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. The cost of board and lodging is covered by the Dick Hunstead Fund for Astrophysics.
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