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 18 March 2025 (Show earlier schedule)
| Date | Time | Venue | Series | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 19/03/2025 | 13:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Some unlikely Supermassive Black Hole Background illuminators, and new tests of General
Relativity Padelis Papadopoulos (Aristotle Uni of Thessaloniki) |
| Wednesday 09/04/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Massive Star Wars: The earliest stages of high-mass
star formation Andy Rigby (Leeds) |
| Wednesday 07/05/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Just the Tip of the Iceberg—Using Extreme Gravitational-Wave Events to Decipher the Origin of Compact
Object Mergers Jakob Stegmann (MPIA Garching) |
| Wednesday 14/05/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Orbital eccentricity in low-mass compact binaries Patricia Schmidt (Birmingham) |
| Wednesday 14/05/2025 | 15:00 | N3.28/Teams | Physics Seminars | Disorder in Nanophotonics: A Double-Edged Sword Changxu Liu (University of Exeter) |
| Wednesday 21/05/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Gravitational Phase-Space Turbulence of Cold Dark Matter Yonadav Barry Ginat (Oxford) |
| Thursday 22/05/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Decolonising Astronomy: Why It Matters Thilina Heenatigala & Pedro Russo (Earth Life Science Institute, Japan & Leiden Observatory/Ciência Viva, Portugal) |
| Wednesday 28/05/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | 3D Mapping the Galactic magnetic field with stellar polarimetry Gina Panopoulou (Chalmers (remote)) |
| Wednesday 11/06/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Supernova and the dust budget Nina Sanches Sartorio (University of Ghent) |
| Wednesday 18/06/2025 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | Illuminating Galaxy Nuclei with Tidal Disruption Events Decker French (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |