SIfA Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
If you wish to give a talk or presentation please email Sam Vaughan and Thorsten Tepper Garcia. 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.
Seminars in 2022 S1 have been finished, the S2 schedule started in Auguest will be updated soon.
Please go to “previous seminars” below to watch the recordings.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
Previous Seminars
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 |
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 |