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ARC seminar programme
The ARC seminars are held on Wednesdays, the venues and times are given below. A 1 hour speaker + graduate student/postdoc discussion will follow. ARC seminars are organized by our 2nd year graduate students. For any questions, suggestions, or comments contact the ARC seminar team faculty liaison Dr. Meg Schwamb (m.schwamb@qub.ac.uk).
Upcoming Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23-Sep-2020 | - | PhD Student Job Search Discussion | 2pm Virtual |
| 30-Sep-2020 | Dr. Tom Rees-Crockford (QUB) | 2D and 3D Analysis of a Torus-unstable Quiet-Sun Prominence Eruption | 2pm Virtual |
| 7-Oct-2020 | ARC | ARC Research Jamboree and New PhD Student+ Staff Meet & Greet | 2pm-4pm Virtual |
| 14-Oct-2020 | Dr. Grigori Fedorets (QUB) | Minimoons, Earth's Tiny Companions | 2pm Virtual |
| 21-Oct-2020 | Dr. Stephanie Yardley (University of St. Andrews) | Source and Eruption Dynamics of a Stealth CME | 12pm Virtual |
| 28-Oct-2020 | Dr. Sarah Rugheimer (University of Oxford) | UV, Biosignatures and Life | 2pm Virtual |
| 4-Nov-2020 | Dr. Matt Nicholl (University of Birmingham) | Inside the most luminous stellar explosions | 2pm Virtual |
| 11-Nov-2020 | ARC All Meeting | ARC All Meeting | 2pm Virtual |
| 18-Nov-2020 | Dr. Zhao Guo (University of Cambridge) | Stellar Oscillations in RV Time Series | 12pm Virtual |
| 25-Nov-2020 | Dr. John Regan (Maynooth University) | Pathways to Forming Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe | 2pm Virtual |
| 2-Dec-2020 | Dr. Apostolos Christou (Armagh Observatory) | The Martian Trojans: A natural experiment in asteroid evolution | 2pm Virtual |
| 9-Dec-2020 | Ryan Campbell (QUB)/James Gillanders (QUB) | Temporal evolution of small-scale internetwork magnetic fields in the solar photosphere/ Studying the composition of kilonovae | 2pm Virtual |
| 20-Jan-2021 | Caitlin Gilchrist-Millar (QUB)/ Shannon Matthews (QUB) | Magnetoacoustic Wave Energy Dissipation in the Atmosphere of Solar Pores/High-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres using Doppler tomography | 2pm Virtual |
| 27-Jan-2021 | Dr. Cyrielle Opitom (ESO/University of Edinburgh) | Cometary Ices: Probes of the Early Solar System | 2pm Virtual |
| 3-Feb-2021 | Dr David Kuridze (Aberystwyth University) | Semi-empirical models of spicule from inversion of Ca II 8542 Å line | 2pm Virtual |
| 10-Feb-2021 | Mandy Hewitt (QUB)/Aaron Monson (QUB) | Simulating Spectropolarimetry of Accretion Disk Winds/ An Introduction to Flare Induced Photospheric Velocity Diagnostics | 2pm Virtual |
| 17-Feb-2021 | Dr. Jamie Robinson (QUB) | ATLAS Asteroid Science: Delve greedily and deep | 2pm Virtual |
| 24-Feb-2021 | Dr. Charlotte Palmer (QUB) | Laboratory astrophysics with high-power lasers: Exploring cosmic magnetic fields | 2pm Virtual |
| 3-Mar-2021 | Prof. Fritz Röpkez (Ruprecht-Karls University) | A 3D view on stellar astrophysics | 12pm Virtual |
| 10-Mar-2021 | Prof. Stephen Smartt (QUB) | The Legacy Survey of Space and Time and LSST:UK | 2pm Virtual |
| 17-Mar-2021 | No Seminar | No Seminar | |
| 24-Mar-2021 | Dr. Martin Cordiner (Catholic Univesity of America/Goddard Spaceflight Center) | Large Molecules in Space: The Hunt for Fullerenes in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium | 2pm Virtual |
| 31-Mar-2021 | Fionntan Callan (QUB)/Dave Young (QUB) | Simulating white dwarf explosions to explore the diversity of Type Ia supernovae/GitFlow -- a workflow using git for continuous development | 2pm Virtual |
| 7-Apr-2021 | No Seminar | No Seminar | |
| 14-Apr-2021 | Dr. Melinda Soares-Furtado (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Investigating the Signatures of Substellar Ingestion | 2pm Virtual |
| 21-Apr-2021 | Dr. Ashley Villar (Columbia University) | Searching for Bumps in the Night: A Data-driven Revolution for Time Domain Astrophysics | 2pm Virtual |
| 28-Apr-2021 | Conor MacBride (QUB)/Michael Fulton (QUB) | Accurately Constraining Velocity Information from Spectral Imaging Observations Using Machine Learning Technique/ FastFinder: The Search for Kilonovae | 2pm Virtual |
| 5-May-2021 | Dr. Shahin Jafarzadeh (University of Oslo) | 2pm Virtual | |
| 12-May-2021 | Laura Buchanan (QUB)/Matthew McCollum (QUB) | 2pm Virtual | |
| 19-May-2021 | Niall Owens (QUB) /(Grigori Fedorets, QUB) | /Terminal Tutorial for Linux/Mac | 12pm Virtual |
| 26-May-2021 | ARC ALL MEETING | ARC ALL MEETING | 2pm Virtual |
| 2-June-2021 | Prof. Karen Masters (Haverford College) | 2pm Virtual | |
| 9-June-2021 | Prof. Simon Green (Open University) | 2pm Virtual |
Past seminars
| 2-Oct-2019 | New MSci and PhD Student Meet & Greet | New MSci and PhD Student Meet & Greet | IRCEP, 2pm (refreshments provided) |
| 9-Oct-2019 | ARC Research Jamboree | ARC Research Jamboree | Bell, 2pm |
| 16-Oct-2019 | Dr. Ernst de Mooij (QUB) | Characterising the Atmospheres and Circumplanetary Environment of Exoplanets | Bell, 2pm |
| 23-Oct-2019 | Prof.Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory) | Finding the Biggest Star in the Universe | Bell, 2pm (lunch with speaker provided from 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 30-Oct-2019 | Dr. Ryan Milligan (QUB) | Lyman-alpha Variability During Solar Flares | Bell, 2pm |
| 6-Nov-2019 | Prof. Chris Lintott (University of Oxford) | From Galaxy Zoo to LSST : Citizen Science in the age of big data | Bell, 2pm (lunch provided at 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 13-Nov-2019 | cancelled | cancelled | |
| 20-Nov-2019 | Dr. Brett Morris (Universität Bern) | The Effects of Stellar Magnetic Activity and Variability on Observations of Exoplanets | Bell, 3pm (lunch provided at 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 27-Nov-2019 | Dr. Michele Bannister (QUB) | At the edge of the unfathomable: insights from small worlds into planetary systems | Bell, 2pm |
| 4-Dec-2019 | Ryan Campbell (QUB)/James Gillanders (QUB) | Small-scale inter-network magnetic fields in the quiet solar photosphere / Spectroscopic Modelling of the Fast Transient SN2018kzr | Bell, 2pm |
| 11-Dec-2019 | Dr. Matteo Brogi (University of Warwick) | Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution | Bell, 2pm (due to IRCEP bookings, a lunch off campus will be scheduled with the speaker) |
| 15-Jan-2020 | Sean Quinn (QUB)/ Jean Costes (QUB) | Searching for Upper-Atmospheric Responses to Sunquakes/Understand thy stars, understand thy planets | Bell, 2pm |
| 22-Jan-2020 | Dr. Shubham Srivastav (QUB) | ATLAS discovery of a faint Iax supernova | Emeleus Lecture Theatre, 3pm |
| 29-Jan-2020 | Shannon Matthews (QUB) /Mandy Hewitt (QUB) | Doppler Tomography for the Characterisation of Exoplanet Atmospheres/Simulating Spectropolarimetry for Accretion Disk Winds | Emeleus Lecture Theatre, 3:30pm |
| 5-Feb-2020 | Aaron Monson (QUB) & Michael Fulton (QUB) | Northern Ireland Science Festival Planning Session | Bell, 2pm |
| 12-Feb-2020 | Dr. Antonia Bevan (UCL) | Cosmic Dust: Are we still in the dark? | Bell, 2pm (lunch provided at 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 19-Feb-2020 | ARC ALL MEETING | ARC ALL MEETING | Bell, 2pm (lunch provided at 12:30pm in IRCEP) |
| 26-Feb-2020 | Caitlin Gilchrist-Millar (QUB) /Chris Dillon (QUB) | Magnetoacoustic Wave Energy Dissipation in the Atmosphere of Solar Pores / Statistical Signatures of Nanoflares: a Nanoflare Explanation for Periodic Brightening in Flare Stars | Bell, 2pm |
| 4-Mar-2020 | Dr Sophie Murray (Trinity College Dublin) | Forecasting Solar Eruptions | Emeleus Lecture Theatre, 2pm (lunch provided at 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 11-Mar-2020 | Dr. Andreas Sander (Armagh Observatory) | Next-generation stellar atmospheres and the crucial role of Wolf-Rayet stars | Bell, 2pm (lunch provided at 12:00pm in IRCEP) |
| 18-Mar-2020 | cancelled | cancelled | Bell, 2pm |
| 25-Mar-2020 | Dr. Agata Rożek (University of Kent) | Asteroids in 3D! (Asteroid shape modelling from light-curve and radar data) | virtual, 2pm |
| 1-Apr-2020 | Dr. Nick Heavens ( Space Science Institute) | Dusty Deep Convection and Mars’s 2018 Global Dust Storm | virtual, 2pm |
| 8-Apr-2020 | Prof. Matt Kenworthy (Leiden Observatory) | Looking for the transits of circumplanetary disks | virtual, 2pm |
| 15-Apr-2020 | Dr. Hwihyun Kim (Gemini Observatory) | Where the wild things are - a tale of searching for young star clusters in nearby star-forming galaxies | virtual, 2pm |
| 22-Apr-2020 | Dr. Vivian U (UC Irvine) | The Growth and Merger of Supermassive Black Holes | virtual, 2pm |
| 29-Apr-2020 | Dr. Peter Scicluna (ESO) | Early results from the Nearby Evolved Stars Survey | virtual, 2pm |
| 6-May-2020 | Dr. Meg Schwamb (QUB) | Exploring Mars with 150,000 Earthlings | virtual, 2pm |
| 13-May-2020 | Dr. Darryl Wright (University of Minnesota) | Machine Learning Augmented Citizen Science for Exploration of Astrophysical Datasets | virtual, 2pm |
| 20-May-2020 | Christine Collins (QUB)/ | Radiative transfer simulations for type Ia supernovae /Virtual Industry Job Discussion | virtual, 2pm |
| 27-May-2020 | Dr. Stuart Sim (QUB) | Modelling thermonuclear supernovae: how to blow up a white dwarf star | virtual, 2pm |
| 3-June-2020 | - | Virtual Academic Job Discussion | virtual, 2pm |
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