Programme
Conference Programme
Wednesday 21st March:
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16:00 - Meet & Greet - The Stag's - Southampton Highfield Campus (please see venue page for more information)
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Thursday 22nd March:
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Introduction
08:00-09:00 : Breakfast (B38 Terrace Restaurant)
08:30-09:15 : Registration (Murray Lecture Theatre Complex)
09:15-09:30 : Welcome
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Session 1: Micro Impactors in the Solar System
Chair - Justyn Campbell-White
09:30-10:00 : Invited Talk from Penny Wozniakiewicz (Kent) - Insights into the Solar System from Dust
10:00-10:15 : Luke Alesbrook (Kent) - Micrometeorites from the Kwajalein Atoll
10:15-10:30 : Callum Fisher (Kent) - Determining the Survivability of Salt Projectiles Following Hypervelocity Impacts
10:30-11:00 : Coffee Break
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Session 2: Cosmology
Chair - Ben Mawdsley
11:00-11:30 - Invited Talk from Kathy Romer (Sussex) - The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology and other animals
11:30-11:45 : Carlos Vergara (Sussex) - A new XCS-DES Cluster Catalogue and its applications
11:45-12:00 : Paul Carter (Portsmouth) - Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at Low Redshift
12:00-12:15 : Darsh Kodwani (Oxford) - Initial conditions of the universe: Any sign of the sine mode?
12:15-12:30 : Max Foxley-Marrable (Portsmouth) - Cosmic Explosions under a Magnifying Glass
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12:30-13:30 : Lunch
13:30-14:00 : Speed Networking Session
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Session 3: Cosmology
Chair - Sam Billington
14:00-14:15 : Steve Cunnington (Portsmouth) - Intensity Mapping: A new way of seeing the Universe
14:15-14:30 : Elizabeth Swann (Portsmouth) - The Time Domain Extra Galactic Survey
14:30-14:45 : Garreth Martin (Hertfordshire) - Ultra diffuse galaxies in cosmological simulations
14:45-15:00 : Charalambos Pittordis (Queen Mary) - Testing Gravity via Wide Binaries
15:00-15:45 : Coffee Break
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Session 4: Stars and Star Formation
Chair - Justyn Campbell-White
16:45-16:15 : Invited Talk from Joana Oliveira (Keele) - Characterising Massive Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds
16:15-16:30 : Tanveer Bhachu (Kent) - Simulating Prolate Cloud Collapse with GANDALF
16:30-16:45 : Dean Roberts (Open) - Rapid response gravitational wave follow-up with the PIRATE robotic telescope
16:45-17:00 : Wrap up
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19:00 - 20:30 : Conference Dinner (B38 Hartley Suite)
21:00 : Social Event (Brewhouse & Kitchen)
Friday 23rd March:
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08:00-09:30 : Breakfast (B38 Terrace Restaurant)
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Session 5: Planets and Low-Mass Stars
Chair - Sam Billington
09:30-10:00 : Invited Talk from Aleks Scholz - The Formation of Hostile Worlds
10:00-10:15 : Maksym Lisogorskyi (Hertfordshire) - Measuring the radial velocity of Alpha Centauri
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10:15-10:45 : Careers Advice Q&A
10:45-11:15 : Coffee Break
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Session 6: Joint Session - Particle Physics and Astronomy
Chair - Simon King
11:15-12:00 : Invited Talk from Francesco Shankar (Southampton) - Semi-empirical techniques to unveil the properties of both galaxies and their host dark matter haloes
12:00-12:30 : Discussion Session
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12:30-13:30 : Lunch
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Session 7: Galaxies
Chair - Ben Mawdsley
13:30-14:00 : Invited Talk from Michael Merrifield (Nottingham) - Galaxies in Many Dimensions
14:00-14:15 : Vijay Mahatma (Hertfordshire) - The Dynamics & Energetics of RL-AGN
14:15-14:30 : Lucy Newnham (Portsmouth) - HI Morphology of Strongly Barred Galaxies
14:30-14:45 : Joanna Ramasawmy (Hertfordshire) - Do black holes regulate the growth of massive galaxies?
14:45-15:15 : Coffee Break
15:15-15:30 : Peter Boorman (Southampton) - Brave NuLANDS for X-ray Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei
15:30-15:45 : David Williams (Southampton) - High resolution radio observations of the nuclear regions of nearby galaxies with the LeMMINGs survey
15:45-16:00 : Wrap up
16:00 : Conference End