Colloquium
Talks are given in the Duffield Lecture Theatre at Mt Stromlo Observatory and are free to attend. A zoom link is provided for those unable to make it in person.
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Upcoming events
Looking at the ways two synergistic telescopes - ALMA in the submillimeter and JWST in the infrared - are changing our view of where and how dust is produced in early massive galaxies, and what happens to it after they become quiescent.
Past events
The Milky Way’s Past, Present, and Future through an Extragalactic Lens.
Once thought to be clumpy, turbulent systems, high-redshift galaxies are now revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope to host spiral arms, bars, and even thick and thin disks. These discoveries raise fundamental questions about how disk galaxies assemble, how quickly they settle into ordered rotation, and what physical processes shape their long-term evolution.
4HS: Uniform, Wide-area Spectroscopy for Low-z Galaxies Across the Southern Hemisphere.
Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way: exploration and tests of general relativity.
The presence of a supermassive compact object was envisaged fairly quickly after the detection of the radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way in 1974...
Magnetars: The magnetic monsters of the neutron star zoo.
First discovered over 45 years ago, Magnetars are a rare class of slow-spinning neutron stars that are thought to possess the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.
Discovery potential in the era of Small Sats.
It’s never been easier to launch something into space. It’s never been cheaper to get a spacecraft. In this new era of space accessibility, the astronomical community has an exciting opportunity to advance space sciences through small payloads and telescopes on small sats.
Revisiting GW170817 at milliarcsecond scale: high-precision constraints on jet geometry and Hubble’s constant
