SIfA Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
If you wish to give a talk or presentation please email Sam Vaughan and Barnaby Norris. 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.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 24/09/2021 | 15:00 | Anthony Brown | Leiden | GAIA and the upcoming full release of Data Release 3 |
| 01/10/2021 | 10:00 | Joe Silk | Oxford/IAP/Johns Hopkins | Recent Advances in Cosmology |
| 08/10/2021 | 11:00 | Olivier Guyon | University of Arizona | Direct imaging of exoplanets |
| 15/10/2021 | 11:00 | Katie Mack | North Carolina State University | Astroparticle theory and cosmology |
| 22/10/2021 | 16:00 | Vasily Belokurov | Cambridge | Galactic Archeology |
| 29/10/2021 | 11:00 | John Mather | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | The James Webb Space Telescope |
| 05/11/2021 | 11:00 | Tamara Davis | UQ | Near Field Cosmology |
| 12/11/2021 | 11:00 | Jan Eldridge | University of Auskland | Stellar Evolution |
| 19/11/2021 | 11:00 | Jeff Cooke | Swinburne University | The Keck Widefield Imager |
| 26/11/2021 | 11:00 | The Hector team | USyd | The Hector instrument and survey |
Previous Seminars
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. |
| 19/09/2021 | 11am | Joss Bland-Hawthorn | Galactic seismology – waves that cross the Milky Way |
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
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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.
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| 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 |