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Colloquia and Talks at Epping.

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Colloquia and Talks at the AAO/ATNF Epping.

The AAO organises frequent colloquia at our Epping headquarters. These are usually held on a Thursday afternoon, normally at 3:30pm, though other dates are occasionally scheduled. We welcome talks from visiting astronomers - if you are passing through Sydney and would like to tell us about your work, please contact Quentin Parker or Daniel Zucker (quentin.parker@mq.edu.au or daniel.zucker@mq.edu.au)

The ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) also organises colloquia at their Epping offices. A schedule for these talks can be found here.

The AAO and ATNF also occasionally organise Joint Colloquia when the speaker is likely to be of interest to both radio and optical communities. These talks will be found in both the list below, and the ATNF schedule.

A list of past speakers can be found here.

Informal Seminars

As well as the more formal colloquia described above, there are a number of informal discussion groups which meet regularly on the ATNF/Radiophysics/AAO grounds. All are welcome to these discussions.

Forthcoming AAO colloquia....

AAO Colloquia



Tuesday, 15 March 2011 3:30 PM

AAO Colloquium, AAO Conference Room

Roger Davies, Oxford

Towards a new paradigm for Early Type Galaxies

Abstract:The SAURON survey of 72 local early type galaxies (ETGs) reveals an unexpected dichotomy of properties that depend on their specific angular momentum. Intrinsic shape, the nature of decoupled cores, age, M/L and ionised gas properties are all found to be significantly different for the ETGs with low specific angular momentum. I will present the SAURON results and report first results from the ATLAS-3D volume limited survey of 260 ETGs which give us a representative view of the local Universe and lead to a re-evaluation of the `handle' of Hubble's tuning fork diagram.



Thursday, 17 March 2011 3:30 PM

AAO Colloquium, AAO Conference Room

Loretta Dunne, Nottingham

Digging up the Dirt on Galaxies with Herschel-ATLAS

Abstract: Herschel-ATLAS is the widest area survey being carried out with the Herschel Space Observatory. It will cover 550 square degrees in 5 FIR/sub-mm bands from 100-500 microns and detect ~200,000 sources out to z~3. One of the main goals of H-ATLAS is to carry out the first benchmark for dust and obscured star formation in the 'local' Universe out to z=0.5 as Herschel is sensitive to all the dust in a galaxy (not just the warm stuff as IRAS was). To make the best use of the Herschel data we have positioned some of our fields in the GAMA regions and there is a great opportunity to link the two surveys in order to understand the dusty galaxies in Herschel-ATLAS. In this talk I will give an overview of the survey and what we are learning about the evolution of dust and obscuration in galaxies over the past 4 billion years.



Friday, 18 March 2011 4:00 PM

AAO Colloquium, AAO Conference Room

Steve Maddox, Nottingham

Galaxy Surveys and Clustering

Abstract: Wide-area galaxy surveys map out the structure of the universe, telling us about cosmology and galaxy formation. Optical surveys from the APM to the 2dF have given evidence for a cosmological constant, baryon oscillations and luminosity bias. The Herschel-ATLAS is a new wide-area survey which will map the sky at 100 to 500 micron wavelengths. The sources detected give a sample of sub-mm galaxies which is very different to optical samples. About a half of the sub-mm sources can be associated to low redshift optical galaxies using a likelihood ratio analysis. The rest are at higher redshift. The clustering of the H-ATLAS shows a mix of local 'normal' galaxies, and a more massive high redshift galaxy population.


 

2010: Recent and Future AAO Colloquia

2009: Recent and Future AAO Colloquia
Date Venue & Time  Speaker Title
14th January 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Stuart Ryder, Gemini Office, AAO Supernovae as revealed by Gemini
22nd January 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Nick Seymour Radio/FIR measurements of star forming galaxies and cosmic evolution.
4th March 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. David Floyd, Univ.Melbourne Quasars from kiloparsec to parsec scales
5th March 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Hugo Messias, Portugal A multi-wavelength approach to the properties of Extremely Red Galaxy populations: contribution to the Star Formation Rate density, AGN content, dust content and morphology.
8th March 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Ranjan Gupta, Pune, India Interstellar Extinction and Modeling of Dust
9th April 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Evelyn Alecian, France Magnetism and rotation in the young Herbig Ae/Be stars
6th May 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Martin Guerrero, Spain Hard X-ray emission from the central stars of Planetary Nebulae
12th May 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Ryan Cooke, UK UM 673: A unique system to study the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems
13th May 2010 AAO Conference room 4:00 p.m. Geoff Clayton, USA The evolutionary history of the R-Coronae Borealis stars
24th May 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Stuart Lumsden, Leeds, UK The RMS Survey - Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way
17th June 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Andrew Hopkins, AAO Galaxy and Mass assembly Survey
19th June 2010 AAO Conference room 4:00 p.m. Pat McCarthy, GMTO director Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project
22nd July 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Stephen Geier, Bamberg Obs The MUCHFUSS project - Searching for the most massive compact companions to hot subdwarf stars (and finding the least massive ones)
28th July 2010 AAO Conference room 4:00 p.m. Craig Harrison, CTIO Searching for fossil groups in the XMM Cluster Survey
29th July 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Rob Proctor, Brazil Probing the 2-D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to 3 effective radii
5th August 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. David Koo, UCO/Lick AEGIS: DEEP's Panchromatic Vista of Distant Galaxies and AGN's
12th August 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Max Spolaor, AAO Early-type galaxies at large galactocentric radii: Metallicity gradients,and the [Z/H]-mass, [alpha/Fe]-mass relations
19th August 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Andy Connolly Looking for one-in-a-million events
25th August 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Ignacio Negueruela, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Massive young stellar clusters in the Milky Way
9th September 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Carsten Weidner, St.Andrews The galaxy-wide IMF - From star clusters to galaxies
17th September 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Isaac Roseboom, Sussex, UK First Results from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES).
23rd September 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Richard Ellis, Caltech Did Galaxies Reionise the Universe?
27th October 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Katie Mack, Kavli Institute/Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge The 21cm Forest
28th October 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Chris Blake, Swinburne The cosmic distance scale and growth rate at z=0.6 from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
9th November 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Anna Moore, Caltech The expanding role of image slicer integral field spectrographs in Astronomical science
18th November 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Joerg Fischera, ANU Why you should care about dust!
23rd November 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Margaret Hanson, Cincinnati Improving mass and age estimates of unresolved Stellar Clusters
24th November 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Warren Brown, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars
26th November 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Gary Hill, Texas The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
7th December 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Sam Barden, NSO The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) Project
16th December 2010 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Nemanja Jovanovic, AAO/Macquarie Integrated photonic pupil remapping for stellar interferometry
10th January 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Andrew Baker, Rutgers Observations of Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies
13th January 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Chiaki Kobayashi, ANU Chemodynamical simulations of elliptical galaxies - metallicity gradients and the fundamental plane
27th January 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Chiara Tonini, Melbourne The hierarchical build-up of the Tully-Fisher relation
3rd February 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Duncan Forbes, Swinburne Galaxy Halos: here be Dragons
10th February 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Michelle Cluver, IPAC/Caltech Powerful H2 Line-Cooling in Stephan's Quintet and the "Death by Debris" Phenomenon in Hickson Compact Groups
17th February 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Sarah Brough, AAO GAMA: from little blue fuzzies to massive red monsters and beyond
21st February 2011 ATNF Lecture Theatre 3:30 p.m. Jonathan Gardner, NASA/GSFC The James Webb Space Telescope
24th February 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Jason Spyromilio, ESO The European Extremely Large Telescope Project
10th March 2011 AAO Conference room 4:00 p.m. Jeremy Mould, Swinburne Mapping the Dark Matter in the Local Universe
15th March 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Roger Davies, Oxford Towards a new paradigm for Early Type Galaxies
17th March 2011 AAO Conference room 3:30 p.m. Loretta Dunne, Nottingham Digging up the Dirt on Galaxies with Herschel-ATLAS
18th March 2011 AAO Conference room 4:00 p.m. Steve Maddox, Nottingham Galaxy Surveys and clustering

AAO Conferences

Current and Past meetings


An international confererence to celebrate the AAO: Past, Present, and Future. The Shire Hall, Coonabarabran, 21 to 25 June 2010

An international workshop in honour of Agnes Acker: Legacies of the Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha Planetary Nebula project; February 16-18th 2009, Sydney, Australia, organised by Macquarie University and the Anglo-Australian Observatory. PASA special workshop proceedings now out June 2010!

Major Topics Covered: PN Surveys, the Galactic distance scale and PN luminosity functions in our Galaxy, the Magellanic clouds and beyond


Daniel Zucker, AAO/Macquarie University