====== Cardiff AstroLunch ====== AstroLunch will be held from 12.15-12.35pm on Mondays in room N/3.23 (The William lower room/Chart Room) (But we have the room booked from 12-1pm so could go on for longer if requested) **Don't forget to bring your lunch!** Astrolunch is a weekly forum for discussing astronomical literature and results, covering all aspects from instrumentation, planetary science, and galactic to extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology. **All department members, staff and students, are encouraged to present.** The goal of Astrolunch is to provide a stimulating topic for discussion for both the speaker and the audience. With these aims in mind, if you wish to give an Astrolunch you are asked to give a presentation which fits into one of the following three categories: * A paper from your field of research (but not directly related to work you have done / are doing) which you think either counts as a classic or an exciting new result, and which you think others in the department should hear about. * A presentation which seeks to answer one of the questions posed by another member of the department in the Astrolunch Question Bank. * An otherwise interesting paper or article which you would think would make for a good discussion, be it related to the sociology of Astronomy, a mission proposal, education and outreach or any other worthwhile topic (i.e. a 'classic' Astrolunch). **ASTROLUNCH QUESTION BANK** * Why have we not yet detected any Gravitational Waves when detections were previously promised? ...your answer may be either scientific or sociological (or both). * We have a model of galaxy evolution, but what are the observational and theoretical ingredients which make us think that this may be the correct one? * What is inflation? Are there any decent alternatives? Please submit more questions to [[sebastian.khan@astro.cf.ac.uk|Sebastian Khan]] or [[Simon.Schofield@astro.cf.ac.uk|Simon Schofield]] and we will add them (anonymously, of course) to the Question Bank. Organiser: [[sebastian.khan@astro.cf.ac.uk|Sebastian Khan]] and [[Simon.Schofield@astro.cf.ac.uk|Simon Schofield]] ===== Calendar 2014/2015 Season===== Room booked until June 2015 Click through the session titles below for an abstract: ^ Title ^ Name ^ Date ^ | Economics of Science | Scott Balfour | 20/10/2014 | | Is Pluto a planet? You decide. | Matthew Allen | 27/10/2014 | |Leaving Terra Firma | Matthew Hunt | 03/11/2014 | | N/A | Sebastian Khan| 10/11/2014 | |TBC | Seamus Clarke | 17/11/2014 | | NO ASTROLUNCH | -- | 02/02/2015 | ===== Calendar 2013/14 Season===== Click through the session titles below for an abstract: ^ Title ^ Name ^ Date ^ | [[The rapid assembly of an elliptical galaxy of 400 billion solar masses at a redshift of 2.3]] | Matthew Allen | 14/10/2013 | | [[GRB 091024A and the Nature of Ultra-long Gamma-ray Bursts]] | Andrew X. Will.i.am. son | 21/10/2013 | | [[Is Science Scientific?]] | Scott Balfour | 27/10/2013 | | -- | -- | 4/11/2013 | | -- | -- | 11/11/2013 | | -- | -- | 18/11/2013 | | -- | Patricia Schmidt | 25/11/2013 | | -- | Chris Fuller | 2/12/2013 | | -- | Thomas Rayner | 9/12/2013 | | -- | Chris Clark | 13/1/2014 | | -- | Geraint Pratten| 20/1/2014 | | [[Observational Evidence of Black Holes]] | Sebastian Khaaaaaan | 27/1/2014 | | [[Sub-millimeter galaxies as progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies]] | Simon Schofield | 3/2/2014 | | [[Anaximander - The first cosmologist]] | Gernot Heissel | 10/2/2014 | | [[Mid-Infrared High-Contrast Imaging of HD 114174 B : An Apparent Age Discrepancy in a "Sirius-Like" Binary System]] | Olivia Keenan | 17/2/2014 | | [[Astrobiology: science without a subject?]] | Subhajit (Subi) Sarkar | 24/2/2014 | | [[The Baryon Budget of the Cosmos]] | Mike Disney | 3/3/2014 | | [[Filamentary Structures]] | Seamus Clarke | 10/3/2014 | | [[tbd]] | Sam 'Lord Flashheart' Rowe | 17/3/2014 | | [[tbd]] | Tom Adams | 24/3/2014 |