ARC Invited Seminar Series

The ARC invited seminars are intended to be more formal talks given by invited speakers.

  • All seminars are held on Wednesdays between 4-5pm in the IRCEP Seminar room unless stated otherwise.
  • Refreshments available from 3.30p.m.
  • For information, contact Dr. Rubina Kotak (r.kotak_at_qub.ac.uk)

Upcoming Seminars
Date Speaker Title
24th Mar. 2010 4pm Dr. Duncan Mackay (St. Andrews) TBD
27th Jan. 2010 4pm Dr. Simon Goodwin (Sheffield Uni.) TBD
17th Dec. 2009 4pm Prof. Eric Priest Our Surprising Sun (Larmor Lecture)
9th Dec. 2009 BLT 4pm Dr. Ken Rice (ROE) The role of disc self-gravity in the formation and evolution of stars and planets
4th Nov. 2009 BLT 4pm Dr. Maurizio Salaris (LJMU) No longer simple: The multiple stellar populations in globular clusters
7th Oct. 2009 4pm Dr. Andy Bunker (Oxford) The first billion years of history: star formation at z>5
30th Sept. 2009 4pm Dr. Tim Young (Uni. N. Dakota) Supernova Simulations and a new model for type II Linears
9th Sept. 2009 4pm BLT Dr. Rachel Stevenson (UCLA) The Spectacular Outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes
Previous Seminars
Date Speaker Title
1 Dec 2004 Prof. Keith Horne, Univ. of St. Andrews Extra-Solar Planets
2 Feb 2005 Dr. Rob Jeffries, Univ. of Keele Lithium Depletion in Low-Mass Stars
2 Mar 2005 Dr. R. Paul Butler, Carnegie Institution of Washington From Extra-solar Planets to Extraterrestrials
13 Apr 2005 Dr. Paul Crowther, University of Sheffield Massive Stars: From Birth to Death
4 May 2005 Dr. Nial Tanvir, University of Cambridge
12th Oct 2005 Dr. Robert Ryans, QUB We Come In Peace...Shoot To Kill!
16th Nov 2005 Dr. Rene Oumaijer High resolution studies of pre-main sequence stars: disks, outflows and binaries
1st Feb 2006 Dr. Vik Dhillon, Univ. of Sheffield ULTRACAM: High-Speed Astrophysics
1st Mar 2006 Dr. Gaitee Hussain, Univ. of St. Andrews Magnetic Activity in Young Stars
22nd Mar 2006 1pm Dr. Steve Rose, Univ. of Oxford Photoionised Plasmas
3rd May 2006 Prof. Peter Meikle, Imperial College London How Much Dust Do SuperNovae Make?
19th May 2006 at 2-3pm Dr. Jorick Vink, Keele University Massive Star Feedback...from the first stars to the present
24th May 2006 Prof. Tom Millar, Queen's University Deuterium, Dust and Disks
7th Jun 2006 Dr. Louisa Nolan, Univ. of Birmingham Young Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies
5th Jul 2006 at 1pm Prof. Zdzislaw Musielak, Univ. of Texas Seismology of Stellar Atmospheres
7th Nov 2006 at 4pm Prof. James Graham (UC, Berkeley) The Signature of Primordial Grain Growth in the Polarized Light of the AU Mic Debris Disk
16th Nov 2006 at 11pm Dr Stephen Keil, National Solar Observator, New Mexico ''The Sun under the microscope - The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope''
6th Dec 2006 at 4pm Dr. Moira Jardine, St Andrews Reaching out to the masses: the coronae and disks of T Tauri stars
7th Feb. 2007 1pm Prof. Robertus Erdelyi, Sheffield University Solar Magneto-Seismology alas Can the Tail Wag the Dog?
7th Mar. 2007 4pm Dr. Robert Beswick, Jodrell Bank The statistical properties of the very weak radio source population in the GOODS-N/HDF-N region
Thurs. 15 Mar 2007 4pm Dr. Alak Ray, Tata Institute Radio and X-ray emission from Supernovae: probes of astrophysical plasma after the collapse of a massive star
Tue. 3rd Apr 2007 4pm Dr. Wayne Holland, ROE SCUBA-II
25th Apr 2007 4pm Dr. Alastair Edge, Uni. of Durham Cooling Flows - my part in their down-sizing
16th May 2007 4pm Dr. Suzanne Aigrain, Exeter Uni. Early results and prospects for the CoRoT exoplanet programme
21st May 2007 4pm Dr. Douglas Scott, Uni. of British Columbia. The Standard Cosmological Model
Fri. 15th June 2007 3pm Dr. Mark Clampin (GSFC) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST):
25th July 2007 4pm Drs. Aleksandra Andic & Hideko Nomura (QUB) The high frequency oscillations in the solar atmosphere; Distributions of Hot Molecules in Star Forming Region
08th Aug 2007 4pm Dr. Eberhard Wiehr, (Goettingen) Automated pattern recognition in two-dimensional grayscale images
Tue 11th Sep. 2007, 3pm Dr. Ben Davies, RIT The Massive Galactic Red Supergiant Clusters
12th Oct. 2007 3pm Dr. Luc Dessart, Steward Observatory, Arizona Quantitative Spectroscopy of Photospheric Phase Type II Supernovae
24th Oct. 2007 4pm Dr. Annette Ferguson, RoE, Edinburgh The Structure of Galaxies at Faint Light Levels: Probing Galaxy Assembly
14th Nov. 2007 4pm, BLT Dr. Stefano Bagnulo, Armagh Observatory Polarimetry with large telescopes
28th Nov. 2007 2pm Prof. Paola Caselli, Leeds Deuterium fractionation and the early stages of star formation
Mon. 03th Dec. 2007 2:30pm Dr. Nigel Hambly, RoE The substellar Initial Mass Function from the UKIRT Deep Infrared Sky Survey
05th Dec. 2007 4pm Prof. Mark McCaughrean, Exeter Standing on the shoulders of giants: star and planet formation with the VLT and beyond
Thurs. 31st Jan. 2008 3pm Dr. Fiona McGroarty, QUB Parsec-scale outflows from young, forming stars
20th Feb. 2008 4pm Ian Hunter, QUB The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: the role of rotation in massive star evolution
27th Feb. 2008 4pm Ineke De Moortel, St. Andrews Forward Modelling of Coronal Intensity Perturbations
Date Speaker Title
Mar. 2008 NAM08 Preparation No seminar
23rd Apr. 2008 4pm Alex de Koter, Uni. of Amsterdam Mass loss of the most massive stars: the extreme object eta Carinae
30rd Apr. 2008 4pm Paul Price, IfA PanSTARRS
14th May 2008 4pm Dave Alexander, Uni. of Durham Towards a Complete Census of AGN activity and Black Hole Growth Using the Chandra Deep Fields
3rd Jun. 2009 2pm Dr. Duncan Farrah (Sussex) The evolution of dusty active galaxies from novel analysis methods
06th May. 2009 4pm Dr. Simon Green (Open Uni) Marco Polo - A near Earth Asteroid sample return mission
8th Apr. 2009 Monday 4pm Dr. Laura Parker (McMaster Uni.) Mapping Dark Matter with Weak Lensing
25th Mar. 2009 4pm Dr. Jenny Patience (Exeter) Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
11th Mar. 2009 4pm (IoP seminar; Emeleus LT) Prof. Alan Watson (Uni. of Leeds) Birth of Cosmic ray Astronomy on the Argentine pampas
4th Mar. 2009 4pm Dr. Pedro Lacerda (QUB) Extreme Objects in the Outer Solar System
18th Feb. 2009 4pm Prof. John Danziger (Trieste) SN 1987A, a guide to the future?
21st Jan. 2009 4pm Prof. John Landstreet (Uni. of Western Ontario) The (magneto-)hydrodynamics stellar laboratory: main sequence A and B stars
10th Dec. 2008 11am Dr. Clare Parnell (St. Andrews) Scale free solar magnetic fields
19th Nov. 2008 4pm Prof. Don Kurtz (Uni. Central Lancashire) Asteroseismology
05th Nov. 2008 4pm BLT Dr. Maria Palumbo (Catania University) Formation of interstellar molecules after ion irradiation of icy grain mantles
29th Oct. 2008 4pm Dr. Danny Steeghs (Warwick University) The Galactic population of ultra-compact white dwarf binaries
8th Oct. 2008 4pm Prof. Steve Warren (Imperial College London) Science with UKIDSS
Tue. 19th Aug. 2008 3:30pm Dr. Mauro Sereno (University of Zurich) Gravitational lensing and distant supernovae
3rd July 2008 11am Sun Kwok (Uni. of Hong Kong) Planetary nebulae: their evolution and role in the universe

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