We have a regular programme of seminars by internal and external speakers.
Programme of Group Talks
Date | Location | Time | Speaker | Title |
24 Sept | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | All | AGM |
01 Oct | Stacy LT2 | 16:00 | Dr Dirk Froebrich | The Beacon Observatory |
8 Oct | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr James Urquhart | Star Formation Across the Galaxy |
15 Oct | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Vassi Spathis | Impact shock synthesis of prebiotic molecules |
22 Oct | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Chrysa Avdellidou | OSIRIS-REx & Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return missions: Impact process on “new” space materials. |
29 Oct | Stacy LT2 | 16:00 | Sam Billington | Investigating the associations between maser species and dense Galactic clumps |
5 Nov | Stacy LT2 | 16:00 | Dr James New | Life on Saturn’s Moon? The Enceladus Organic Analyser and the Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life |
12 Nov | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Matthias van Ginneken | Micrometeorites and the flux of extraterrestrial matter to Earth |
19 Nov | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Prof. Michael Smith | Jets and Winds |
26 Nov | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Tarik Zegmott | Shape model and spin-state analysis of the contact-binary (68346) 2001 KZ66 |
03 Dec | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz | TBD |
10 Dec | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Agata Rożek | Asteroids in 3D |
14 Jan | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Prof. Nigel Mason | Astro-Chemistry |
21 Jan | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Tim Kinnear | Utilizing the power of computing in Astronomy and Planetary Science |
Postponed | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Prof. Mark Burchell | Can we identify organic microparticles by flying through the Europan or Enceladan Plumes? |
28 Jan | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr James Urquhart | Overview of the SEDIGISM Survey |
4 Feb | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | NA | NA |
11 Feb | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Prof. Stephen Lowry | Comet Interceptor: ESA’s First F-Class Mission |
18 Feb | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Lord Dover | The YORP effect and physical modelling of near-Earth asteroid (23187) 2000 PN9 |
25 Feb | Stacy LT2 | 16:00 | Callum Fisher | Survivability of Biological Material following Hypervelocity Impacts |
3 Mar | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Michael Willcock | Impact of triggered star formation in the Galaxy |
10 Mar | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Dr Duncan MacKay | Astroaesthetics II |
17 Mar | Ingram R110 | 16:00 | Alejandra Traspas-Muina (Postponed) | Survival of tardigrades in hyper-velocity impacts |
Zoom | Stacy LT2 | 16:00 | Niall Niller | Long term variability of stars in Cygnus |
31 Mar | Zoom | 16:00 | Alejandra Traspas-Muina | Survival of tardigrades in hyper-velocity impacts |
5 May | Zoom | 16:00 | Prof. Michael Smith | Discussion on Selected Star Formation Topics |
12 May | Zoom | 16:00 | Dr Justyn Campbell-White | Mapping the Accretion and Inner Disk of Pre-Main Sequence Stars with Emission Line Tomography’ |
19 May | Zoom | 16:00 | Duncan Mifsud | Astrophysical Chemistry: Current Work at the ATOMKI Institute for Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary |
26 May | Zoom | 16:00 | Aishling Dignam | The ultimate passive space debris detector |
2 June | Zoom | 16:00 | Prof. Mark Burchell | Dust and the Deep Space Gateway |
9 June | Zoom | 16:00 | Dr Dirk Froebrich | Measuring Spot Properties on Stars. How hard can it be? |