Past events
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Stuart Bale
14 December 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Clara Sousa-Silva
4 December 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Richard Parker
27 November 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Serena Kim
20 November 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- David Brain
6 November 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Laura Nuttall
30 October 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Linda Cremonesi
23 October 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Matthew Kunz
16 October 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Eva Mueller
2 October 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Ylva Goetberg
25 September 2020
GR simulations in cosmology
7 September 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Clement Baruteau
3 July 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- prof. Charles Gammie
26 June 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Solar surface convection and magnetism: new insights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
19 June 2020
Gevolution users & developers meeting 2020
13 May 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Heli Hietala
24 April 2020
CANCELLED Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Richard Parker
27 March 2020
CANCELLED -- Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Vincent van Eylen
20 March 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Simulating star-forming regions with AMUSE
6 March 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Silvia Dalla
28 February 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- TBC
28 February 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Cosmology from the anisotropic power spectrum with Euclid
19 February 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- The importance of AGN in galaxy evolution: a future perspective
7 February 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Gaia's insights into Galactic structure, Galactic history, and the dark matter problem
31 January 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- The Role of Ecology in Star and Planet Formation
24 January 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Insights on planetary systems from interstellar worlds
17 January 2020
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Thermal instability and non-equilibrium in the solar atmosphere: from coronal rain to long-period intensity pulsations
22 November 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- What is inside a neutron star?
15 November 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Inside-Out Planet Formation
1 November 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Magnetohydrodynamic Seismology of the Solar Coronal Plasma with Kink Waves
25 October 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Rocky Exoplanets, Geology and White Dwarfs
4 October 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Gravitational instability and substructure in protoplanetary discs
22 March 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- The Status of Cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array in 2019
15 March 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- Beyond Einstein Gravity: What, Why and How
1 March 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- High resolution mapping of the elusive magnetic field of the solar corona.
22 February 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Evaluating Cosmic Dawn
15 February 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Coronal cooling as a result of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
1 February 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Hydrodynamics of planetary envelopes
25 January 2019
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Solar magnetic variability: From minutes to millennia
7 December 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - The solar wind: a multi-scale astrophysical plasma
23 November 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Cosmology with the world’s leading dark energy experiments
16 November 2018
CANCELLED -- Astronomy Unit Seminar -- James McLaughlin
2 November 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - The origin of small scale structures in protoplanetary discs
26 October 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar -- New prospects in numerical relativity: Black-hole binaries in Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity
19 October 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Uncovering the First Stars
5 October 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - How to Form the First Planets?
28 September 2018
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Examining Low Mass Galaxy Evolution Through SDSS-IV Manga Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy
27 April 2018
Listening to Einstein’s Universe
9 March 2018
Magnetic Reconnection: Recent Progress from Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite Observations
2 March 2018
Oscillations and symmetry breaking in simple models for polymerisation
23 February 2018
Resonant Shattering Flares as Counterparts to GW Chirps
16 February 2018
TBC
15 December 2017
TBC
1 December 2017
TBC
27 November 2017
TBC
17 November 2017
TBC
3 November 2017
TBC
27 October 2017
TBC
20 October 2017
SNIFFING ALIEN ATMOSPHERES: EXOPLANET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY (FROM GROUND-, AIRBORNE- AND SPACE-BASED OBSERVATORIES)
6 October 2017
N2 ICE GLACIATION ON PLUTO - THE WHAT'S, THE WHERE'S, THE HOW'S AND THE WHY'S
18 July 2017
Diversity of Planetary Systems via Pebble Accretion
31 March 2017
Variability of WD1145+17
24 March 2017
Dynamics of the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn
17 March 2017
The Galactic Centre: a template for understanding star formation and feedback in a high-pressure environment
3 March 2017
Three-Dimensional Oscillatory Magnetic Reconnection
24 February 2017
THE ORION RADIO ALL-STARS: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN STELLAR RADIO ASTRONOMY
17 February 2017
The CONSERT experiment on Rosetta, what it did and what was deduced about the nucleus of comet 67/P
3 February 2017
SEEING PLANETS FORM
27 January 2017
The molecular nature of planet-forming disks in the era of ALMA
20 January 2017
THE MOLECULAR NATURE OF PLANET-FORMING DISKS IN THE ERA OF ALMA
20 January 2017
POSTPONED
9 December 2016
SOLAR FLARES AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES
2 December 2016
Interstellar Dust Chemistry and Catalysis
18 November 2016
PARTICLE ACCELERATION AT ASTROPHYSICAL SHOCKS - A MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH
4 November 2016
Transverse Velocity Perturbations In Solar Coronal Loops
28 October 2016
1000 days of Gaia: DR1
21 October 2016
CANCELLED
7 October 2016
A Unified Nonlinear Stochastic Time Series Analysis for Climate Science
30 September 2016
Kronoseismology: using Saturn's rings to probe the planet's interior
1 July 2016
Connecting the chemical properties of exoplanets and their atmospheres to planet formation
10 June 2016
Cloud Formation and Hydrodynamics on Short-Period Extrasolar Planets
3 June 2016
Gaps and Spirals in Protoplanetary Disks
29 April 2016
Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), Room 516
23 March 2016
Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest
18 March 2016
Disformal couplings in cosmology and astrophysics, Room 516
16 March 2016
Entanglement Entropy and Conical Singularities
9 March 2016
Astrochemistry as a tool: From massive star formation to pre-biotic chemistry
4 March 2016
Supermassive Binary Black Holes
26 February 2016
Conformal invariance in momentum space, Room 610
24 February 2016
Low-noise particle simulations of plasma physics using particle methods
19 February 2016
Astrophysical signatures of axions, Room 516
17 February 2016
Black branes without translational symmetry
10 February 2016
Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars
5 February 2016
Hydrodynamic simulations of rotating and non-rotating black holes, Room 516
3 February 2016
Kinetic instabilities and plasma turbulence in the expanding solar wind: observations and simulations
29 January 2016
PRIMORDIAL NON-GAUSSIANITY IN THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE, ROOM 516
27 January 2016
ON MERCURY'S ENTRAPMENT INTO ITS 3:2 SPIN-ORBIT RESONANCE
22 January 2016
Understanding the Formation of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Perspectives from Wide-Field Galaxy Surveys, Room 516
20 January 2016
Fast magnetoacoustic wave trains in the solar corona
15 January 2016
Conformal properties of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime, Room 516
13 January 2016
SELF-CONSISTENT CASTAING DISTRIBUTIONS FOR SOLAR WIND TURBULENT FLUCTUATIONS
10 December 2015
Stochastic cosmological lensing Room 516
9 December 2015
Extended MHD models for black hole accretion
4 December 2015
QUANTUM GRAVITY CONSTRAINTS ON COSMIC INFLATION
2 December 2015
Direct Dark Matter searches with the LUX and LZ experiments
27 November 2015
THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY: status, current results, and mocks.
25 November 2015
The endpoint of black ring instabilities and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture
25 November 2015
Ultracompact Minihalos as Probes of Small-Scale Cosmology
20 November 2015
Hemispherical power asymmetry from a scale dependent bispectrum - Donough Regan
18 November 2015
A stiff Higgstory of the Universe
16 November 2015
An Astrophysical View of the Emergence of Terrestrial Vertebrates
6 November 2015
Symmetries in non-attractor inflation
4 November 2015
Cosmological constraints on Dark Matter properties
4 November 2015
Modelling Realistic Large Scale Cosmic Structures with Exact Solutions of General Relativity
30 October 2015
Weak Gravitational Lensing of The Cosmic Microwave Background
28 October 2015
Bayesian Model Comparison in Astronomy and Cosmology
23 October 2015
SCREENED THEORIES OF GRAVITY IN 3D - GALAXY CLUSTERING AND WEAK LENSING
21 October 2015
Topological Analysis of Astrophysical-Geophysical Flows
16 October 2015
THE NATURE OF VOIDS: THEORY, SIMULATION AND COSMOLOGY
14 October 2015
How to model lensing due to the small-scale structure of the Universe?
14 October 2015
NON-GAUSSIANITY: ASYMMETRY AND SQUEEZED LIMITS
7 October 2015
CO snowline migration through planet-forming regions
2 October 2015
Black holes and the separate universe problem: 40 years on
30 September 2015
CANCELLED
25 September 2015
SEEKING THE SIGNATURES OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND THE COSMIC EXPANSION IN GALAXY PROPERTIES
5 June 2015
Constructing N-body Simulations with General Relativistic Dynamics
27 May 2015
Inertial, barotropic and baroclinic instabilities of the Bickley jet
25 May 2015
Single Versus Multifield Inflation After Planck
20 May 2015
Constraining the early universe with primordial black holes
13 May 2015
(Super)voids, CMB coldspots and the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect
6 May 2015
RECONSTRUCTING LINEAR BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATIONS
29 April 2015
Varying Vacuum Energy of a Self-Interacting Scalar Field (TBC)
22 April 2015
Probing the Nature of Inflation
1 April 2015
E-B component separation in CMB polarization and fast simulations of CMB maps.
25 March 2015
Bridging the gap between small and large scales: a nonlinear post-Friedmann framework for relativistic structure formation
18 March 2015
Weak lensing: promise and problems
11 March 2015
Lagrangian coordinate approaches for cosmological large-scale flows
4 March 2015
Einstein's signature in large-scale structure: non-Gaussianity, scale-dependent bias and GR
25 February 2015
SOFT LIMITS IN HOLOGRAPHIC COSMOLOGY (BASED ON ARXIV:1412.1874)
18 February 2015
Weak Lensing : past, present and future
15 February 2015
Infrared modifications of gravity, the Vainshtein mechanism and strong coupling - David Stefanyszyn
11 February 2015
Are Two Metrics Better Than One?: The Cosmology of Massive (Bi)gravity
4 February 2015
Discrete Spacetime and Fluctuating Lambda
28 January 2015
Two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics at zero Prandtl number
25 January 2015
NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES IN TRANSFORMATION OPTICS
21 January 2015
Complexity in inflation
14 January 2015
A PERSPECTIVE ON BLACK HOLE HORIZONS FROM THE QUANTUM CHARGED PARTICLE
3 December 2014
A dezornification of the proof of the existence of a maximal Cauchy development for the Einstein equations
26 November 2014
MODELS FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM COMPACT BINARIES
19 November 2014
Challenges in Gravitational-Wave Modelling and Parameter Estimation of Compact Binary systems
5 November 2014
Gravitational Waves and the Cosmological Constant
22 October 2014
PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLE PRODUCTION DURING PREHEATING
15 October 2014
Perturbations and Conservation in Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Cosmology
8 October 2014
The Higgs and Inflation
1 October 2014
The discovery of primordial B-mode polarization
13 June 2014
The discovery of primordial B-mode polarization
13 June 2014
Small-Scale CMB Cosmology: ACT, Planck and Beyond
4 June 2014
Axion Dark Matter from Inflation to Galaxy Formation
28 May 2014
Asymptotics and big bang singularities - two sides of the same coin
21 May 2014
Black Holes and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle
14 May 2014
Gravity: the emergent perspective
26 March 2014
RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE
19 March 2014
Black holes as observatories for beyond-standard model physics
12 March 2014
Ultrarelativistic Soliton Collisions, Numerical Experiments and All That
5 March 2014
NON-LINEAR EFFECTS ON PRIMORIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION
26 February 2014
Cosmological dynamics for scalar fields with kinetic corrections
19 February 2014
MULTI-GRAVITY
12 February 2014
A Gravitational Origin of the Arrows of Time
5 February 2014
Cosmic distance scale measurements with BOSS galaxies
29 January 2014
M-FLATION, SIGNATURES AND ADVANTAGES
22 January 2014
Applications of Vesture of Harmonic Maps to General Relativity and Cosmology
11 December 2013
The complex stellar populations of Galactic (and extragalactic?) globular clusters
6 December 2013
SPACETIMES OF EMBEDDING CLASS TWO & SPACETIMES WITH CONSTANT WEYL EIGENVALUES
4 December 2013
Planck's View of The Origin of Cosmic Structure
29 November 2013
Density inhomogeneities in scalar field cosmologies: a dynamical system approach
27 November 2013
Local models of warped astrophysical discs
22 November 2013
Gravitational waves from the sound of a first order phase transition
20 November 2013
The chemistry of exo-terrestrial material in evolved planetary systems
15 November 2013
An exact treatment of back-reaction in relativistic cosmology
13 November 2013
Can you detect dark energy in the laboratory?
6 November 2013
SOUNDING STARS AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW WORLDS---RESULTS FROM THE NASA KEPLER MISSION
1 November 2013
Dynamics in anti-de Sitter spacetimes
30 October 2013
MICROPHYSICS IN ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS: SO WHAT?
25 October 2013
Anisotropic Gravitational Wave Background from Preheating
23 October 2013
THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF MOLECULAR EMISSION IN GALAXIES
18 October 2013
NEWTONIAN AND POST-NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY: C → ∞ AND BEYOND
16 October 2013
Equations of Motion of Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr Particles
9 October 2013
PROBING THE ATMOSPHERE OF HOT EXOPLANETS WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
4 October 2013
Equilibrium and Stability of Collisionless Current Sheets
27 September 2013
NONLINEAR MASSIVE GRAVITY AND COSMOLOGY
25 June 2013
The evolving block universe
19 June 2013
NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN THE FAST-MODE MHD WAVE PROPAGATION IN THE SOLAR CORONAL PLASMA
7 June 2013
Doppler detection of low mass multi-planet systems around nearby stars
24 May 2013
Accelerating the universe with massive gravity
22 May 2013
Atmospheric Turbulence and Bumpy Flights
17 May 2013
THE PROBLEM OF TIME IN QUANTUM GRAVITY
15 May 2013
From Small-Scale To Large-Scale Dynamos Driven By Rotating Convection
15 May 2013
QUANTUM RESOLUTION OF TIMELIKE SINGULARITIES IN STATIC AND CONFORMALLY STATIC SPACETIMES
8 May 2013
Evolution and consequences of the magnetic field in protoplanetary discs
3 May 2013
NEW THEORIES OF GRAVITY (CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND GENERAL RELATIVITY)
20 March 2013
The Case for Testing Modified Gravity in the Solar System
6 March 2013
Dust and gas in the interstellar medium
1 March 2013
STABILITY AND INSTABILITY FOR ASYMPTOTICALLY ANTI DE SITTER BLACK HOLES
27 February 2013
Direct Statistical Simulation of Astrophysical Fluids
22 February 2013
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Superhorizon Perturbations: Beyond DeltaN Formalism
20 February 2013
Constraining the small scale perturbations in a big universe
13 February 2013
PARAMETERIZED APPROACHES TO MODIFIED GRAVITY
6 February 2013
Statistical mechanics of Jupiter jets and vortices
1 February 2013
Conformal methods and the global analysis of spacetimes
30 January 2013
SPECIAL SEMINAR (JOINT WITH DSSP): RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING
29 January 2013
Astronomy Unit Seminars
25 January 2013
Two-Dimensional Magneto-Hydrodynamics at Zero Prandtl Number
25 January 2013
SPIDER, CMB POLARISATION AND GALACTIC MICROWAVE FOREGROUND EMISSION
23 January 2013
Characterisation of Unbound Asteroid Pairs
18 January 2013
NON-GAUSSIANITY AND HYBRID POTENTIALS
16 January 2013
Einstein-Cartan Theory as an Averaged Theory of Gravity
12 December 2012
Astrobiological and Planetary Science Benefits of Human Space Exploration
12 December 2012
Probing The Physics Of Inflation
5 December 2012
Stochastic and Approximate Hardware for Numerical Simulation
30 November 2012
MEASURES OF ACCELERATION IN COSMOLOGY
28 November 2012
MAGNETOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE COUPLING AT SATURN
23 November 2012
There and Back Again... A Tale About Two-Field Inflation and Non-Gaussianity
21 November 2012
MODELLING PLANETARY MAGNETODISCS
16 November 2012
Quantum Field Theory on a Black Hole Space-time in Higher Dimensions
14 November 2012
THE MOTION OF SMALL BODIES IN CURVED SPACETIME: AN INTRODUCTION TO GRAVITATIONAL SELF-FORCE
7 November 2012
Investigation of collisionless reconnection using a Vlasov code
2 November 2012
TBC
31 October 2012
Black Holes, the Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Higher Dimensions
31 October 2012
Of Cocktail Parties and Exoplanets: Data analysis in Exoplanetary Spectroscopy
26 October 2012
NON-ADIABATIC PRESSURE IN MULTI-FIELD INFLATION
19 October 2012
PENROSE INEQUALITIES AND THE STABILITY OF NON-UNIFORM BLACK STRINGS
17 October 2012
Inflation with curved field-space
10 October 2012
Investigating giant planet atmospheres from space and in the lab
5 October 2012
MODIFIED GRAVITY FROM ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS
28 September 2012
Cosmological Perturbations: Isocurvature, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields
26 September 2012
Inertial Alfvén wave acceleration of electrons in solar & astrophysical plasmas
21 September 2012
Effective Field Theory of Multi-Field Inflation à la Weinberg
11 July 2012
Black Holes in a Universe from higher dimensions
27 June 2012
SPITZER AND HERSCHEL STUDIES OF THE LIFE CYCLE OF GAS AND DUST IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
8 June 2012
Gauss-Bonnet braneworld redux: A novel scenario for the bouncing universe
6 June 2012
Constraining intermediate mass black holes with cosmological microlensing
1 June 2012
SELF-CONSISTENT INITIAL CONDITIONS FOR PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLE FORMATION
23 May 2012
The abundance of lithium in old halo stars: a challenge for big bang nucleosynthesis
18 May 2012
Axisymmetric Black Holes
9 May 2012
VISTA: Recent Results
4 May 2012
High-velocity collision of particles around a Kerr black hole
2 May 2012
The dynamics of Saturn’s small satellites
30 March 2012
The dynamics of Saturn’s small satellites
30 March 2012
Testing The Foundations of The Concordance Model of Cosmology
23 March 2012
The death of solar systems: searching for old planets around white dwarfs
22 March 2012
RAS MEETING TALK PRACTICE
22 March 2012
Collisionless magnetic reconnection: what we have learned from recent space observations
16 March 2012
Collisionless magnetic reconnection: what we have learned from recent space observations
16 March 2012
Astronomy Unit Seminar - Sounding The Stars with Asteroseismology: New Results and Challenges In The Era Of Corot and Kepler
24 February 2012
THE SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
17 February 2012
The hunt for Earth-II
3 February 2012
Strange weather: observing the atmospheres of the giant planets
27 January 2012