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Upcoming Seminars

If you wish to give a talk or presentation please email the seminar admins at [email protected] or contact Dougal Dobie and Kyriakos Tapinou directly. Seminars are 45mins with time for questions afterwards. Speakers are encouraged to cater to a varied audience, reflecting the broad interests of the Institute. Seminars take place in the physics building (A28) lecture theatre five (LT5).

Please go to “previous seminars” below to watch the recordings.

DateTimeLocationSpeakerSpeaker InstituteTopicRecording
07/02/202511:00A28 LT5Thavisha DharmawardenaFlatiron (Simons Foundation)The 3D structure of the Milky Way and its molecular cloudshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1PaIKvp4fAsJePDy2ak_bV-lv0Wwp6O1V/view?usp=sharing
14/02/202511:00A28 LT5Peter TuthillUniversity of SydneyGetting to know the neighbours: Earth analogues in Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN space telescopehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdTHZ00NnNwFQpvFvTn3TttK0vq_6F_H/view?usp=sharing
21/02/202511:00A28 LT5Benjamin PopeMacquarie UniversityModelling Cosmic Radiation Events in the Tree-ring Radiocarbon Recordhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPZAiUklZeK_Q5hUqdxxu37Duotam4yl/view?usp=sharing
28/02/202511:00A28 LT5
07/03/202511:00A28 LT5
14/03/202511:00A28 LT5
21/03/202511:00A28 LT5
28/03/202511:00A28 LT5Andrew ZicCSIRONanohertz gravitational-wave astronomy with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array — to the third data release and beyondhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-BkvaaGBGDGBLsYmCEN0aUnOXta5r9O/view?usp=sharing
04/04/202511:00A28 LT5Dr Nichole BarryUNSWPursuing the Faint 21-cm Signal of the Epoch of Reionisationhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygMBXz5Vb52iN-OTxWiUAlRmpCvA82MP/view?usp=sharing
11/04/202511:00A28 LT5Courtney CrawfordUniversity of Sydneyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1mphUeNCzlw9ZoJnypmM7uLnqrRVbojQy/view?usp=sharing
18/04/202511:00Easter
25/04/202511:00ANZAC Day
02/05/202511:00A28 LT5Connor Bottrell Mini mergers with major consequences in a cold dark matter universehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/10yDXIVojrdrZpd0tygM18kxfdlIb4mvv/view?usp=drive_link
09/05/202511:00A28 LT5Ryan WhiteHow strange geometry reveals some of the nastiest stellar interactions in the Galaxyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1DPVD1fl0LYi8KhEsK-XWZdKiIJg1MFoy/view?usp=drive_link
16/05/202511:00Hannah SchunkerThe role of convection during magnetic active region emergence on the Sunhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1LLs1heWKDcpNd1o_eNzdMSTT-MTQfHIn/view?usp=drive_link
23/05/202511:00Mark CheungTesting the Physics of Solar and Stellar Flares with Extreme UV Observations and Radiative MHD Simulationshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1odquRndga4fIKTtRdwZm2OksM0VZddMT/view?usp=drive_link
30/05/202511:00A28 LT5Amit SetaVarying collisionality in particle-in-cell, multiphase ISM or radio data analysishttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1VQLgpL3AnY5OkX_ehsNkt41RfYj1rhv-/view?usp=drive_link
06/06/202511:00A28 LT5HDR Symposium
13/06/202511:00A28 LT5Aldo MuraAlpha-rich dSph galaxy stellar streams
27/06/202511:00A28 LT2 (424)Dinshaw BalsaraHeliospheric Interaction with the Local Interstellar Medium with Anisotropic MHD
25/07/202511:00A28 LT5Orsola De MarcoMacquarie UniversityStellar Evolutionhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgeXnqSiLym0ngPDJtNTop9fp37_eEoa/view?usp=sharing
01/08/202511:00A28 LT5Dan HeyUniversity of Sydneyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/168dT7-DPqXwJfkouEnVSfwBef1cNDOy8/view
08/08/202511:00A28 LT5Ciaran O’HareUniversity of Sydneyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1ild1YiHqt878YffF70f5i5cnC8TQ7hi2/view
13/8/202511:00A28 LT5Jens BerdermannSpace Weather Impact, Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, German Aerospace Centerhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vp_nzFE1COYnsFRL4W6Z-Luaj9tuVZc3/view?usp=sharing
15/08/202511:00A28 LT5Vikram RaviMonash University
22/08/202511:00A28 LT5Rowina NathanMonash University
29/08/202511:00A28 LT5Tjorben StudtInstitute for Air Law, Space Law and Cyberlaw at the University of CologneSpace legislation
05/09/202511:00A28 LT5Iris de RuiterUniversity of SydneyA Radio Astronomy Talk for Non-Radio Astronomers: Exploring Radio Transients with ASKAP
11/9/202513:00Foundation RoomMichelle CluverSwinburne University of Technology4HS-WISE: Building Blocks for Galaxy Evolution Studies in the z<0.1Universe
12/09/202511:00A28 LT5Hugo WalshSwinburne University of TechnologyFrom Student to PhD: Understanding the motivations, experiences and identity of observational astronomy PhD graduates
19/09/202511:00A28 LT5Emma CarliSwinburne University of TechnologyAre neutron stars outside our galaxy any different?
26/09/202511:00A28 LT5Rostom MbarekNASA Goddard / Princeton University (Spitzer Fellow)Neutrino and Cosmic Ray Emission from the Coronae of Supermassive Black Holes
3/10/202511:00A28 LT5Erika HamdenSpace Institute, University of Arizona
10/10/2025Hunstead VisitorsUniversity of Sydney
17/10/2025
24/10/2025Geoffrey Clayton,Professor EmeritusLouisiana State University
31/10/202511:00A28 LT5Angharad WeeksUniversity of Sydney
07/11/202511:00A28 LT5May GadeUniversity of Sydney
14/11/202511:00A28 LT5
21/11/202511:00A28 LT5
28/11/202511:00A28 LT5Joel OngUniversity of Sydney
05/12/202511:00A28 LT5Christoph FederathAustralian National University
12/12/202511:00A28 LT5Elizabeth ArcadiMacquarie
19/12/202511:00A28 LT5

 Previous Seminars

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