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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)

<note tip>**Don't forget to bring your lunch!**</note>

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 |