Institute of Astronomy Talk Lists


2026-04-28 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Nathan Hara (Marseille))

2026-05-01 11:30: The LMC-SMC System: A New Laboratory for Galaxy Evolution, Dynamics and Dark Matter (Himansh Rathore (Arizona))

2026-05-07 16:00: Sera Markoff Inaugural Lecture for the Plumian Professorship in Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy - 'Staring into the heart of darkness: from theory to the direct imaging of black holes' (Sera Markoff, Plumian Professor in Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)

2026-05-08 11:30: TBC (Boryana Hadzhiyska (IoA))

2026-05-08 11:30: The search for a new population of strong gravitational lenses with JWST (Natalie Hogg (IoA))

2026-05-12 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Rathcke (Technical University of Denmark))

2026-05-21 11:30: Reproducibility In Astrophysical Simulations: The AGORA Initiative and a 14-Year Human Experiment (In Memory of Joel Primack) (Ji-hoon Kim (SNU))

2026-05-22 11:30: Mergers all the way down: simulating the origin of globular clusters in a galactic context (Natalia Lahén (Heidelberg))

2026-05-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Yamila Miguel (Leiden))

2026-05-29 11:30: Zooming in on the assembly of galaxies in the early Universe (William McClymont (Cavendish))

2026-06-05 11:30: Shining a light on the origin of supermassive black holes with cosmological simulations (Sophie Koudmani (Hertfordshire))

2026-06-09 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Erik Meier Valdes (Oxford))

2026-06-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Erik Meier Valdes (Oxford))

2026-06-12 11:30: Feedback and the circumgalactic medium (Jake Bennett (CfA))

2026-06-23 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Michelle Kunimoto (UBC))

2026-07-10 11:30: Title to be confirmed (Kenneth Duncan (Edinburgh))

2026-07-17 11:30: Disentangling preventative & ejective AGN feedback on a population basis with simulations, observations & machine learning (Asa Bluck (FIU Miami))

2026-08-28 11:30: Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe (Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky (Surrey))