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Colloquia and Feast-of-Facts

RSAA Colloquia

Current Colloquium Schedule

Recent Colloquia

DateSpeakerTitleLarge FormatSmall Format
24 November 2011Chris Lidman (AAO)Obtaining larger, more precise and better calibrated Type Ia supernova samples for cosmology(large)(small)
21 November 2011Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)(large)(small)
17 November 2011John Norris (RSAA)The most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and its dwarf galaxy satellites(large)(small)
11 November 2011Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez (AAO/MQ)he importance of Multi-Wavelength Astronomy and its application to star-forming galaxies in the Local Universe (large)(small)
10 November 2011James P. Lloyd (Cornell)`Retired'' Planet Hosts: Not So Massive, Maybe Just Portly After Lunch(large)(small)
3 November 2011Felix J. Lockman (NRAO)Making the Milky Way - The Continuing Story(large)(small)
27 October 2011Peter Barnes (Florida)Large-Scale Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way(large)(small)
20 October 2011Julia Scharwaechter (RSAA)Integral field spectroscopy of AGN host galaxies(large)(small)
13 October 2011Charley Lineweaver (PSI/RSAA/RSES)On the Existence and Habitability of Other Earths(large)(small)
6 October 2011Sharon Rapoport (RSAA)Gamma-ray bursts - Mid term review(large)(small)
28 September 2011Andrea Dupree (CfA)Red Giants, Globular Clusters, and their Problems(large)(small)
22 September 2011David Parkinson (Queensland)Testing modified gravity with WiggleZ(large)(small)
15 September 2011Hans Van Winckle (Leuven)Post-AGB stars as tracers of (binary) stellar evolution(large)(small)
9 September 2011Yuan Sen Ting (NUS)A study of HerMES chemical abundances spaces (large)(small)
8 September 2011Jayaram N Chengalur (NCRA-TIFR) The Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey(large)(small)
1 September 2011Juan Madrid (Swinburne)The Increasingly Diverse Family of Star Clusters(large)(small)
30 August 2011Mario Mateo (Michigan)Spectroscopic Support of Southern Photometric Surveys(large)(small)
18 August 2011Amanda Bauer (AAO)Linking Star Formation Histories with the Growth of Stellar Mass(large)(small)
11 August 2011Christine Nicholls (RSAA)Variability in Binary and Single Red Giants(large)(small)
28 July 2011Tim Bedding (Sydney)Probing the Cores of Stars Using Asteroseismology with NASA's Kepler Mission(large)(small)
21 July 2011Mubdi Rahman (Toronto)The Milky Way's Most Luminous Star Clusters: Engines of Galaxy Evolution(large)(small)
14 July 2011Carl Melis (UCSD)Formation and Occurrence of Terrestrial-like Planets from Catastrophic Collisions(large)(small)
30 June 2011Dennis Crabtree (HIA)ngCFHT(large)(small)
16 June 2011Matthew Bate (Exeter)Numerical Simulations of Star Formation(large)(small)
9 June 2011Chris Blake (Swinburne)Probing Dark Energy with Galaxy Surveys(large)(small)
2 June 2011Yuri Levin (Monash)Discs Around Supermassive Black Holes(large)(small)
26 May 2011Marc White (RSAA, Midterm)Outflows from Young Stellar Objects(large)(small)
19 May 2011Geoff Bicknell (RSAA)Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes(large)(small)
12 May 2011John Peacock (University of Edinburgh)Probing Gravity with Galaxy Surveys(large)(small)
5 May 2011Matthew Colless (AAO)The 6dF Galaxy Survey - the Fundamental Plane, Stellar Populations and Cosmology"PDF
28 April 2011Jens Zuther (Koeln)Type I AGN and their Host Galaxies(large)(small)
10 March 2011Thanu Padmanabhan (IUCCA, Pune)Gravity: An Emergent Phenomenon(large)(small)
8 March 2011Tim Beers (MSU)Formation and Evolution of the Disk System of the Milky Way(large)(small)
3 March 2011Ross Parkin (RSAA)3D Models of Colliding-Winds Binary(large)(small)
24 February 2011Martin Asplund (MPA)The Peculiar Solar Chemical Composition(large)(small)
17 February 2011Grant Kennedy (Cambridge)Evolution of Irregular Satellite Swarms(large)(small)
10 February 2011John Kormendy (Texas)Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies(large)(small)
4 February 2011Wolfgang Kerzendorf (RSAA)eScience Challenges in Astronomy(large)(small)
3 February 2011Wako Aoki (NAOJ)Extremely Metal-Poor stars and Galactic Archaeology(large)(small)
27 January 2011Clare Worley (Nice)The AMBRE Project(large)(small)
20 January 2011Ross Church (Lund)Short Gamma Ray BurstsL Evidence for an Origin in Globular Clusters(large)(small)
10 January 2011Andrew Bunker (University of Oxford)Star Formation at the Highest Redshifts and Reionization (large)(small)
10 December 2010Gaspar Bakos (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Searching for planets with HATNet and HATSouth(large)(small)
3 December 2010Pavel Kroupa (Bonn)Evidence for a Top-Heavy IMF in Extreme Starbursts(large)(small)
2 December 2010Bill Harris (McMaster)Dynamics of the M87 Halo: Beyond the Velocity Barrier(large)(small)
25 November 2010Warren Brown (CfA)Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars(large)(small)

RSAA Feast-of-Facts

RSAA Feast-of-Facts Schedule 2011