Colloquia and Talks at the AAO/ATNF Epping.
Note: We have moved to our new
location in North Ryde.
Due to security procedures at the new building,
attendees must notify us of their intent so building security can generate temporary passes.
Please use the "I plan to attend" link below
The AAO organises frequent colloquia at our North Ryde headquarters. These
are usually held Thursday morning at 11:00 am, though other dates
are occasionally scheduled. We welcome talks from visiting astronomers
- if you are passing through Sydney and would like to tell us about
your work, please contact Daniel Zucker
(
daniel.zucker@mq.edu.au).
The
ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) also organises
colloquia at their Epping offices. A schedule for these talks can be found
on the ATNF Colloquia webpage.
The AAO and ATNF occasionally organise Joint Colloquia when the
speaker is likely to be of interest to both radio and optical
communities. These talks will be found in both the
list
below, and the
ATNF
schedule.
A list of past speakers can also be
found below.
Informal
Seminars
As well as the more formal colloquia described above, there are a
number of informal discussion groups which meet regularly on the
ATNF/Radiophysics/AAO grounds. All are welcome to these discussions.
- AAO/ATNF
Astronomy Tea
- Wednesdays ~10:00 am. Alternates
beween the AAO Conference Room and the ATNF Seminar Room (Room #4). An
informal astronomical discussion which visitors to Epping are welcome
to attend if they happen to be around.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|
| Thursday, 04 April 2013 | 11:00 | Brian Boyle | Astronomy Australia Ltd: Update on current activities and future plans |
| Thursday, 28 March 2013 | 11:00 | Charles Kuehn | RR Lyrae in the LMC: Insights Into Milky Way Formation and the Oosterhoff Dichotomy |
| Thursday, 21 March 2013 | 11:00 | Hector Ibarra | A New Twist in Galaxy Cluster Finding: The use of rendering and caustics techniques to solve the substructure problem |
| Thursday, 14 March 2013 | 11:00 | Andrew Casey | Tools and Results in the New Era of High-Resolution Stellar Spectroscopy (Joint AAO/Macquarie University Colloquium) |
| Thursday, 07 March 2013 | 14:00 | Nemanja Jovanovic | The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) project: a versatile platform for high contrast imaging experiments (Joint AAO/Macquarie University Colloquium) |
| Wednesday, 06 March 2013 | 11:00 | Lisa Mazzuca | HST Science Highlights since SM4 |
| Thursday, 28 February 2013 | 11:00 | Shunsaku Horiuchi | On the connections between the star formation and supernova rates |
| Tuesday, 26 February 2013 | 11:00 | Jakob Walcher | Baryonic physics in galaxy evolution as seen by the CALIFA survey |
| Thursday, 07 February 2013 | 11:00 | Emily Wisnioski | Star formation on kpc-scales from redshift 0.1 to 1.5 |
| Tuesday, 05 February 2013 | 11:00 | Trevor Mendel | The highs and lows of galaxy evolution |
| Thursday, 22 November 2012 | 11:00 | Brendan Mullan | Under Pressure: Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of Interacting Galaxies |
| Thursday, 15 November 2012 | 11:00 | Christina Blom | Investigating galaxy evolution using globular cluster systems |
| Wednesday, 07 November 2012 | 15:00 | Martha Haynes | The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Bearing Galaxies at z=0 (Joint CASS/AAO Colloquium) |
| Tuesday, 06 November 2012 | 11:00 | Ned Taylor | Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Deconstructing Bimodality -- Red ones and blue ones, live ones and dead ones, round ones and flat ones |
| Wednesday, 31 October 2012 | 15:00 | Richard de Grijs | Star cluster formation and early evolution: the big picture (Joint CASS/AAO/Macquarie University Colloquium) |
| Thursday, 18 October 2012 | 15:00 | Moses Mogotsi | Galaxy Dynamics, Star Formation and footsteps to WALLABY and MHONGOOSE (Joint with CASS) |
| Thursday, 04 October 2012 | 11:00 | Brad Schaefer | Supernova Progenitors |
| Thursday, 27 September 2012 | 11:00 | Vivienne Wild | The Evolution of Starburst Galaxies |
| Monday, 17 September 2012 | 11:00 | Ji Yeon Seok | Infrared supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| Wednesday, 12 September 2012 | 15:00 | Vernesa Smolcic | The importance of radio-AGN feedback in massive galaxy formation: Insights from the COSMOS survey (Joint ATNF/AAO Colloquium) |
| Wednesday, 05 September 2012 | 11:00 | Dennis Zaritsky | Evidence for Two Distinct Stellar Initial Mass Functions |
| Thursday, 02 August 2012 | 11:00 | Chris Springob | The 6dFGS Fundamental Plane: Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, and Cosmography Results |
| Friday, 20 July 2012 | 11:00 | Sara Lucatello | Chemical inhomogeneities in Globular Cluster stars and the multiple population puzzle(s) |
| Wednesday, 18 July 2012 | 15:00 | Luca Cortese | The Herschel Reference Survey: Gas, Dust, Star formation and Metals in the local Universe (Joint CASS/AAO Colloquium) |
| Thursday, 12 July 2012 | 11:00 | Carlos Gonzalez | Red Supergiants in the Inner Milky Way: Tell-tales of Galactic Structure |
| Thursday, 28 June 2012 | 11:00 | James Jackson | The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz Survey (MALT 90) |
| Wednesday, 13 June 2012 | 14:00 | Nicky Agius | Dusty Early-Type Galaxies |
| Monday, 11 June 2012 | 11:00 | Miguel Sanchez Portal | Exploiting large facilities: galaxy clusters with GTC (GLACE) and nearby AGNs in the FIR with Herschel (SAFIR) |
| Friday, 18 March 2011 | 16:00 | Steve Maddox, Nottingham | Galaxy Surveys and clustering |
| Thursday, 17 March 2011 | 15:30 | Loretta Dunne, Nottingham | Digging up the Dirt on Galaxies with Herschel-ATLAS |
| Tuesday, 15 March 2011 | 15:30 | Roger Davies, Oxford | Towards a new paradigm for Early Type Galaxies |
| Thursday, 10 March 2011 | 16:00 | Jeremy Mould, Swinburne | Mapping the Dark Matter in the Local Universe |
| Thursday, 24 February 2011 | 15:30 | Jason Spyromilio, ESO | The European Extremely Large Telescope Project |
| Monday, 21 February 2011 | 15:30 | Jonathan Gardner, NASA/GSFC | The James Webb Space Telescope |
| Thursday, 17 February 2011 | 15:30 | Sarah Brough, AAO | GAMA: from little blue fuzzies to massive red monsters and beyond |
| Thursday, 10 February 2011 | 15:30 | Michelle Cluver, IPAC/Caltech | Powerful H2 Line-Cooling in Stephan's Quintet and the "Death by Debris" Phenomenon in Hickson Compact Groups |
| Thursday, 03 February 2011 | 15:30 | Duncan Forbes, Swinburne | Galaxy Halos: here be Dragons |
| Thursday, 27 January 2011 | 15:30 | Chiara Tonini, Melbourne | The hierarchical build-up of the Tully-Fisher relation |
| Thursday, 13 January 2011 | 15:30 | Chiaki Kobayashi, ANU | Chemodynamical simulations of elliptical galaxies - metallicity gradients and the fundamental plane |
| Monday, 10 January 2011 | 15:30 | Andrew Baker, Rutgers | Observations of Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies |
| Thursday, 16 December 2010 | 15:30 | Nemanja Jovanovic, AAO/Macquarie | Integrated photonic pupil remapping for stellar interferometry |
| Tuesday, 07 December 2010 | 15:30 | Sam Barden, NSO | The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) Project |
| Friday, 26 November 2010 | 15:30 | Gary Hill, Texas | The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment |
| Wednesday, 24 November 2010 | 15:30 | Warren Brown, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars |
| Tuesday, 23 November 2010 | 15:30 | Margaret Hanson, Cincinnati | Improving mass and age estimates of unresolved Stellar Clusters |
| Thursday, 18 November 2010 | 15:30 | Joerg Fischera, ANU | Why you should care about dust! |
| Tuesday, 09 November 2010 | 15:30 | Anna Moore, Caltech | The expanding role of image slicer integral field spectrographs in Astronomical science |
| Thursday, 28 October 2010 | 15:30 | Chris Blake, Swinburne | The cosmic distance scale and growth rate at z=0.6 from the WiggleZDark Energy Survey |
| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 | 15:30 | Katie Mack, Kavli Institute/Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge | The 21cm Forest |
| Thursday, 23 September 2010 | 15:30 | Richard Ellis, Caltech | Did Galaxies Reionise the Universe? |
| Friday, 17 September 2010 | 15:30 | Isaac Roseboom, Sussex, UK | First Results from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey(HerMES). |
| Thursday, 09 September 2010 | 15:30 | Carsten Weidner, St.Andrews | The galaxy-wide IMF - From star clusters to galaxies |
| Wednesday, 25 August 2010 | 15:30 | Ignacio Negueruela, Universidad de Alicante, Spain | Massive young stellar clusters in the Milky Way |
| Thursday, 19 August 2010 | 15:30 | Andy Connolly | Looking for one-in-a-million events |
| Thursday, 12 August 2010 | 15:30 | Max Spolaor, AAO | Early-type galaxies at large galactocentric radii: Metallicity gradients,and the [Z/H]-mass, [alpha/Fe]-mass relations |
| Thursday, 05 August 2010 | 15:30 | David Koo, UCO/Lick | AEGIS: DEEP's Panchromatic Vista of Distant Galaxies and AGN's |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 | 15:30 | Rob Proctor, Brazil | Probing the 2-D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to 3 effective radii |
| Wednesday, 28 July 2010 | 16:00 | Craig Harrison, CTIO | Searching for fossil groups in the XMM Cluster Survey |
| Thursday, 22 July 2010 | 15:30 | Stephen Geier, Bamberg Obs | The MUCHFUSS project - Searching for the most massive compact companions to hot subdwarf stars (and finding the least massive ones) |
| Saturday, 19 June 2010 | 16:00 | Pat McCarthy, GMTO director | Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project |
| Thursday, 17 June 2010 | 15:30 | Andrew Hopkins, AAO | Galaxy and Mass assembly Survey |
| Monday, 24 May 2010 | 15:30 | Stuart Lumsden, Leeds, UK | The RMS Survey - Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way |
| Thursday, 13 May 2010 | 16:00 | Geoff Clayton, USA | The evolutionary history of the R-Coronae Borealis stars |
| Wednesday, 12 May 2010 | 15:30 | Ryan Cooke, UK | UM 673: A unique system to study the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems |
| Thursday, 06 May 2010 | 15:30 | Martin Guerrero, Spain | Hard X-ray emission from the central stars of Planetary Nebulae |
| Friday, 09 April 2010 | 15:30 | Evelyn Alecian, France | Magnetism and rotation in the young Herbig Ae/Be stars |
| Monday, 08 March 2010 | 15:30 | Ranjan Gupta, Pune, India | Interstellar Extinction and Modeling of Dust |
| Friday, 05 March 2010 | 15:30 | Hugo Messias, Portugal | A multi-wavelength approach to the properties of Extremely Red Galaxy populations: contribution to the Star Formation Rate density, AGN content, dust content and morphology. |
| Thursday, 04 March 2010 | 15:30 | David Floyd, Univ.Melbourne | Quasars from kiloparsec to parsec scales |
| Friday, 22 January 2010 | 15:30 | Nick Seymour | Radio/FIR measurements of star forming galaxies and cosmic evolution. |
| Thursday, 14 January 2010 | 15:30 | Stuart Ryder, Gemini Office, AAO | Supernovae as revealed by Gemini |
