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Hunstead Visitors

Hunstead Visitors are invited to spend 3 days and nights in Sydney to meet with our students and postdocs and to give a seminar. Five appointments per year a funded with $1,000 each from the Dick Hunstead Fund for Astrophysics.

 

Previous Visitors:

2025:
  • Patrick de Laverny
2024
  • Professor Peter Coles (Maynooth University, Ireland)
    The Open Journal of Astrophysics
  • Dr Kirsten Banks (MESA Australian Indigenous Astronomy Public Lecture)
    A Walk Through the Skies
  • Mary Putnam (U Colombia, New York, USA)
2023
  • Dr Marie Martig (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
    A leader in the field of galaxy disk assembly and quenching.
  • Dr Alfred Castro-Ginard (Leiden, Holland)
    Works on the Gaia Unlimited project (https://gaia-unlimited.org).
  • Professor Douglas Scott (University of California, USA)
    Prof. Douglas Scott’s interests include examining how structure formed and the numbers that describe the entire cosmos.
  • Dr Gang Li (KU Leuven, Belgium)
    During his visit he worked with members of the asteroseismology group on a collaborative project.
  • Dr David Nidever (Assistant professor Montana State University)
    Dr David Nidever has an interest in galaxy formation and evolution. He collaboratively worked with SIfA members on submitting proposals to the James Webb Space Telescope
  • Professor Chiaki Kobayashi
    The author of the famous paper in 2020 that describes the origin of all of the elements. She worked with the GALAH team.
2022
    • Professor Tamara Davis AM (University of Queensland)
      Presented the OzDes Lecture
    • Dr Rhea-Silvia Remus (University Observatory Munich, Germany)
    • Associate Professor Yuan-Sen Ting (ANU)
      Modelling complex systems in astronomy
2019
  • Kim Venn (University of Victoria, Canada)
    Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Astrophysical Stellar Spectroscopic Surveys
  • Peter Cottrell (University of Canterbury, NZ)
    Interpreting Stellar Spectra or “The Life of a Spectroscopist”
  • Nick Kaiser (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
    Puzzles and Paradoxes in Cosmology
  • Nicolas Martin (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg)
    Mining and mapping the first generations of stars with the Pristine CaH&K survey
2018
  • John Mather (NASA Goddard)
  • Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ANU)
  • John Dickey (University of Tasmania)
  • Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (Oxford University)
  • Elena d’Onghia (University of Wisconsin)
2017
  • Lars Hernquist (Harvard University)
    Next Generation Cosmological Simulations: Galaxy Assembly and Evolution
  • Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA, Heidelberg)
    How the Milky Way Shaped Its Disk
  • Garth Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz)
    Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn: Exploring the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer. Implications for JWST
  • Joe Lazio (NRL, Washington)
    Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON, Netherlands)
2016
  • Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard)
    Mapping dust in 3D with stellar colors
  • Eriz Rebak (Technion, Israel)
  • Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland)
  • Daniela Carollo (Notre Dame)
    The Milky Way’s Halo System: Ancient, Complex and a StoryTeller of Galaxy Formation
  • Roger Davies (Oxford)
    The initial mass function and elemental abundances in early-type galaxies
2015
  • Anna Frebel (MIT)
    Hunting the first generations of stars and galaxies
  • Chiaki Kobayashi (ANU)
    Metallicity gradients in cosmological simulations with AGN feedback
  • Richard Bower (Durham)
    The EAGLE Universe
  • Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins)
    The Structure and Substructure of the Milky Way Galaxy