MoCA Seminars - Semester 1, 2012

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


Next colloquium:


Chris Blake (Swinburne)
"Measuring Dark Energy With The Wigglez Survey"

3pm, Tuesday 22 May
Maths, Rm. 345

Tuesday 21 February, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Takuma Suda (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Star formation in the early Galaxy explored with the SAGA database and AGB models
Thursday 23 February, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Tracey Hill (CEA, Saclay)
Filaments, ridges and mini-starbusts, Herschel's insight into high-mass star formation
Tuesday 06 March, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Peter Anders (KIAA, PKU, Beijing)
Modelling stellar clusters, specific difficulties and advances
Tuesday 13 March, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Ue-Li Pen (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Beyond pulsar timing: Imaging, scintillation, black holes, and fuzzballs
Friday 16 March, 2pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Ralf Kotulla (University of Wisconsin)
The connection between Lyman-alpha emission from Lyman Break Galaxies and the properties of the underlying galaxy
Tuesday 20 March, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Brad Gibson (UCLan)
Spirals with Supercomputers: Have We Finally Got it Right?
Friday 23 March, 2pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Jean Brodie (Lick Observatory)
Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical Tracers of Galaxy Formation beyond the Local Group
Thursday 29 March, 1pm
S14
Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
Cosmological Confusion... revealing common misconceptions about the big bang, the expansion of the universe and cosmic horizons
Tuesday 03 April, 3pm
Maths, Rm 345
Lucie Green (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Multi-wavelength observations of solar eruptions
Tuesday 17 April, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Christoph Federrath (MoCA)
The role of turbulence and magnetic fields in star formation
Tuesday 24 April, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Rob Thacker (St. Mary's University)
Skeletons in the AGN modelling cupboard
Tuesday 01 May, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Chris Flynn (University of Turku, Finland)
Earthshine
Tuesday 08 May, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Trevor Ireland (ANU RSES)
Oxygen isotopes and the formation of the solar system.
Friday 11 May, 2pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Paola Merluzzi (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli Italy)
Ram pressure at work in the Shapley supercluster
Tuesday 15 May, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Martin Bell (University of Sydney)
ASKAP and the Transient Sky
Tuesday 22 May, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Chris Blake (Swinburne)
Measuring Dark Energy With The Wigglez Survey
Tuesday 29 May, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Boris Haeussler (University of Nottingham, UK)
MEGAMORPH - Measuring the physical properties of galaxy
Tuesday 24 July, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Claus Rolfs (Bochum)
Tuesday 31 July, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Smriti Mahajan (UQ)
Tuesday 21 August, 3pm
Maths, Rm. 345
Kai Zuber (Dresden)

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