Colloquia and Research Seminars
Departmental Colloquia are research talks pitched at the wider physics and astronomy audience (including final year undergraduates). During the eleven weeks of the semester there are three colloquia (nominally one astronomy based, one physics based and one PER based). The research seminars are aimed at postgraduate level and above (two seminars each week - one physics and one astronomy).
Arrangements for the Colloquia are split between the coordinator of the Physics Seminars (Dr Bo Hou) and the Astronomy Seminars coordinator (Dr Orsolya Feher). Please contribute to the seminar programme, instructions are available on the PHYSX Wiki.
[Physics seminar zoom link] [PER seminar registration]
The recordings of previous seminars are avaialabe in the following links.
[Physics seminars]
[Astro seminars]
[PER seminars]
[Xiamen-Cardiff seminars]
Schedule from 16 January 2026 (Show earlier schedule)
| Date | Time | Venue | Series | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 04/02/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | The evolution of the Hubble Sequence with the James Webb Space Telescope, Euclid and Herschel Stephen Eales (Cardiff) |
| Wednesday 11/03/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Seshadri Nadathur (Portsmouth) |
| Wednesday 18/03/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Robin Tress (Lausanne) |
| Wednesday 15/04/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Marie Martig (LJMU) |
| Wednesday 20/05/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Natasha Maddox (Bristol) |
| Wednesday 03/06/2026 | 14:00 | N3.28 | Astro Seminar | TBA Helena Faustino-Vieira (Stockholm) |