Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Down the Dusty Road -- Gems from Large (sub-)millimetre Surveys

Thomas Greve, University College London (UCL).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring the First Light And Reionisation Epoch

Stephen Wilkins, Sussex.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New substructure in the phase-space of the Milky Way with Gaia

Teresa Antoja, University of Barcelona.

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Moving beyond stellar activity limitations to detect other Earths

Nadege Meunier, Grenoble.

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The intriguing lives of post-starburst galaxies

Vivienne Wild, St Andrews.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The core of the matter – spatially resolving the nuclei of Active Galaxies with VLTI/GRAVITY

Eckhard Sturm, MPE.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The dispersal of planet forming discs and its role on the formation and evolution of planets

Barbara Ercolano, LMU Munich.

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Tracing the building blocks of habitable worlds from disks to planets

Oliver Shorttle (IoA and Earth Sciences, Cambs).

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Galactic Halo Renaissance

Alis Deason (Durham).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Accretion Disks, Winds And Jets in Tidal Disruption Events

Jane Lixin Dai (University of Hong Kong).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The role of halo formation history and circumgalactic gas expulsion in the evolution of galaxies

Rob Crain (LJMU).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Asteroseismology: Results from Kepler and TESS

William Chaplin (Birmingham).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Mapping accreting black holes using X-ray variability

Adam Ingram (Oxford).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Collisionless losscone refilling: the end of the final parsec problem

Alessia Gualandris (Surrey).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

The Kavli Lectures

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

Kavli Lecture

Jean-Michel Desert (Amsterdam).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies

Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays

Sherry Suyu (MPA).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts

Pawan Kumar (UT Austin).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The landscape of galaxy cluster cosmology

Steve Allen (Stanford).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

What's wrong with accretion discs?

Chris Nixon (Leicester).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Samaya Nissanke (Amsterdam).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Getting close to the brightest black holes with NICER

Phil Uttley (Amsterdam).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Results from the Event Horizon Telescope

Heino Falcke (Radboud University).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Deconstructing stellar halos in the Local Group

Alan McConnachie (U Vic).

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

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

The Eddington Lectures

Heavy elements in red giant stars

Eddington Lecture 2019

Amanda Karakas (Monash).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Proper-Motion Studies of Galactic Globular Clusters

Laura Watkins (ESO).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Transformative advances in post-main-sequence planetary system science

Dimitri Veras (Warwick).

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

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

The Kavli Lectures

Galactic Winds and the Circumgalactic Medium

Kavli Lecture

Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Steve Eales (Cardiff).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Helium Stars, Heavy Metals, High Velocities and Explosions 

Simon Jeffery (Armagh).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation, GMCs, and Galaxies

Norm Murray (CITA).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Nano-particles in Proto-Planetary Discs

Jane Greaves (Cardiff).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Reionization after Planck

Piero Madau (UCSC).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The first quasars in the early universe

Chris Done (Durham).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Spiral arms in galaxies and GMC formation

Clare Dobbs (Exeter).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The structure of galactic thick disks

Marie Martig (LJMU).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Shaken up: Gaia DR2 and the warped Milky Way disc

Ralph Schoenrich (Oxford).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A chemical survey of planets in our galaxy

Giovanna Tinetti (UCL).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler

Tim Bedding (U Sydney).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How galaxies form stars

Andrey Kravtsov (U Chicago).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Jim Geach (Herts).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Understanding Intense Star Formation through Observations and Modelling

Elizabeth Stanway (Warwick).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Toward A New Calibration of the Hubble Constant

Wendy Freedman (Chicago).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Know thy Star, Know thy Prebiotic Chemistry

Paul Rimmer (Cavendish).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Addressing the Missing AGN Problem

Belinda Wilkes (SAO).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

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

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Fast Radio Bursts

Ben Stappers (Manchester).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Kepler Planets - retention and loss of their atmospheres

James Owen (Imperial).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

From Seeds to Monsters:  Supermassive Black Holes Over Cosmic Time

Priya Natarajan (Yale).

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

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

The Eddington Lectures

The Chemistry of Planet Formation and the Making of Habitable Planets

Eddingtion Lecture 2018

Karin I. Öberg (Harvard University).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Steve Longmore (LJMU).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Boris Gaensicke (Warwick).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmology from the Kilo-Degree Survey

Catherine Heymans (IfA, Edinburgh).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Bram Venemans (MPIA).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The deaths of massive stars

Ben Davies (LJMU).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Farzana Meru (IoA/Warwick).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

Blake Sherwin (DAMTP).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years

Michael McDonald (MIT Kavli Institute).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Neutron star mergers: past, present and future

Nial Tanvir (Leicester).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Sebastian Hoenig, University of Southampton.

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernova Dust

Mike Barlow, University College London.

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Frontiers in Exoplanet Characterization

Jayne Birkby (University of Amsterdam).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Tarantula Nebula - A template for extragalactic star forming regions

Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gaia - the mission and first science

Gerry Gilmore (IoA).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the dynamics of gravity with gravitational wave detections

Michalis Agathos (DAMTP, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Superluminous supernovae - cosmic origins and evolution

Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy clusters as hydrodynamics laboratories

Elke Roediger (University of Hull).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The growth of disks and bulges

Stijn Wuyts (University of Bath).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A new generation of multi-dimensional stellar structure models

Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Does feedback matter in star cluster formation?

James Dale (University of Hertfordshire).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Hubble Space Telescope: 27 Years of Cosmic Discovery

Jennifer Wiseman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Novae and Supernovae: Intimate Connections

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

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

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

The Eddington Lectures

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

Eddingtion Lecture 2017

Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dwarf Galaxies - Fossils of Galaxy Evolution

Eva Grebel (University of Heidelberg).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Plurality of Worlds

Amaury Triaud (IoA, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Xavier Barcons (IFCA (CSIC-UC)).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH Zurich, Institute for Astronomy).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planets Within and Around Binary Stars: Extremophiles of Planet Formation

Roman Rafikov (DAMTP, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Palaeontology

Eline Tolstoy (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

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

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The LMC - A large and messy neighbour

Denis Erkal (IoA, Cambridge.

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Detecting and Characterising Giant Planets with Direct Imaging

Beth Biller (IfA, University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Observational Quest for the Earliest Galaxies: Progress & Challenges

Richard Ellis (ESO/UCL).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Big Questions in Exoplanetary Science

Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Chris Carilli (Astrophysics, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Amelie Saintonge (UCL).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation in a Hard X-ray Selected AGN Sample

Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Hitomi and the X-ray spectrum of the Perseus Cluster

Andrew Fabian.

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planck and the Optical Depth to Reionization

George Efstathiou (IoA, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Alberto Vecchio (University Birmingham).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Magnetars life cycle: birth, evolution and death

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

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Most Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

LEAP - Lightning, electricity, atmospheres of planetary objects

Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Philipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stimulated Feedback In Galaxies and Clusters

Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo, Canada).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stimulated Feedback In Galaxies and Clusters

Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo, Canada).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution

Meg Urry (Yale University).

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

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

The Eddington Lectures

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

Eddingtion Lecture 2016

Eric Ford (Penn State University).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The mass function of stars and black holes in globular clusters

Mark Gieles (University of Surrey).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gamma Ray Bursts in the Era of Rapid Followup

Carole Mundell (University of Bath).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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

Grant Kennedy (IoA, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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


Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

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


Catherine Walsh (Leiden University).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Evolution

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

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A first principles look at accretion and planet formation

Phil Armitage (University of Colorado, JILA).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Variability of Accreting Black Holes

Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Extracting cosmological information from current and forthcoming galaxy surveys

Will Percival (University of Portsmouth).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Massive stars, a strong case for cosmic marriage

Rob Izzard (IoA, Cambridge).

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

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy evolution in proto-clusters

Nina Hatch (University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

X-ray Binaries and ULXs

Peter Jonker (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research).

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Brown dwarfs and their disks: new results and old problems

Antonella Natta (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze).

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

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy Surveys: More Than Dark Energy

Ofer Lahav (University College London).

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

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Internal structures and compositions of giant (exo)planets: From CoRoT to Juno

Tristan Guillot (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur).

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

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the mass assembly of galaxies with ultra-deep imaging

Pierre-Alain Duc (CEA-Saclay).

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Fred Hoyle's manifold contributions: A personal view

Jayant Narlikar (IUCAA, Pune).

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

Thursday 08 October 2015, 16:00-17:00