We have an active seminar series for the benefit of MQAAAstro members.
We welcome all astronomers visiting Sydney to come and give us a seminar (and are especially keen for any overseas visitors). Overnight accommodation can be provided if necessary.
Please contact Heath Jones our seminar organiser (heath.jones@mq.edu.au) for further information and assistance.
Seminars usually take place 3pm Fridays in room E6B 2.300, (located on the second floor of the E6B building). It is a 5 min walk from the Macquarie University train station to building E6B, both of which are located on the eastern edge of campus.
This week’s Seminar
Friday 11 December, 2015
Speaker: Daniel MacDonald (Macquarie)
Title: A heuristic approach to fitting dusty disks about asymptotic giant branch stars
Abstract:
Circumstellar disks are believed to play an important role during the final stages of evolution of small to medium mass stars, a phase in which theory does not yet explain observations entirely.
We set out to constrain disk parameters, of which little is known, in the hope of better understanding possible evolutionary paths. We apply numerous genetic algorithms to the fitting of radiative transfer models to interferometric observational data. By doing so, we are able to derive relative likelihood functions for the input parameters, an ability that allows us to better constrain a disk's structure and to ultimately gain understanding in this complex phase of stellar evolution.
Seminar Schedule 2015
Date | Name | Institution | Title (link to Abstract) |
13 February | Davor Krajnovic | Leibniz-Institut for Astrophysics Potsdam | Kinematically distinct cores: the unexplained smoking guns of hierarchical galaxy formation |
20 February | Jan Staff | Macquarie University | Quark stars, quark novae, and how they may relate to gamma-ray bursts |
27 February | Jeremy Goodman | Princeton University | Very Massive Stars |
6 March | Christina Baldwin Greg Goldstein | Macquarie University | Early-Type Galaxy Stellar Populations in the Near-Infrared and Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution in Dwarf Galaxies in the Sami Survey |
13 March | CANCELED | ||
20 March | |||
27 March | Philip Lah | Australian National University | The Cosmic Evolution of Neutral Atomic Hydrogen Gas |
10 April | Glen Rees | Macquarie University | Talk 1: What are Radio-AGN, how common are they and what are they doing to their host galaxies?Talk 2: Determining the the cosmological sensitivity of next generation radio continuum surveys |
17 April | Heath Jones | Macquarie University | |
24 April | Adriano Poci Thomas Reichardt | Macquarie University | What’s the Matter with Galaxies ? and On the importance of understanding the common envelope phase |
1 May | Lee Spitler | Macquarie University | The ZFOURGE survey: the evolution of galaxies since redshift z=4 |
8 May | Heath Jones | Macquarie University | |
15 May | |||
22 May | |||
29 May | Geoffrey Clayton | Louisiana State University | |
5 June | No seminar | Quantum@Macquarie Jam Session | |
12 June | Andy Casey | University of Cambridge | Producing Robust Ensemble Measurements from the Gaia-ESO Survey |
19 June | Cancelled | ||
26 June | |||
3 July | HWWS | ||
10 July | ASA meeting | ||
17 July | Thomas Jarrett Michelle Cluver | University of Cape Town University of the Western Cape | Joint talk: |
24 July | Orsola De Marco | Macquarie University | Binary stars across the mass spectrum; from observations to theory and back |
31 July | Birendra Pandey | Macquarie University | Exoplanets and their migration |
7 August | Neal Turner | JPL | |
14 August | Michael Cowley | Macquarie University | The long road to quiescence: a story of AGN feedback |
21 August | |||
28 August | Erik Kool Danica Draskovic | Macquarie University | The SUNBIRD survey: revealing obscured supernovae with Gemini |
4 September | Jean-Claude Passy | University of Bonn | Confronting Uncertainties in Stellar Physics: calibrating overshooting and quantifying theoretical uncertainties |
11 September |
James Tocknell Shane Vickers |
Macquarie University Macquarie University | The effects of non-ideal MHD on disc-wind solutions of Protoplanetary Discs A homogenised distance catalogue for the Galactic Post-AGB population. |
18 September | |||
25 September | Alessandro Maini | Macquarie University | AGN component in Deep Radio Fields |
2 October | Colin Navin | Macquarie University | Identifying member and ex-member stars of globular clusters. |
9 October | |||
16 October | Matthew Kerr | CASS | From Planets to Gravitational Waves: Latest Results from Parkes Pulsar Timing |
23 October | Mark Wardle | Macquarie University | Magnetic fields in star and planet formation |
28 October (Wed) | Giovanni Carraro | ESO | 3 pm: The Milky Way disk |
30 October | no seminar | ||
November 6 |
Sebastien Ohlmann Friedrich Roepke |
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies | Hydrodynamics of the common envelope phase in binary stars Modeling Type Ia supernovae |
November 13 |
Roberto Iaconi Andrew Lehmann |
Macquarie Macquarie | tba In Search of Lost Shocks |
November 20 | Joanne Dawson | CASS/Macquarie | A Tale of Two Shells (Or: Adventures in Blobology) |
November 30 | no seminar | ||
4 December | Evangelia Ntormousi | Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique | Molecular filament formation in the ISM |
11 December | Daniel MacDonald | Macquarie University | A heuristic approach to fitting dusty disks about asymptotic giant branch stars. |
12 February, 2016 | A ngel R. Lopez-Sanchez | AAO/Macquarie University |