STRW local: Lunch talks

Lunch Talks

DateDurationNameTitleRoom
2023-04-05
Wednesday
30 min minRogier Windhorst
Arizona State University
Projects SKYSURF and WebbSURF: Constraints on Zodiacal Light and Extragalactic Background Light through HST and JWST All-Sky Surface-Brightness MeasurementsHL 414
2023-03-27
Monday
30 minLinn Boldt-Christmas
University of Uppsala
Optimising Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy ObservationsHL 414
2023-03-24
Friday
30 minPamela Freeman
University of Calgary
[Note 12:30 starting time!] The carbon-based molecules of high mass star forming regions AFGL 2591 and IRAS 20126HL414
2023-03-17
Friday
30 min minFilip Huško
Durham University
[Note new room!] The statistics and impact of galaxy mergers: comparing theory and observations out to very high redshiftsEM1.17 Ver
2023-03-16
Thursday
30 min minAndrew Mummery
University of Oxford
Weighing supermassive black holes with late time optical/UV detections of tidal disruption eventsHL 414
2023-03-15
Wednesday
30 minMatthew Kenworthy
Leiden Observatory
Writing reproducible papers with "show your work!"HL 414
2023-02-28
Tuesday
30 min minDanial Langeroodi
University of Copenhagen
Evolution of the mass-metallicity relation from redshift z~8 to the local UniverseHL 414
2023-02-23
Thursday
30 min minFuyutsuki Seba
Sophia University, Tokyo
From ab-initio calculations of molecular properties to atmospheric models, how organic molecules can be produced in Carbon Monoxide atmospheres and how relevant they are for prebiotic environmentsHL 414
2023-02-17
Friday
30 minRohit Kondapally
University of Edinburgh
[Starts at 12:30!!] Cosmic evolution of radio-AGN feedback: confronting models with dataHL 414
2023-02-13
Monday
30 minNatalia Rektsini
University of Tasmania and IAP (Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris)
F Hunting cold and distant exoplanets: Precise Mass measurement of planetary system hosting a Saturn orbiting an M-dwarfHL 414
2023-02-09
Thursday
30 minShude Mao
Tsinghua University
[Starts at 13:00!!] Modelling 10,000 MaNGA galaxies with JAMHL 414
2023-02-08
Wednesday
30 minEmily Sandford
University of Cambridge
Attractor reconstruction for active stellar light curvesHL414
2023-01-27
Friday
30 minVictor Forouhar-Moreno
Durham University
What can the Milky Way satellite system tell us about the nature of dark matter?HL 414
2023-01-26
Thursday
30 minMatias Garate
Can we explain transition disks through photoevaporation?HL 414
2023-01-24
Tuesday
30 minChristian Herenz
Leiden Observatory
A ~15 kpc outflow cone piercing through the halo of the blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 0335-052EHL 414
2022-12-16
Friday
30 minZiggy Pleunis
University of Toronto
(!! Room Huygens 226) Uncovering the diversity of fast radio burstsHL 226
2022-12-14
Wednesday
30 minEduardo Balbinot
Leiden Observatory
Stellar streams and their progenitorsHL 414
2022-12-05
Monday
30 minSebastian Pineda
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, CU Boulder
(!! Room Huygens 207) Brown Dwarfs as Accessible Magnetic Analogs of Gas Giant PlanetsHL 207
2022-12-02
Friday
30 minBalpreet Kaur
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Molecular gas in HI-absorption-selected galaxies at z~2HL414
2022-11-30
Wednesday
30 minDmitrij Titov
ESA
Venus: an exoplanet next doorHL 414
2022-11-23
Wednesday
30 minDanielle Futselaar
Illustrating the UniverseHL 414
2022-11-16
Wednesday
30 minJasleen Matharu
Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen
(!! Room Huygens 226) Revealing how Star Formation and Quenching proceed in High Redshift Galaxies with Spatially Resolved Space-based Slitless SpectroscopyHuygens 226
2022-11-10
Thursday
30 minMatt Wilkinson
University of Western Australia
[Note: Starts at 12:45!] Are galaxy morphologies and kinematics reliable in the current generation of cosmological simulations?HL 414
2022-11-09
Wednesday
30 minAleksey Generozov
Formation and evolution of the young stars in the Galactic CenterHL 414
2022-11-08
Tuesday
30 minKaty Proctor
University of Western Australia
[Note: Starts at 12:45!] Intra-halo light as a probe of galaxy assemblyHL 414
2022-11-02
Wednesday
30 minPiyush Sharda
Leiden Observatory
Using metals to trace multi-scale structure formation in galaxiesHL 414
2022-10-28
Friday
30 mins minLisa Lehmann
New method to rapidly diagnose the large-scale stellar magnetic fieldTBC
2022-10-12
Wednesday
30 minVenkatessh Ramakrishnan
Roadmap to a compendium of black hole imagesHL 414
2022-09-28
Wednesday
30 mins minMolly Wolfson
UC Santa Barbara
Constraining the mean free path of ionizing photons at z > 5 from the Lyman-alpha forest flux auto-correlation functionHL414

Unless announced otherwise, the lunch talks start at 12:50 sharp. The approximate duration of the lunch talk is given above, and additional time will be given for questions and discussion following the presentation. Please make sure that you take ample time to pick up your lunch beforehand.

Information for Speakers and Hosts: Talks are limited to 25 minutes, with 5 additional minutes for questions. Hosts are responsible for bringing the speaker to the correct room in ample time to set up laptops etc., and for ensuring the speaker also has time for lunch.


For questions and/or suggestions concerning the lunch talks, please contact Caitlin Doughty ().