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Physics Department Colloquia We particularly encourage PhD, Masters and final year undergraduate students to attend as the speakers have been warned to make their talks accessible and pedagogical. Following the colloquia there will be light refreshments in the common room on level 8. Term 2 | Date | Speaker | Title | | 4pm Wednesday, January 18th, LT1 | Jonathan Flint (Chief Executive of Oxford Instruments) | 100 years of superconductivity | | 4pm Wednesday, February 22nd, LT1 |
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| The colloquia dates for the remainder of the year will be: 16 May and 13 Jun. Space Physics Seminars Organiser: Robert Wicks, Huxley Room 6M69, Ext. 41155. If you are interested in giving a seminar on any space related topic please contact Robert Wicks.
Space Physics seminars take place on Tuesdays at 4pm in Huxley Room 711c unless otherwise stated. Term 2 | Date | Speaker | Title | | 17/01/12 | Rob Wilson (CANCELLED) (LASP, Boulder, CO) | CANCELLED | | 31/01/12 | Lorenzo Matteini (Arcetri, Florence) | Ion kinetics in the solar wind: proton energetics and properties of core-beam distributions | | 07/02/12 | David Tsiklauri (Queen Mary, London) | Particle acceleration by dispersive Alfven waves and Particle-In-Cell modeling of the radio emission of solar super-thermal electron beams. | | 14/02/12 | Kareem Osman (Warwick) | Evidence for Inhomogeneous Heating in the Solar Wind | | 21/02/12 | Space Group Meeting | | | 28/02/12 | Robert Fear (Leicester) | The formation of transpolar arcs | | 06/03/12 | Andrew Bushell (Met Office) | | | 15/03/12 Thursday! | Alexander Russell (Glasgow) | | | 20/03/12 | Andrew Coates (MSSL, UCL) | The comet-solar wind interaction: prospects for Roseta | | 23/03/12 | EASTER HOLIDAY | | | 01/05/12 | Jack Cutler (Imperial) | | | 08/05/12 | Jim Wild (Lancaster) | | (past space physics seminars) Space Group Meeting Imperial College London
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Atmospheric Physics Seminars Organisers: Gabriele Messori, Hannah Nissan, Rhys Parfitt, Huxley Room 714, Ext. 47773.
Atmospheric Physics seminars take place on Tuesdays at 11.30am in Huxley Room 711c unless stated otherwise. (past atmospheric physics seminars) | Date | Speaker | Title | | 4th October | Professor Brian Hoskins, Grantham Institute | "Predictability beyond the deterministic limit" | | 11th October | Dr. Simon Dadson, University of Oxford | "Landscape response to a changing climate" | | 18th October | Dr. Alexandra Weiss, BAS | "Atmospheric process studies in Antarctica"
| | 25th October | Professor Hans Graf, University of Cambridge | "El Nino, Siberian Snow, the Polar Vortex and cold winters" | | 28th October | Dr. Stephen Leroy, Harvard **3pm** | "Inferring Climate Change and Radio Occultation" | | 1st November | Dr. Tim J. Woollings, University of Reading | "Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Atlantic storm track response to climate change" | | 8th November | | | | 15th November | Dr. Fred Prata, Norwegian Institute for Air Research **11am** | "Grounded in Europe – The Science Behind the 2010 Volcanic Ash Crisis" | | 22nd November | Dr. Jean-Baptiste Sallee, BAS | "Mean flow and topography control on surface eddy mixing and water-mass subduction in the Southern Ocean"
| | 29th November | Dr. Stuart Newman, Met Office | "Airborne and satellite observations of volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption" | | 2nd December | Dr. Michaela Hegglin, University of Toronto **11am** | "Towards a one-atmosphere view of chemistry-climate coupling" | | 2nd December | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis **11:30am** | "Atmospheric composition and climate" | | 6th December | Dr. Richard P. Allan, University of Reading | "Current and future changes in the global water cycle"
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| Professor Rowan Sutton, University of Reading | "Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid 1990s and time of emergence of climate signals"
| | 10th January | Dr. K. Giles, CPOM
| "Observing the Arctic sea ice cover and ocean from space: Recent changes from Envisat and the current status of CryoSat-2"
| | 17th January | Dr. Nicola Howe, ESSC Reading
| "Decadal prediction of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: how little do we need to know?" | | 24th January | Dr. Miguel Angel M. Maqueda, National Oceanography Centre | "The dynamics of wind-driven polynyas" | | 31st January | Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT/Oxford
| "Predicting the Ocean Circulation" | | 10th February | Dr. Felix Ng, University of Sheffield **12:00pm** | "Wave structures in the firn of polar ice sheets" | | 17th February | Dr. Richard Reynolds, U.S. Geological Survey **12:00** p.m. Room 741B
| "Iron oxide minerals in atmospheric dust and dust-source sediments—studies of types and properties to assess environmental effects"
| | 21st February | Dr. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading | "Uncertainty in climate projections: from what to when"
| | 28th February | Dr. Paul Holland, BAS |
| | 6th March | Dr. Julie Jones, University of Sheffield |
| | 13th March | Dr. Adrian Hill, Met Office | | | 20th March | Dr. Helen Dacre, University of Reading | | 1st May
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Professor Robin Hogan, University of Reading |
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| 15th May
| Professor Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia |
| | 22nd May | Dr. Samantha Smith, Met Office |
| | 29th May | Professor Eleanor Highwood, University of Reading | | | 5th June | | | | 12th June | | | | 19th June | Professor Gabriele Hegerl, University of Edinburgh
| | | 26th June | Dr. K. Horsburgh, National Oceanography Centre | |
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Organiser: Matthew Ruffoni, Huxley Room 6M56, Ext. 48184.
Group meetings are held regularly on Mondays at 12:30pm in Huxley Room 711c. They feature two 20-minute talks from SPAT members, showcasing the latest research within the group and promoting discussion between space and atmospheric scientists. Feel free to bring your lunch! Speakers for Term 2 Date
| Space Talk
| Atmos Talk
| 9th Jan 2012
| Wicks, Rob
| Ansell, Cathy
| 16th Jan 2012
| Southwood, David
| Farley-Nicholls, James
| 23rd Jan 2012
| O'Brien, Helen
| Dancel, Chris
| 30th Jan 2012
| Mitchell, Jeremy
| Radu, Raluca
| 6th Feb 2012
| Alconcel, Leah
| White, Rachel
| 13th Feb 2012
| Vigren, Erik
| Messori, Gabriele
| 20th Feb 2012
| Pudney, Max
| Belotti, Claudio
| 27th Feb 2012
| Archer, Martin
| Nissan, Hannah
| 5th Mar 2012
| Ruffoni, Matthew
| Russell, Jacqui
| 12th Mar 2012
| Allen, Tony | Haigh, Jo | | 19th Mar 2012 | Forsyth, Bob | Parfitt, Rhys | Speakers for Term 1 Date
| Space Talk
| Atmos Talk
| | 3rd Oct 2011 | Schwartz, Steve | | 10th Oct 2011
| Müller-Wodarg, Ingo | Banks, Jamie
| 17th Oct 2011
| | Czaja, Arnaud & Brindley, Helen | 24th Oct 2011
| Horbury, Tim
| Murray, Jon
| 31st Oct 2011
| Dougherty, Michèle
| Sparrow, Sarah (cancelled)
| 7th Nov 2011
| Oddy, Tim
| Bignell, Ken
| 14th Nov 2011
| Eastwood, Jonathan
| Denamiel, Cléa
| 21st Nov 2011
| Carr, Chris
| Jabry, Dan
| 28th Nov 2011
| Ray, Licia
| O'Reilly, Chris
| 5th Dec 2011
| Galand, Marina
| Pickering, Juliet
| 12th Dec 2011
| Schwartz, Steve
| Toumi, Ralf
| (past group meetings) Grantham Institute Seminars
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