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Astronomy Unit Seminars

The AU seminars are colloquium-style talks from leading experts aimed at a broad audience.

They take place most Fridays at 15:00 in GO Jones 610 during term (except for the second Friday of each month). 

Please contact Andrew Winter with any questions about these seminars.

Semester A seminars 2025/26

Date Speaker Title
2/10/26 AU   AU Jamboree
16/10/26 Tamara Molyarova Chemistry and Radial Drift Shape the Composition of Protoplanetary Discs
23/10/26 David Wands Primordial black holes from stochastic inflation
30/10/26 Stuart Bale The Parker Solar Probe mission: What we have learned from our first visit to a star
6/11/26 Cristiano Longarini TBC
20/11/26 Johannes Noller TBC
27/11/26 Sandra Chapman TBC
4/12/26 TBC TBC

 

Semester B seminars 2025/26

Date Speaker Title
15/1/27 TBC TBC
22/1/27 TBC TBC
29/1/27 Laura Wolz TBC
5/2/27 TBC TBC
19/2/27 TBC TBC
26/2/27 TBC TBC
5/3/27 TBC TBC
12/3/27 TBC TBC
19/3/27 TBC TBC
26/3/27 TBC TBC
     
     

 

 

 

 

Past seminars

Semester A seminars 2025/26

Date Speaker Title
17/10/2025 Richard Anslow The cometary delivery of prebiotic feedstock molecules to the early Earth and rocky exoplanets
24/10/2025 Ignas Juodžbalis JWST discovered AGN - from overmassive black holes, to little red dots
31/10/2025 Imogen Gingell Magnetic Reconnection in the Transition Region of Collisionless Shockwaves
07/11/2025 David Clements Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies: From the Deepest to the Brightest
14/11/2025 Syksy Räsänen Stochastic inflation and primordial black holes as dark matter
21/11/2025 John Ilee Uncovering planet forming disks with the Square Kilometre Array
28/11/2025 Claudia Maraston From teenage to seniority: exploring evolving galaxies through the stellar clock
05/12/2025 AU Festive highlights! 

 

Semester B seminars 2025/26

Date Speaker Title
30/01/2026 Sanson Poon  In-reach seminar: The Impacts and Opportunities of AI in the Natural Sciences - The Journey of a Museum AI Lab
06/02/2026 Anke Ardern-Arentsen Probing the early history of the Milky Way through ancient stars
20/02/2026 Sara Maleubre Molinero Disentangling Galaxy Bias in Cross-Correlation Tomography
27/02/2026 George Miloshevich Data-Driven Closures for Hybrid Plasma Models in Space Plasmas
06/03/2026 Alison Young Gravitational instability revisited in the youngest discs
20/03/2026 Cancelled  
27/03/2026 Lucy Oswald Radio pulsars: a polarized perspective
17/04/2026 Pippa Cole Illuminating the dark universe with gravitational waves
30/04/2026 Pritha Paul Exploring Relativistic and Parity-Odd Signatures in Large-Scale Structure
15/05/2026 Álvaro Ribas What are protoplanetary disks still not telling us?
22/05/2026 Asta Heinesen Perren Seminar: Tensions and anomalies in a dark universe 
29/05/2026 Tim Harries

 

Summer seminars 2026

Date Speaker Title
26/06/2026 Bruce Allen  Have pulsar timing arrays  detected nano-Hz gravitational waves?
24/07/2026 Shota Notsu ALMA observations of complex organic molecules, water, and ion molecules in protostellar objects V883 Ori and IRAS 4C

 

 

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