Colloquia and Research Seminars
Departmental Colloquia are research talks pitched at the wider physics and astronomy audience (including final year undergraduates). During the eleven weeks of the semester there are three colloquia (nominally one astronomy based, one physics based and one PER based). The research seminars are aimed at postgraduate level and above (two seminars each week - one physics and one astronomy).
Arrangements for the Colloquia are split between the coordinator of the Physics Seminars (Dr Bo Hou) and the Astronomy Seminars coordinator (Dr Orsolya Feher). Please contribute to the seminar programme, instructions are available on the PHYSX Wiki.
[Physics seminar zoom link] [PER seminar registration]
The recordings of previous seminars are avaialabe in the following links.
[Physics seminars]
[Astro seminars]
[PER seminars]
[Xiamen-Cardiff seminars]
Schedule from 23 April 2026 (Show earlier schedule)
| Date | Time | Venue | Series | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 13/05/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | When the galaxy looks the same, does the CGM remember? // The earliest phases of high-mass star formation Prachi Khatri // Maxime Valeille-Manet (Cardiff) |
| Wednesday 20/05/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | New results from neutral hydrogen and the next generation radio telescope MeerKAT Natasha Maddox (Bristol) |
| Wednesday 20/05/2026 | 15:00 | N/3.28 | Physics Seminars | From Exclusion to Inclusion: Controlling Quantum Dot : Organic Semiconductor Blend Morphologies for Photon Multiplication Daniel T. W. Toolan (University of Manchester) |
| Wednesday 27/05/2026 | 15:00 | N/0.06-7 | Physics Seminars | Optica and the role of learned societies Yann Amouroux (OPTICA) |
| Wednesday 03/06/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Helena Faustino-Vieira (Stockholm) |