RSAA Seminars
List of Past Seminar Talks
| Date | Speaker | 
|---|---|
| 07/04/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Stefan Wagner (University of Heidelberg) The New Frontier of High-Energy Gamma-ray Astrophysics | 
| 01/04/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: TBD | Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia) Modern cosmology: anomalies, damned anomalies and statistics | 
| 31/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Tim Bedding (University of Sydney) A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler | 
| 29/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Melanie Kaasinen | Maryam Anjiri (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) Instabilities of Current-Carrying MHD (non-rotating) Jets | 
| 24/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia) The Universe according to Planck | 
| 17/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: TBD | Melissa Ness (MPIA) The first stellar age map of the Milky Way and beyond. | 
| 15/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Anna Frebel (MIT) A single prolific r-process event preserved in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy | 
| 10/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Anais Moller (RSAA) Detecting and classifying type Ia SNe using only photometry | 
| 08/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Dick Manchester (CSIRO) Pulsars and Gravity | 
| 04/03/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: TBD | Anshu Gupta (RSAA) Radial Distribution of gas-phase metallicities of galaxies in two CLASH clusters at z ~ 0.35 | 
| 01/03/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Melanie Kaasinen | Luke Davies (University of Western Australia) Star Formation, Mergers and the Assembly of Stellar Mass in Galaxies | 
| 26/02/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Central Research Management Division (ANU) Defence Trade Control Act Briefing | 
| 25/02/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Simon Driver (University of Western Australia) The evolution of mass, energy and structure | 
| 19/02/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Francis Bennet | Robert Ward (ANU) Observation by Advanced LIGO of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger | 
| 18/02/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Melanie Kaasinen | Julia Bryant (CAASTRO, U Syd) IFU galaxy studies now and then | 
| 12/02/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Paul Francis (RSAA) MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses) - lessons learned | 
| 11/02/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Melanie Kaasinen | Fan Liu (RSAA) Final Thesis Talk - Chemical signatures of planet formation in field and open cluster stars | 
| 09/02/2016, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Andreas Koch (University of Heidelberg) Bulge vs. Halo: a mixed bag of chemical enrichments | 
| 05/02/2016, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Fiona Panther (RSAA) Odd Shaped Balls - The physics of Rugby | 
| 18/12/2015, 14:00-14:30 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Ben Greene (SERC) CRC for Space Environment Management - Space Environment Research Centre (SERC) | 
| 16/12/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Nobuo Arimoto & Ikuru Iwata (Subaru Telescope NAOJ) Subaru Telescope: current status and strategy toward future | 
| 15/12/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Joao Bento | Jessica Dempsey (JCMT operations manager) JCMT: submillimeter opportunities for Australia with the East Asian Observatory | 
| 11/12/2015, 14:00-14:30 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Melanie Kaasinen | David Nataf (RSAA) Portrayal of and by Women in Hollywood | 
| 10/12/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Christoph Federrath | Phil Hopkins (Caltech) The Diverse Implications of Stellar Feedback for Galaxy Formation | 
| 09/12/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Helga Denes | Yasuo Fukui (Nagoya University) O star formation triggered by cloud-cloud collision (CCC) | 
| 04/12/2015, 09:00-17:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Leslie | Students (various affiliations) Mt Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars | 
| 03/12/2015, 09:00-17:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Leslie | Students (various affiliations) Mt Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars | 
| 01/12/2015, 11:00-12:00 Woolley Seminar Room (NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION!) Host: Joao Bento | Wladimir Banda-Barragan (RSAA) Magnetohydrodynamics of Wind-Cloud Interactions: Filament Formation in the Interstellar Medium | 
| 27/11/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Julie Banfield (RSAA) Panoptes: an online interface for visualisation of data | 
| 26/11/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Ivo Seitenzahl (RSAA) Modelling thermonuclear supernovae - explosion simulations, nucleosynthesis, observables | 
| 24/11/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Christoph Federrath | Michael Burton (UNSW) Carbon in Molecular Clouds - probing the dark molecular gas | 
| 20/11/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Eloise Birchall (RSAA) Masters Thesis Proposal: Signs of Planet Formation in Disks Around Young High-Intermediate Mass Stars | 
| 20/11/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Fiona Panther (RSAA) Thesis proposal talk: An ancient stellar source of the Galactic bulge positron excess | 
| 19/11/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA) Gas and star formation properties of massive galaxies | 
| 13/11/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Hugues Poincelin (RSAA) Beam Transfer Optics and Laser Launch Telescope Design for Space Debris Tracking Adaptive Optics (Masters Research Project Final Presentation) | 
| 12/11/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Elisabete da Cunha (Swinburne) Understanding the most dusty galaxies in the Universe with ALMA | 
| 10/11/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Ortwin Gerhard (MPE) The New Milky Way: Peanut Bulge and Long Bar | 
| 06/11/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Magda Arnaboldi (ESO) The intracluster light in the Virgo cluster core and the mass assembly of the outer halo of NGC 4486 (M87) | 
| 06/11/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Roland Crocker (RSAA) A connection between the ancient bulge stars and a high-energy astrophysical anomaly | 
| 29/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Duane Hamacher (UNSW) The Science of Australian Indigenous Astronomy | 
| 27/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Rebecca Davies (RSAA) Dissecting Galaxies - Separating Emission Excited by Star Formation and AGN Activity | 
| 23/10/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Sean Farrell (Teradata) Life After Astronomy: Data Science as an Alternative Career | 
| 22/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Michael Ireland | Ann Marie Cody (NASA Ames) The Youngest Planets and their Host Stars | 
| 20/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins University) The Structure and Substructure of the Milky Way Galaxy | 
| 16/10/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Frederic Vogt (RSAA) Gas flows and star formation as a consequence of galaxy interaction in compact groups | 
| 13/10/2015, 11:30-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Tomoko Suzuki (NAOJ) Star formation activities of galaxies before the peak epoch explored with [OIII] emission line galaxies at z > 3 | 
| 13/10/2015, 11:00-11:30 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Tadayuki Kodama (NAOJ) Early Environmental Effects in Proto-Clusters at the Cosmic High Noon | 
| 09/10/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | David Nataf (RSAA) Recent Developments in the Study of Interstellar Extinction | 
| 08/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Neil Crighton (Swinburne) Near Pristine Gas in the Early Universe | 
| 02/10/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Kim Vy-Tran (Texas A&M) Tools for Developing a Teaching Philosophy | 
| 01/10/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Kim Vy-Tran (Texas A&M) ZFOURGE & ZFIRE: Galaxy Evolution Over 13 Billion Years | 
| 17/09/2015, 16:00-17:00 Seminar: Department of Quantum Science, held in Psychology G6 Host: Craig Savage | Richard Easther (University of Auckland) Cosmology: Where We Are and What Happens Next? | 
| 17/09/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Christoph Federrath | Daniel Price (Monash) Rings and no spirals - planet formation in action? | 
| 11/09/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Tomaz Zwitter (University of Ljubljana) Dynamical interstellar medium with Gaia and ground-based massive spectroscopic stellar surveys | 
| 02/09/2015, 10:00-11:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Celine d'Orgeville | Jenny Martin (UQ) Gender Equity in Academia - Making it happen | 
| 28/08/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Chris Herron (USyd) Novel probes of magnetised interstellar turbulence from diffuse synchrotron emission | 
| 25/08/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Michael Dopita (RSAA) S7: Probing the Physics of Active Nuclei | 
| 21/08/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Lisa Kewley (RSAA) Keck Update | 
| 21/08/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Elise Hampton (RSAA) Annual Thesis Presentation: The Interplay between star formation, shocks and AGN in merging galaxy systems | 
| 20/08/2015, 14:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Brad Tucker & Rob Sharp (RSAA) Google - LUV (Loon Ultra-Violet) | 
| 14/08/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Michael Childress (RSAA) AWSNAP: The ANU+WiFeS SuperNovA Program | 
| 13/08/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Alan Duffy (Swinburne) First Galaxies and DRAGONS | 
| 07/08/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Adam Rains (RSAA) Annual Thesis Talk | 
| 06/08/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Pablo Saz Parkinson (University of Hong Kong & UCSC) Automatic Classification of Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-ray Sources using Machine Learning Techniques | 
| 04/08/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Luke Shingles (RSAA) Final Thesis Talk: Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis and the Chemical Evolution of Globular Clusters | 
| 31/07/2015, 14:00-14:30 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Celine D'Orgeville & Adam Thomas (RSAA) ALLY program at RSAA | 
| 30/07/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Louise Howes (RSAA) Final Thesis Talk | 
| 28/07/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Christopher Hales (NRAO) Magnetic Fields in Large Scale Structure | 
| 24/07/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Adam Thomas (RSAA) PhD thesis proposal: Constraining AGN properties with integral field spectroscopy of Seyfert galaxies | 
| 17/07/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Bonnie Zhang (RSAA) Annual Thesis Talk | 
| 17/07/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Christopher Owen (RSAA) Annual Thesis Talk | 
| 10/07/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Simon Murphy & Christian Wolf (RSAA) The SkyMapper Test Data Release | 
| 03/07/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Christopher Nolan (RSAA) Annual Thesis Talk | 
| 03/07/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Michael Ireland (RSAA) The Adaptive Optics Upgrade for the CHARA Array | 
| 02/07/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Rowan Edwards (ANU) Databases For Astronomy | 
| 26/06/2015, 09:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Yong | Students (RSAA) Annual student thesis talks | 
| 25/06/2015, 09:00-16:50 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Yong | Students (RSAA) Annual student thesis talks | 
| 19/06/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Joao Bento (RSAA) Update on the status of the RHEA spectrograph | 
| 18/06/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Jason Kalirai (STScI) Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell | 
| 12/06/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Helmut Katzgraber (Texas A&M University, Santa Fe Institute, Coventry University) Beyond Moore's Law: Seeking Quantum Speedup | 
| 12/06/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Brad Tucker (RSAA) Mega-SH0ES | 
| 05/06/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Julia Scharwaechter (Observatoire de Paris) A close look at the ultra-massive black hole in NGC 1277 | 
| 02/06/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Federico Lelli (Case Western Reserve University) The close link between baryons and dark matter in disc galaxies | 
| 29/05/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Peter Teague (Vipac Engineers & Scientists Ltd) How can a PhD in Astronomy prepare you for doing other things in the Real World | 
| 28/05/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | George Zhou (RSAA) Discovering and characterising transiting planets and low mass stars | 
| 21/05/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Raul Jimenez (University of Barcelona) Fundamental physics and observations of the Universe | 
| 15/05/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Michael Childress (RSAA) Measuring the power source for Type Ia supernovae with late time spectra | 
| 14/05/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | David Buckley (SALT) The Long Road to Science with the SALT | 
| 12/05/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Daniela Calzetti (UMass Amherst) Star Formation Across Space | 
| 08/05/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Michael Ireland & Naomi McClure-Griffiths (RSAA) Report on China visit | 
| 08/05/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Shaheen Iqbal (RSAA) Elemental Abundance Patterns in the LMC Field Population around NGC 1846 | 
| 07/05/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Paolo Serra (CSIRO) Neutral hydrogen gas in early-type galaxies: results from the Atlas3D survey | 
| 01/05/2015, 14:00-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Naomi Mathers (RSAA) What's Hiding Behind the Locked Doors? An Insiders Tour of the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) | 
| 28/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Cornelia Lang (University of Iowa) A case study of an unusual molecular cloud in the Galactic Center: Abundant CH3OH Masers but no new star formation in GCM0.253+0.016 | 
| 24/04/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Matthew Coleman (Murray-Darling Basin Authority) From Stellar Streams to Rivers and Streams: Astrophysics in the Murray-Darling Basin | 
| 24/04/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Rob Sharp (RSAA) Weighing black-holes with the Australian Dark Energy Survey | 
| 23/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Helga Denes (RSAA) A wide-field investigation into the HI content of galaxies | 
| 17/04/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Anne Medling (RSAA) Shocks in SAMI Galaxies | 
| 17/04/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Tiantian Yuan (RSAA) The lensed host galaxy of the lensed supernova 'SN Refsdal' at z = 1.49 | 
| 16/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Andrew Glikson (Planetary Science Institute, ANU) Evidence of early heavy asteroid bombardment of Earth during 3.5-2.5 billion years ago | 
| 14/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Daniel Huber (University of Sydney) The Space Photometry Revolution of Asteroseismology & Exoplanets | 
| 10/04/2015, 14:40-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Martin Asplund (RSAA) Discussion on the proposed joint Keck TAC between ANU, Swinburne and Australia | 
| 10/04/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Kai Marquardt (Uni Wuerzburg) Type Ia Supernovae from exploding (Carbon-)Oxygen-Neon White Dwarfs | 
| 10/04/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | John Norris (RSAA) The Lithium Abundances of the Most Metal-poor Stars | 
| 09/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Albert Zijlstra (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics) Life in retirement: old stars in old stellar populations | 
| 02/04/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Jeremy Goodman (Princeton University) Very Massive Stars | 
| 31/03/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Devika Kamath (Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven) A new perspective on single/binary star evolution and nucleosynthesis based on post-AGB and post-RGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds | 
| 27/03/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Luke Shingles (RSAA) Helium-rich stellar and chemical evolution | 
| 27/03/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Richard Scalzo and Fang Yuan (RSAA) Snapshot Supernova | 
| 26/03/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Christoph Federrath | Jennifer Schober (Heidelberg University) The Origin of Strong Magnetic Fields in Galaxies | 
| 24/03/2015, 14:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Stuart Ryder (International Telescopes Support Office, AAO) The changing landscape of Australian 8 metre telescope access | 
| 20/03/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Sarah Sweet (RSAA) Hidden GeMS: observing with the Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system | 
| 19/03/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | David Block (Uni Witwatersrand) The strategy of Edwin Hubble; changing the history of galaxy morphology forever | 
| 18/03/2015, 14:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Brian Boyle (Australian SKA Director, Department of Industry) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Update | 
| 13/03/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Gary Da Costa (RSAA) The Ca II triplet - [Fe/H] or [Ca/H] indicator? | 
| 13/03/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Anshu Gupta (RSAA) Flux Calibration of DEIMOS-KECK data | 
| 12/03/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Ashley Ruiter (RSAA) What are the elusive Type Ia supernova progenitors? Merging white dwarfs check (almost) all the boxes | 
| 06/03/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Michael Ireland (RSAA) Progress on the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) | 
| 06/03/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Brent Groves (RSAA) Heating and Cooling in our Galactic Neighbour, Andromeda | 
| 05/03/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Peter Wizinowich (Keck) Adaptive Optics at W. M. Keck Observatory | 
| 27/02/2015, 14:30-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Elliott Thorn (AITC Intern) EMCCD noise characterisation and beam expander baseplate vibration analysis | 
| 27/02/2015, 14:20-14:30 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Laila Salam Sezin (AITC Intern) Cardboard Prototype of an Optical Instrument designed for Gemini Telescope | 
| 27/02/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | George Zhou (RSAA) Measuring the rotational oblateness of exoplanets with Kepler | 
| 26/02/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Anna Frebel (MIT) The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Segue 1: Is it a surviving first galaxy? | 
| 20/02/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Tammy Roderick (RSAA) Stellar substructures around the Hercules dwarf spheroidal galaxy | 
| 20/02/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Dougal Mackey (RSAA) Slowly-forming star clusters - fact or fiction? | 
| 19/02/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Antonia Rowlinson (CSIRO) Constraining the progenitor and central engine of short GRBs | 
| 13/02/2015, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Matthew Colless (RSAA) The link between structure and kinematics in early-type galaxies - the view from SAMI | 
| 13/02/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Diane Salim (RSAA) An Even More Universal Star Formation Law in Molecular Clouds and Galaxies | 
| 12/02/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Maria Cunningham (UNSW) The probability density function in molecular gas in the G333 and Vela C molecular clouds | 
| 10/02/2015, 11:00-12:00 CSO common room Host: Fang Yuan | Ilana Feain (U Sydney) RadioAstronomy meets RadioTherapy: An inter-disciplinary approach enabling better outcomes for cancer patients around the world | 
| 06/02/2015, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Sarah Leslie (RSAA) A Radio-Optical Study of Resolved Star-Formation in Galaxies from the SAMI Galaxy Survey | 
| 05/02/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Cherie Fishlock (RSAA) Final Thesis Talk: Why should we care about asymptotic giant branch stars? | 
| 30/01/2015, 14:25-14:45 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Mike Bessell (RSAA) The C/O ratio in the ejecta of a primordial supernova | 
| 30/01/2015, 14:05-14:25 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Dipanjan Mukherjee (RSAA) Measuring magnetic field strengths of neutron stars | 
| 30/01/2015, 14:00-14:05 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Phil Dooley (ANU Communications Office) ANU media services | 
| 29/01/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Giorgios Vernardos (Swinburne University) Data Intensive Quasar Microlensing | 
| 27/01/2015, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Mohammad Nawaz (RSAA) Interaction of Hydra A jets with the Intracluster medium | 
| 22/12/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Ian Price | Kimberly Ennico-Smith (NASA) Distant worlds revealed - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reaches the Pluto System in 2015 | 
| 19/12/2014, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Tiantian Yuan | Mo (Emma) Yu (University of Texas at Austin) Probing planet nurseries with rare CO isotopologues | 
| 18/12/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Holger Baumgardt (University of Queensland) The formation of the smallest galaxies | 
| 16/12/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Michele Bannister (University of Victoria) Mapping the Deep: First Discoveries from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey | 
| 11/12/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Dipanjan Mukherjee (RSAA) Accretion on neutron stars: effects on magnetic field evolution and X-ray observations | 
| 05/12/2014, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Daniel Bayliss (RSAA) Final Talk: Transiting Exoplanets | 
| 04/12/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Roland Crocker (RSAA) Unravelling the Milky Way's Giant Gamma-Ray and Radio Lobes | 
| 01/12/2014, 14:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Simon Campbell (Monash University) Towards 21st century stellar models: Star Clusters, Supercomputing, and Asteroseismology | 
| 28/11/2014, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Tomas Ruiz-Lara (University of Granada) Unveiling the stellar content in the outer parts of spiral galaxies | 
| 28/11/2014, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | David Nataf (RSAA) Uncertainties in the Interstellar Extinction and the Cepheid Distance to M101 | 
| 27/11/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Fang Yuan | Andrew Bunker (Oxford University) Finding Distant Galaxies and Determining the Star Formation History of the Universe | 
| 25/11/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Richard Scalzo | Katie Mack (University of Melbourne) Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context | 
| 21/11/2014, 14:20-14:40 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Rebecca Davis (RSAA) The Extended Emission Line Region of the "Green Bean" Galaxy SDSS J2240-0927: a quasar ionization echo illuminating the remnant of a quasar-driven outflow? | 
| 21/11/2014, 14:00-14:20 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Diane Salim (RSAA) Metallicity Calibrations and Gradients in SAMI Star-forming Galaxies | 
| 20/11/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Philip Taylor (University of Hertfordshire) AGN Feedback in Cosmological Simulations | 
| 18/11/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: David Nataf | Kim Venn (University of Victoria, British Columbia) Stellar abundances in dwarf galaxies | 
| 13/11/2014, 14:00-15:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Garth D. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory) A Post-ICRP Update on JWST: Just Four Years to Launch | 
| 11/11/2014, 11:00-12:00 Duffield Lecture Theatre Host: Sarah Sweet | Piet van der Kruit (University of Groningen) The born investigator of the heavens | 







