Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy


2023-07-10 16:00: What is GAMBIT? (Tomás E. Gonzalo (KIT, Karlsruhe, Dept. Phys.))

2023-09-05 16:00: Test 2b (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-09-12 16:00: Test Talk (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-10-05 16:00: Formation of the first stars, galaxies, and black holes (Prof. Naoki Yoshida (University of Tokyo))

2023-10-12 16:00: Metal-poor stellar streams and satellites. (Prof Kim Venn (University of Victoria, Canada))

2023-10-19 16:00: Portrait of a Black Hole (Prof. Charles Gammie (University of Illinois, USA))

2023-10-26 16:00: Temperate planets unlike those of the Solar system (Amaury Triaud (University of Birmingham))

2023-11-02 16:00: Prospects for understanding the physics of the Universe (Prof. Hiranya Peiris (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-09 16:00: Supernovae with TiDES and Euclid (Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster University))

2023-11-16 16:00: MOSAIC, a unique instrument for the ELT (Prof. Roser Pello (Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseille, France))

2023-11-23 16:00: Extreme, exotic, and normal galaxies in the era of JWST (Prof. Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva, Switzerland))

2023-11-30 16:00: The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere (Prof. Nikku Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge))

2024-01-18 16:00: Supernova frontier, beyond standard stellar demises (Dr. Cosimo Inserra)

2024-01-25 16:00: Highlights from the SALT survey of hydrogen-deficient hot subdwarfs. (Dr. Simon Jeffery (Armagh Observatory))

2024-02-01 16:00: The Cosmic Baryon Cycle (Dr. Celine Peroux (ESO))

2024-02-08 16:00: Stellar populations and dust build-up in the early Universe (Raffaella Schneider (University of Rome))

2024-02-13 16:00: TBD (Enrico Ramirez Ruiz, UCSC)

2024-02-15 16:00: Exoplanet adventures the 2020s and beyond (Jayne Birkby (University of Oxford))

2024-02-20 16:00: TBD (Hagai B. Perets, Technion)

2024-03-07 16:00: Eddington lecture 2024: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Dr Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)

2024-03-14 16:00: How Did Cassiopeia A Explode? (Martin Laming (US Naval Research Laboratory))

2024-05-09 16:00: Insights into cosmological simulations from modified initial conditions (Andrew Pontzen (UCL))

2024-05-16 16:00: Inside Astronomically Realistic Black Holes (Prof. Andrew Hamilton (University of Colorado Boulder))

2024-05-21 11:30: The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment (Dr Jón Guðmundsson (Stockholm))

2024-05-23 16:00: Some Disassembly Required (Eugene Chiang, Professor of Astronomy and Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley)

2024-05-30 16:00: New results about black hole feedback in galaxy clusters  (Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Université de Montréal)

2024-06-06 16:00: Black hole accretion in the TDAMM Era (Erin Kara (MIT))

2024-06-13 16:00: Nucleosynthesis of the first stellar generations (Georges Meynet (Geneva))

2024-06-21 09:30: Dark Matter in Astrophysical Laboratories (KICC Science Focus meeting) (Various speakers)

2024-06-27 16:00: New discoveries in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and Cosmology, from deep, wide-field, low surface brightness imaging (Prof. Ken Lanzetta (Stony Brook University))

2024-06-27 16:00: New discoveries in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and Cosmology, from deep, wide-field, low surface brightness imaging (Prof. Ken Lanzetta (Stony Brook University))

2024-10-10 16:00: New Puzzles in Galaxy Formation: From the Cosmic Web to the Origin of the Hubble Sequence (Viraj Pandya (Columbia University))

2024-10-15 14:00: Beyond Gauss? A more accurate model for LISA astrophysical noise source (Riccardo Buscicchio (University of Milano-Bicocca))

2024-10-17 16:00: Unveiling the physico-chemical conditions of planet formation environments (Stefano Facchini (Milan))

2024-10-24 16:00: Towards the LISA Global Fit (Christopher Moore (Cambridge))

2024-10-31 16:00: The long-term evolution of turbulent discs in high-redshift galaxies (Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn University Sydney)

2024-10-31 16:00: The long-term evolution of turbulent discs in high-redshift galaxies (Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney))

2024-11-07 16:00: The origin and nature of spiral features in galactic disks (Sharon Meidt van der Wel Ghent University)

2024-11-14 16:00: The growth of supermassive black holes is dominated by galaxy merger-free processes  (Rebecca Smethurst University of Oxford)

2024-11-21 16:00: Ways of Probing the Assembly Mechanism of Individual Black Hole Binary Mergers (Prof. Johan Samsing)

2024-11-28 16:00: Small-scale structure in cold dark matter: from ultra-faint dwarfs to prompt cusps  (Sownak Bose Durham University)

2024-12-05 16:00: Should we observe spirals in young planet-forming discs? (Farzana Meru University of Warwick)

2025-01-23 16:00: Zwicky Transient Facility Cosmology Science Working Group: Results and Perspectives (Mickael Rigault)

2025-01-30 16:00: AGN Feedback to Cosmology: eROSITA's Distinct Perspective on Large-Scale Structure (Esra Bulbul)

2025-02-06 16:00: TBC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-02-20 16:00: The importance of being wide: The key role of wide binaries, from GW sources to Pluto (Hagai Perets)

2025-02-27 16:00: What makes a planet “giant”?  (Ravit Helled)

2025-03-06 16:00: The Death Throes of Massive Stars (Evan O'Connor)

2025-03-20 16:00: Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study (Hannah Wakeford)

2025-03-20 16:00: Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study (Dr Hannah Wakeford)

2025-05-01 16:00: Irradiated brown dwarfs (Dr Sarah Casewell)

2025-05-09 11:30: How do the most luminous black holes accrete and expel gas? (Matthew Liska)

2025-05-15 16:00: The different merger and evolutionary histories of the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31) (Ortwin Gerhard, MPE (Garching))

2025-05-22 11:30: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from a Different Angle (George Efstathiou (IoA/KICC))

2025-05-22 16:00: The effect of binary mass transfer on the late evolution, death, and afterlife of massive stars (Eva laplace, University of Leuven, Belgium)

2025-05-29 16:00: Latest results building upon slitless spectroscopic surveys with JWST (Dr Jorryt Matthee)

2025-06-05 16:00: The Formation and Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes (Yohan Dubois (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris))

2025-06-12 16:00: Magnetic fields of neutron stars: simulations and observations (Andrei Igoshev, Newcastle University)

2025-10-09 16:00: Looking into the faintest with MUSE: Integral-field spectroscopy of ultradiffuse galaxies in a cluster environment (Enrica Iodice)

2025-10-16 16:00: Star Formation at the Epoch of Reionisation under the Cosmic Microscope (Prof. Maruša Bradač )

2025-10-23 16:00: The Beautiful Confusion: Super-Early Galaxies Seen By JWST (Andrea Ferrara)

2025-10-30 16:00: Tracing the Hidden Universe: An Integrated View of Baryons Across Cosmic Time (Boryana Hadzhiyska)

2025-11-06 16:00: An Ever-Evolving Story of the Chemical Composition and Accretion History of the HR 8799 Planets  (Ji Wang)

2025-11-13 16:00: The High-z Transient Universe with JWST (Armin Rest)

2025-11-20 16:00: Modelling the non-linear Universe with explainable Artificial Intelligence (Hamburg University)

2025-11-20 16:00: Modelling the non-linear Universe with explainable Artificial Intelligence (Hamburg University)

2025-11-27 16:00: Exoplanet Composition and Habitability: what can white dwarfs tell us?  (Amy Bonsor (University of Cambridge))

2025-12-04 16:00: The First Chapters of Galaxy and Black Hole Build-up Revealed by JWST  (Pascal Oesch)

2026-01-22 16:00: What is going on with large-scale structure cosmology? (Ian McCarthy)

2026-02-05 16:00: Gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures of binary black holes with circumbinary gas (Zoltan Haiman)

2026-02-12 16:00: The Solar System Revolution with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Meg Schwamb (Queen's University Belfast))

2026-02-19 16:00: The New Scientific Method (Will Handley)

2026-02-26 16:00: HiPERCAM: high time-resolution astrophysics (Vikram S Dhillon)

2026-03-19 16:00: Beyond Isolation: Rethinking Interacting Stars (Silvia Toonen University of Amsterdam)

2026-05-07 16:00: Sera Markoff Inaugural Lecture for the Plumian Professorship in Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy - 'Staring into the heart of darkness: from theory to the direct imaging of black holes' (Sera Markoff, Plumian Professor in Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)

2026-05-12 16:00: Strange New Worlds (Prof Hilke Schlichting, Professor of Exoplanets & Planetary Science; Associate Dean for Research, Physical Sciences, UCLA)