Wednesday Colloquium Archive
Date | Speaker | Institute | Title |
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11th Nov 2020 | Kristine Spekkens | Queens University & RMC | Atomic Gas in Dwarf Galaxies as a Cosmological Probe |
28th Oct 2020 | Charlie Conroy | CfA, Harvard | Mapping the Galaxy with the H3 Survey |
21st Oct 2020 | Benjamin Jachimi | UCL | KiDS-1000: Cosmology from combined galaxy surveys |
14th Oct 2020 | Caitlin Casey | UT Austin | The Obscured Universe in the first Two Billion Years |
7th Oct 2020 | Freeke van de Voort | Cardiff University | Cosmic gas flows in the circumgalactic medium around Milky Way-like galaxies |
26th Sep 2020 | Lucia Fonseca de la bella | University of Manchester | The journey of Limber and the SkyPy project |
3rd Jun 2020 | James Bullock | UC Irvine | Did Outflows and Feedback Shape the Stellar Halo and Thick Disk of the Milky Way? |
27th May 2020 | Matt Hilton | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Galaxy clusters in the time of big surveys |
20th May 2020 | Evan Schneider | Princeton | The Origin of Multiphase Galaxy Outflows |
13th May 2020 | Adam Riess | JHU/STScI | The Present Expansion rate of the Universe, Evidence of New Physics? |
6th May 2020 | Katelin Schutz | MIT | Making dark matter out of light: the cosmology of freeze-in |
26th Feb 2020 | Isobel Hook | Lancaster University | Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future |
19th Feb 2020 | Huub Rottgering | Leiden Observatory | LOFAR Surveys: a new window on the Universe |
12th Feb 2020 | Erminia Calabrese | University of Cardiff | Cosmology and Astrophysics from the Cosmic Microwave Background: present and future results from the Atacama Desert |
5th Feb 2020 | Natasha Maddox | LMU, Munich | The MeerKAT MIGHTEE survey: AGN, star formation, and neutral gas in the SKA era |
29th Jan 2020 | Justin Read | University of Surrey | Dark Matter Heats Up in Dwarf Galaxies |
22nd Jan 2020 | Rick Edelson | University of Maryland | Intensive Accretion Disk Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei |
15th Jan 2020 | Carole Mundell | University of Bath | Big bangs and black holes - frontiers of space science in a real-time world |
11th Dec 2019 | James Allison | Oxford | The First Large Absorption Survey in HI: Solving the evolutionary history of cold gas since z = 1 |
20th Nov 2019 | Jorge Peñarrubia | University of Edinburgh | Dark microhaloes in the Milky Way |
13th Nov 2019 | Andrey Kravtsov | University of Chicago | How galaxies form stars |
6th Nov 2019 | Eugene Lim | King's College London | Challenging Inflation |
30th Oct 2019 | Vid Iršič | IoA, Cambridge | Small scale structure of the IGM: A Dark Matter Tale |
23rd Oct 2019 | Jason Sanders | IoA, Cambridge | Our multi-dimensional, time-evolving Galaxy |
16th Oct 2019 | Debora Sijacki | IoA, Cambridge | Supermassive black holes in all their guises |
8th Oct 2019 | Andrés Piatti | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | Kinematics features of the Milky Way globular clusters |
19th Jun 2019 | Florian Beutler | Portsmouth | Expanding the BAO science case |
12th Jun 2019 | Sylvain Veilleux | University of Maryland | Galactic Winds and the Circumgalactic Medium |
5th Jun 2019 | Jaime E. Forero-Romero | Los Andes University | Cosmology and galaxy formation with the cosmic web |
29th May 2019 | Bozena Czerny | Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences | Quasars as the dark energy probes |
22nd May 2019 | Myrto Symeonidis | UCL | Far-infrared emission from AGN and why this changes things |
15th May 2019 | Marta Reina-Campos | University of Heidelberg | Formation and evolution of stellar clusters in a cosmological context: the E-MOSAICS simulations |
8th May 2019 | Weiguang Cui | The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh | The Three Hundred project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters |
6th Mar 2019 | Valentina D'Odorico | Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica | The role of the intergalactic medium in the baryon cycle |
27th Feb 2019 | Harry Desmond | University of Oxford | Fifth force searches in galaxies |
13th Feb 2019 | Vernesa Smolcic | University of Zagreb | Black hole mass growth across cosmic time: Insights from radio surveys |
7th Feb 2019 | Torsten Enßlin | MPA Garching | Information field theory - turning data into images |
30th Jan 2019 | Daniele Vigano | University of the Balearic Islands | How Giant Magnets Shine |
9th Jan 2019 | Louise Howes | Lund University | An introduction to 4MOST - the 4m Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope |
5th Dec 2018 | Wyn Evans | IoA, Cambridge | The Dark Matter Hurricane, the Gentle Giant and the Gaia Sausage |
28th Nov 2018 | Eva-Maria Mueller | University of Portsmouth | Optimal redshift weighting for large scale structure analysis and the eBOSS survey |
21st Nov 2018 | Luigi Guzzo | University of Milan | Measuring large-scale structure in the Universe using galaxies |
Contact Details
Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy,Ogden Centre for Fundament Physics - West,
Department of Physics,
Durham University,
South Road,
Durham DH1 3LE
Tel: 44 (0)191 3343635
Latest News
Nov 2020:
* Analysis of the metal
content in distant
star-forming galaxies
Oct 2020:
* CEA astronomer
awarded Future
Leaders Fellowship
* Invisible galaxies
* Metals in the
haloes around galaxies
Sept 2020:
* Connecting local
elliptical galaxies and
high-redshift
starbursts
Conferences/Workshops

Durham-Edinburgh
eXtragalactic Workshop,
online Jan 6-7th 2021.

Astro-Statistics for
1st or 2nd year Phd
Students - online from
Jan 11th 2021.

Stellar Feedback and
Galaxy Evolution
Ascona, Switzerland
25-30 July 2021.

meeting has been
POSTPONED
due to CoVID-19