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Group Seminars 2022-23

Programme of Group Talks for Spring Term 2023

Date Location Time Speaker Title
17th Jan KS17 & Teams 16:00 Duncan Mifsud Three Years of Sulphur – Lessons Learned in Laboratory Ice Astrochemistry
24th Jan KS17 & Teams 16:00 Reece Wilkinson The Survivability and Evolution of Bacteria in Planetary Impacts
31st Jan KS17 & Teams 16:00 Dr Jon Tandy et al. A physical and chemical comparison of lunar and Martian regolith analogues (TBC)
7th Feb KS17 & Teams 16:00 Dan Hallatt An early look at how the carbonaceous solar system responds to cosmic dust
14th Feb KS17 & Teams 16:00 Jack Finch Phobos: The dark side of planetary science
21st Feb KS17 & Teams 16:00 Gary Newport Stellar Evolution – Developing a model for massive star evolution
28th Feb KS17 & Teams 16:00 Dr Duncan MacKay Cambridge Handbooks for Research Astronomers: Getting our book into print
7th March KS17 & Teams 16:00 Carl Richards Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Gas Jets
14th March KS17 & Teams 16:00 Heidy Quitián-Lara Experimental Analysis of P-Bearing Molecules in the Interstellar Medium: Exploring Chemical Precursors of Life in the Universe
21st March KS17 & Teams 16:00 Matt Dickers Applications of Multiscale Modelling in Modern Topics of Science and Technology
28th March KS17 & Teams 16:00 Ivana Grozdanova Studying star formation using HCN as a dense gas tracer
4th April KS17 & Teams 16:00 Jess Wills PAH synthetics and their survivability in hypervelocity impact experiments

Programme of Group Talks for Autumn Term 2022

Date Location Time Speaker Title
27th Sept KS16 & Teams 16:00 Dr Dirk Froebrich Update on the Beacon Observatory
4th Oct KS16 & Teams 16:00 Prof. Mark Burchell Liquid water in the Solar System
11th Oct KS16 & Teams 16:00 Dr Matthias van Ginneken Urban Micrometeorites: Free Roof Cleaning Service for Science
18th Oct KS16 & Teams 16:00 Dr Luke Alesbrook Developments and Research Highlights for the Kent Light Gas Gun
25th Oct KS16 & Teams 16:00 Dan Le Corre The Martian Pit Shadow (MAPS) Extractor
1st Nov KS16 & Teams 16:00 Dr Chrysa Avdellidou Linking meteorties with their main belt sources
8th Nov KS16 & Teams 16:00 Ash Patel More SCOTCH! Expanding the search for HCHII regions using the ATCA
15th Nov KS16 & Teams 16:00 Carys Herbert Spot Properties on YSOs in IC5070
22nd Nov KS16 & Teams 16:00 Luke Cornwell Small Satellites for Sustainability in, and from Space
29th Nov KS16 & Teams 16:00 Prof. Michael Smith Something to do with Jets?
6th Dec KS16 & Teams 16:00 Allie Corrigan Exploring the Prebiotic Chemistry of Europa
13th Dec KS16 & Teams 16:00 Lord Dover Results from the YORP campaign