Theoretical astrophysics Brown Bag seminars 2013

This is a loosely organised seminar series, aimed at capturing issues of current interest and telling us what is new.

Venue: BIPAC Seminar Room, 12:30pm.

Hilary Term 2013

Week Date Organiser Talk
1 15 Jan Schekochihin Ben Chandran (U of New Hampshire) on Convection and AGN feedback in galaxy-cluster plasmas
2 22 Jan Dunkley ACT results Starts at noon!
3 29 Jan Lintott
4 5 Feb Ferreira
5 12 Feb
6 19 Feb Devriendt
7 26 Feb Magorrian Bayes vs the virial theorem
8 5 Mar Simmons Boris Häußler (Nottingham) on MegaMorph - Measuring the physical properties of galaxy components in modern multi-wavelength surveys

Trinity Term 2013

Week Date Organiser Talk
1 23 Apr Balbus
2 30 Apr Bell
3 7 May Binney
4 14 May Miller (Research forum at 1pm)
5 21 May
6 28 May Podsiadlowski (Research forum at 1pm)
7 4 Jun Silk
8 11 Jun Slyz

Past light cone

Trinity Term 2012

Week Date Organiser Talk
1 24 Apr Dunkley Jo Dunkley on The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect: detection from clusters, and constraints on patchy reionization
2 1 May Magorrian Stuart Sale on 3d extinction mapping using hierarchical Bayesian models
3 8 May Sarkar Felix Kahlhoefer on Astrophysical uncertainties in the galactic distribution of DM and the impact on direct detection experiments
4 15 May Schekochihin Koen Kemel (NORDITA) on Negative effective magnetic pressure effect and instability
5 22 May [Teaching subfaculty meeting]
6 29 May Ferreira
7 5 Jun Devriendt Yashar Armani (Oslo)
8 12 Jun Lintott Brooke Simmons

Michaelmas Term 2012

Note: on weeks 2 and 6 the Research Forum starts at 1pm.

Week Date Organiser Talk
1 9 Oct Bell Cosmic ray acceleration
2 16 Oct Miller
3 23 Oct Silk Feedback in galaxy formation
4 30 Oct Binney
5 6 Nov [Teaching subfaculty meeting]
6 13 Nov Slyz Devriendt
7 20 Nov Podsiadlowski
8 27 Nov Balbus