Keele Astrophysics Group

Seminar Programme


The seminars are on Wednesdays at 4.00 p.m. in the Lennard-Jones lecture hall (LJ1.75) and sometimes in the LJ Library (LJ1.25). All welcome.

The Group also has a programme of Journal Club & Short Talks on Wednesdays from 3:15pm usually in LJ1.25.

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2011-2012 Programme

  • 14 September 2011, 4pm LJ1.75
    Dr Nozomu Tominaga
    Konan University, Kobe, Japan
    Core-collapse supernovae: nucleosynthesis and shock breakout

  • 23 November 2011, 4pm LJ1.75
    Dr Ulrich Kolb
    The Open University, Milton Keynes
    Towards a Galactic model of exoplanet mimics

  • PUBLIC SEMINAR: 1 February 2012, 4pm LJ1.75
    Dr Lewis Dartnell
    University College London
    Biological constraints on habitability and the origin of life

  • 22 February 2012, 4pm LJ1.75
    Prof William Chaplin
    University of Birmingham
    Asteroseismology of solar-type stars with the NASA Kepler Mission

  • PUBLIC SEMINAR: 2 May 2012, 4pm LJ1.75
    Prof Didier Queloz
    Geneva Observatory (CH)
    Exo-planets (TBA)