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14

Oct

Retention of Surface Water on Rocky Planets in the Venus Zone

Speaker:

Yueyun Ouyang (University of Oxford / Peking University)

Time:

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026 - 12:15 to 12:40

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom

14

Oct

From equation of state to escaping wind: a rocky planet as one thermodynamic system

Speaker:

Mara Attia (University of Groningen)

Time:

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026 - 12:40 to 13:05

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom

15

Oct

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

Dr Miles Cranmer

Time:

Thursday, 15 October, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

Venue:

Room A, The West Hub, Cambridge

15

Oct

Beyond the isolated prestellar core: a multi-scale view on protoplanetary disk formationTitle to be confirmed

Speaker:

Michael Küffmeier, Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

Time:

Thursday, 15 October, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy

16

Oct

The search for a new population of strong gravitational lenses with JWST

Speaker:

Natalie Hogg (IoA)

Time:

Friday, 16 October, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

16

Oct

A three-phase ISM model for cosmological simulations

Speaker:

Benedikt Diemer (University of Maryland)

Time:

Friday, 16 October, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

22

Oct

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

Dr Matt Kenzie

Time:

Thursday, 22 October, 2026 - 13:00 to 14:00

Venue:

Room A, The West Hub, Cambridge

22

Oct

Stress-testing the standard cold dark matter paradigm

Speaker:

Priyamvada Natarajan, Chair, Department of Astronomy; Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy & Professor of Physics; Director, The Franke Program in Science & the Humanities, Yale University

Time:

Thursday, 22 October, 2026 - 15:00 to 16:00

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy

23

Oct

Evolution of the stellar mass function, GAMA to 4MOST and beyond

Speaker:

Angus Wright (Ruhr University Bochum)

Time:

Friday, 23 October, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:30

Venue:

29

Oct

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

Professor Florian Markowetz (CRUK Cancer Institute)

Time:

Thursday, 29 October, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

Room A, The West Hub

30

Oct

AGN with jets: high dynamic range imaging reveals hidden feedback structures

Speaker:

Vijay Mahatma (Cavendish)

Time:

Friday, 30 October, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

05

Nov

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

https://minesoft.com/

Time:

Thursday, 5 November, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

Room A. The West Hub, Cambridge

05

Nov

Electromagnetic searches after gravitational waves with Pan-STARRS, ATLAS... and Rubin! to be confirmed

Speaker:

Matt Nicholl, Queen’s University Belfast

Time:

Thursday, 5 November, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy

06

Nov

Decrypting the interstellar medium of high-redshift galaxies with synthetic observations

Speaker:

Nicholas Choustikov (KICC)

Time:

Friday, 6 November, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

12

Nov

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

Alex Matthew ( cusp.ai)

Time:

Thursday, 12 November, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

Room A. The West Hub

12

Nov

JWST observations of galactic star-forming regions: discoveries & mysteries

Speaker:

Mark McCaughrean, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg

Time:

Thursday, 12 November, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy

13

Nov

Stellar and Gas Dynamics Near Supermassive Black Holes: Lessons from the Galactic Center

Speaker:

Yuri Levin (Columbia)

Time:

Friday, 13 November, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

19

Nov

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

https://www.optiver.com/

Time:

Thursday, 19 November, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

Room A, The West Hub, Cambridge

20

Nov

At the Cutting Edge of Chemical Enrichment in High-z Galaxies with JWST

Speaker:

Yuki Isobe (KICC/Cavendish)

Time:

Friday, 20 November, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Ryle Seminar Room, KICC + online

26

Nov

Title to be confirmed

Speaker:

Someone from Amazon,com

Time:

Thursday, 26 November, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: