SIfA Seminars
Seminars are held weekly typically on Fridays at 1-2pm in LT1 in the Physics Building map. If you wish to give a talk or presentation please contact Holly or Kate.
Unfortunately, we do not have funds available to cover travel or accommodation costs.
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.
Listed below are the upcoming seminars (with the next scheduled seminar highlighted in red).
2009
- Jan 30
- Ivan Baldry (Liverpool John Moores University): Accounting for stellar and baryonic mass in the galaxy population: Checks and balances.
- Feb 6 - LT5
- Stephen Fine (USyd): Active super-massive black holes
- Feb 20 12pm - LT1
- Sun Kwok (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China): Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
- Feb 27 1pm - LT1
- Franz Bauer: SN1996cr: SN1987A's Wild Cousin?
- March 6 1pm - LT1 - Joint Complex Systems/SIfA Seminar
- Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Luebken (Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics): Physics in the border zone between the atmosphere and space
- March 13 12 pm - LT1 - Joint Particle/SIfA Seminar
- Dr Elizabeth Winstanley (Sheffield): Black Holes at the LHC
- March 20 1pm - LT1
- Stefanie Komossa: Highly Accreting Active Galaxies, Giant flares, and Recoiling Black Holes
- March 27 1pm - LT1
- Stephane Regnier (St Andrews): Solar coronal magnetic field extrapolations and all that
- April 3 - LT1
- Angel R Lopez-Sanchez (ATNF): A multiwavelength analysis of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies: HI results.
- April 10 - Good Friday
- No SIfA Seminar
- April 24 - LT1
- Timothy C. Beers (Michigan State University): New Results from SDSS/SEGUE
- May 1 - LT1
- Brian Schmidt (Mt Stromlo Observatory, the Australian National University): Surveying the Southern Skies with SkyMapper
- May 7 - LT5 2pm
- Siddharth Malu (The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India): A Novel Approach to finding B-modes in CMB Polarization
- May 8 - LT1 1pm
- Alberto Sesana (Penn State University): LISA and Pulsar timing: upcoming new windows in astrophysics & cosmology
- May 15 - LT1
- Esko Gardner (Turku University): Bar-Driven Hercules
- May 22 - LT1
- Anna Frebel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): What the most metal-poor stars tell us about the early Universe
- May 29 - LT1
- Rainer Hollerbach (Monash University): The Hall Effect in Neutron Stars.
- June 5 - LT1
- Lee Spitler (Swinburne University) - PhD talk: Galaxy Dark Matter Halos and Globular Cluster Systems
- June 9,10,11 - Senior Physics Talks - 1pm - Rm 320
- Tuesday June 9:
- Paul Stewart: Planet Hunting: Exploring Nearby Moving Groups with Aperture Masking
- Shivansh Kochhar: Jets, Streamers and Cones: Probing the environment of LMC X-1
- Wednesday June 10: Tomonori Hu, David Prabhakar, Jielai Zhang
- Thursday June 11: Aaron Rizzuto, Kelton Temby, David Webster
- Tuesday June 9:
- June 12
- No SIfA Seminar
- June 19 - LT1 - Honours talk
- Muazzam Ali: TBA
- Fri June 26 11am Special Colloquium - Slade
- Gavin Rowell (Adelaide):Massive stellar clusters, supernova remnants and particle atrophysics at TeV Gamma-Ray Energies
- July 10 - LT1
- Moshe Elitzur (University of Kentucky): The 10 micron dust silicate feature in AGNs and ULIRGs
- July 17
- NO SIFA Seminar
- July 24 - LT1
- Marcella Massardi - INAF-OAPD Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy): The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect: "old" stories and new possibilities
- July 31
- No SIfA Seminar
- August 7
- No SIfA Seminar
- August 14
- No SIfA Seminar
- August 21 - LT1
- Jess Broderick: The environments of distant radio galaxies
- August 28 - LT1
- Kelton Temby: Senior Physics Talk
The Photonic Lantern: Towards an Integrated Photonic Spectrograph
- September 4 - LT1
- Shane O'Sullivan (University of Cork, Ireland): Magnetic field properties of AGN jets from multi-frequency VLBA polarimetry
- September 11
- No SIfA seminar
- Tuesday, September 15, 11am - LT1 - EXTRA SEMINAR
- Geoff Bower (UC Berkeley) - RIPl: Radio Interferometric Planet Search
- September 18 - LT1
- Daniel Bayliss: Searching for Southern Transiting Planets
- September 25 - LT1
- Oleg Titov: Geodetic VLBI for astrometry and cosmology
- Monday, September 28, 11am - LT1
- Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland): Galaxy Mergers, Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, and Quasar Activity
- October 2
- No Seminar
- October 9 - LT1
- Stan Owocki: Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars
- October 16 - LT1
- Chris Lidman (Stockholm University): Galaxy clusters as probes of dark energy
- October 23 - LT1
- Duncan Forbes (Swinburne): Revealing Elliptical Galaxy Halos
- October 29 - Honours Talks Session 1 - LT2 - 3pm
- 3 - 3:30pm Pim Van Oirschot: TBA
- 3:30 - 4pm Kenji Ball: TBA
- 4 - 4:30pm Nathan Butterworth: Distances to Pleiades Binaries using the PAVO beam combiner at the CHARA interferometer.
- October 30 - Honours Talks Session 2 - LT1 - 1pm
- 1 - 1:30pm Philip O'Byrne: TBA
- 1:30 - 2pm Sarah Reeves: TBA
- 2 - 2:30pm Tim White: TBA
- November 4 - Senior Physics Talks Session 1 - LT1 - 2pm
- 2 - 2:30pm Barnaby Norris: Exploring the mysteries of the Red Square
- November 5 - Senior Physics Talks Session 2 - LT1 - 1pm
- 1 - 1:30pm Francesca Von Braun-Bates: Modelling the dark energy constitution of the universe
- 1:30 - 2pm David Kedziora: Computationally Modelling the Electron Scattering Region of QSO 2237+0305 with Gravitational Microlensing
- 2 - 2:30pm Christopher Betters: BAL Quasar Spectral Variability
- November 6 - Senior Physics Talks Session 3 - LT1 - 1pm
- 1 - 1:30pm Martin Wong: Positron Detection Via Positronium Recombination
- November 13 - LT1
- :S. George Djorgovski (Caltech): Exploring The Time Domain With Synoptic Sky Surveys
- November 20
- Andrew Hopkins (AAO): Is the stellar initial mass function universal?
- November 27 - LT1
- Peter Tuthill (SIfA)
- December 4 - LT1
- Pat Scott (Stockholm University): The search for particle dark matter
- December 11 - LT1
- Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley): TBA
- December 18 - LT1
- Ray Norris (ATNF): Aboriginal Australians - the First Astronomers?
- December 19 2009 - January 3rd 2010
- University Christmas/New Year Shutdown
Upcoming Speakers
- Please see 2010 SIfA Seminars page
2009 Titles including abstracts.