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ARC seminar programme
The ARC seminars are held on Wednesdays, the venues and times are given below. Refreshment will be provided after seminar in the IRCEP room. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Past seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Oct. 03 | Dr. Bitten Gullberg (Durham) | High-resolution ALMA imaging of SMGs | Seminar room, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:30pm |
| 2018 Oct. 10 | Dr. Sam Grant (QUB) | Alfvén Wave Dissipation in the Solar Chromosphere | Larmor, 3pm |
| 2018 Oct. 17 | Dr. Simon Prentice (QUB) | Concerning type Ibc supernovae | Emeleus, 3pm |
| 2018 Oct. 24 | Owen McBrien (QUB) | ATLAS Shrugged: The search for gravitational wave counterparts with an asteroid survey | Emeleus, 3pm |
| 2018 Oct. 31 | Christopher Dillon (QUB) | A Nanoflare Explanation for Periodic Variations in Flare Stars -- A Solar Physicist's Adventure in Single Pixel Land | Emeleus, 3pm |
| 2018 Nov. 07 | Dr. James Matthews (Oxford) | The origin of the highest energy particles in the universe: A "Whodunnit" | Emeleus, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2018 Nov. 14 | ARC ALL MEETING | ||
| 2018 Nov. 21 | Dr. Patrick Antolin (St. Andrews) | Transverse Wave Induced Kelvin-Helmholtz Rolls in Spicules | Larmor, 3pm |
| 2018 Nov. 28 | Dr. Julie Wardlow (Lancaster) | Unveiling extreme dusty star-formation in the distant Universe | Emeleus, 3.30 pm |
| 2018 Dec. 05 | Dr. Tamara Rogers (Newcastle) | Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars | Seminar room, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:30pm in IRCEP |
| 2018 Dec. 12 | Dr. Rosita Kokotanekova (ESO) | Revealing the Evolution of Comet Nuclei with Ground Photometric Observations | MAP OG.006, 3pm |
| 2019 Jan. 16 | Dr. Donna Rodgers-Lee (Hertfordshire) | Energetic particles and star formation | Bell, 3pm |
| 2019 Jan. 23 | Prof. Peter Coles (Maynooth) | Wave Mechanics and Cosmic Structure | Larmor, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 Jan. 30 | Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna (Oxford) | Taking the Temperature of Solar System Airless Bodies: Insights from the NASA’s LRO and OSIRIS-REx missions | Emeleus, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:30pm |
| 2019 Feb. 13 | Dr. Penny Wu (QUB) | von Karman decay and intermittent dissipation in Corona and solar wind plasmas | Emeleus, 3pm |
| 2019 Feb. 20 | Sean Quinn (QUB) | How the Chromosphere responds to a flare-initiated Sunquake | Emeleus, 3pm |
| 2019 Feb. 27 | Dr. Ed Gillen (Cambridge) | Understanding the early stages of stellar and planetary system evolution | Larmor, 3pm |
| 2019 Mar. 06 | Richard Smith (QUB) | Revisiting the HST archive: the search for Transneptunian Binaries (and more!) | Seminar room, 3pm |
| 2019 Mar. 08 | Prof. Peter Bernath (ODU) | Molecular Astronomy: Cool stars and exoplanets | Larmour, 10am |
| 2019 Mar. 13 | Dr. Stevanus Nugroho (QUB) | Characterisation of Exoplanet Atmosphere using High-resolution Spectroscopy: Searching for TiO Signature in the Atmosphere of WASP-33b | Larmor, 3pm |
| 2019 Mar. 20 | Jamie Wilson (QUB) | CANCELLED | Larmor, 3pm |
| 2019 Mar. 27 | Dr Leigh Fletcher (Leicester) | Exploring the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune | Larmor, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 Apr. 03 | Jean Costes (QUB) | Larmor, 3pm | |
| 2019 Apr. 10 | Dr. Emmanuel Jehin (Liege) | TRAPPIST: a robotic telescope to study planetary systems | Bell, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 Apr. 15 | Dr. Marc Buie (SWRI) | Exploring the outer solar system: A window into our past | Bell, 1pm |
| 2019 Apr. 17 | Prof. Dipankar Banerjee (IIA) | Century-Long, multi-wavelength solar database from Kodaikanal solar observatory | Bell, 11am |
| 2019 May 01 | Dr. Tyrone Woods (Birmingham) | Supernova Archaeology: Reconstructing the environments of Type Ia remnants to reveal their progenitors | Larmor, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 May 15 | Dr. Catherine Walsh (Leeds) | The chemistry of planet-forming disks in the era of ALMA | Larmor, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 May 22 | Christine Collins (QUB) | Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer for Type Ia Supernova | Bell, 3pm |
| 2019 May 29 | Dr. Joseph Masiero (JPL/NASA) | NASA's NEOCam mission, an overview | Bell, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
| 2019 June 5 | Dr. Abhishek Srivastava (IIT BHU) | Localized Plasma Flows and Jets Coupling the Solar Atmosphere | Bell, 1pm, lunch provided from 12:15pm in IRCEP |
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