Date | Speaker | Topic |
7 October 2020 | Zeila Zanoli (Utrecht) | Quantum materials by design |
21 October 2020 | Hilding Neilson (Toronto) | Period change, evolution and atmospheres of Cepheids |
11 November 2020 | Katja Poppenhager (Potsdam) | Exoplanets under multiwavelength fire |
9 December 2020 | Sarah Casewell (Leicester) | Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres |
16 December 2020 | Nilanthy Balakrishnan (Keele) | InSe rediscovered: A van der Waals crystal for new electronic, opto-electronic and thermoelectric devices |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
9 October 2019 | Scott Walker (Keele University) | The Tactile Universe |
23 October 2019 | Juliana Morbec (Keele University) | Computational Design of Materials for Technological Applications |
13 November 2019 | Beatriz Mingo (Open University) | What can LOFAR teach us about AGN? |
27 November 2019 | Richard Nelson (Queen Mary University) | The role of migration in the formation of planetary systems |
11 December 2019 | Edward Gillen (Cambridge University) | Understanding the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems |
26 February 2020 | Raphael Hirschi (Keele University) | Can Stars form 50 to 100 solar-mass Black Holes? |
22 April 2020 | Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory) | The heaviest stars and black holes in the Universe |
6 May 2020 | Seb Oliver (Sussex University) | Applying astronomical techniques to all sorts of stuff |
3 June 2020 | Simon Goodwin (Sheffield University) | Is local star formation 'normal'? |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
12 September 2018 | Sreenath Malamal Gopinathan (Keele) | Flame models and their applications in combustion systems |
3 October 2018 | Monika Petr-Gotzens (ESO) | Wide binaries in the Orion OB association |
17 October 2018 | Joachim Bestenlehner (Sheffield) | The most massive stars in the Local Group: the cluster R136 |
24 October 2018 | Tana Joseph (Manchester) | Extragalactic Low-Mass X-ray Binaries |
7 November 2018 | Guy Davies (Birmingham) | Stellar ages from Asteroseismology: The Galactic Thick Disk |
21 November 2018 | Anne Sansom (UCLan) | Dust and molecular gas in early-type galaxies |
5 December 2018 | Aleks Scholz (St Andrews) | Brown dwarfs: Formation, IMF, rotation and disks |
30 January 2019 | Ben Burningham (Hertfordshire) | Atmospheric retrievals in the cloudy regime of free-floating planetary mass objects and directly imaged exoplanets |
13 February 2019 | Matteo Brogi (Warwick) | Observations of exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution |
6 March 2019 | Megan Reiter (ATC Edinburgh) | The Role of Ecology in Star and Planet Formation |
13 March 2019 | Simone Graetzer (Liverpool / Salford Universities) | The Physics of Speech |
3 April 2019 | Aprajita Verma (Oxford) | Aperture Fever: The Extremely Large Telescope |
23 April 2019 | Biwei Jiang (Beijing Normal University, China) | Period-Luminosity Relations of Red Supergiants in Nearby Galaxies |
8 May 2019 | Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) | Multi-messenger astrophysics, merging neutron stars and kilonovae |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
8 November 2017 | Carlos Contreras (University of Exeter) | Eruptive Variable Protostars from VVV |
22 November 2017 | Tamara Rogers (Newcastle University) | Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars |
6 December 2017 | Ilya Mandel (University of Birmingham) | The Promise of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
24 January 2018 | Suzanne Aigrain (Oxforde University) | Taming the stochastic: how Gaussian Processes are transforming exoplanet studies |
9 March 2018 | Timothy Beers (University of Notre Dame) | The Chemistry of the First Stars - Carbon in the Early Universe |
21 March 2018 | Anna Lisa Varri (University of Edinburgh) | The new phase space complexity of old globular clusters |
28 March 2018 | Chris Wareing (University of Leeds) | Filaments, feedback and forming the Rosette |
9 May 2018 | Izaskun Jimenez-Serra (Queen Mary University) | Astrochemistry as a tool: From Infrared-Dark Clouds to massive star formation |
6 June 2018 | William Chantereau (Liverpool John Moores) | Multiple stellar populations of Globular clusters |
16 August 2018 | Peter Scicluna (Academia Sinica) | Recent progress and future prospects in studies of galactic evolved stars |