MoCA Seminars - Semester 2, 2011

Usually held on Tuesdays either in the G.B Preston seminar room (Room 345, Building 28) or in the Physics Meeting Room (Room 139, Building 19) at 3:00pm

Tuesday 26 July, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Angel Sanchez-Lopez (AAO and Macquarie University)
Neutral and ionized gas kinematics in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
Tuesday 16 August, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Stephan Rosswog (Jacobs University Bremen)
Compact object encounters
Tuesday 23 August, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Lionel Siess (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Hydrodynamic simulations of shell convection in stellar cores
Tuesday 30 August, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Marie Martig (Swinburne University)
Star formation in elliptical vs spiral galaxies
Friday 02 September, 12pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Alexander Heger (University of Minnesota)
Life and Death of the First Stars
Tuesday 06 September, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Francesco Pignatale (Swinburne University)
The key role of water vapour in the composition of protoplanetary dust
Friday 09 September, 12pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Hans Van Winckel (KU Leuven)
Extra-galactic post-AGB stars as tracers of stellar evolution.
Tuesday 13 September, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Stefan Keller (Mount Stromlo Observatory)
Galactic Structure Studies from SkyMapper.
Tuesday 20 September, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Holger Baumgardt (University of Queensland)
Intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters
Tuesday 27 September, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Stuart Sim (Australian National University)
AGN disc winds. Interpreting the X-ray spectra of accreting super-massive black holes
Tuesday 04 October, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Peter Barnes (University of Florida)
Large Scale Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way
Tuesday 11 October, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Richard Scalzo (Mount Stromlo Observatory)
Supermassive Type Ia Supernova Progenitors from the Nearby Supernova Factory
Tuesday 18 October, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Paul Lasky (Melbourne University)
Simulating the Strongest Magnetic Fields in the Universe
Friday 28 October, 12pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Juan Madrid (Swinburne University)
The Increasingly Diverse Family of Star Clusters
Wednesday 02 November, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Samantha Penny (Monash University)
The evolution of low mass galaxies in the cluster environment
Tuesday 08 November, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Jean Pierre Macquart (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)
Scintillation and Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium
Tuesday 15 November, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Bryan Gaensler (University of Sydney)
Snakes in the Plane: Direct Imaging of Interstellar Turbulence
Wednesday 23 November, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Orsola de Marco (Macquarie University)
How common envelope binary interactions change the life of stars and planets
Tuesday 29 November, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Amanda Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Linking Star Formation Histories with Galaxy Assembly
Tuesday 06 December, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Hamed Moradi (Monash University)
Helioseismology of Sunspots: Recent Developments and Perspective

Seminars organiser for Semester 2, 2011: Guillaume Laibe


Seminars from previous semesters: 1/2012 | 2/2011 | 1/2011 | 2/2010 | 1/2010 | 2/2009 | 1/2009 | 2/2008 | 1/2007 | 2/2006 | 1/2006 | 2/2005 | 1/2005 |

Please email all enquiries to: david.floyd@monash.edu