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IoA Seminars


Seminars are held weekly typically on Fridays at 1-2pm in LT1. Listed below are the upcoming seminars (with the next scheduled seminar highlighted in red). If you wish to give a talk or presentation please contact Juliana or Keith. If you would like to give a talk or are scheduled at a time that you will be away please let us know ASAP. If you have students or visitors that are going to have interesting topics to talk about please dob them in. Let us know if you will be giving a long (~45min) or short (~20min) talk, so we can have either 2 short talks or 1 long talk each week.

  • Jul 24 (Thursday 12 noon @ LT5) Joint Seminar with Complex Systems
    • Nicole Vilmer (LESIA- Paris Observatory): "The Sun as a particle accelerator: hard X-ray, gamma-ray and radio diagnostics of energetic particles"


  • Jul 25 Joint Seminar with Complex Systems
    • Jay Johnson (Princeton University): "Leaks and Tornadoes in the Magnetosphere"


  • Aug 1
    • Daniel Huber: "No Kangaroos in Austria: A Brief History of the Viennese PhD student in Sydney"
    • Paul Hancock: "GPS sources (again)"


  • Aug 8
    • Brandon Kelly (University of Arizona): "Observational Constraints on Quasar Structure"


  • Aug 15
    • Mike Ireland: "Sensitive Visible Interferometry with PAVO" (1/2 hour)


  • Aug 22 (cancelled due to computer failure -> moved to Sept 26)
    • Henry Woodruff: "Resolving Stellar Atmospheres: Spectro-Interferometry of Miras"


  • Aug 29 (1pm @ Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre)
    • Dean's Seminar Series by Joss Bland-Hawthorn: "Astronomy is looking up -the next generation of extremely large telescopes"
  • Sept 5
    • Qinghuan Luo: TBA


  • Sept 12
    • Terry Bridges (AAO) : "HST/Hectospec Study of the Coma Cluster"



  • Sept 25 (Thursday 12pm, LT1)
    • Pawel Lachowicz (National University of Singapore)
  • Sept 26
    • Henry Woodruff: "Resolving Stellar Atmospheres: Spectro-Interferometry of Miras"



  • Oct 10 -Honours Talks


  • Oct 17 - Honours Talks


  • Oct 24


  • Oct 31
    • Gary Da Costa (ANU)


  • Nov 7 - Senior Physics Special Project Talks
    • Timothy White
    • James Colless


  • Nov 14
    • Dennis Stello (TBC)


  • Nov 21
    • Stephen Fine (TBC)


  • Nov 28
    • Jess Broderick (TBC)


  • Dec 5
    • Matt Francis (TBC)


  • Dec 12
    • George Hobbs (ATNF): (TBA)


Upcoming speakers:

  • Joss Bland-Hawthorn: "Missing baryons in galaxies: where are they?"


Previous IoA Seminars

Semester 1 2008
Semester 2 2007