impact of extragalactic point sources on the foregrounds and 21-cm observations

Shikhar Mittal / Cavendish Laboratory.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Streams: A New Frontier in Constraining Dark Matter Halo Populations

David Chemaly / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplanet Demographics: A Journey Through Space and Time

Timothy Hallatt (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars

Prof. Rene Breton (University of Manchester).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Novel Approaches to Black Hole Ringdown Fits

Richard Dyer (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 16 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Free floating planets and their possible origins

Gavin Coleman [Queen Mary University London].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

A short history of KiDS cosmic shear measurements - a.k.a. Euclid from the ground

Hendrik Hildebrandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

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

Monday 16 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics

Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Constraining Inflation with Numerical Relativity

Panos Giannadakis, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 13 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Dynamics of Debris Disk Creation in Neutron Star Mergers

Yossef Zenati (Open University).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 13 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Magnetic fields of neutron stars: simulations and observations

Andrei Igoshev, Newcastle University.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The enigmatic long-period radio transients

Prof. Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

21cm Discussion Group

Harnessing the power of multi-tracer intensity mapping to study early galaxy formation

Guochao Sun, Northwestern University (Remote).

Martin Ryle Meeting Room, KICC + Online.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Neurodiversity and Communication Styles

Maria Dias, Neurodiversity Adviser at the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre (ADRC) and St Catharine’s College.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

JWST Debris Disks: Transforming our Understanding of Exoplanetary Systems

Christine Chen, STScI.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 10:00-11:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

From Squiggles to Signals: Learning Useful Representations for Discovery in Time-Domain Astronomy

Daniel Muthukrishna (MIT).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The Response and Observability of Exo-Earth Climates to Cometary Impacts

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Intuitive knowledge systems for discovery

Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Modeling ion-neutral interaction in the solar chromosphere

Elena Khomenko (IAC Tenerife).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Pulsar Timing Arrays and Astrometry: Going Beyond the Hellings-Downs correlation

Gianmassimo Tasinato (Swansea University).

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

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities

Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London.

https://cassyni.com/s/fmws.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Spacetime Interpretation of the Confluent Heun Functions in Black Hole Perturbation Theory

Marica Minucci, Bohr Inst., Copenhagen.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring the End of Reionization

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 06 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Formation and Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Yohan Dubois (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Rapid accretion and state changes in strongly magnetised disks

Jonathan Squire [Otago, New Zealand].

MR12 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

GPU Accelerated Sampling and Model Comparison

David Yallup / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Geometric mixing models as a tool for investigating the ice shell of Europa

Annie Cheng / Stanford University.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Hints of Planet Formation Signatures in a large-cavity disk in Upper Scorpius

Anibal Sierra (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Prebiotic Chemistry, Exoplanets and Stellar Flaring

Lukas Rossmanith.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Imaging and Design with Differentiable Physics Models

Benjamin Pope (Macquarie University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 02 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cracks in the Standard Cosmological Model: Anomalies, Tensions, and Hints of New Physics

Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR4, Pav A basement.

Monday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Dark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers

Violetta Sagun, University of Southampton.

MR9/Zoom https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 30 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Chasing the Light: Shadowing, Collimation, and the Rapid Growth of Infant Black Holes

Piero Madau (UCSC).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 30 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Latest results building upon slitless spectroscopic surveys with JWST

Dr Jorryt Matthee.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Planet Migration in Dusty Protoplanetary Disks

Martin Pessah [NBI Copenhagen].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shamrock: SPH and more, from a laptop to Exascale.

Timothée Cléris.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Inward (or outward?) migration of massive planets in protoplanetary discs

Chiara Scardoni, Università degli Studi di Milano.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:15-13:40

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Aliens and how to find them

Oliver Shorttle (IoA).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (In-person/Streamed).

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Exploring the Vertical Shear Instability in starlight-heated protoplanetary disks

David Melon-Fuksman [MPIA Heidelberg].

MR4 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding the initial stages of planet-driven gap formation 

Amelia J. Cordwell (DAMTP).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon.

MR2.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The effect of binary mass transfer on the late evolution, death, and afterlife of massive stars

Eva laplace, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Classical and Quantum Density Functional Theory for Materials Science

Angus Lockhart <angus@secqai.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from a Different Angle

KICC Special Seminar

George Efstathiou (IoA/KICC).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:30-12:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

XRISM observations of the X-ray pulsar Hercules X-1

Peter Kosec.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:40-14:05

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology with the ACT DR6 data release

Adrien La Posta (University of Oxford).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR12, Pav. D basement.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

On Activity and Planets of Low-Mass Stars: Towards the Tenth Anniversary of CARMENES

Lev Tal-Or (Ariel).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again

Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Dirac Lecture

From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality in action

Professor Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique – Université Paris-Saclay.

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

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Ionisation Chemistry in the Inner Disc

Morgan Williams [Imperial College London].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Impact of XRB Stochasticity on 21-cm Observables from CD-EoR

Saswata Dasgupta.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Monday 19 May 2025, 13:15-13:40

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events?

Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago.

MR2.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Modified gravity and the atomic world

Benjamin Elder, Imperial College London.

MR20/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89585655242?pwd=ur229qk6mRXNG2a1EQVdb7PAdUx2gU.1.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Towards understanding the epoch of reionization out to the cosmic dawn

Girish Kulkarni (TIFR).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 16 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The different merger and evolutionary histories of the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31)

Ortwin Gerhard, MPE (Garching).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Spacetime Singularities and Black Holes

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gravitational Phase-Space Turbulence: the Small-Scale Limit of the Cold-Dark-Matter Power-Spectrum

Barry Ginat / University of Oxford.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Noise from Above: Determining the Impact of Starlink's Unintended Electromagnetic Radiation on REACH

Gabriella Rajpoot / Cavendish Laboratory.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Deciphering giant planet formation

Olja Panic (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Testing the HARPS3 Data Reduction Pipeline with Synthetic Spectra to achieve Earth-Twin RV Precision

Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

On the role of magnetic fluctuations in low magnetic Prandtl number plasmas

Maarit Korpi-Lagg [Helsinki/Espoo].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

DESI DR2: Survey overview and cosmological constraints from DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurements

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86165819179?pwd=uITeMzHyCpzVlUmVufdGEJXudF0dsy.1

Arnaud de Mattia (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR5, Pav A basement.

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint

Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester.

MR2.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes

Robbie Hennigar, Durham University.

MR9/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87869493842?pwd=vGeCJJgQZa8PwZOhk1kpE0nbj6DgpJ.1.

Friday 09 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

How do the most luminous black holes accrete and expel gas?

Matthew Liska (Georgia Tech).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre .

Friday 09 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How do the most luminous black holes accrete and expel gas?

Matthew Liska.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Friday 09 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

How common are misaligned accretion disks around black holes?

Matthew Liska (Georgia Tech).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

On the Road to the Radius Valley

James Rogers / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Oxygen Valve on Hydrogen Escape Since the Great Oxidation Event

Greg Cooke / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 13:15-13:40

Cosmology Lunch

Updates on fundamental science from the secondary CMB

Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute and York University).

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

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The Dynamic Chemistry of Planet-Forming Disks

Luke Keyte (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

The Milky Way and the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Sky

Or Graur, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Portsmouth Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instabilities in viscoelastic fluids: a long story

Prof Helen Wilson, University College London.

MR2.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Black Hole Threshold

David Hilditch, IST Lisbon.

Potter room/Zoom https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring high-redshift quenched galaxies: from low-mass to massive

William Baker (Dark).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 02 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Irradiated brown dwarfs

Dr Sarah Casewell.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rebirth of the Ancients: Globular Clusters in Their Renaissance Era

Stephanie Monty / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Formation of planetary cores in spontaneously generated dust traps during the secular evolution of magnetized protoplanetary disks

Timmy Delage (Imperial).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

String axions: the hot and the fuzzy

Nicole Righi (King's College London).

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

Monday 28 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black hole radiation from non-vacuum initial states

Ali Akil, Hong Kong University.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88420112623?pwd=uogMItLtNT8pn4aks1hO4nJVmonbpV.1.

Friday 25 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Thesan-Zoom simulations: Studying high-redshift galaxy formation with cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics simulations

Ewald Puchwein (AIP).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 25 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Growing pains: the dining habits of stars, planets and black holes

Daniel Price, Monash University.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Unveiling AGN Outflows: A High Resolution Morphological Study with LOFAR-VLBI

Emmy Escott (Durham).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 11 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Probing Black Hole Winds with SimBAL: Mapping the Physics of Broad Absorption Line Quasar Outflows

KICC Special Seminar

Hyunseop (Joseph) Choi (Université de Montréal).

Ryle Meeting Room, KICC.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 11:30-12:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The first stars: window to cosmic dawn

Piyush Sharda (Leiden).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 04 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

21cm Discussion Group

Latest upper limits on 21 cm power spectrum using MWA observations

Ridhima Nunhokee, Curtin University (Remote).

SPO room + online.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 10:00-11:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Modelling black hole accretion through an 𝛼-disc with a resolved interstellar medium in dwarf galaxies

Eun-jin Shin (IoA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 28 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Shared Stochastic Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models: A Multi-modal Generative Model for Quasar Spectra

Dr. Vidhi Lalchand (MIT).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 24 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Sphaleron heating in warm inflation

Kim V. Berghaus (Caltech).

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

Monday 24 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Primordial black holes: abundances and constraints

Xavier Pritchard, Sussex.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Unveiling the Intrinsic Mass Step of Type Ia Supernovae

Matt Grayling (IoA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 21 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study

Hannah Wakeford.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study

Dr Hannah Wakeford.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

21cm Discussion Group

GINAN Update

Ravi Subrahmanyan, CSIRO.

SPO room + online.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Perturber-disc interaction: Can we see the unseen?

Claudia Toci / European Southern Observatory.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining mixed dark matter models with the high-redshift Lyman-α forest

Olga Garcia Gallego / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

An Early Heavy Bombardment of the Inner Solar System

Craig Walton (ETH).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Flare evaporation, condensations, and ribbons

Malcolm Druett (Sheffield).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Astrophysical gravitational wave background: from theoretical modelling to detection prospects

Giulia Cusin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

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

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

MR2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A phase transition in cosmological fluid dynamics

Zoe Wyatt, DPMMS.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89259699528?pwd=rI2WS21NUsIKMmZCGtkPuPbM5SL0eW.1.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Baryonic feedback: How extreme is too extreme?

Leah Bigwood (IoA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 14 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

The Eddington Lectures

Reconstructing the History of the Milky Way Galaxy Using Stars

Melissa Ness, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

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

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Transforming Particle Physics with AI

Professor Tilman Plehn - Heidelberg University.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

IoA neurodiversity survey insights and next steps

Lalitha Sairam, IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Accessibility in Astronomy: HTML papers on arXiv, alternative text, and beyond

Sarah Kane, IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:15-13:35

Exoplanet Seminars

Greedy icy planets, or How Uranus and Neptune enrich their atmospheres in carbon by core accretion in the debris disc phase

Paul Huet (Paris Observatory).

Hoyle Committee Room - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

CamGW: Surveying the range of gravitational-wave science in Cambridge (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Ryle Meeting Room, KICC.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 09:00-17:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Statistical aspects in the determination of the proton's structure

Maria Ubiali (DAMTP).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 10 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Numerical study of the Tayler-Spruit dynamo: from magnetar formation to magnetic fields in stellar interiors

Paul Barrere (Geneva).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology with radio and optical surveys

Alkistis Pourtsidou (University of Edinburgh).

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

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Symmetries and topology of extremal horizons

Alex Colling, DAMTP.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Simulating supermassive black holes: from event horizon to cosmic web and back again

Martin Bourne (Hertfordshire).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 07 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Death Throes of Massive Stars

Evan O'Connor.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Complexity of real and artificial networks

East 1/West Hub

Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

21cm Discussion Group

Bayesian Identification of Global 21cm Signal Depth Origin

Dominic Anstey, University of Cambridge.

Martin Ryle Large Meeting Room, KICC.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Strong lensing and stellar kinematics of cluster galaxies

Giovanni Granata / University of Portsmouth.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Metal enrichment of a dusty star-forming galaxies at the EoR with JWST/INIRSpec IFS

Jan Scholtz / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Devolatilization during rocky planet formation: Observations, theories, and implications

Haiyang Wang (Copenhagen).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Prof. Dave Green (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

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

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

Ray Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

Monday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Exoplanets and the Road to the Radius Valley

James Rogers (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Uplifting Massive Graphs from Minkowski to de Sitter

Sadra Jazayeri (Imperial College).

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

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

A multi-scale exploration of supermassive black holes in the multi-messenger era

Sophie Koudmani (University of Hertfordshire).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (In-person/Streamed).

Monday 03 March 2025, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

Professor John Hinch, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Mauve: a UV-Vis small satellite dedicated to monitor stellar activity and variability

Richard Archer, Fatemeh Majidi, Phil Windred - Blue Skies Space .

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Interacting Quantum Field Theory on a Causal Set

Stav Zalel, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83177386172?pwd=WMMBb4K7LVPuZZZKAWyvDkKoQp711S.1.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

A cosmic ballet of dwarf galaxies as challenge for cosmology

Oliver Müller (EPFL).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 28 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

What makes a planet “giant”?

Ravit Helled.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

East 1/West Hub

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Early results from observing aligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters with JWST as a testbed for planet formation and migration models

Eva-Maria Ahrer (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Clàudia Janó Muñoz (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Integrated 3-point correlation functions of weak lensing cosmic shear

Dr Anik Halder (Institute of Astronomy).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 24 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Instabilities and the remarkable survivability of AGN jets.

Serguei Komissarov (Leeds).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Total derivatives in cosmological perturbations: implications for decoherence and Bell violation

Chon Man Sou 蘇俊文 (Tsinghua U., Beijing).

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

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

Post-doc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Free conformally-rescaled hyperboloidal evolution: status and applications

Alex Vañó-Viñuales (IST Lisbon).

Potter room.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Galactic Archaeology in the Gaia era: a surprising population of very metal-poor stars in the Milky Way disc

Federico Sestito (Hertfordshire).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 21 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The importance of being wide: The key role of wide binaries, from GW sources to Pluto

Hagai Perets.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Probing the early history of the Milky Way through ancient carbon-rich stars

Anke Ardern-Arentsen / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar flybys in protoplanetary discs

Vasundhara Prasad / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

TOI-2407b: A hot Neptune in the Neptune Desert discovered with the SPIRIT Infrared Detector

Clàudia Jano Muñoz (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Accounting for Noise and Singularities in Bayesian Calibration Methods for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 11:15-12:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Making waves in Stars: Bridging modern asteroseismology and numerical simulations

Tamara Rogers (Newcastle).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Explainable deep learning models in cosmology

Luisa Lucie-Smith (University of Hamburg).

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

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and its role in data-driven modeling

Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

MR2.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes

Harvey Reall, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86544434784?pwd=dE3XiqwmaWGPz9w5pXNkKk93XsmtJv.1.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The history of the Milky Way's bar

Jason Sanders (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 14 February 2025, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

New frontiers in transient astrophysics: gravitational-wave multi-messenger sources and r-process nucleosynthesis

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research

East 1/West Hub

Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH .

East 1 room - West Hub.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Positivity in the Sky

Professor Claudia de Rham - Imperial College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Kaleidoscope of irradiated disks: VLT/MUSE observations of proplyds

Mari-Liis Aru.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Fact or FABLE: predictions for SMBH merger rates from cosmological simulations

Stephanie Buttigieg / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Towards Habitable Worlds: Detailed Characterization of the Nearest Planetary Systems

Note new Zoom details

Prof. Andrew Vanderburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Effects of dynamical interactions on stars and planets in their birth environment

Christina Schoettler (Keele University).

HOYLE LECTURE THEATRE + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The capacity of Constant Torsion Emergent Gravity to resolve cosmological tensions

Sinah Legner (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Approximate the Simulator, Not the Inference: Using Converging Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Flexible SBI in Astronomy

Matthew O'Callaghan (IoA, Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 10 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Uncovering the physical origin of quasi-periodic oscillations from black hole X-ray binaries

Adam Ingram (Newcastle).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Spurious secular growth from loops in de Sitter

Gonzalo Palma (Universidad de Chile, Santiago).

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

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bubble dynamics in complex fluids

Professor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Unimodular JT gravity and de Sitter quantum cosmology

Farbod Rassouli, University of Nottingham.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation

Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

21cm Discussion Group

Recent result and challenges with the detection of the 21-cm signal with LOFAR and NenuFAR

Leon Koopmans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute.

Hoyle Committee Room, IoA.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unveiling the Intrinsic Mass Step of Type Ia Supernovae

Matthew Grayling / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The WEAVE-TwiLight Survey: Implementing and Testing a New Low Field Density Observing Mode

Thomas Hajnik / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Uncovering the stellar impact on planetary systems through population demographics

Ed Bryant (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Results of beamline testing at the MROI

Dr. John Young (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dynamics of misaligned discs in binary/multiple systems

Giuseppe Lodato [Milan].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data release.

Héctor Gil-Marín (ICC, Barcelona U.).

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

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines

Professor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège.

MR2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Maxwell equations on the full Kerr black hole family

Rita Teixera da Costa.

Potter Room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Galaxy-halo connection in current CMB cross-correlation science

Boris Bolliet (Cavendish).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 31 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

AGN Feedback to Cosmology: eROSITA's Distinct Perspective on Large-Scale Structure

Esra Bulbul.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative Ai.rplane

Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai).

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

From Small Worlds to Giant Planets: Uncovering New Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations

Mathilde Timmermans (Birmingham).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Formation, Evolution and Radiation of Magnetized Accretion Disks around Black Holes

Nicolas Scepi (Grenoble).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Primordial Black Holes - Positivist Perspective and Quantum Quiddity

Florian Kühnel (LMU Munich).

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

Monday 27 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Towards asymptotic models and minimal seeds for the geodynamo

Professor Steven Tobias, University of Leeds.

MR2.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Geometric Characterizations of Kerr-de Sitter and Related Metrics in All Dimensions

Carlos Peón Nieto (UPM, Madrid).

Potter Room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84511154241?pwd=B778JtHEd8Vb7aTOdsygQhBdXWbybI.1.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Determining Galaxy Kinematics and ISM conditions with the JWST/NIRSpec IFU

Gareth Jones (Cavendish).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 24 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Zwicky Transient Facility Cosmology Science Working Group: Results and Perspectives

Mickael Rigault.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to fight financial crime with AI

Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace.

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

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

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Fermion Creation by Cosmic Perturbations at 1-loop

Azadeh Maleknejad (King's College London).

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

Monday 20 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Reanalysis of KiDS-1000 cosmic shear using MetaCalibration

Mijin Yoon (Leiden).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 17 January 2025, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Two-Dimensional Kinematics and Dynamical Modelling of SLACS Lenses: Insights from Deep MUSE Observations

Hannah Turner (KICC).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 13 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Everything is connected: galaxy properties couple internally, environmentally, and historically

Christian Kragh Jespersen (Princeton University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 09 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Coherent and incoherent dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter

Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Newcastle University).

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

Monday 09 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wetting and swelling of elastic fibers

Professor Suzie Protière, Sorbonne Université.

MR2.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Cold-atom analogues for vacuum decay

Alex Jenkins (Kavli).

Potter room.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Environments of Type Ia Supernovae

Lisa Kelsey (IoA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 06 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Should we observe spirals in young planet-forming discs?

Farzana Meru University of Warwick.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Lessons from JWST for Star Formation in the Early Universe

Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin).

Hoyle Committee Room, IoA and via Zoom.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Tackling the CMB component separation problem with new methods (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Ryle Meeting Room, KICC.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 09:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Linking the low surface brightness Universe and galactic growth

Elisabeth Sola / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Abiotic Ozone in the Observable Atmospheres of Venus-like Planets

Robb Calder / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

An observational perspective on white dwarf planetary systems

Laura Rogers (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The interaction of binary stars and their accretion disc

Anna Penzlin (Imperial College London).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Anisotropies in the GW sky at pulsar timing arrays

Online speaker (Zoom) - rescheduling

Valerie Domcke (CERN).

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

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Plankton Blinders: navigating turbulence with limited information

Professor Christophe Eloy, Centrale Marseille.

MR2.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The no-boundary wave function 2.0

Thomas Hertog (Leuven).

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82964888415?pwd=SjksibDmS3OFLVd59XQ5uwoVJlRNrD.1.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

How hypervelocity stars constrain the Galactic Centre

Sill Verberne (Leiden).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 29 November 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Small-scale structure in cold dark matter: from ultra-faint dwarfs to prompt cusps

Sownak Bose Durham University.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maxwell Centre

Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

21cm Discussion Group

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

Charlotte Simmonds (KICC).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tracing velocity substructures in the planet-forming disks of exoALMA

Joe Stadler / Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Toward a Self-Consistent Evaluation of Gas Dwarf Scenarios for Temperate Sub-Neptunes

Lorenzo Pica-Ciamarra / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Constraining planet populations through debris disc morphology with JWST and astrometric accelerations

Raphael Bendahan-West (Exeter).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Data validation through anomaly detection for Gaia DR4

Sireesha Chamarthi (IoA / CASU).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 25 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Kinematics and dynamics of self-gravitating protostellar discs

Cristiano Longarini (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 25 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological Correlators Through the Looking Glass

David Stefanyszyn (University of Nottingham).

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

Monday 25 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Exploring black hole–neutron star mergers through numerical relativity

Rahime Matur (Southampton).

Potter room.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

The start of the Simons Observatory

Jo Dunkley (Princeton).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Friday 22 November 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Ways of Probing the Assembly Mechanism of Individual Black Hole Binary Mergers

Prof. Johan Samsing.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI Meets Theoretical Physics

Maxwell Centre

Dr Sven-Ludwig Krippendorf (Physics/DAMTP).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Title: Causal Sets, Discrete Gravity

Professor Fay Dowker: Imperial College, London..

MR3.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Cosmological Inference in High Dimension (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Ryle Meeting Room, KICC.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 09:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Discarded Worlds: Astronomical ideas that were almost correct…

Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Characterising Exoplanetary Atmospheres in High Resolution with NLTE Modelling

Mitch Young (Queen's University).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Characterising Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at z>6

Dr. Yuki Isobe (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

How super-Earths migrate in low-turbulence radiative disks

Alex Ziampras (TU Munich, Germany).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 18 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Measuring the distortion of time with large-scale structure

Camille Bonvin (University of Geneva).

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

Monday 18 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

21cm Discussion Group

Novel interferometric and Deep Learning approach to Black Hole Imaging

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, CSIRO.

Battcock, F17.

Monday 18 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The frozen frontiers of our solar system

Dr Nicole Shibley, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational instantons old and new

Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP).

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 15 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Bridging the Gap with MAGPI: Exploring Star Formation Radial Trends in Galaxies through Simulations and Observations

Marcie Mun (ANU).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The growth of supermassive black holes is dominated by galaxy merger-free processes

Rebecca Smethurst University of Oxford.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to find a co-founder and start a company after university?

Small Lecture Theatre

Dominik Diak (Entrepeneur First).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

21cm Discussion Group

Revised LOFAR upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum at z ≈ 9 . 1

Anshuman Acharya, Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The dynamic circumstellar environment around white dwarfs

Laura Rogers / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tagging and Tracing Globular Cluster-Origin Stars from the Early Milky Way with Gaia

Sarah Kane / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Planets in a different light: a multi-wavelength approach to atmosphere characterisation

Dominique Petit dit de la Roche (Geneva).

HCR + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Type Ia Supernovae standardisation with the ZTF SN Ia DR2 sample

Madeleine Ginolin (IP2I, Lyon).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 11 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Magnetospheric accretion flows in X-ray pulsars

Alexander Mushtukov (University of Oxford).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 11 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Towards Reconstructing Gravity from the Universe Large Scales Evolution

Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University).

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

Monday 11 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

OpenFOAM: Numerical Simulation in Computational Continuum Mechanics

Professor Hrvoje Jasak, The Cavendish Laboratory.

MR2.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

To dS/CFT and Back Through Cauchy Slice Holography

Ayngaran Thavanesan (DAMTP).

Potter room/https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87320182392?pwd=MaA6JG5bIvft0RqCAzOhwTCtAbrYSZ.1.

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Search for AGN in the era of JWST

Jan Scholtz (KICC).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The origin and nature of spiral features in galactic disks

Sharon Meidt van der Wel Ghent University.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What?

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cold Oceans in the Solar System

Nicole Shibley / DAMTP, Earth Sciences.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Black Hole Cartography

Richard Dyer / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Insights into the birth and death of exoplanetary systems from polluted white dwarfs

Andy Buchan (Warwick).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Radio AGN with the LOFAR all-sky survey

Prof. Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

SARIs : a new paradigm for turbulent accretion onto black holes

Rony Keppens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 04 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Emilie Hertig (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 04 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Generalised Lagrangian Mean: formulation and computation

Professor Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

BKL bounces outside homogeneity

Warren Li (Princeton).

Potter room /https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 01 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Unveiling the Low Surface Brightness Universe: a CFHT and Euclid perspective

Elisabeth Sola (IoA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The long-term evolution of turbulent discs in high-redshift galaxies

Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn University Sydney.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The long-term evolution of turbulent discs in high-redshift galaxies

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

PolymathicAI: Scaling up a Generalist AI Model for Science

East 2/ West Hub

Dr Miles Cranmer (DAMTP/Physics/IoA).

East 2/ West Hub.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

21cm Discussion Group

RFI from the sky; unintended electromagnetic radiation from satellite constellations

Cees Bassa, ASTRON.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unveiling the Role of Magnetic Field in Generating Quasi-Periodic Oscillations

Martina Veresvarska / Durham University.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Bar chrono-kinematics and its link to the Galactic disc formation

Hanyuan Zhang / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

The Road to the Radius Valley

James Rogers.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

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

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Scaling laws for large time-series models: More data, more parameters

James Alvey (KICC).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 28 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Stellar-mass binary black holes in circumbinary disks: smoking-gun signatures in LISA

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 28 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Fundamental and beyond-standard-model physics from CMB-electron scattering

Fiona McCarthy, DAMTP.

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

Monday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Observed delayed onset of turbulence due to shear instability in the ocean

Professor Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego.

MR2.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational collapse simulations on null cones

Carsten Gundlach (Southampton University).

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 25 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

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

Charlotte Simmonds (KICC).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 25 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Towards the LISA Global Fit

Christopher Moore (Cambridge).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Maths meets Radiology: developing data science methods for cancer research

Lorena Escudero, Joshua Kaggie, Ander Biguri.

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Quaia i.e. how to turn Gaia into a cosmological probe

Giulio Fabbian / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining star-formation efficiency in the early Universe using JWST and the cosmic 21-cm signal

Jiten Dhandha / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Exo-mineralogy: Predicting the interior compositions of rocky exoplanets

Rob Spaargaren.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The Laplace Surface of a Circumplanetary Disk

Steve Lubow (Space Science Telescope Institute, USA).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 21 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

[CANCELLED] Anisotropies in the GW sky at pulsar timing arrays

Online speaker (Zoom)

Valerie Domcke (CERN).

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

Monday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The role of surface tension in hydrodynamics: a new perspective

Dr Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

What’s inside a black hole?

Ram Brustein (Ben-Gurion University).

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 18 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Testing the Robustness of NANOGrav’s Gravitational Wave Background Signal

Paul Brook (University of Birmingham).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 18 October 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Unveiling the physico-chemical conditions of planet formation environments

Stefano Facchini (Milan).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

From parallel computing to parallel machine learning: Harness the power of parallelism for distributed optimization processes

Maxwell Cai (Intel Corporation).

East 2 room - West Hub.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gravitational instability in planet forming discs – a kinematical perspective

Cristiano Longarini / IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 13:15-13:40

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Beyond Gauss? A more accurate model for LISA astrophysical noise source

KICC Special Seminar

Riccardo Buscicchio (University of Milano-Bicocca).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JADES census of broad line AGN and their hosts

Ignas Juodžbalis (KICC).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Hybrid Summary Statistics: Telling Neural Networks where to look

Lucas Makinen (Imperial).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 14 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Persistence in Solar Physics

Karen Meyer (Dundee).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 14 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Stochastic field theory applied to the formation of large-scale structure

Zvonimir Vlah (Cambridge/Ruder Bošković Institute).

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

Monday 14 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Responsive Hydrogels: perspectives, modelling, and ongoing efforts

Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson, University of Warwick.

MR2.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Probing the production and escape of ionizing photons in the epoch of reionization with JWST

Laura Pentericci (University of Rome) .

Martin Ryle Meeting Room, KICC + Online.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational-wave data analysis with numerical relativity simulations of boson star mergers

Tamara Evstafyveva, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84368906587?pwd=Owhr7Y2z0UhJPGH0sg5LEEpbIWpwgu.1.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing the Post to Early Stage of Cosmic Reionization using JWST and Subaru

Hiroya Umeda (Tokyo).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Puzzles in Galaxy Formation: From the Cosmic Web to the Origin of the Hubble Sequence

Viraj Pandya (Columbia University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The Transformer (OOD) House of Cards

Petar Veličković (Google Deepmind).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

From TDEs and GRBs to supernovae - Redback: A Bayesian inference software package for electromagnetic transients

Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University).

Hoyle Committee Room, IoA.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

PT-symmetric quantum mechanics: Physics off the real axis

*Please note change of time and location*

Professor Carl Bender: University of Washington in Saint Louis..

MR3.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:15-17:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dynamics in gas is different

Mor Rozner, IoA / DAMTP.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Spectral classification of white dwarfs by dimensionality reduction

Xander Byrne, IoA.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Habitability of terrestrial planets: study with 1D and 3D climate models

Guillaume Chaverot.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Isotope ratios in transiting and directly-imaged exoplanetary atmospheres

Siddharth Gandhi (Warwick).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Carlos Garcia-Garcia (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 07 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Probing non-minimal Dark Matter and neutrino properties with forthcoming Large Scale Structure surveys

Julien Lesgourgues (Aachen University).

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

Monday 30 September 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Mikhail M. Ivanov (MIT).

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

Monday 23 September 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Some recent results of boson stars

Miguel Alcubierre (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 13 September 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Connecting Star Formation, Feedback, and the ISM in Galaxy Disks

Matt Orr (CCA).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 13 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Cosmic rays in star-forming galaxies

Mark Krumholz (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 06 September 2024, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Widespread rapid quenching at cosmic noon

Minjung Park (Harvard).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Galaxies Discussion Group

Revealing the physical drivers of galaxy kinematic structure with SAMI

Scott Croom (Sydney).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Galaxies Discussion Group

Seeking (and Finding!) the Photons for Reionization with JWST

Rohan Naidu (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Wednesday 24 July 2024, 15:00-16:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Why do galaxies cease forming stars? Evidence for AGN feedback driven quenching from cosmic dawn to the present epoch

Asa Bluck (Florida International University).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Galaxies Discussion Group

Type Ia supernova siblings and the Zwicky Transient Facility

Suhail Dhawan (KICC).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics of splat painting

Roberto Zenit, Brown University.

MR13.

Thursday 04 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Evaporation dynamics of respiratory-like droplets and their implications on virus infectivity

Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid.

MR13.

Monday 01 July 2024, 13:30-14:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Challenges to galaxy formation models at the cosmic frontier

Xuejian (Jacob) Shen (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 28 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New discoveries in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and Cosmology, from deep, wide-field, low surface brightness imaging

Prof. Ken Lanzetta (Stony Brook University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New discoveries in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and Cosmology, from deep, wide-field, low surface brightness imaging

Prof. Ken Lanzetta (Stony Brook University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Cosmology from the outer Solar System

KICC Special Seminar

Matthew McQuinn (University of Washington).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 14:30-15:30

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Do we understand cosmic structure growth? Insights from new CMB lensing measurements with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Blake Sherwin (DAMTP).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Tuesday 25 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Impact of primordial magnetic fields on matter power spectrum

Pranjal Ralegankar (SISSA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Monday 24 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Dark Matter in Astrophysical Laboratories (KICC Science Focus meeting)

Various speakers.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Friday 21 June 2024, 09:30-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

How do you dream whilst living with uncertainty - Artist Robert Ssempijja in conversation with Professor Helen Mason

Robert Ssempijja, Cavendish Arts Science Fellow.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11:15-12:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dynamical and photometric signatures of the magnetospheric star-disk interaction in different accretion regimes.

Claudio Zanni (INAF Turin).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Entrainment across a turbulent/turbulent interface

Oliver Buxton, Imperial College London.

MR2.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Static Charged Black Hole Binaries in AdS

William Biggs, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 14 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Introducing Azahar: the blooming of non-thermal physics in galaxy formation

Sergio Martin Alvarez (Stanford).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 14 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Cosmology Lunch

Family tree decomposition of cosmological correlators

Zhong-Zhi Xianyu (Tsinghua U.).

CMS, Pav. B, MR9 (B0.09) .

Friday 14 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Nucleosynthesis of the first stellar generations

Georges Meynet (Geneva).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

The future of astronomy in the era of AI and big data

Sara Webb (Swinburne University of Technology).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Applied artificial intelligence to cosmological data analysis

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

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Exoplanet Seminars

Setting the stage for planet-formation

Anna Miotello (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Modelling and Interpreting Non-LTE Emission from Isolated Solar Structures

Chris Osborne (Glasgow).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Clustering of primordial black holes from quantum diffusion during inflation

Vincent Vennin (ENS, Paris).

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

Monday 10 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Quantum computing of fluid dynamics

Yue Yang, Peking University.

MR2.

Friday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Cosmic String Radiation: the Importance of Curvature

Amelia Drew, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 07 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Evolution of Galaxy Structure in the rest-NIR as revealed by JWST/NIRCam: What changes and what doesn't?

Arjen van der Wel (Ghent University).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 07 June 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Black hole accretion in the TDAMM Era

Erin Kara (MIT).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Modelling the impact of host galaxy dust on type Ia supernova distance measurements

Brodie Popovic.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Low luminosity AGN across cosmic time - a preliminary census

Ignas Juodžbalis (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

First steps of planet formation in the VLT, ALMA and JWST era

Paola Pinilla (MSSL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

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

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dust evolution from star forming environments to protoplanetary disks

Ugo Lebreuilly (CEA Saclay).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Reconstructing early universe physics with future LISA data

Deanna C Hooper(University of Helsinki).

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

Monday 03 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Enhancing confidence in volcanic ash forecasts

Helen Dacre, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Laws of Black Hole Mechanics in Effective Field Theory.

Iain Davies, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 31 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

A Look Into Galaxy Morphologies with Machine Learning

Sinan Deger (KICC).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 31 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New results about black hole feedback in galaxy clusters

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Université de Montréal.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Diving chaotic orbits in axisymmetric potentials

Zephyr Penoyre (Leiden Observatory).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

New frontiers in strongly lensed supernova studies with JWST and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Suhail Dhawan.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 13:15-13:40

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Comoving magnetohydrodynamic waves and a new suite of cosmological galaxy cluster simulations

Thomas Berlok (Niels Bohr Institute).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The distortion of radio observations by the heliosphere

Nicolina Chrysaphi (Sorbonne).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Phenomenology of axion-gauge field interactions in the early universe

Alexandros Papageorgiou (IFT, Madrid).

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

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

William Baker (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Biomedical Fluid Mechanics: applications in urology and regenerative medicine

Sarah Waters, University of Oxford.

MR2.

Friday 24 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Extremal black hole formation as a critical phenomenon

Christoph Kehle, ETH Zürich.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 24 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Extremes of Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy

Evan Kirby (Notre Dame).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 24 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Some Disassembly Required

Eugene Chiang, Professor of Astronomy and Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Role of AGN in galaxy evolution in z~3-11 with Deep JWST spectroscopy

Jan Scholtz.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The nature of diffuse ionised gas in star-forming galaxies

Will McClymont.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 13:15-13:40

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Hierarchical star cluster assembly boosts intermediate-mass black hole formation

Antti Rantala (MPA) .

Martin Ryle Meeting Room, KICC + Online.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Learning Posterior Distributions in Underdetermined Inverse Problems

Christina Runkel, DAMTP, Cambridge Image Analysis..

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Exploring the atmospheric structure of water-rich sub-Neptunes

Hamish Innes (Freie Universität - Berlin).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The dynamics of parsec-scale eccentric stellar disks around SMBHs in galactic nuclei: disk disruption mechanisms, tidal disruption events and milliparsec stars

Antti Rantala (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Diffusion meets Nested Sampling

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

A large-scale dynamo via MRI-driven alpha Omega dynamo in binary neutron star mergers

Kenta Kiuchi (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 20 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology with the CMB: from Planck to SPT-3G

Silvia Galli (Institut Astrophysique de Paris).

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

Monday 20 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract.

MR2.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Non-smooth horizons in Kerr black hole mergers

Maxime Gadioux, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 17 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Machine Learning enhanced Bayesian Workflows for Galaxies

Harry Bevins (KICC).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 17 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Inside Astronomically Realistic Black Holes

Prof. Andrew Hamilton (University of Colorado Boulder).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Dynamical Field Theories without Detailed Balance

Michael Cates, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Prototyping a Sparse-Aperture, Segmented, Parabolic Primary Mirror Telescope for SUPERSHARP

Zoe Horvath.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Emily Sandford (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Blue Phase Liquid Crystals & Their Potential for Astronomy

Oana Niculescu (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Dirac Lecture

Lessons From a Warped Fifth Dimension

Professor Lisa Randall - Harvard University.

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:30-16:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Convection, waves and mixing in stars: insights and challenges from numerical simulations

Thomas Guillet (Exeter).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Which universes does the no-boundary wave function favour?

Jean-Luc Lehners (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam).

CMS, Pav. B, MR9 (B0.09) .

Monday 13 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems

Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara.

MR2.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Shall Bekenstein's Area Law Prevail?

David Kubiznak (Charles University in Prague).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Halpha filaments in Massive Ellipticals: the roles played by Turbulence and type Ia Supernovae

Rajsekhar Mohapatra (Princeton).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 10 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Insights into cosmological simulations from modified initial conditions

Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Vyacheslav Rychkov, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

MR2.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Type Ia supernovae: Constraining thermonuclear explosion physics with machine learning

Mark Magee (University of Warwick).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The cometary delivery of prebiotic feedstock molecules to the early-Earth and rocky exoplanets

Richard Anslow (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:15-13:40

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

EuCAIFCon recap

Speaker to be confirmed.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Some questions and answers from protoplanetary disk observations: machine learning, hidden rings, and fake vortices

Alvaro Ribas (IOA Cambridge).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The recently discovered black holes in wide binaries by Gaia astrometry

Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA

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

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The scaling of the drag force on an accelerating plate

Jerry Westerweel, TU Delft.

MR2.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black Hole Entropy for Higher Curvature Gravity with Higher Spin Fields

Zihan Yan, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 03 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Kavli Lectures

Experimental Studies of Black Holes: Status & Prospects

Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Thursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope: from Still Images to Video.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Battcock coffee area + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Resolution: New Insights from Modular Symmetry in Conformal Field Theory

Eric Perlmutter, IPhT.

MR2.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Stellar activity mitigation in radial velocity measurements

Florian Lienhard (ETH Zurich).

Battcock coffee area + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

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

Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The Conditions for Warping and Breaking Protoplanetary Discs

Alison Young (Edinburgh).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 29 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology from Non-Gaussian fields

Daan Meerburg (University of Groningen).

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

Monday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mathematical Models for Evaporating Sessile Droplets

Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde.

MR2.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Uniqueness of extremal black holes in de Sitter

Dávid Katona, The University of Edinburgh.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 26 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Via Project: Mapping the invisible Galactic halo

Ana Bonaca (Carnegie).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Neural ratio estimation: the future of supernova cosmology?

Matthew Grayling (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The physical mechanism of the streaming instability, and whether it works in vortices

Nathan Magnan (DAMTP).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 Results: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and implications for cosmology

Licia Verde (University of Barcelona).

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

Monday 22 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dynamical Gravastars

Stephen Adler, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85670039340?pwd=MmRxMDdYMGY5b0IzSm9QRUJmWFNVUT09.

Friday 19 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing the epoch of galaxy assembly with MUSE

Trevor Mendel (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Galaxies Discussion Group

Chemo-dynamical evolution of disks over cosmic time

Emily Wisnioski (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

pop-cosmos: Comprehensive Forward Modelling of Photometric Galaxy Survey Data

Stephen Thorp - Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Cosmology Lunch

The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the S8 tension and the role of baryonic physics

Ian McCarthy (Liverpool John Moores University).

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

Monday 25 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Primordial black holes in the dark matter halo of our Galaxy

Prof. Marek Abramowicz.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Roger de Belsunce (LBNL).

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

Monday 18 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist

Igor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester.

MR2.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Fully general Cauchy evolution of asymptotically AdS spacetimes: the non-linear instability of Kerr-AdS

Lorenzo Rossi, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 15 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Effects of primordial black holes on early star formation

Boyuan Liu (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How Did Cassiopeia A Explode?

Martin Laming (US Naval Research Laboratory).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Prerak Desai - GSK.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining physics and astrophysics with multifrequency CMB data

Fiona McCarthy (DAMTP).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A new convection scheme for exoplanet atmospheres

Edouard Barrier (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:15-13:40

The Kavli Lectures

Star Formation, Feedback, and Cosmic Evolution: A Modern Primer

Eve Ostriker (Princeton University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Relative contribution from comets and carbonaceous asteroids to the Earth's volatile budget

Sarah Joiret (U Bordeaux).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Parity Violation in Cosmology

Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA Garching).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres

Camille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique.

MR2.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Fate of Matter Fields in Metric-Affine Gravity

Claire Rigouzzo (KCL).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

International Women's Day at the IoA

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Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Obscured AGN across cosmic time

Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth).

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Eddington lecture 2024: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Dr Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

The Eddington Lectures

The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University.

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Know Your System: Harness the Power of The Dawn Supercomputer

Maxwell Cai - Intel.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Applying Quantum Computing to HEP

Steve Abel (IPPP).

MR2.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Nature of Dark Matter with Lyman-Alpha Forest

Vid Iršič.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

Maura Lally (Cornell).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

Dr. Dolev Bashi.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The First Ionization Potential Effect in Solar/Stellar Coronae and Winds

Martin Laming (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Fifth forces in and around galaxies

Clare Burrage (Nottingham).

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing of drops

Detlef Lohse, University of Twente.

MR2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

AdS Black Holes and Their Microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Imperial College London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

‘Putting Theory into Practice – Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Systematic Investing’

Chris Longworth - Gam.com.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Simulation Based Inference - an inevitable future?

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Protoplanetary disc: what can we learn by combining theory and observations?

Claudia Toci (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges

Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dynamics in gas is different

Mor Rozner (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

On the physical spectra of primordial perturbations from inflation

Silvia Pla Garcia (King's College London).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Slippery flows in nature and industry

Katarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow.

MR2.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Astrophysical signatures on the LISA data stream from Massive Black Hole Binaries

Mudit Garg (University of Zurich).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Decoding the Gravitational-Wave Biographies of Binary Black Holes

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building and via Zoom.

Friday 23 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Emergent gauge fields, fractionalised quasiparticles and dynamical fractals

Claudio Castelnovo (Cavendish).

MR2.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Contrastive Learning and High-Redshift Quasars

Xander Byrne .

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar Mass Assembly of Galaxy Populations up to z = 4 with pop-cosmos

Sinan Deger.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaussian Processes for Systematic Mitigation for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-13:40

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

TBD

Hagai B. Perets, Technion.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Uncovering Long-Period Transiting Exoplanets with TESS and CHEOPS

Amy Tuson (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Quantifying the impact of baryons on large scale structure with the FLAMINGO simulations

Juliana Kwan (DAMTP).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

This will be a remote talk

Martina Gerbino (University of Ferrara).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

Postdoc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Numerical-relativity-informed effective-one-body model for black-hole–neutron-star mergers with higher modes and spin precession

Alejandra González (FSU Jena).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 16 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanet adventures the 2020s and beyond

Jayne Birkby (University of Oxford).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Unlocking the Power of Transfer Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile App Predictions in Data-Scarce Environments

Bending Spoons.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Correcting for Malmquist Bias in Type Ia Supernova Cosmology

Ben Boyd.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:15-13:40

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

An Overview of Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

Aditya Ravuri (Computer Lab).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

TBD

Enrico Ramirez Ruiz, UCSC.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Disc evolution in young intermediate-mass stars

Daniela Iglesias Vallejo (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The life of erupting flux ropes

Jaroslav Dudik (Czech Academy of Sciences).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

How much (robust) cosmological information can we obtain from galaxy clustering?

Fabian Schmidt (MPA, Garching).

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

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods

Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Nonlinear stability of Einstein-matter models near the big bang singularity

Florian Beyer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Otago.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stellar populations and dust build-up in the early Universe

Raffaella Schneider (University of Rome).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

All molecules are interesting

Jonathan Goodman - Chemistry.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

EDI Seminar: Dignity at Work Policy and Code of Behaviour

Miriam Lynn, Emma Mason.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Photoevaporation from Exoplanet Atmospheres: Understanding the Role of Stellar Winds and Considering Water-rich Atmospheres

Room changed

Laura Harbach (Imperial).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dynamo action, magnetorotational instability, Alfvén waves: Theory and experiments on astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics

Frank Stefani (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cold-atom analogues for vacuum decay

Alex Jenkins (UCL).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent-laminar patterns

Laurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris.

MR2.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Towards reconciling Cosmology, GR and QFT through non-perturbative Stochastic Inflation

Yoann Launay, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

IoA/KICC Open Day

Matthew Bothwell & Hannah Strathern.

Ryle seminar room + online.

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Cosmic Baryon Cycle

Dr. Celine Peroux (ESO).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

DiSE project presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 14:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Supermassive black hole binaries and their spin evolution in gas-rich circumbinary discs

Martin Bourne (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Photometric redshifts for high-z quasars in the era of LSST

Katherine Kauma.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-13:40

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Transition region spectroscopy with the Hinode/EIS instrument

Peter Young (NASA Goddard and Northumbria university).

MR5 DAMTP and online - ** CHANGED TIME AND LOCATION.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Planetary debris at white dwarfs

Andrew Swan (Warwick).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00