Seminars & Astro-chat

If you intend to visit, you may need directions.

1.  External Seminars & Internal Astro-chat:  Usually Thursdays at 3:45 p.m. with coffee/tea & biscuits provided.
2. Special A&A Seminars: Held on other days.

Semester 2 (21 Jan 2008 - 28 Jun 2008)

Date

Time

Rm.

Speaker (Affiliation)

Title of Presentation

24/01/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Helen Ross
(University of Stirling)
The moon illusion, astronomy and psychology
05/02/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Valery Nakariakov
(University of Warwick)
Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares
14/02/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Ian S. McLean
(University of California, Los Angeles)
The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey with the Keck Telescopes
21/02/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Urmila Mitra-Kraev
(University of Sheffield)
Spectral variability of stellar X-ray flares
28/02/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Marek Gierlinski
(University of Durham)
X-ray spectral states of accreting black holes
06/03/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Marina Battaglia
Three's company:
New insight into particle acceleration and transport in solar flares
13/03/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Eduard Kontar
(University of Glasgow)
The ionosphere as a unique lab to study nonlinear plasma wave interactions
19/03/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Katherine Blundell
(University of Oxford)
Evolution & intermittency in the lives of radio galaxies and quasars
10/04/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Hazel Bain Hard X-ray emission from a flare-related jet
17/04/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Philip Best (Royal Observatory of Edinburgh) The importance of radio-loud AGN in controlling elliptical galaxy growth
01/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Greg Tallents
(University of York)
Measuring the solar opacity
06/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Tomek Mrozek
(University of Wroclaw)
TRACE and RHESSI observations of the failed eruption of the magnetic flux rope
08/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Huw Morgan
(Aberystwyth University)
High-resolution Maps of the Coronal Density Structure over a Solar Cycle
15/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Gunnar Hornig
(University of Dundee)
Magnetic Reconnection: An Overview
22/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Tobia Carozzi
(University of Glasgow)
Unobserved observables of EM radiation
29/05/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Declan Diver
(University of Glasgow)
TBA
05/06/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Alan Watson
(University of Leeds)
TBA
12/06/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Alec MacKinnon Solar Radiation Belts
26/06/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Thomas Nelson
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TBA

Semester 1 (25 Sep. 2007 - 18 Jan. 2008)

Date

Time

Rm.

Speaker (Affiliation)

Title of Presentation

27/09/2007
3:15 p.m 604
John Brown
(University of Glasgow)
Giant Snowballs in Hell : Comet-Sun Impacts
18/10/2007
3:15 p.m 604
Staff, Researchers, Senior Ph.D students
(University of Glasgow)
An Introduction to Research in the Glasgow Astronomy & Astrophysics Group
08/11/2007
3:15 p.m 604
Luis Teodoro
(University of Glasgow)
Mass Functions, Random Walks and Path Integrals

29/11/2007

3:15 p.m.

604

Norman Gray
(University of Leicester)

Astronomical Metadata and the Semantic Web

30/11/2007

3:45 p.m.

604

Lida Oskinova
(University of Potsdam)

Spectrum formation in clumpy stellar winds

06/12/2007

3:15 p.m.

604

Laura Bone
(University College London)

An introduction to data analysis with EIS and some first results

13/12/2007

3:15 p.m.

604

Louise Harra
(University College London)

A new view of the Sun from Hinode
10/01/2008 3:45 p.m 604 Derek Long
(University of Strathclyde)
Meeting Space Science Demands Intelligently
17/01/2008
3:45 p.m 604
Craig MacLachlan
(University of Glasgow)
Multigrid, Poisson's Equation and Electron Avalanches

For further information please contact the seminar organiser: Nicolas Labrosse (nicolas@astro.gla.ac.uk)


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