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Group Seminars 2021-22

Programme of Group Talks for Summer Term 2022

Date Location Time Speaker Title
10 May ILT & Teams 16:00 Nigel Mason & Perry Hailey Update on Europlanet and ATOMKI Activities
17 May ILT & Teams 16:00 Molly Wells Dynamical Accretion Flows in High Mass Star formation
24 May ILT & Teams 16:00 Sergio Ioppolo Systematic mid-IR and VUV spectroscopic investigation of COMs formation in ices through ion and electron irradiation
31 May ILT & Teams 16:00 Prof. Ofer Lahav Machine Learning for Exploring Astronomical Surveys
7 June ILT & Teams 16:00 Felipe Fantuzzi Structure, Bonding and Spectroscopic Properties of Astrophysically Relevant Neutral and Ionised Molecules
14 June ILT & Teams 16:00 Heidy M. Quitián Lara Formation, destruction and identification of complex organic molecules in circumstellar <td

Programme of Group Talks for Spring Term 2022

Date Location Time Speaker Title
18 Jan Teams 16:00 Carys Herbert Identifying surface features of YSOs in the Pelican Nebula
25th Jan Teams 16:00 Reece Wilkinson Exploration of Methodologies for Investigating Bacterial Survival in Impacts
1st Feb Teams 16:00 Aashini Patel Search for Hypercompact HII regions in the Southern Galactic Plane
8th Feb Teams 16:00 James Urquhart Galactic Star Formation Rate
15th Feb Teams 16:00 Gary Newport From Protostars to the Main Sequence
22th Feb ILT & Teams 16:00 Chrysa Avdellidou Hypervelocity impacts on asteroid simulant materials: Link with the results of the sample return space missions
1st March PSR1 & Teams 16:00 Perry Hailey Systems Chemistry Investigation into the Emergent Formation of Prebiotic Molecules in the ISM and Planetary Environments
8th March ILT & Teams 16:00 Carl Richards Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei
15th March ILT & Teams 16:00 Matthias van Ginneken Identification of a potential new source of micrometeorites in the Solar System
22th March ILT & Teams 16:00 Jon Tandy Cryogenic Capture of Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta
29th March ILT & Teams 16:00 Dan Hallatt The impact of hyper-velocity dust on the carbonaceous Solar System: characterizing micro-craters
5th April ILT & Teams 16:00 Sergio Ioppolo TBC

Programme of Group Talks for Autumn Term 2021

Date Location Time Speaker Title
28 Sept Teams 16:00 Dr Froebrich (Guest) The Beacon Observatory – Science, Outreach and Public Engagement
05 Oct Teams 16:00 Dr Carsten Koenig (MPIfR) Outer Galaxy High-Resolution Survey (OGHReS) (slides/recording)
12 Oct Teams 16:00 Prof. Nigel Mason Astrochemistry
19 Oct Teams 16:00 Prof. Mark Burchell Icy Ocean Worlds – What is in them?
26 Oct Teams 16:00 Jack Finch An investigation into icy and permafrost crater relaxation
2 Nov Teams 16:00 Prof. Michael Smith Astrophysical Jets
9 Nov Teams 16:00 Duncan Mifsud Radiation-Induced Solid-Phase Astrochemistry: Recent Results from the ICA Apparatus in Debrecen
16 Nov Teams 16:00 Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz Impacts/Micrometerites
23 Nov Teams 16:00 Alex Corrigan & Matt Dickers Summer Intern Project
30 Nov Teams 16:00 Luke Cornwell Validation of a Prototype Kapton TOF Detector and First Results
07 Dec Teams 16:00 Dr Vassi Spathis Impacts and Organics
14 Dec Teams 16:00 Aishling Dignam The ultimate passive space debris detector