Galaxies Discussion Group

How do the most luminous black holes accrete and expel gas?

Matthew Liska (Georgia Tech).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre .

Friday 09 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How do the most luminous black holes accrete and expel gas?

Matthew Liska.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Friday 09 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes

Robbie Hennigar, Durham University.

MR9/Zoom: http://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87869493842?pwd=vGeCJJgQZa8PwZOhk1kpE0nbj6DgpJ.1.

Friday 09 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint

Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester.

MR2.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

DESI DR2: Survey overview and cosmological constraints from DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurements

Zoom link: http://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86165819179?pwd=uITeMzHyCpzVlUmVufdGEJXudF0dsy.1

Arnaud de Mattia (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR5, Pav A basement.

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

On the role of magnetic fluctuations in low magnetic Prandtl number plasmas

Maarit Korpi-Lagg [Helsinki/Espoo].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 12 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Testing the HARPS3 Data Reduction Pipeline with Synthetic Spectra to achieve Earth-Twin RV Precision

Alicia Anderson (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Deciphering giant planet formation

Olja Panic (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gravitational Phase-Space Turbulence: the Small-Scale Limit of the Cold-Dark-Matter Power-Spectrum

Barry Ginat / University of Oxford.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 13:40-14:05

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Spacetime Singularities and Black Holes

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The different merger and evolutionary histories of the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31)e to be confirmed

Ortwin Gerhard, MPE (Garching).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Towards understanding the epoch of reionization out to the cosmic dawn

Girish Kulkarni (TIFR).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 16 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Modified gravity and the atomic world

Benjamin Elder, Imperial College London.

MR20/Zoom: http://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89585655242?pwd=ur229qk6mRXNG2a1EQVdb7PAdUx2gU.1.

Friday 16 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events?

Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago.

MR2.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Morgan Williams [Imperial College London].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Dirac Lecture

From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality in action

Professor Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique – Université Paris-Saclay.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Hills Coffee Talks

A 21-cm Cosmologist’s Journey: From Cambridge to North America and Back Again

Dr. Peter Sims (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Adrien La Posta (University of Oxford).

SPECIAL LOCATION - CMS, MR12, Pav. D basement.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lev Tal-Or (Ariel).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Between the extremes -- the physics of the first stars, galaxies, and black holes

Guido Roberts-Borsani (UCL).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 23 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon.

MR2.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

JAX-powered Bayesian anomaly detection for supernovae analysis

Samuel Leeney (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:15-12:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Melon-Fuksman [MPIA Heidelberg].

MR4 DAMTP and online.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Martin Pessah [NBIA Copenhagen].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Chasing the Light: Shadowing, Collimation, and the Rapid Growth of Infant Black Holes

Piero Madau (UCSC).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 30 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Dark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers

Violetta Sagun, University of Southampton.

MR9/Zoom.

Friday 30 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD Students' talks

Speakers listed in abstract in due course.

MR3.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Florence Marcotte [Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Imaging and Design with Differentiable Physics Models

Benjamin Pope (Macquarie University).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 02 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Anibal Sierra (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Squire [Otago, New Zealand].

MR20 DAMTP and online.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 06 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Spacetime Interpretation of the Confluent Heun Functions in Black Hole Perturbation Theory

Marica Minucci, Bohr Inst., Copenhagen.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities

Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London.

http://cassyni.com/s/fmws.

Friday 06 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Gianmassimo Tasinato (Swansea University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Elena Khomenko (IAC Tenerife).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Title TBC

Akeelah Bertram (Cavendish Arts Science Fellow).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBC

Panos Giannadakis, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 13 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics

Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading.

MR2.

Friday 13 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Hendrik Hildebrandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gavin Coleman [Queen Mary University London].

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 16 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

What can we learn about a dynamical system from data? – Impossibility results and classifications using adversarial dynamical systems

Matthew Colbrook (DAMTP).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 16 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Love Bites: The Deadly Romance of Spider Pulsars

Prof. Rene Breton (University of Manchester).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 11:15-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Timothy Hallatt (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Well-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity

Aron Kovacs, Queen Mary University of London.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 20 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 23 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

George Efstathiou.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 30 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Title to be confirmed

Anne Verhamme (University of Geneva).

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online.

Friday 11 July 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Etienne Camphuis (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 06 October 2025, 13:00-14:00