Durham FLAT

When: Fridays 1:00-2:00pm 

Where: in OCW017 and Zoom (Connection details circulated by email)

Organisers: Andreia Carrillo  & Shaun Brown

General information: As we continue to adapt to the remote format imposed by the pandemic, we are adopting some adjustments to the FLAT organisation philosophy, effective from Jan 2021:

• As a key change, all talks during term time will now be strictly in a 20'+5' format, i.e. 2 speakers each Friday. (This may be relaxed in the summer.)

• Student talks continue as before. Normally, students present a talk in their 1st, 2nd and 3rd year, with 3rd year students in Michaelmas term, 2nd years in Epiphany term, and 1st years in Easter term.

• In an effort to maintain a good level of exposure for research by PDRAs, we will be scheduling ~4 talks by local PDRAs each term, which works out to each PDRA speaking approximately every other year.

• There will usually be a very limited number of slots leftover in the schedule for external speakers, which will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. As usual, local speakers may be re-arranged in the schedule to accommodate these. For external speakers, the person who invited the speaker is normally expected to chair the talk, though the FLAT organisers are happy to assist as needed.

• Scheduling of additional external seminars is encouraged, but will not formally be part of the FLAT series. The organisation of such seminars is by default the responsibility of the local "host" inviting the speaker. The FLAT organisers may be contacted for assistance or support, but will commit to help at their discretion and on a case-by-case basis. Those hosting speakers may also consider using existing venues such as journal clubs or interest groups, provided all involved agree to any arrangements.

Information for speakers: 

• Talks begin at 13:05 UK time, as we allow ~5 minutes for people to move between commitments. Each speaker has 25 minutes including time for questions; we encourage dividing this into a 20' + 5' format. In case of remote speakers, one of the organisers will normally connect to the meeting at ~12:55 in case you want to check your connection, slides, settings, etc. For in person talks, one of the organisers will be in the seminar room (OCW017) at ~12:45 to set up the room and the slides.

• Talks by local speakers are not recorded by default, but may be recorded on request. Talks by external speakers are recorded if the speaker consents.

• Zoom connection details are circulated with the talk announcement on the day before the talks. If you have not received connection details by Friday morning, don't hesitate to contact the organisers.

• We are happy to leave the meeting open and/or open breakout rooms for continued discussion after the second talk, subject to speaker availability.

Recordings of past talks

June 4 2021: Anna Niemiec e & Chris Agostino Influence of the cluster environment on the galaxy/subhalo connection & Physical Drivers of Emission Line Diversity of SDSS Seyfert 2s and LINERs After Removal of Contributions by Star Formation  

May 21 2021: Cerny Catherine & Andonie Carolina Modelling the density profile of galaxy clusters with MUSE spectroscopy and strong gravitational lensing & IR QSO in the COSMOS field: are obscured QSO special? 

May 14 2021: Turner Hannah & Husko Filip Black hole spin and AGN jet feedback in hydrodynamical simulations &  Kinematic and dynamical modelling of the “Jackpot” triple-source lens

January 12 2021: Amy Rankine [P%i5$Hb6] Investigating quasar outflows using LOFAR radio properties and UV emission lines 

December 4 2020: Reza Ayromlou [not recorded] The role of environment in galaxy evolution

November 27 2020: Genoveva Micheva [V2Pjj7z!] Mitigating the effects of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy 

November 13 2020: Alberto Rosales-de-Leon [ar.2Yu^5] Neutrinos and gamma rays from blazars

November 10 2020: Lorenzo Zanisi [AY3i%!Wj] Joint constraints on galaxy evolution from theoretical models and deep learning 

October 30 2020: Yao-Yuan Mao [0QA2EwE.] The SAGA Survey: Building a Statistical Sample of Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies

October 16 2020: Vicky Fawcett [2nH.*v3i] An X-shooter insight into dust-reddened quasars

October 2 2020: Stacy Kim [C0bz!pHy] Completeness Corrections and the Small Scale Issues of the Milky Way and Beyond

September 25 2020: Francesco Valentino [cUXv5M$H] A survey of molecular gas in distant normal galaxies

September 11 2020: Anne Hutter [c0Q?B#^k] The environment and physical properties of re-ionization sources

August 7 2020: Camila Correa [not recorded] Constraining Velocity-dependent Self-Interacting Dark Matter with the Milky Way’s dwarf spheroidal galaxies

July 31 2020: Nicole Thomas [dXtq5E?m] Can Simba reproduce a realistic population of jet-mode AGN?

July 24 2020: Aayush Saxena [AT83+R7x]  The nature of He II 1640 A emitting star-forming galaxies at high redshifts

July 17 2020: Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez [3u.K5^@@] Gas, stars, and globular clusters in the local Universe as tracers of galaxy formation and evolution, and the nature of dark matter