DIAS Astrophysics Seminars

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 15:00 local time unless otherwise stated.

Please contact the seminar team (Charlie Bowers and Paul Wright) should you have any suggestions for speakers.

2024

Date and Location	Speaker and Affiliation	Seminar Title
9^th April 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Leonardo Testi University of Bologna	The Planets of Dawn
25^th March Online	Jessie Duncan NASA GSFC	Understanding the Hot Solar Corona via X-ray Observations with NuSTAR
5^th March DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Jordan A. Guerra CU/CIRES and NOAA/SWPC	Estimating the Impact of the Magnetometer Network on the SWPC Geoelectric Field Model
27^th February 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Leonardo Testi University of Bologna	The Planets of Dawn
13^th February Online	Leigh Fletcher University of Leicester	JWST: A New Voyager for the Outer Solar System
30^th January 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Maria Koutoulaki University of Leeds	A VLTI view of Massive Young Stellar Objects
23^rd January 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Rob Ivison ESO/University of Edinburgh	30 years of submillimetre cosmology
16^th January 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Alanna Fox University of Limerick	The use of MaNGA data to establish the origin of spiral arms in galaxies

2023

Date and Location	Speaker and Affiliation	Seminar Title
28^th November 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Bertram Bitsch University College Cork	Planet formation in the JWST era
14^th November Online	Xianzhe Jia University of Michigan	Extended MHD and Coupled Fluid-Kinetic Simulations of Planetary Magnetospheres: Applications to Mercury and Ganymede
17^th October 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Jorick Vink Armagh Observatory & Planetarium	How Heavy is the Most Massive Star in the Universe?
10^th October Online	Yash Sarkango Princeton University	Satellite-magnetosphere interactions at Jupiter: A review of Juno JADE/JEDI observations
28^th September DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Maria-Theresia Walach Lancaster University	The Eye of the Geomagnetic Storm: Electrodynamics at High-Latitudes during Geomagnetic Storm
26^th September DIAS Dunsink Observatory	John Coxon Northumbria University	The distribution of Birkeland currents in time and space
5^th September DIAS Dunsink Observatory	David Long Queens University Belfast	Flux Ropes in the Solar Corona Observed by Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe
13^th June 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Benoît Tabone Paris-Saclay University	Early results of the GTO-MIRI MINDS programme on planet-forming disks
7^th June 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Ian Dobbs-Dixon NYU Abu Dhabi	Probing the Multidimensional Nature of Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
15^th May Zoom	Mary Knapp MIT Haystack	AERO-VISTA: mapping the Earth’s auroral radio emissions
27^th April 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Andrew Miller Maynooth University	MUSE-ing Upon the Strange: Exploring Unusual Protostellar Outflows with Integral Field Spectroscopy
25^th April 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Maximilian Günther ESTEC	Habitable(?) Worlds and Stellar Flares
29^th March DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Matthew Owens University of Reading	When less is more – reduced physics simulations of the solar wind
14^th March 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Zhen Guo Universidad de Valparaiso	Episodic accretion on young stellar objects – results from the VVV survey
8^th March 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Karina Mauco Coronado ESO Justyn Campbell-White ESO	Testing external photoevaporation in the σ-Orionis cluster with spectroscopy and disk mass measurements Investigating the link between winds/outflows, disk substructures and protoplanets
7^th March DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Ciaran Beggan British Geological Survey	Space weather research and activities on mid-latitude island archipelagos
28^th February Zoom	Marianna Felici Boston University	The MAVEN Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE)
21^st February 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Rubén Fedriani Chalmers University of Technology	Infrared Observations of Massive Star-Forming Regions
7^th February 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Neale Gibson Trinity College Dublin	Atmospheres of alien worlds: challenges and opportunities with transmission spectroscopy of extrasolar planets
2^nd February DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Jessica Dempsey ASTRON	Harnessing the opportunities in the approaching radio astronomy renaissance
24^th January 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Olivier Asin DESY	Gone with the breeze: A subsonic outflow solution to the Fermi bubble problem

2022

Date and Location	Speaker and Affiliation	Seminar Title
22^nd November 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Kamber Schwarz Max Planck Institute	The Evolution of Volatile Carbon During Planet Formation
15^th November DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Andy Smith Northumbria University	Space Weather Forecasting: Sudden Commencements and Machine Learning
25^th October Zoom	Affelia Wibisono University College London	Using Multi-Spacecraft Measurements to Shed Light on Jupiter’s Auroral and Disk X-ray Emissions
12^th September Zoom	Michał Marek Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN	Auroral Kilometric Radiation as a Self-Organized Criticality System
12^th July DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Iurii Sushch Northwest University	Non-thermal emission from supernova remnants in circumstellar media
21^st June DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Aisling Bergin University of Warwick	Time Series Analysis Applied to Geomagnetic Indices
7^th June 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr Mark Kennedy University College Cork	Invisible Monsters and Spider Webs: Compact objects in the era of wide field optical surveys
24^th May Zoom	Dr Julian Pittard University of Leeds	Colliding Wind Binary Systems and their Thermal and Non-Thermal Radiation
19^th May DIAS Dunsink Observatory	Dr Matt James University of Leicester	Studying the Magnetospheric Plasmas of Mercury and Earth using ULF Waves and Machine Learning
3^rd May Zoom	Aisling Murphy Maynooth University	A Hidden Brown Dwarf? The MUSE view of a precessing stellar jet
12^th April 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr Maria Gabriela Navarro INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma	VVV Microlensing events around the Galactic Center
8^th March Zoom	Robert Kavanagh Leiden University	Tuning in to star-planet interactions at radio wavelengths
15^th February 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Jessica Erkal University College Dublin	Infrared studies of protostellar jets probing the jet-disk connection
8^th February Zoom	Dr Mika Holmberg ESA	The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission and the reliability of its future measurements
11^th January 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr Dúalta Ó Fionnagáin NUI Galway	Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections on Epsilon Eridani

2021

Date and Location	Speaker and Affiliation	Seminar Title
14^th December Zoom	Dr Sam Geen University of Amsterdam	The Unexpected Ways Stellar Winds Shape Star Formation
23^rd November Zoom	Dr Erin Higgins Armagh Observatory & Planetarium	The evolution of massive stars as black hole progenitors
9^th November 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr Colm Bracken Maynooth University	Untangling the Delayed-Choice Entangled Quantum Eraser – Could the KIDs offer the solution?
26^th October 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr. Cheng-han Hsieh Yale University	Rotating filament in Orion B – Do cores inherit their angular momentum from their parent filament?
22^nd October 31 Fitzwilliam Place	Dr. Patrick Hennebelle CEA, Universite Paris-Saclay	From the galactic disk to the protoplaneraty disks: The ECOGAL project
12^th October Zoom	Prof. Sandra Chapman University of Warwick	Quantifying space climate as the statistics of space weather: networks and burst distributions
5^th October Zoom	Dr. Stephanie Yardley University College London	The Elusive Sources of Solar Energetic Particles
28^th September Zoom	Dr. Alberto Sanna INAF	Understanding the formation of High-Mass Stars: lessons from G23.01-0.41
20^thJuly Zoom	Dr. Harish Vedantham ASTRON	Radio flashes from plasma storms around exoplanets
6^th July Zoom	Dr. Emma Whelan Maynooth University	Evidence for an MHD disk wind via optical forbidden line spectro-astrometry
22^nd June Zoom	Dr. Hamish Reid University College London	Solar electron beams, turbulence, and plasma waves: the perfect ingredients for radio burst fine structure
8^th June Zoom	Dr. Jennifer Carter University of Leicester	Finding our SMILE
18^thMay Zoom	Prof. Philippe Zarka Observatoire de Paris	Perspectives on ground-based observations of Jupiter
4^thMay Zoom	Mr. Mayur Bakrania University College London	Applying unsupervised learning and outlier detection methods to characterise magnetotail plasma sheet populations and instabilities
20^th April Zoom	Mr Sam Pearson and Ms. Tatiana Pavlidou University of St. Andrews	Going wide and deep: the quest for a census of young stars and brown dwarfs
13^th April Zoom	Dr. Jonathan Nichols University of Leicester	The auroras of Jupiter and Saturn with Hubble: recent results
6^th April Zoom	Dr. Felipe De Oliveira Alves Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik	Growing stars and planets in the furrows of Barnard 59
30^th March Zoom	Dr. Stanley Owocki University of Delaware	Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars
9^th March Zoom	Dr. Abigail Azari University of California, Berkeley	Integrating Data Science and Planetary Science – Building Statistical Views of Planetary Space Environments
16^thFebruary Zoom (ASI Series)	Mr. Kevin Nolan Technological University Dublin	Mars, the Search for Origins
9^thFebruary Zoom	Dr. Laura Hayes NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Solar flares and their effects of the Earth’s ionosphere
26^th January Zoom	Dr. Bin Chen New Jersey Institute of Technology	Solar Flare Energy Release: New Insights from Recent Radio Observations
13^th January Zoom	Dr. Frank Eisenhauer Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik	GRAVITY+: All Sky, High Contrast, Milli-Arcsecond Optical Interferometric Imaging and Spectroscopy

Information on seminars held before 2021 can be found here.

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