Sheffield Astronomy

The Astronomy Group seminars are usually organised every second week during the academic semester.

Time:	Wednesday afternoons from 16:00-17:00.
Location:	Media Room (E39; go up one floor from the Hicks building main entrance on Hounsfield Road, enter the Physics and Astronomy department double doors, and turn left almost at the end of the main corridor into a side corridor [after the lift]; E39 is on your left after the next set of double doors).
Contact:	Thijs Kouwenhoven, T.Kouwenhoven@sheffield.ac.uk

Wednesday 23 February 2005
Dr. Daniel Schaerer (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland)

Exploring cosmic renaissance: observations of the first stars and galaxies
Wednesday 16 March 2005
Departmental colloquium
Wednesday 30 March 2005
Dr. Sukyoung Yi (Oxford)

Recent star formation history of elliptical galaxies
Wednesday 13 April 2005
Dr. Sabine Mengel (European Southern Observatory, Germany)

Dynamical masses of young extragalactic star clusters - recent results
Wednesday 20 April 2005 POSTPONED
Dr. Pierre Maxted (Keele)

How good are stellar models? Improved tests with eclipsing binaries
Wednesday 11 May 2005 (moved from 4 May)
Dr. Rene Oudmaijer (Leeds)

Pre-main sequence stars probed at high resolution: disks, accretion and binaries
Wednesday 18 May 2005
Departmental colloquium
Wednesday 1 June 2005
Dr. Nial Tanvir (Hertfordshire)

Recent progress in GRB science: early results from the Swift satellite

Monday 6 June 2005
(Hicks Lecture Theatre 5)

10.00	Dr. Simon Goodwin (Cardiff)	Star formation: from cores to clusters
10.30	Dr. Garrelt Mellema (ASTRON, Netherlands)	Photo-ionized Flows
11.00	Dr. Richard Wilman (Durham)	Cooling and feedback in massive galaxy formation

10.00	Dr. Danny Steeghs (Harvard-CfA, USA)	Mapping accretion physics in interacting binaries
10.30	Dr. Holger Baumgardt (University of Bonn, Germany)	TBD
11.00	Dr. Matthew Jarvis (Oxford)	An observational viewpoint on AGN and galaxy formation