Seminars are usually held at 2:30 pm on Thursdays in the Dennis Sciama Building. They generally feature talks by external speakers on topics relevant to ICG members. Talks are preceded by lunch with the speaker, and followed by tea.
See here for a complete list of seminars including the past.
Seminar organisers: Kazuya Koyama, Claudia Maraston

DateSpeakerTitle
13 Oct 2011no seminar (EU Funding Day/UKRO Visit)
20 Oct 2011Prof. Peter Thomas (Sussex)The Millennium Gas Simulations
27 Oct 2011Dr. Michael Wise (ASTRON)Next Generation Radio Astronomy with LOFAR
02 Nov 2011Prof. Alec Boksenberg (Cambridge) *Wednesday 1.00pm Portland PO1.20*Evolution of the intergalactic medium through observations of metal
10 Nov 2011Dr. Myrto SymeonidisThe X-ray/infrared connection in galaxy evolution
17 Nov 2011Dr Marek Kukula (the Royal Observatory, Greenwich)Public Astronomy, Public Engagement
30 Nov 2011Prof. Carlos Frenk, Institute of Computational Cosmology, University of DurhamThe cold dark matter paradigm: problems and possible solutions ** IMP. THIS SEMINAR WILL BE HELD IN PORTLAND P0.27 **
01 Dec 2011Prof. Francoise CombesGalaxy Evolution through Secular Processes
08 Dec 2011Dr. Michael Brown (Manchester)Prospects for weak lensing studies with new radio telescopes
15 Dec 2011Dr. Tom Kitching (Edinburgh)Weak Lensing : the Pitfalls and the Promise
19 Jan 2012Dr. Martin C. Smith (Cambridge and Beijing Universities)Finding fossils on our doorstep: How modern surveys are driving our understanding of galaxy evolution
26 Jan 2012Dr. Sugata Kaviraj (Imperial College, London)Early-type galaxies: the last 12 billion years
02 Feb 2012Dr. Camille Bonvin (Cambridge)What do galaxy surveys really measure?
09 Feb 2012Dr. Fergus Simpson (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)Testing the Laws of Gravity with CFHTLenS and WiggleZ
23 Feb 2012Prof. Philip Best, Royal Observatory EdimburghHiZELS: the High-z Emission Line Survey
01 Mar 2012Dr Baojiu Li (Durham) Modified Gravity in the Excursion Set Approach
08 Mar 2012Dr. Duncan Forgan (Edinburgh Royal Observatory)The Fragmentation of Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs
15 Mar 2012Dr Eugene Lim (Cambridge)Stellar Structure and Galactic probes of modified gravity
22 Mar 2012Dr. Danilo Marchesini (Tufts University)Massive Galaxies at z=1.5-4: New Insights into Galaxy Formation and Evolution
19 Apr 2012Dr. Andrew Aspden (School of Engineering, University of Portsmouth)Turbulence-Flame Interactions in Type Ia Supernova
26 Apr 2012Dr. Sebastien Renaux-Petel (Cambridge)A Statistical Approach to Multifield Inflation: Many-field Perturbations
03 May 2012Prof. Olivier le Fevre (Observatory of Marseille)VUDS: galaxy evolution from an ultra-deep spectroscopic survey.
10 May 2012Dr. Calro Contardi (Imperial) tba
17 May 2012Dr. Niraj WelikalaProbing the formation of high redshift (z~1-3) galaxies using spatially resolved colors
31 May 2012Dr. Andrew Pontzentba
14 Jun 2012Dr. Clare Burrage (Nottingham)TBA
12 Jul 2012Prof. Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge)tba