Lunchtime Meetings

Lunch meetings take place every Tuesday lunchtime during term-time. They feature talks by ICG members, attended by the whole group, and alternate between descriptions of own research and journal reviews.
Time and place: 11:55 am, Dennis Sciama Building, 2nd floor, room 2.14
Organisers: Davide Bianchi, Alkistis Pourtsidou
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• Monday Lunch Talk on April 3, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Talk – Rahma Alfarsy on March 13, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk on March 6, 2023 12:00 am
• Monday Lunch Talk on February 27, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunchtime Talk on February 20, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk on February 13, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Session – Lisa Rhodes on February 6, 2023 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk – Dr Chris Lovell on December 5, 2022 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk – Charlie Hoy on November 21, 2022 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk – Prof Claudia Maraston on November 14, 2022 12:00 pm
• Monday Lunch Talk: David Bacon on November 7, 2022 12:00 pm
• MLT: Dr Jen Gupta on October 24, 2022 12:00 pm
• Meet The Group on October 17, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dr. James Trayford – Sonification & Immersive Technology on June 13, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dr. Caroline Bertemes (Heidelberg University) on June 6, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dr. Keir Rogers (University of Toronto) on May 30, 2022 12:00 pm
• Liz Brindley – Open Access & the Library on May 23, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dr. James Trayford – Sonification on May 16, 2022 12:00 pm
• Daniel Ballard on May 9, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dr. Robert Lilow on April 25, 2022 12:00 pm
• Coleman Krawczyk on April 4, 2022 12:00 pm
• José Fonseca on March 28, 2022 12:00 pm
• Nic Bonne – Tactile Universe on March 21, 2022 12:00 pm
• Alessio Apurio Mancini on March 14, 2022 12:00 pm
• Cosmology around the World on March 7, 2022 12:00 pm
• Dan Ballard on February 28, 2022 12:00 pm
• Connor Weaving on February 21, 2022 12:00 pm
• Joe Jackson on February 14, 2022 12:00 pm
• Rafaela Gsponer on February 7, 2022 12:00 pm
• Arthur Tolley on January 31, 2022 12:00 pm
• Eva-Maria Müller on January 24, 2022 12:00 pm
• Eva-Maria Müller – postponed on January 10, 2022 12:00 pm
• Chris Pattison on December 13, 2021 12:00 pm
• Lisa Kelsey on December 6, 2021 12:00 pm
• Mark Magee on November 29, 2021 12:00 pm
• Karina Rojas on November 22, 2021 12:00 pm
• Andrew Gow on November 15, 2021 12:00 pm
• Equality Diversity and Inclusion – David Bacon on November 8, 2021 12:00 pm
• Careers in Astronomy – Claudia Maraston on November 1, 2021 12:00 pm
• Outreach and Public Engagement at the ICG – Nicolas Bonne on October 25, 2021 12:00 pm
• Meet the Group on October 11, 2021 12:00 pm
• Daniela Saadeh on May 25, 2021 12:00 pm
• Lucia Fonseca de la Bella on May 18, 2021 12:00 pm
• James Trayford – Sonification on May 11, 2021 12:00 pm
• David Bacon – Global Cosmology on March 16, 2021 12:00 pm
• Bartolomeo Fiorini on March 9, 2021 12:00 pm
• Chakkrit Kaeonikhom on March 2, 2021 12:00 pm
• Lorenza Nanni on February 23, 2021 12:00 pm
• Robyn Muñoz on February 16, 2021 12:00 pm
• Philipp Sudek on February 9, 2021 12:00 pm
• Jamie Donald-McCann on January 26, 2021 12:00 pm
• Anut Sangka on January 19, 2021 12:00 pm
• Virginia Ajani on January 12, 2021 12:00 pm
• Luke Hart on January 5, 2021 12:00 pm
• Peter Clark on December 15, 2020 12:00 pm
• Dr. Eleni Vardoulaki on December 8, 2020 12:00 pm
• Gareth Davies on December 1, 2020 12:00 pm
• James Trayford on November 24, 2020 12:00 pm
• Ronaldas Macas on November 17, 2020 12:00 pm
• Jennifer Gupta – Outreach and Public Engagement on November 10, 2020 12:00 pm
• David Bacon – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on November 3, 2020 12:00 pm
• South Coast Cosmology Meeting (virtual) on October 27, 2020 9:50 am
• Claudia Maraston – Careers in Academia on October 20, 2020 12:00 pm
• Natalie Hogg on June 30, 2020 12:00 pm
• Minas Karamanis on May 19, 2020 12:00 pm
• Gill Prosser – IAA talk on May 12, 2020 12:00 pm
• Lewis Hill on May 5, 2020 12:00 pm
• Glenn Harris – Senior Media Manager on April 28, 2020 12:00 pm
• Director’s lunch with postdocs on April 21, 2020 12:00 pm
• Coleman Krawczyk on March 31, 2020 12:00 pm
• Gill Prosser – Projects supported by ICG’s Impact Accelerator Account on March 24, 2020 12:00 pm
• [Postponed] Launch of the Quantum Science and Technology Hub on March 17, 2020 12:00 pm
• Olivier Edy on March 10, 2020 12:00 pm
• Connor McIssac on March 3, 2020 12:00 pm
• Laura Iacconi (ICG) on February 25, 2020 12:00 pm
• Improving your network skills on February 18, 2020 12:00 pm
• Guilherme Brando on February 11, 2020 12:00 pm
• Andrew Williamson (ICG) on February 4, 2020 12:00 pm
• Robert Hardwick on January 28, 2020 12:00 pm
• Simone Mozzon on January 21, 2020 12:00 pm
• Justus Neumann (ICG) on December 10, 2019 12:00 pm
• Christine Farrugia on December 3, 2019 12:00 pm
• Ginevra Favole (ICG) on November 19, 2019 12:00 pm
• Lesley Lee on November 12, 2019 12:00 pm
• Nicola Hobson – Mindfulness on November 5, 2019 12:00 am
• David Bacon – Athena SWAN on October 29, 2019 12:00 pm
• Claudia Maraston – Careers on October 22, 2019 12:00 pm
• Jen Gupta – Stargazing Events: What, Why, How on October 15, 2019 12:00 pm
• Meet the Group on October 8, 2019 12:00 pm
• Meet the Group on October 7, 2019 12:00 pm
• Tjonnie Li on July 2, 2019 12:00 pm
• Or Graur (Harvard) on June 25, 2019 12:00 pm
• –cancelled– on June 18, 2019 12:00 pm
• Felipe Oliveira Franco on May 28, 2019 12:00 pm
• Tania Barone on May 16, 2019 12:00 pm
• Michael Kenna-Allison on May 7, 2019 12:00 pm
• Gill Prosser on April 30, 2019 12:00 pm
• Bill Wright on April 9, 2019 12:00 pm
• Maria Vincenzi on April 2, 2019 12:00 pm
• Directors Lunch with PhD students on March 26, 2019 12:00 pm
• Jason Rhodes (WFIRST) on March 19, 2019 12:00 pm
• Julian Bautista on March 12, 2019 12:00 pm
• Mike Pink [UoP Wellbeing Services] on March 5, 2019 12:00 pm
• Jon Emery [LSHTM] on February 26, 2019 12:00 pm
• Andrius Tamosiunas on February 19, 2019 12:00 pm
• David Wilding on Twitter in academia on February 12, 2019 12:00 pm
• Claudio Llinares on February 5, 2019 12:00 pm
• Nicolas Bonne on January 29, 2019 12:00 pm
• Natalie Hogg on January 22, 2019 12:00 pm
• Mike Wang on January 15, 2019 12:00 pm
• Sam Lawrence on December 11, 2018 12:00 pm
• Satadru Bag (IUCAA) on December 4, 2018 12:00 pm
• Samantha Youles on November 27, 2018 12:00 pm
• Cordi Scott – ICG outreach on November 20, 2018 12:00 pm
• Claudia Maraston on November 13, 2018 12:00 pm
• –cancelled– on November 6, 2018 12:00 pm
• –cancelled– on October 30, 2018 12:00 pm
• David Bacon on October 23, 2018 12:00 pm
• Meet the group on October 9, 2018 12:00 pm
• Jianhui Lian on June 5, 2018 12:00 pm
• Michael McCabe–The Cracking of an Interstellar Mystery – A Personal Perspective on May 29, 2018 12:00 pm
• Peter Boorman on May 22, 2018 12:00 pm
• Alessio Spurio Mancini on May 15, 2018 12:00 pm
• Violeta Gonzalez-Perez on May 8, 2018 12:00 pm
• Steve Cunnington–Observational Cosmology: The Rise of the Radio Survey on April 24, 2018 12:00 pm
• Accretion Rates of the First Quasars — Sam Patrick on April 17, 2018 12:00 pm
• The details in the DEVILS: Exploring the co-evolution of galaxies and halos over the last 8 billion years – Luke Davies (University of Western Australia) on April 10, 2018 12:30 pm
• Updates from the OzDES survey – Anais Moller (Australian National University) on April 10, 2018 12:00 pm
• Max Foxley-Marrable on March 27, 2018 12:00 pm
• Tim Lingard on March 20, 2018 12:00 pm
• Obinna Umeh on March 13, 2018 12:00 pm
• Coleman Krawczyk on March 6, 2018 12:30 pm
• Dida Markovic on February 13, 2018 12:00 pm
• Chris Pattison on February 6, 2018 12:00 pm
• William Wright on January 30, 2018 12:00 pm
• Mark Linton on January 23, 2018 12:00 pm
• Emir Gumrukcuoglu on January 16, 2018 12:00 pm
• Danny Goldstein (Berkeley) on January 9, 2018 12:00 pm
• Roy Maartens on December 12, 2017 12:00 pm
• Jen Gupta-ICG outreach on December 5, 2017 12:00 pm
• Directors Lunch on November 28, 2017 12:00 pm
• ICG discussion about moving physics activity currently in SEES to the Faculty of Technology and its relation to the ICG on November 21, 2017 12:00 pm
• Dan Whalen-Careers (CV and job application writing) on November 14, 2017 12:00 pm
• Eleonora Villa (SISSA)-Theoretical systematics in galaxy clustering in LCDM and beyond on November 7, 2017 12:00 pm
• Athena Swan on October 31, 2017 12:00 pm
• Pure and open access on October 24, 2017 12:00 pm
• Careers (CV and job application writing) on October 17, 2017 12:00 pm
• Meet the group on October 10, 2017 12:00 pm
• Hayley Macpherson (Monash University, Melbourne), “Inhomogeneous cosmology in an anisotropic Universe” on July 11, 2017 12:00 pm
• Jianhui Lian on July 4, 2017 12:00 pm
• Ross Hart, Univ. of Nottingham on June 27, 2017 12:00 pm
• Wojciech Hellwing: Non-standard cosmological tests of gravity on June 20, 2017 12:00 pm
• Victoria Yankelvich, University of Bonn–“Cosmological forecast for the galaxy bispectrum with Euclid” on June 13, 2017 12:00 pm
• Marco Bruni on May 30, 2017 12:00 pm
• Hans Winther, “Fast approximate methods for simulations of structure formation” on May 23, 2017 12:00 pm
• Florent Leclercq on May 16, 2017 12:00 pm
• Directors lunch on May 9, 2017 12:00 pm
• Russell Johnston, Rank Group, “Astronomy 2 Data Science: Life After Research” on May 2, 2017 12:00 pm
• Santiago Avila: Modelling the clustering of the Dark Energy Survey Y1-BAO galaxy sample on March 28, 2017 12:00 pm
• Lucy Newnham: HI Analysis of Strongly Barred Galaxies on March 21, 2017 12:00 pm
• Ben Mawdsley: “Mass mapping with weak lensing” on March 14, 2017 12:00 pm
• Robert Hardwick on March 7, 2017 12:00 pm
• Taniya Parikh on February 28, 2017 12:00 pm
• Paul Carter on February 21, 2017 12:00 pm
• Pierandrea Guarnieri on February 14, 2017 12:00 pm
• Julien Peloton (U. Sussex) on February 7, 2017 12:00 pm
• Athena Swan and Project Juno, Daniel Thomas on January 24, 2017 12:00 pm
• Ed Macaulay: Supernova Cosmology – Not Just w on January 17, 2017 12:00 pm
• UoP Vice-Chancellor Graham Galbraith, “University of Portsmouth Strategy” on January 10, 2017 12:00 pm
• Benedict Kalus: fNL Constraints from the Galaxy Power Spectrum on December 13, 2016 12:00 pm
• Bonnie Zhang, “A blinded determination of H_0 from supernovae” and Samuel Hinton, “Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for Supernova Cosmology” on December 6, 2016 12:00 pm
• Dark energy interactions and the CMB – LSS tension on November 29, 2016 12:00 pm
• Neal Ó Riain, Pivigio, data science on November 22, 2016 12:00 pm
• Nic Bonne– What Galaxy Zoo 2 luminosity functions can tell us about the local Universe galaxy population and the science and motivation behind the Tactile Universe project on November 15, 2016 12:00 pm
• Chris Lawrence on November 8, 2016 12:00 pm
• Calum Meredith on November 1, 2016 12:00 pm
• Isabel Oldengott, Bielefeld, “Reionization and dark matter decay” on October 25, 2016 12:00 pm
• Jennifer Gupta: The ICG’s Outreach and Public Engagement Programme on October 18, 2016 12:00 pm
• Meet the Group on October 11, 2016 12:00 pm
• Measuring RSD in deep redshift surveys on July 19, 2016 12:00 pm
• Fuelling mechanisms and star formation in low redshift AGN on July 5, 2016 12:00 pm
• Strong lensing: New science from current and future optical surveys on June 21, 2016 12:00 pm
• Uncovering the origin of quenched dwarf galaxies using MaNGA on June 14, 2016 12:00 am
• Testing gravity using astrophysics on May 31, 2016 12:00 pm
• Solar sails: missions and orbits on May 24, 2016 12:00 pm
• Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity on May 17, 2016 12:00 pm
• A hands-on session on the Millennium Data base on April 26, 2016 12:00 pm
• Relativistic, Nonlinear Effects on Large Scales on April 19, 2016 12:00 pm
• Redshift-space Power Spectrum in Modified Theory of Gravity on March 22, 2016 12:00 pm
• Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) on March 15, 2016 12:00 pm
• The Intrinsic Matter Bispectrum on March 8, 2016 12:00 pm
• Combining Photometric and Spectroscopic Probes: Is there a same sky benefit? on March 1, 2016 12:00 pm
• Matthew Withers on March 1, 2016 11:55 am
• Seb Oliver on February 23, 2016 11:55 am
• Cosmological Investigations with the Bispectrum on February 16, 2016 11:55 am
• The role of abelian symmetry breaking in infrared modifications of gravity on February 9, 2016 12:00 pm
• Introduction to the Zooniverse project builder on January 26, 2016 12:00 pm
• Selecting Superluminous Supernovae in Large Surveys on January 19, 2016 12:00 pm
• The stochastic background of gravitational waves due to the f-mode instability in neutron stars on January 12, 2016 12:00 pm
• Galaxies Before and During the Epoch of Reionization on December 15, 2015 12:00 pm
• Bayesian large-scale structure inference and cosmic web analysis on December 8, 2015 12:00 pm
• Stellar population gradients as a function of environment on December 1, 2015 12:00 pm
• Probing the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy: from the Local Group to the Local Universe on November 24, 2015 12:00 pm
• The nature of voids: theory, simulation and cosmology on November 17, 2015 12:00 pm
• Cosmological large-scale flows in the light of Newton theory and General Relativity on November 10, 2015 12:00 pm
• Data Science on November 3, 2015 12:00 pm
• Engaging schools and the public with ICG research on October 27, 2015 12:00 pm
• It’s that time of year again! on October 20, 2015 11:55 am
• Meet the group on October 13, 2015 11:55 am
• TBD on July 28, 2015 12:00 pm
• TBD on July 21, 2015 12:00 pm
• TBD on July 14, 2015 12:00 pm
• Weak lensing using Type Ia Supernovae on July 7, 2015 12:00 pm
• The VIPERS view of galaxy and large-scale structure properties at z~1 on June 30, 2015 12:00 pm
• Light neutrinos in Cosmology on June 23, 2015 12:00 pm
• Introduction to Massive Gravity on June 16, 2015 12:00 pm
• The role of bars in disk galaxy evolution on June 9, 2015 12:00 pm
• Where are all the Obscured High-z Quasars, And What’s JWST going to point at? on June 2, 2015 12:00 pm
• The challenging quest for dark matter substructure on May 26, 2015 12:00 pm
• Cancelled on May 19, 2015 12:00 pm
• The influence of disk stability on star formation in spiral galaxies on May 12, 2015 12:00 pm
• Archiving post-prints using Pure: Making your publications eligible for REF 2020 on May 5, 2015 12:00 pm
• What shapes the local Universe galaxy luminosity function? on April 28, 2015 12:00 pm
• Challenges and Opportunities of Machine Learning on April 21, 2015 12:00 pm
• Title1: Do we need model-dependent covariances when we test cosmological models with galaxy power spectra?/ Title2: Neutron star structure in the presence of conformally coupled scalar fields on April 14, 2015 12:00 pm
• TBD on March 31, 2015 12:00 pm
• Quenched galaxies in isolation on March 24, 2015 12:00 pm
• What has Planck taught us about inflation? on March 17, 2015 12:00 pm
• A Higgs Mechanism For Vector Galileons on March 10, 2015 12:00 pm
• Lagrangian coordinate approaches for cosmological large-scale flows on March 3, 2015 12:00 pm
• Astrophysical tests of gravity on February 24, 2015 12:00 pm
• Intrinsic correlations in weak lensing on February 17, 2015 12:00 pm
• The UV side of BOSS galaxies & The Dance of Stars on February 10, 2015 12:00 pm
• Spectral Energy Distributions, Dust, and Black Hole Properties: A Statistical, Multi-Wavelength Quasar Analysis on February 3, 2015 12:00 pm
• Putting Cosmological Inflation to the Test on January 27, 2015 12:00 pm
• Unconscious bias – how to improve the quality of your research and students on January 20, 2015 12:00 pm
• TBD on December 9, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBD on December 2, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBD on November 25, 2014 12:00 pm
• ICG Outreach and Public Engagement on November 18, 2014 12:00 pm
• An accurate tool for the fast generation of dark matter halo catalogues on November 11, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBD on November 7, 2014 12:00 pm
• Measuring the galaxy bias, gravity and σ8 using the bispectrum technique on November 4, 2014 12:00 pm
• Cosmology beyond the linear and Newtonian approximations on October 28, 2014 12:00 pm
• Shaping the Future on October 21, 2014 12:00 pm
• The PHAT Survey: Obtaining a Detailed View of Star Clusters and Stellar Populations in M31 on October 20, 2014 12:00 pm
• BigQuery on October 14, 2014 12:00 pm
• Horizon 2020 on June 17, 2014 12:00 pm
• Jeremy Thomas: A-level physics links on June 3, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBA on May 27, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBD on May 20, 2014 12:00 pm
• GRADnet Information on May 13, 2014 12:00 pm
• Speaker: TBD on May 6, 2014 12:00 pm
• Big Data, Big Problems? on April 29, 2014 12:00 pm
• Equality on April 22, 2014 12:00 pm
• Mark Lacy (NRAO): The dark side of quasar evolution on April 1, 2014 12:00 pm
• Speaker: Claire Le Cras on March 25, 2014 12:00 pm
• Speaker: James Etherington on March 18, 2014 12:00 pm
• Speaker: Cullan Howlett on March 11, 2014 12:00 pm
• Speaker: Gong-bo Zhao on March 4, 2014 12:00 pm
• Shaping our Future consultation on February 25, 2014 12:00 pm
• Intrinsic correlations in weak lensing on February 18, 2014 12:00 pm
• Probing galaxy formation and evolution at different cosmic epochs on February 11, 2014 12:00 pm
• Lensing in coupled dark energy models on February 4, 2014 12:00 pm
• Dark matter fractions in massive galaxies with cosmic time on January 28, 2014 12:00 pm
• TBA on January 22, 2014 12:00 pm
• Calibrating Clusters for Cosmology on January 14, 2014 12:00 pm
• Primordial non-Gaussianity in the bispectra of large-scale structure on November 26, 2013 12:00 pm
• Careers on November 19, 2013 12:00 pm
• ICG Outreach on November 12, 2013 12:00 pm
• Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Cosmology: c → ∞ and Beyond on November 5, 2013 12:00 pm
• SONG after PLANCK on October 29, 2013 12:00 pm
• New Vice-Chancellor on October 22, 2013 12:00 pm
• In the Deep, Dark Lyman-alpha Forest: Exploring Dark Energy and Galaxy Formation using the Intergalactic Medium on October 15, 2013 12:00 pm
• Group Members Introduce Themselves on October 8, 2013 12:00 pm
• Prospects for CMB Lensing on September 10, 2013 12:00 pm
• ‘Finding Patterns’ (how art can explore, explain and share) on July 16, 2013 12:00 pm
• Reconstruction of the BAO peak on June 4, 2013 12:00 pm
• How to tame a chameleon for tests of gravity on May 28, 2013 12:00 pm
• Halo mass function in a warm dark matter universe on May 21, 2013 12:00 pm
• TBA on May 14, 2013 12:00 pm
• Science in South Africa and Reconstructing Gravity with Peculiar Velocities on May 7, 2013 12:00 pm
• DES and the search for Superluminous Supernova on April 30, 2013 12:00 pm
• Power of the pattern: mapping cosmological fields using Fourier phase information on April 23, 2013 12:00 pm
• Open Access Publishing on April 16, 2013 12:00 pm
• Easter Break on April 9, 2013 12:00 pm
• Easter Break on April 2, 2013 12:00 pm
• I Love Q (forever) on March 26, 2013 12:00 pm
• Signatures of vector fields during inflation on March 19, 2013 12:00 pm
• Postponed, no talk today on March 12, 2013 12:00 pm
• Sparsely Sampling the Sky: A Bayesian Experimental Design on March 5, 2013 12:00 pm
• No talk today on February 26, 2013 12:00 pm
• Redshift space clustering from the GAMA survey on February 19, 2013 12:00 pm
• The X-ray and Weak Lensing Properties of Galaxy Clusters on February 12, 2013 12:00 pm
• How to measure the growth of structure using redshift space distortions on February 5, 2013 12:00 pm
• Determining precision non-Gaussian trispectrum parameters for mixed adiabatic / isocurvature models and Student Outreach Rep on January 29, 2013 12:00 pm
• Observing an Epoch of Bar Formation in Disc Galaxies with Galaxy Zoo: Hubble on January 22, 2013 12:00 pm
• The Physical Properties of Galaxies from Spectral Fitting on January 15, 2013 12:00 pm
• BigBOSS: A stage IV dark energy redshift survey on January 8, 2013 12:00 pm
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Events from before 2013 are available on our old website here.