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 15 February 2026 (Show earlier schedule)
| Date | Time | Venue | Series | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 18/02/2026 | 14:00 | N/4.07 Prince Phillip Lecture Theatre | Astro/GEI Seminar | Depletion of Dark-Matter Spikes Around Massive Black Holes by Stars and Extreme Mass-Ratio In-Spirals Charles Sharpe (Oxford) |
| Friday 20/02/2026 | 11:30 | TRH 0.01 and 0.02 | Physics Seminar | Advances in quantum dot lasers and non-classical light sources Yasuhiko Arakawa (Unversity of Tokyo) |
| Wednesday 11/03/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Dark energy and cosmology from 3 years of DESI data Seshadri Nadathur (Portsmouth) |
| Wednesday 18/03/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Robin Tress (Lausanne) |
| Wednesday 15/04/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Marie Martig (LJMU) |
| Wednesday 13/05/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Prachi Khatri/Maxime Valeille-Manet (Cardiff) |
| Wednesday 20/05/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Natasha Maddox (Bristol) |
| Wednesday 03/06/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Helena Faustino-Vieira (Stockholm) |