Astrophysics Seminars 2025/2026
Astrophysics seminars usually take place at 15:00 on Wednesdays in Physics room 3.21. Sometimes visiting speakers are able to speak outside this schedule, so check the listing for each event.
Autumn Term
- 17 September 2025: Sarah Moran (STScI)On Mineralogy and Non-sphericity in Modeling Substellar Clouds
- 1 October 2025: Emmy Escott (Durham)Strap on your Boötes: Unveiling AGN Feedback through High Resolution Morphological Studies with LOFAR-VLBI
- 15 October 2025: Maria di Paolo (UEA)Climate Patterns of Spin-Orbit Resonant Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars
- 22 October 2025: Namrah Habib (Oxford)Understanding Vertical Mixing in Hydrogen Rich Atmospheres: Implications for Sub-Neptunes and the Solar System Giant Planets
- 29 October 2025: Melissa Ewing (Newcastle)The Impact of Polarimetry on hard-state X-ray Binary Studies: Opening a New Avenue in X-ray Polarimetry Timing
- 5 November 2025: Victor See (Birmingham)How does stellar metallicity affect stellar magnetism and exoplanet atmospheres?
- 12 November 2025: Rebecca Bowler (Manchester)Understanding dust in galaxies at high redshift: insights from ALMA and JWST
- 19 November 2025: Niall Jeffrey (UCL)Decoding dark energy: simulation-based inference with weak gravitational lensing
- 26 November 2025: Louis Gabarra (Oxford)When a Spectrometer Becomes an Imager: Exploring Euclid’s Hidden Potential
- 2 December 2025: Thomas Meier (Zurich)Billion-particle Giant Impact Simulations with pkdgrav3
- 10 December 2025: Mor Rozner (Cambridge)From Few-Body to Stellar Clusters: How Gas Reshapes Dynamical Evolution
Spring Term
- 14 January 2026: Matt Roche (Bristol)Atmosphere–ocean loss during giant impacts and the volatile evolution of terrestrial planets
- 21 January 2026: Scott Kay (Manchester)The Entropy Core Problem in Simulations of Galaxy Groups and Clusters
- 28 January 2026: Thomas Haworth (QMUL)The impact of environment on protoplanetary disks and planet formation
- 4 February 2026: Marcin Glowacki (Edinburgh)PATCHwork and MockKATS: Neutral hydrogen discoveries with MeerKAT and comparisons with samples using hydrodynamical simulations
- 11 February 2026: Carolin Villforth (Bath)How to feed an Active Galactic Nucleus
- 25 February 2026: Ryan MacDonald (St Andrews)The Diversity of Worlds Revealed by JWST
- 4 March 2026: Jessica Pilling (Sussex)Supporting Optical Galaxy Cluster Surveys with X-rays
- 11 March 2026: Eleonora Di Valentino (Sheffield)Cracks in the Standard Cosmological Model: Anomalies, Tensions, and Hints of New Physics
- 18 March 2026: Catherine Walsh (Leeds)title TBA
- 24 March 2026: Elsie Lee (Bern)Heart of Glass - Exploring silicate clouds in exosolar atmospheres from lab to theory
- 25 March 2026: Mark Booth (ROE)Designing the Largest Sub-mm Single Dish Facility in the World
- 1 April 2026: Rhys Shaw (Bristol)title TBA
- 15 April 2026: Kenneth Duncan (Edinburgh)Revealing the hidden lives of super-massive black holes
- 22 April 2026: Gloria Raharimbolamena (Bristol)title TBA
- 29 April 2026: Daniel Valentine (Bristol)title TBA