SIfA Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
If you wish to give a talk or presentation please email Thorsten Tepper Garcia and Courtney Crawford. Seminars are 45mins with time for questions afterwards. Speakers are encouraged to cater to a varied audience, reflecting the broad interests of the Institute.
All seminars will be taking place online until further notice.
Please go to “previous seminars” below to watch the recordings.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Speaker Location | Topic |
| 5 Aug 2024 | 15:00 | Evgeny Romashets | Lamar University |
CMEs and Solar wind
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| 9 Aug 2024 | 11:00 | Mary Putman | Columbia University | Galaxy evolution |
| 16 Aug 2024 | 11:00 | Fan Liu | ||
| 23 Aug 2024 | 11:00 | Dinshaw.S.Balsara | University of Notre Dame | Beyond MHD |
| 30 Aug 2024 | 11:00 | Will Handley | Cambridge | Nested sampling |
| 6 Sep 2024 | 11:00 | Sven Buder | ANU | |
| 13 Sep 2024 | 11:00 | Keith Bannister | CSIRO |
Radio transients / FRBs
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| 20 Sep 2024 | 11:00 | Tom Evans-Soma | University of Newcastle | Exoplanets |
| 27 Sep 2024 | Honours talks | |||
| 4 Oct 2024 | MIDSEM BREAK | |||
| 11 Oct 2024 | 11:00 | Yoki Salcedo | University of Pittsburgh |
Observational cosmology
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| 18 Oct 2024 | 11:00 | Ho Seong Hwang | Seoul National University | Galaxy evolution |
| 25 Oct 2024 | 11:00 | Garrett Levine | Yale University |
Exoplanets and minor planets
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| 1 Nov 2024 | 11:00 | Megha Sharma |
Previous Seminars
2024
| Date | Time | Speaker | Speaker Location | Topic |
| 16 Feb 2024 | 11:00 | Roberto Sonia | University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | X-ray search for IMBHs in near by galaxies |
| 23 Feb 2024 | 11:00 | Dan Ballard | University of Portsmouth | Cosmology with strong gravitational lensing |
| 1 Mar 2024 | 11:00 | Martin Rey | Oxford | Faint dwarf galaxies |
| 8 Mar 2024 | 11:00 | Qinghui Sun | Tsinghua University | Exploring Stellar Physics and Star-Planet Interaction through the Lens of stellar Chemical Abundance |
| 15 Mar 2024 | 11:00 | Vincent Van Eylen | UCL | Understanding planets through their host stars |
| 22 Mar 2024 | 11:00 | Tony Rodriguez | California Institute of Technology | |
| 29 Mar 2024 | public holiday – no seminar | |||
| 5 Apr 2024 | MID-SEMESTER BREAK | |||
| 12 Apr 2024 | 11:00 | Janet Machol | Colorado Boulder | 49 years of GOES solar Irradiance Measurements |
| 19 Apr 2024 | ||||
| 26 Apr 2024 | Honours talks | |||
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| 10 May 2024 | ||||
| 17 May 2024 | ||||
| 24 May 2024 |
2023
| Date | Time | Speaker | Speaker Location | Topic |
| 10 Feb 2023 | 11:00 | Connor Bottrell | University of Tokyo | Connecting the observable to the non-observable at a crossroads of observational and computational galaxy astronomy |
| 3 Mar 2023 | 11:00 | Steve Finkelstein | U Texas | Pushing into the First 500 Million Years after the Big Bang with JWST [Watch] |
| 10 Mar 2023 | 11:00 | Nick Pingel | Wisconsin | Characterizing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way and Beyond |
| 17 Mar 2023 | 11:00 | Alfred Castro-Ginard | Leiden | Mapping the Milky Way with the stars (un)seen by Gaia |
| 24 Mar 2023 | 11:00 | Ciaran O’Hare | USYD | Dark Matter in the Milky Way |
| 31 Mar 2023 | 11:00 | Douglas Scott | UBC | Standard Cosmological Model |
| 21 Apr 2023 | 11:00 | Richard Lane Reade | UBO | TBD |
| 28 Apr 2023 | Honours talks | |||
| 5 May 2023 | 11:00 | Ashley Ruiter | ADFA | TBD |
| 12 May 2023 | 11:00 | Ben Montet | UNSW | TBD |
| 19 May 2023 | 11:00 | Jimi Green | SKAO | TBD |
| 26 May 2023 | SSP Talks | |||
| 18 Aug 2023 | 11:00 | Naomi McClure-G | U Sydney | GASKAP |
| 25 Aug 2023 | 11:00 | Ellen Sirks | U Sydney | SuperBIT |
| 1 Sep 2023 | 11:00 | Rebecca Connolly | U Sydney | Space Law |
| 8 Sep 2023 | 11:00 | Tamara Davis | U Sydney | Cosmology |
| 15 Sep 2023 | 11:00 | Jessie Christiansen | Caltech | Expolanets |
| 22 Sep 2023 | 11:00 | Rhea-Silvia Remus | U Sydney | Cosmo Simulations |
| 29 Sep 2023 |
MID-SEMESTER BREAK
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| 6 Oct 2023 | Honours talks | |||
| 13 Oct 2023 | 11:00 | Kareem El-Badry | Caltech/Harvard | Binaries |
| 20 Oct 2023 | Krzysztof Bolejko | UTAS | Cosmology | |
| 27 Oct 2023 | 11:00 | Tabetha Boyajian | LSU | TBD |
| 3 Nov 2023 | SSP Talks |
2022
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
| 04/03/22 | 11am | Geoffrey Vasil | What rotation means for the inside stars |
| 11/03/22 | 11am | Sandy Faber |
The Earth Futures Institute at UCSC and UCR: Attempting to Wake the Sleeping Giant [Watch]
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| 18/03/22 | 11am | Roger Blandford |
Black Holes – Nature or Nurture?
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| 25/03/22 | 11am | Tara Murphy |
First results from the ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients Survey (VAST)
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| 01/04/22 | 11am | Jay Lockman |
Neutral Gas Entrained in the Milky Way’s Nuclear Wind
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| 08/04/22 | 10am | Karen Masters |
Spiral Arms in Galaxies
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| 22/04/22 | 4pm | Angus Wright |
Tomographic Cosmic Shear and the Challenges of Stage-IV Calibration
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| 29/04/22 | 4pm | Chervin Laporte |
The Milky Way as a galaxy formation and dark matter laboratory [Watch]
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| 06/05/22 | 11am | Richard Ellis | The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: When Did Galaxies First Emerge from Darkness? [Watch] |
| 13/05/22 | 11am | Chung-Pei Ma | Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies |
| 12/08/22 | 11am | Di Li | Bridging the centuries: Arecibo to CRAFTS |
| 19/08/22 | 11am | Nikki Nielsen | Resolving the structures and physical conditions in the circumgalactic medium |
| 26/08/22 | 11am | Yuan-Sen Ting | On modelling complex systems in astronomy |
| 02/09/22 | 11am | Emma Ryan-Weber | The photons that ionized the Universe |
| 09/09/22 | 11am | David Spergel | Machine Learning and Cosmology |
| 16/09/22 | 11am | Claudia Lagos | The role of environment in quenching galaxies in galaxy formation simulations |
| 23/09/22 | 11am | Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni | Formation and evolution of molecular clouds, and implications on their star formation activity |
| 14/10/22 | 11am | Sabine Bellstedt | Pixels to Properties: Using multiwavelength redshift surveys to study cosmic star formation |
| 21/10/22 | 11am | Elene D’Onghia | The Magellanic Corona |
| 28/10/22 | 11am | Natascha M. Forster Schreiber | Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon |
| 08/12/22 | 11am | Francesca Frakgoudi | Barred galaxies in ΛCDM: Uncovering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies |
2021
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
| 12/02/21 | 11am | Hannah Schunker | Closing the solar cycle: emerging active regions |
| 16/04/21 | 4pm | Frank Eisenhauer | A New Era of Interferometry with GRAVITY |
| 30/04/21 | 11am | Danny Horta | Unraveling the nature and origin of the Galactic stellar halo with Galactic surveys |
| 28/05/21 | 11am | Marcin Sokolowski | A High-Speed All-Sky Monitor for Fast Radio Bursts and Technosignatures |
| 10/09/21 | 11am | Cath Trott | The Search for Hydrogen: detecting the Epoch of Reionisation through the 21cm line. |
| 19/09/21 | 11am | Joss Bland-Hawthorn | Galactic seismology – waves that cross the Milky Way |
| 24/09/21 | 15pm | Anthony Brown | The Gaia Mission and science highlights from the Gaia data releases |
| 08/10/21 | 11am | Olivier Guyon | Direct Imaging of Nearby Habitable Exoplanets and Search for Exolife |
| 15/10/21 | 11am | Katie Mack | Dark Matter, First Light |
| 22/10/21 | 16pm | Vasily Belokurov | The transformation of the Milky Way |
| 29/10/21 | 11am | John Mather | Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST [Watch] [Listen to] |
| 12/11/21 | 11am | Jan Eldridge | New insights into black hole ecology |
| 19/11/21 | 11am | Jeff Cooke | The Australian-led Keck Wide-Field Imager |
| 26/11/21 | 16pm | Joe Silk | Recent Advances in Cosmology |
2020
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
| 31/1/20 | 11am | Sukyoung Yi | The origin and fate of the discs of spiral galaxies from numerical simulations |
| 21/2/20 | 11am | Taichi Uyama | High-contrast (direct) imaging of young exoplanets |
| 26/2/20 | 12pm (LG17) | Suzie Ramsay | Status of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope and its Instrumentation |
2019
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
| 25/1/19 | 11am | Lucia Armillotta | Metal mixing during star cluster formation |
| 1/2/19 | 11am | Andrew Hopkins | Measuring the stellar initial mass function |
| 8/2/19 | 11am | Matthew Baring | A Multiwavelength Perspective on Acceleration and Radiation in Extragalactic Jets |
| 15/2/19 | 11am | Toshi Futamase | Possibe constraits on neutrino mass and dark energy from the lensing dispersion of the magnitude-redshift relation of Type Ia supernovae |
| 1/3/19 | 11am | Chris Tinney | VELOCE |
| 8/3/19 | 11am | Ahmed Elagali | Studies of Interacting Galaxies & the Environmental Effects on Their Evolution |
| 15/3/19 | 11am | Kate Rowlands | Caught in the act: using post starburst galaxies to chart galaxy transformationv |
| 22/3/19 | 11am | Jo Dawson | Shining Light on the Dark ISM |
| 29/3/19 | 11am | Robert Jedicke | Super catastrophic asteroid disruption |
| 5/4/19 | 11am | Maria Cunningham | Radio Astronomy in the Era of Large surveys: Interpreting the results of large, multi-molecular-line datasets of the molecular ISM |
| 9/4/19 | 11am | Nicholas Martin | Mining and mapping the first generations of stars with the Pristine CaH&K survey |
| 12/4/19 | 11am | Amelia Fraser-McKelvie | The complicated lives of disk galaxies: lessons from IFS |
| 3/5/19 | 11am | Nichole Barry | The Future of EoR Structure Limits |
| 10/5/19 | 11am | Nell Byler | Ultraviolet spectral diagnostics for star forming galaxies at high redshift |
| 16/5/19 | 2pm | Kim Venn | Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Astrophysical Stellar Spectroscopic Surveys |
| 17/5/19 | 11am | Mahavir Sharma | Cosmic Reionization and its fossils in the Milky Way |
| 31/5/19 | 11am | Aman Khalid, Hillary Davis | Special Studies Project student talks |
| 7/6/19 | 11am | Peter Cottrell | Interpreting stellar spectra or “The life of a spectroscopist” |
| 28/6/19 | 11am | Dane Kleiner | MeerKAT early science of the Fornax galaxy Cluster |
| 5/7/19 | 11am | Guillaume Drouart | The GLEAMing of the first supermassive black holes |
| 26/7/19 | 11am | Daniel Cotton | A New Age of Stellar Polarimetry |
| 29/7/19 | 2pm | Alan McConnachie | The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer |
| 30/8/19 | 1am | Shivani Bhandari | Radio Transients* |
| 6/9/19 | 11am | Phil Taylor | Galaxy Simulations* |
| 13/9/19 | 11am | Shi Dai | Searching for pulsars in radio continuum surveys |
| 27/9/19 | 11am | AAO-USyd SAIL labs students | Instrumentation projects at USyd |
| 4/10/19 | 11am | Rob Sharp | Infrared astronomy and instrumentation innovations |
| 8/10/19 | 4pm | Honours talk | James Crowley |
| 11/10/19 | 11am-12:30pm | Honours talks | Yinuo Han; Tom Rutherford; Geoff Herkes |
| 18/10/19 | 11am | KD Leka | Understanding and Forecasting The Solar Origins of Space Weather |
| 25/10/19 | 11am | Lorenzo Spina | The Milky Way* |
| 7/11/19 | 11am | Magda Anaboldi | Galaxy Clusters |
| 8/11/19 | 11am | Mansi Kasliwal | Gravitational Waves |
| 15/11/19 | 11am | Chiaki Kobayashi | The origin of elements and their evolution in galaxies |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 9 February | Jielai Zhang | University of Toronto | Exploring the low surface brightness Universe with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array |
| 23 February | Connor Bottrell | University of Victoria | Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxies: Computational Cosmology as Seen through a Telescope |
| 2 March | Roland Bacon and Johan Richard | Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (France) | Science prospects with MUSE at the VLT |
| 9 March | Christopher Usher | Liverpool John Moores University | Using Globular Cluster Stellar Populations to Understand Galaxy Formation |
| 16 March | Elizabeth Stanway | University of Warwick | Understanding Intense Star Formation through Observations and Modelling |
| 23 March | Keith Bannister | CSIRO | Fast Radio Bursts and plasma lenses around hot stars |
| 28 March | Tom Landecker | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory | Revealing the Galactic Magnetic Field with Radio Polarization |
| 6 April | Michael Hudson | University of Waterloo | Galaxies and Dark Matter Seen Through a Gravitational Lens |
| 13 April | Andy Casey | Monash University | The lithium-rich giant star puzzle |
| 27 Apri | A/Prof. Francois Rigaut & Dr Richard McDermid | ANU & Macquarie | MAVIS: A new MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope |
| 1 May | David Parkinson | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute | Cosmology with large-area radio continuum surveys |
| 4 May | Sarah Leslie | MPIA | Evolution of star formation and dust properties of galaxies over cosmic time |
| 11 May | Chris Gordon | University of Canterbury | Is the Galactic Bulge Shining in Gamma Rays? |
| 18 May | Joe Callingham | ASTRON | Absorption processes in radio astronomy: Facilitating a unique discovery space |
| 25 May | Rhea-Silvia Rhemus | University Observatory in Munich | Dynamical and kinematical properties of (mostly) early-type galaxies from the Magneticum simulations |
| 29 May | Dr. Alfred Tiley | Durham University | Galaxy Kinematics from Integral Field Spectroscopy of ~1000 z~0.6-2 Star-forming Galaxies |
| 22 June | Leo Alcorn | Texas A&M | The Proto-cluster Environment at z~2: Kinematics, Metallicity, and Merging Groups |
| 13 July | Stuart Ryder | AAO | Binary companions to stripped-envelope supernovae |
| 27 July | Hugo Nowacki and Quentin Noraz | Paris-Sud University | Solar active regions: through different models and behaviours |
| 17 August | Guillermo Blanc | Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science | Next Generation IFU Surveys of Nearby Galaxies: Resolving the Physics that Drive Galaxy Evolution |
| 31 August | Shin-ya NITTA | Tsukuba University of Technology | Magnetic reconnection theory |
| 7 September | Mireia Montes | UNSW | Exploring the fossil record of cluster assembly: the intracluster light. |
| 14 September | Amri Wandel | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | The prospects for detecting life on exoplanets in the JWST/TESS era |
| 21 September | Professor Swapan K Saha | Formerly at Indian Institute of Astrophysics | Genesis of Optical Interferometry |
| 5 October | Bjoern Malte Schaefer | Heidelberg Uni | (non)Gaussian lensing of a (non)Gaussian cosmic microwave background |
| 12 October | Joss Bland-Hawthorn | University of Sydney | Near Field Cosmology and Astrometry |
| 19 October | Justin Bray | University of Manchester | Toward detecting cosmic rays at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory |
| 26 October | Peter Tuthill | University of Sydney | A twist in the tale: sinuous plume coiled around doomed star may forebode violent end. |
| 30 November | Barnaby Norris and Chris Betters | University of Sydney | Why you should be excited about astrophotonics |
| 4 December | Jean-Luc Starck | Mathematical Challenges of the Euclid Spatial Project | |
| 7 December | Philippa Browning | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester | Plasma heating and particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection in solar and stellar flares |