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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)
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 or Simon Schofield and we will add them (anonymously, of course) to the Question Bank.
Organiser: Sebastian Khan and 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 |
| An Apparent Age Discrepancy in a "Sirius-Like" Binary System | Olivia Keenan | 17/2/2014 |
| 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 |