Astronomy Unit Seminars
The AU seminars are colloquium-style talks from leading experts aimed at a broad audience.
They take place most Fridays at 14.30 in GO Jones 610 during term (except for the second Friday of each month).
Please contact Andrew Winter with any questions about these seminars.
Semester A seminars 2025/26
Semester B seminars 2025/26
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 30/01/2026 | Sanson Poon | In-reach seminar: The Impacts and Opportunities of AI in the Natural Sciences - The Journey of a Museum AI Lab |
| 06/02/2026 | Anke Ardern-Arentsen | Probing the early history of the Milky Way through ancient stars |
| 20/02/2026 | Sara Maleubre Molinero | Disentangling Galaxy Bias in Cross-Correlation Tomography |
| 27/02/2026 | George Miloshevich | Data-Driven Closures for Hybrid Plasma Models in Space Plasmas |
| 06/03/2026 | Alison Young | Gravitational instability revisited in the youngest discs |
| 20/03/2026 | Cancelled | |
| 27/03/2026 | Lucy Oswald | Radio pulsars: a polarized perspective |
| 17/04/2026 | Pippa Cole | Illuminating the dark universe with gravitational waves |
| 30/04/2026 | Pritha Paul | Exploring Relativistic and Parity-Odd Signatures in Large-Scale Structure |
| 15/05/2026 | Álvaro Ribas | TBC |
| 22/05/2026 | Asta Heinesen | Perren Seminar: Tensions and anomalies in a dark universe |
| 29/05/2026 | Tim Harries | TBC |
Summer seminars 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 26/06/2026 | Bruce Allen | TBC |
