From Swagat.Mishra at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 08:05:42 2025 From: Swagat.Mishra at nottingham.ac.uk (Swagat Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:05:42 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: Andrzej Wereszczynski (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University) Message-ID: Dear All, We have a seminar this week, whose details are provided below - ----------------------------------------- 1. Speaker: Andrzej Wereszczynski (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University) (In-person Seminar) Seminar date: 4th February, Tuesday, 1 pm UK time Venue: Seminar Room A 113 Title: Oscillons from Q-balls through Renormalization Abstract: Using a renormalization-inspired perturbation expansion we show that oscillons in a generic field theory in (1+1)-dimensions arise as dressed Q-balls of a universal (up to the leading nonlinear order) complex field theory. This theory reveals a close similarity to the integrable complex sine-Gordon model which possesses exact multi-Q-balls. We show that the excited oscillons, with characteristic modulations of their amplitude, are two-oscillons bound states generated from a two Q-ball solution. -------------------------------------------------- Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars 11th Feb: Keir Rogers (Imperial) : Axions 18th Feb : John Carlton (King's College) : Atom Interferometers 25th Feb: Qi-Xin Xie (Nottingham) : Q-Ball Superradiance 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators With Regards, -Swagat Swagat Saurav Mishra, Postdoctoral Research Associate ? 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Particle Cosmology and Gravity Seminar Andrzej Wereszczynski (Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University) Oscillons from Q-balls through Renormalization Using a renormalization-inspired perturbation expansion we show that oscillons in a generic field theory in (1+1)-dimensions arise as dressed Q-balls of a universal (up to the leading nonlinear order) complex field theory. This theory reveals a close similarity to the integrable complex sine-Gordon model which possesses exact multi-Q-balls. We show that the excited oscillons, with characteristic modulations of their amplitude, are two-oscillons bound states generated from a two Q-ball solution. Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d --- Wednesday 5th February at 3.45pm, C4 Physics ? Astronomy Seminar Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster) Supernova observations with Euclid, Rubin and TiDES In this talk I will discuss recent results and upcoming prospects for observing distant supernovae. I will begin with a brief summary of previous supernova surveys and the use of Type Ia supernovae in cosmology. I will then focus on the expected advances enabled by the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) which will use the 4MOST instrument to obtain spectra tens of thousands of supernovae and their host galaxies discovered by the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). I will also describe some early results and prospects for supernova science with the Euclid mission, and discuss how the combination of Rubin/LSST, TiDES and Euclid will advance supernova cosmology. --- Thursday 6th February at 1pm, A113 CAPT ? Astronomy Lunch Talk Jimi Harrold Jalaxies: A Semi Analytic Model Factory Semi Analytic Models (SAMs) provide a rich testbed for a wide variety of different astrophysical theories. The ability for SAMs to produce large galaxy catalogues within reasonable timeframes, even on moderate hardware, enables rapid refinement of novel galaxy evolution models as well as the ability to quickly produce companion mock surveys matching the parameters of new observations. However, SAMs still suffer the same problem much of astronomy is encumbered by: too much data and too little manpower to process it. The requirement for SAMs to be performant (often being programmed in immensely optimized C, C++ or FORTRAN code) inhibit the speed at which an experienced user can make additions and often prevents any users without a strong technical background from using them at all. This issue is accentuated in the era of JWST, where quickly reevaluating our models of galaxy formation in response to unprecedented observations is crucial. I present "Jalaxies", a project that aims to fully decouple the highly optimized core code required by a typical SAM from the actual descriptions of the analytic mechanisms. Jalaxies takes simple pythonic-esque descriptions for each mechanism in a target SAM and produces a fully self-contained, stack optimized, and highly parallel Rust binary. The easy and intuitive adjustments to models that Jalaxies allows, along with support for: both a GUI and a terminal interface, on the fly cosmology rescaling, easily transferable JSON descriptions of the SAM, simple IO optimized tree files, various output types such as lightcones and galaxy trees, and the ability to output directly into numpy compatible file formats, means even the most technophobic astronomer can produce science with Jalaxies the very same day it was downloaded. Thursday 6th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? Particle Cosmology and Gravity Seminar Daniel Canillas Mart?nez (University of Salamanca) Composite Kinks and Q-Balls --- Fridays at 4pm, CAPT Foyer ? CAPT Cakes --- If you have any events/visitors you would like included in next week?s bulletin, please let me know Best wishes Ella Ella Batchelor (she/her) Administrator School of Physics & Astronomy University of Nottingham A112a Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD +44 (0) 115 74 86778 | nottingham.ac.uk [cid:image001.png at 01DB761B.1B735760] Follow us facebook.com/uniofnottingham twitter.com/uniofnottingham youtube.com/nottmuniversity instagram.com/uniofnottingham linkedin.com/company/university-of-nottingham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On Wednesday, the timings of the events are: Arrival ~ 12:30pm Lunch ~ 1:00pm meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30 seminar at 15:45 in C4 post-seminar WINE AND CHEESE Isobel will have a bit of free time during the day, so if anyone would like to meet with her, please let me know. Cheers, Jesse and Luke Abstract: In this talk I will discuss recent results and upcoming prospects for observing distant supernovae. I will begin with a brief summary of previous supernova surveys and the use of Type Ia supernovae in cosmology. I will then focus on the expected advances enabled by the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) which will use the 4MOST instrument to obtain spectra tens of thousands of supernovae and their host galaxies discovered by the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). I will also describe some early results and prospects for supernova science with the Euclid mission, and discuss how the combination of Rubin/LSST, TiDES and Euclid will advance supernova cosmology. Jesse Golden-Marx, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory School of Physics & Astronomy University of Nottingham University Park, Nottingham, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Elizabeth.Taylor at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 3 10:32:34 2025 From: Elizabeth.Taylor at nottingham.ac.uk (Elizabeth Taylor) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 10:32:34 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Kellie's Viva Meal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, Today is the last day you can sign up for the meal if you haven?t done so already! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 20 January 2025 13:45 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Fw: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, Friendly reminder to fill out this form (if you haven't done so already) if you would like to come to Kellie's viva meal! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 06 January 2025 10:20 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, I hope everyone had a festive holiday period and a happy new year! On February 11th, our very own Kellie will become Dr. de Vos, and we will be going to Bohns Best Burgers (menu here) to celebrate that evening at 6:30pm. If you would like to come, please fill in this form asap: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewgywrlK3av9lB-3crleldCn6R-vqdhKl4NJSxHwHvXoskCg/viewform?usp=header No preorders or deposits are necessary, however there is a maximum of 35 attendees, so sign up soon! 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Title and abstract are below: Jalaxies: A Semi Analytic Model Factory Semi Analytic Models (SAMs) provide a rich testbed for a wide variety of different astrophysical theories. The ability for SAMs to produce large galaxy catalogues within reasonable timeframes, even on moderate hardware, enables rapid refinement of novel galaxy evolution models as well as the ability to quickly produce companion mock surveys matching the parameters of new observations. However, SAMs still suffer the same problem much of astronomy is encumbered by: too much data and too little manpower to process it. The requirement for SAMs to be performant (often being programmed in immensely optimized C, C++ or FORTRAN code) inhibit the speed at which an experienced user can make additions and often prevents any users without a strong technical background from using them at all. This issue is accentuated in the era of JWST, where quickly reevaluating our models of galaxy formation in response to unprecedented observations is crucial. I present "Jalaxies", a project that aims to fully decouple the highly optimized core code required by a typical SAM from the actual descriptions of the analytic mechanisms. Jalaxies takes simple pythonic-esque descriptions for each mechanism in a target SAM and produces a fully self-contained, stack optimized, and highly parallel Rust binary. The easy and intuitive adjustments to models that Jalaxies allows, along with support for: both a GUI and a terminal interface, on the fly cosmology rescaling, easily transferable JSON descriptions of the SAM, simple IO optimized tree files, various output types such as lightcones and galaxy trees, and the ability to output directly into numpy compatible file formats, means even the most technophobic astronomer can produce science with Jalaxies the very same day it was downloaded. 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Kind regards, Jesse ________________________________ From: Astro on behalf of Jesse Golden-Marx Sent: Monday, February 3, 2025 10:31 AM To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Astronomy Seminar 5/2 -- Prof. Isobel Hook Hi Everyone, Our seminar speaker on Wednesday is Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster). She'll be arriving on campus around 12:30. We'll plan to go to lunch at Lakeside Arts around 1pm. If anyone would like to join for lunch, please let me know by tomorrow evening (as usual, we can subsidize a few post-graduate students). Isobel's talk is titled: Supernova observations with Euclid, Rubin and TiDES The abstract is provided below. On Wednesday, the timings of the events are: Arrival ~ 12:30pm Lunch ~ 1:00pm meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30 seminar at 15:45 in C4 post-seminar WINE AND CHEESE Isobel will have a bit of free time during the day, so if anyone would like to meet with her, please let me know. Cheers, Jesse and Luke Abstract: In this talk I will discuss recent results and upcoming prospects for observing distant supernovae. I will begin with a brief summary of previous supernova surveys and the use of Type Ia supernovae in cosmology. I will then focus on the expected advances enabled by the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) which will use the 4MOST instrument to obtain spectra tens of thousands of supernovae and their host galaxies discovered by the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). I will also describe some early results and prospects for supernova science with the Euclid mission, and discuss how the combination of Rubin/LSST, TiDES and Euclid will advance supernova cosmology. Jesse Golden-Marx, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory School of Physics & Astronomy University of Nottingham University Park, Nottingham, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The ability for SAMs to produce large galaxy catalogues within reasonable timeframes, even on moderate hardware, enables rapid refinement of novel galaxy evolution models as well as the ability to quickly produce companion mock surveys matching the parameters of new observations. However, SAMs still suffer the same problem much of astronomy is encumbered by: too much data and too little manpower to process it. The requirement for SAMs to be performant (often being programmed in immensely optimized C, C++ or FORTRAN code) inhibit the speed at which an experienced user can make additions and often prevents any users without a strong technical background from using them at all. This issue is accentuated in the era of JWST, where quickly reevaluating our models of galaxy formation in response to unprecedented observations is crucial. I present "Jalaxies", a project that aims to fully decouple the highly optimized core code required by a typical SAM from the actual descriptions of the analytic mechanisms. Jalaxies takes simple pythonic-esque descriptions for each mechanism in a target SAM and produces a fully self-contained, stack optimized, and highly parallel Rust binary. The easy and intuitive adjustments to models that Jalaxies allows, along with support for: both a GUI and a terminal interface, on the fly cosmology rescaling, easily transferable JSON descriptions of the SAM, simple IO optimized tree files, various output types such as lightcones and galaxy trees, and the ability to output directly into numpy compatible file formats, means even the most technophobic astronomer can produce science with Jalaxies the very same day it was downloaded. 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The topics covered by the school are: ? Dynamics, thermodynamics and chemistry of the intracluster medium (Veronica Biffi, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste) ? The first stars and cosmic reionisation (Andrea Ferrara, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) ? Extra-galactic archeology: understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies from their elemental abundances (Chiaki Kobayashi, University of Hertfordshire) ? Galaxy formation: an observational perspective (Andy Bunker, University of Oxford) ? Measuring star formation rates and morphologies from observational data (Sandro Tacchella, University of Cambridge) ? Galactic outflows (Claudia Cicone, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo) ? Models and simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological context (Andrea Cattaneo, Observatoire de Paris) The programme is already online and the registration deadline is 11th April 2025. 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Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 20 January 2025 13:45 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Fw: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, Friendly reminder to fill out this form (if you haven't done so already) if you would like to come to Kellie's viva meal! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 06 January 2025 10:20 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, I hope everyone had a festive holiday period and a happy new year! On February 11th, our very own Kellie will become Dr. de Vos, and we will be going to Bohns Best Burgers (menu here) to celebrate that evening at 6:30pm. If you would like to come, please fill in this form asap: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewgywrlK3av9lB-3crleldCn6R-vqdhKl4NJSxHwHvXoskCg/viewform?usp=header No preorders or deposits are necessary, however there is a maximum of 35 attendees, so sign up soon! 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The first direct measurement of an island of neutral hydrogen at the end stages of reionisation, z~6, was from the damping wing of the quasar ULAS J0148+0600 (J0148) by Becker et al. 2024. Here we use simulations from Sherwood Relics to assess the expected incidence of quasars with Ly-? and Ly-? absorption similar to the observed J0148 spectrum for different quasar properties and reionisation histories. We find a late end to reionisation at ? = 5.3 is a necessary requirement for reproducing a Ly-? damping wing consistent with J0148, but it is still rare, with our fiducial model producing an observation similar to J0148 in only ~3 per cent of lines of sight. We speculate this is because the ionising emission from J0148 is variable on timescales ? < 10^5 yr, or alternatively that the Ly-? transmission in the J0148 near zone is impacted by the transverse proximity effect from nearby star-forming galaxies or undetected quasars. We also assess the efficacy of the method used to find the neutral island in Becker 24, finding that an observation such as J0148 is very likely due to a neutral island, however many neutral islands are also missed with this analysis of the quasar damping wing. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ella.Batchelor at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 10 10:52:17 2025 From: Ella.Batchelor at nottingham.ac.uk (Ella Batchelor) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:52:17 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] CAPT Weekly Bulletin (w/c 10-02-25) Message-ID: Monday 10th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? Theoretical Physics Student Seminar Usama Aqeel Blowing Bubbles in Euclidean Spacetime --- Tuesdays at 11am, CAPT Foyer ? Astro Coffee Tuesdays at 11.30am, A113 CAPT - Astronomy Journal Club Tuesday 11th February at 1pm, A113 CAPT ? Particle Cosmology and Gravity Seminar Keir K Rogers (Imperial) Axions/Dark Matter Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d --- Wednesday 12th February at 3.45pm, C4 Physics ? Astronomy Seminar Emma Puranen (OU) Exoplanets in Science Fiction Science fiction (SF) is a genre influenced by science which, in turn, influences science. Astronomers discovered the first exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) in the 1990s, but exoplanets featured in SF long before then. This talk presents two studies regarding exoplanets in SF. In the first study, a database of 212 SF exoplanets was analysed using a Bayesian network to find interconnected interactions between planetary characterisation features and literary data. Results reveal SF exoplanets designed after the discovery of real exoplanets are less Earth-like, providing statistical evidence that SF incorporates rapidly-evolving science. In the second study, questionnaire data was collected and analysed from participants in a project to create short SF stories in teams of one scientist and one writer. Results show scientific concerns were incorporated into the story creation decision-making process, and suggest an inspirational role for SF towards its readership?s interest in science. Through the use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, I investigate SF's portrayal of exoplanet science, which is crucial for understanding the genre?s potential use in science communication. --- Thursday 13th February at 1pm, A113 CAPT ? Astronomy Lunch Talk Fiona Sawyer How probable is the Ly-? damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600? At the end of the Epoch of Reionisation we expect most of the IGM to be ionized, interspersed with patches of fully neutral hydrogen. The first direct measurement of an island of neutral hydrogen at the end stages of reionisation, z~6, was from the damping wing of the quasar ULAS J0148+0600 (J0148) by Becker et al. 2024. Here we use simulations from Sherwood Relics to assess the expected incidence of quasars with Ly-? and Ly-? absorption similar to the observed J0148 spectrum for different quasar properties and reionisation histories. We find a late end to reionisation at ? = 5.3 is a necessary requirement for reproducing a Ly-? damping wing consistent with J0148, but it is still rare, with our fiducial model producing an observation similar to J0148 in only ~3 per cent of lines of sight. We speculate this is because the ionising emission from J0148 is variable on timescales ? < 10^5 yr, or alternatively that the Ly-? transmission in the J0148 near zone is impacted by the transverse proximity effect from nearby star-forming galaxies or undetected quasars. We also assess the efficacy of the method used to find the neutral island in Becker 24, finding that an observation such as J0148 is very likely due to a neutral island, however many neutral islands are also missed with this analysis of the quasar damping wing. Thursday 13th February at 1pm, Djanogly Theatre - Talk: The Journey to Cosmic Titans ?3 (free concessions) Spend an hour with the exhibition curators and artist Alistair McClymont. Hear the story of our collaboration bringing artists and scientists together to create Cosmic Titans. Click here to book Thursday 13th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? Particle Cosmology Student Journal Club --- Fridays at 4pm, CAPT Foyer ? 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Timings are as usual: - lunch at Lakeside, leaving CAPT ~13:00 (subsidised for a limited number of students -- let me know before the end of the day tomorrow) - meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30 - seminar at 15:45 in C5/C4 - post-seminar wine and cheese at 16:45 This seminar will be conducted in person only. Best, Jesse and Luke _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Elisa.Todarello at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 10 12:26:34 2025 From: Elisa.Todarello at nottingham.ac.uk (Elisa Todarello) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:26:34 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, Here are the title and abstract for tomorrow's talk by Keir Rogers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter Abstract: The fundamental nature of dark matter so far eludes direct detection experiments, but it has left its imprint in the cosmic large-scale structure. Extracting this information requires accurate modelling of structure formation for different dark matter theories, careful handling of astrophysical uncertainties and consistent observations in independent cosmological probes. I will review a multi-scale, multi-epoch test of the nature of dark matter combining observations of the cosmic microwave background, galaxy clustering (redshift z < 2), the Lyman-alpha forest (2 < z < 5) and the high-redshift (z > 5) galaxy UV luminosity function from the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes. I will show that both the S_8 cosmological parameter discrepancy and a new five-sigma tension in inference of the small-scale matter power spectrum can be resolved by a contribution of ultra-light axion dark matter with particle masses ~ 10^-25 eV. I will discuss prospects for adjudicating the viability of dark matter solutions in observations of the galaxy and Milky Way sub-structure distributions in the transformative Vera Rubin Observatory. ________________________________ From: Particles on behalf of Swagat Mishra Sent: 10 February 2025 09:39 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk ; maths-quantum-gravity-group at lists.nottingham.ac.uk ; O365-Gravity Laboratory ; ncog-people at nottingham.ac.uk Cc: Ella Batchelor (staff) ; k.rogers24 at imperial.ac.uk ; Drande Patogu ; Jacob Thornley ; Leonora van Deurs ; bacharya at ictp.it Subject: [Particles] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) Dear All, We have a seminar this week, whose details are provided below - ----------------------------------------- Speaker: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) (In-person Seminar) Seminar date: 11th February, Tuesday, 1 pm UK time Venue: Seminar Room A 113 Title and Abstract: Axions/Dark Matter (To be conveyed soon) -------------------------------------------------- Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars 18th Feb : John Carlton (King's College) : Atom Interferometers 25th Feb: Qi-Xin Xie (Nottingham) : Q-Ball Superradiance 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators With Regards, -Swagat and Elisa Swagat Saurav Mishra, Postdoctoral Research Associate ? 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Cheers Phil P -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [UoN IT Service Status Page] - Various Campus? are having Network issues since around 09:24. - Incident Resolved Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:50:17 +0000 From: do-not-reply at statushub.io Reply-To: do-not-reply at statushub.io To: phil.parry at nottingham.ac.uk Uon it service status page Incident Update Details Various Campus? are having Network issues since around 09:24. - Resolved Incident start: 10/02/2025 09:24AM GMT Incident update: 10/02/2025 01:32PM GMT Elapsed time: about 4 hours Network services were restored at approx. 12:30 Customers still experiencing issues are encouraged to contact the IT Service Desk Services Affected ? [Network] International Campus Network (ICN) ? [Network] Wired data network ? [Network] Wireless network ? [Network] Telephone Network ? 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[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba4d4b7b9144958e6b9d735/fabeeefd-5fee-4f44-bbeb-5040badd908f/BOHNS+MENU+2024+%282000%29+-+PROOF_page-0001.jpg] Please let me know if you have any questions! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 03 February 2025 10:32 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Re: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi All, Today is the last day you can sign up for the meal if you haven?t done so already! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 20 January 2025 13:45 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Fw: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, Friendly reminder to fill out this form (if you haven't done so already) if you would like to come to Kellie's viva meal! Cheers, Lizzie ________________________________ From: Elizabeth Taylor Sent: 06 January 2025 10:20 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Kellie's Viva Meal Hi all, I hope everyone had a festive holiday period and a happy new year! On February 11th, our very own Kellie will become Dr. de Vos, and we will be going to Bohns Best Burgers (menu here) to celebrate that evening at 6:30pm. If you would like to come, please fill in this form asap: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewgywrlK3av9lB-3crleldCn6R-vqdhKl4NJSxHwHvXoskCg/viewform?usp=header No preorders or deposits are necessary, however there is a maximum of 35 attendees, so sign up soon! I will be cutting off the sign up period on Monday 3rd Feb, so I can notify the restaurant of the final numbers with a reasonable amount of time before the booking. Let me know if you have any questions, and we hope to see you there! Cheers, Lizzie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best regards, Anne ________________________________ From: Particles on behalf of Elisa Todarello Sent: 10 February 2025 12:26 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk ; maths-quantum-gravity-group at lists.nottingham.ac.uk ; O365-Gravity Laboratory ; ncog-people at nottingham.ac.uk Cc: Ella Batchelor (staff) ; k.rogers24 at imperial.ac.uk ; Drande Patogu ; Jacob Thornley ; Leonora van Deurs ; bacharya at ictp.it Subject: Re: [Particles] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) Dear all, Here are the title and abstract for tomorrow's talk by Keir Rogers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter Abstract: The fundamental nature of dark matter so far eludes direct detection experiments, but it has left its imprint in the cosmic large-scale structure. Extracting this information requires accurate modelling of structure formation for different dark matter theories, careful handling of astrophysical uncertainties and consistent observations in independent cosmological probes. I will review a multi-scale, multi-epoch test of the nature of dark matter combining observations of the cosmic microwave background, galaxy clustering (redshift z < 2), the Lyman-alpha forest (2 < z < 5) and the high-redshift (z > 5) galaxy UV luminosity function from the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes. I will show that both the S_8 cosmological parameter discrepancy and a new five-sigma tension in inference of the small-scale matter power spectrum can be resolved by a contribution of ultra-light axion dark matter with particle masses ~ 10^-25 eV. I will discuss prospects for adjudicating the viability of dark matter solutions in observations of the galaxy and Milky Way sub-structure distributions in the transformative Vera Rubin Observatory. ________________________________ From: Particles on behalf of Swagat Mishra Sent: 10 February 2025 09:39 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk ; maths-quantum-gravity-group at lists.nottingham.ac.uk ; O365-Gravity Laboratory ; ncog-people at nottingham.ac.uk Cc: Ella Batchelor (staff) ; k.rogers24 at imperial.ac.uk ; Drande Patogu ; Jacob Thornley ; Leonora van Deurs ; bacharya at ictp.it Subject: [Particles] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) Dear All, We have a seminar this week, whose details are provided below - ----------------------------------------- Speaker: Keir K Rogers (Imperial College London) (In-person Seminar) Seminar date: 11th February, Tuesday, 1 pm UK time Venue: Seminar Room A 113 Title and Abstract: Axions/Dark Matter (To be conveyed soon) -------------------------------------------------- Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars 18th Feb : John Carlton (King's College) : Atom Interferometers 25th Feb: Qi-Xin Xie (Nottingham) : Q-Ball Superradiance 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators With Regards, -Swagat and Elisa Swagat Saurav Mishra, Postdoctoral Research Associate ? 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Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Astro on behalf of Michael Anderson Jennings Sent: Monday, February 10, 2025 10:52 am To: Nottingham Astro Group Subject: [Astro] Lunch talk Hi everyone, This week's lunch talk will be given by Fiona, on Thursday at 1pm in A113. Title and abstract are below: How probable is the Ly-? damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600? At the end of the Epoch of Reionisation we expect most of the IGM to be ionized, interspersed with patches of fully neutral hydrogen. The first direct measurement of an island of neutral hydrogen at the end stages of reionisation, z~6, was from the damping wing of the quasar ULAS J0148+0600 (J0148) by Becker et al. 2024. Here we use simulations from Sherwood Relics to assess the expected incidence of quasars with Ly-? and Ly-? absorption similar to the observed J0148 spectrum for different quasar properties and reionisation histories. We find a late end to reionisation at ? = 5.3 is a necessary requirement for reproducing a Ly-? damping wing consistent with J0148, but it is still rare, with our fiducial model producing an observation similar to J0148 in only ~3 per cent of lines of sight. We speculate this is because the ionising emission from J0148 is variable on timescales ? < 10^5 yr, or alternatively that the Ly-? transmission in the J0148 near zone is impacted by the transverse proximity effect from nearby star-forming galaxies or undetected quasars. We also assess the efficacy of the method used to find the neutral island in Becker 24, finding that an observation such as J0148 is very likely due to a neutral island, however many neutral islands are also missed with this analysis of the quasar damping wing. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Scientific rationale Clues to a galaxy's past are encoded in its current appearance, and by hunting down these clues, we can infer much about the life histories of these objects. Detailed studies of small numbers of individual systems are complemented by large demographic surveys, and both approaches can be connected to galaxies' high-redshift progenitors. Current cutting-edge instrumentation is being used to obtain a wealth of multi-dimensional information on morphology, kinematics, stellar populations, and gas properties, both within individual galaxies and across the population; the next generation of facilities offers even more exciting possibilities. This conference seeks to bring together experts in the fields of galaxy dynamics, chemical evolution, and galaxy environment to discuss recent results, foster collaborative discussion, and understand how much of a galaxy's past can be inferred from its present-day state. The meeting also honours the careers of Profs. Michael Merrifield and Alfonso Arag?n-Salamanca, who have played important roles in advancing astronomy in this area. For more details and to submit your abstract, visit: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/GalaxyMemoirs2025 Contact: GalaxyMemoirs2025 at nottingham.ac.uk Galaxy Memoirs LOC/SOC Dr. David Maltby Research & Teaching Fellow School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Luke.Conaboy at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Feb 14 16:06:49 2025 From: Luke.Conaboy at nottingham.ac.uk (Luke Conaboy) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:06:49 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Cake! Message-ID: <6C82C423-AD9C-47A9-A4A4-28C281BDAACB@nottingham.ac.uk> Chocolate (alcohol-free) Guinness cake (+ optional alcohol-free Guinness), all vegan! Luke _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Swagat.Mishra at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 17 08:00:00 2025 From: Swagat.Mishra at nottingham.ac.uk (Swagat Mishra) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar this week: John Carlton (KCL) Message-ID: Dear All, We have a seminar this week, whose details are provided below - ----------------------------------------- ??????Speaker: John Carlton (King's College London) (In-person Seminar) ?????? Seminar date: 18th February, Tuesday, 1 pm UK time ??????Venue: Seminar Room A 113 (Cripps North Building, CAPT) ?????? Title: Massive graviton dark matter searches with long-baseline atom interferometers ??????Abstract: Atom interferometers offer exceptional sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) through their precise measurement of phenomena acting on atoms. Previous work has established their capability to detect scalar and vector ULDM, but their potential for detecting spin-2 ULDM has until recently remained unexplored. In this talk I will introduce the sensitivity of atom interferometers to spin-2 ULDM by considering several frameworks for massive gravity: a Lorentz-invariant Fierz-Pauli case and two Lorentz-violating scenarios. Coherent oscillations of the spin-2 ULDM field induce a measurable phase shift through three distinct channels: coupling of the scalar mode to atomic energy levels, and vector and tensor effects that modify the propagation of atoms and light. Atom interferometers uniquely probe all of these effects, while providing sensitivity to a different mass range from laser interferometers. These results demonstrate an exciting new theory target for atom interferometers and other quantum sensors to explore. I will also discuss challenges faced by these experiments from environmental noise. -------------------------------------------------- Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars: 25th Feb: Qi-Xin Xie (Nottingham) : Q-Ball Superradiance 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators With Regards, -Elisa & Swagat Swagat Saurav Mishra, Postdoctoral Research Associate ? Particle Cosmology Group, Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Website: https://swagatam18.wordpress.com/ Research Link:https://inspirehep.net/authors/1517353 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Timings are as usual: - lunch at Lakeside, leaving CAPT ~13:00 (subsidised for a limited number of students -- let me know before the end of the day tomorrow) - meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30 - seminar at 15:45 in C5/C4 - post-seminar wine and cheese at 16:45 This seminar will be conducted in person only. Best, Jesse and Luke == X-raying Black Hole Accretion Flows X-ray observations of black hole accretion flows can be used to study the accretion disc, corona, and black hole spacetime. I will explain how a combination of spectroscopy and timing can be used to measure black hole spin, mass, and geometry of the accretion flow. However, existing models are incomplete because they cannot self-consistently explain all the features of observations, or model ?realistic? disc and corona geometries. I will describe our recent work on producing fast, flexible, numerical models that we plan to fit to X-ray spectral timing data. _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Ella.Batchelor at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 17 10:31:55 2025 From: Ella.Batchelor at nottingham.ac.uk (Ella Batchelor) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:31:55 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] CAPT Weekly Bulletin (w/c 17-02-25) Message-ID: Monday 17th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? Theoretical Physics Student Seminar Usama Aqeel Blowing Bubbles in Euclidean Spacetime --- Tuesdays at 11am, CAPT Foyer ? Astro Coffee Tuesdays at 11.30am, A113 CAPT - Astronomy Journal Club Tuesday 18th February at 1pm, A113 CAPT ? Particle Cosmology and Gravity Seminar John Carlton (King?s College London) Massive graviton dark matter searches with long-baseline atom interferometers Atom interferometers offer exceptional sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) through their precise measurement of phenomena acting on atoms. Previous work has established their capability to detect scalar and vector ULDM, but their potential for detecting spin-2 ULDM has until recently remained unexplored. In this talk I will introduce the sensitivity of atom interferometers to spin-2 ULDM by considering several frameworks for massive gravity: a Lorentz-invariant Fierz-Pauli case and two Lorentz-violating scenarios. Coherent oscillations of the spin-2 ULDM field induce a measurable phase shift through three distinct channels: coupling of the scalar mode to atomic energy levels, and vector and tensor effects that modify the propagation of atoms and light. Atom interferometers uniquely probe all of these effects, while providing sensitivity to a different mass range from laser interferometers. These results demonstrate an exciting new theory target for atom interferometers and other quantum sensors to explore. I will also discuss challenges faced by these experiments from environmental noise. Links to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d --- Wednesday 19th February at 3.45pm, C4 Physics ? Astronomy Seminar Andy Young (Bristol) X-raying Black Hole Accretion Flows X-ray observations of black hole accretion flows can be used to study the accretion disc, corona, and black hole spacetime. I will explain how a combination of spectroscopy and timing can be used to measure black hole spin, mass, and geometry of the accretion flow. However, existing models are incomplete because they cannot self-consistently explain all the features of observations, or model ?realistic? disc and corona geometries. I will describe our recent work on producing fast, flexible, numerical models that we plan to fit to X-ray spectral timing data. Wednesday 19th February at 6pm, Arts Lecture Theatre ? Cosmic Titans: Dark Side of the Universe (Evening Talk) ?3 (free concessions) Running Time: 1 hour Professor Edward Daw, University of Sheffield, discusses the search for signatures of dark matter particles. Joining the conversation will be artists Daniela Brill Estrada and Monica C. LoCascio, who collaborate in their quest to give poetic material form to the invisible. For more information and to book, please click here. --- Thursday 20th February at 1pm? Visit to Cosmic Titans exhibition at Lakeside Arts Leaving CAPT at 1pm, returning no longer than 1:45pm Thursday 20th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? 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Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] INGNEWS STUDENTSHIP PROGRAMME AT THE ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES We welcome applications for four places on the ING studentship programme 2025/26. The deadline for applications is: Sunday 16th March 2025, 23:59 WET Details of the programme can be found on: https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/science/studentship.html The programme provides a unique opportunity for PhD or MSc astronomy students to get hands-on experience of work at an international observatory. Successful applicants will spend one year on La Palma, participating in survey observations with the WEAVE multi-object spectrograph on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope, and having the opportunity to work on projects supervised by ING staff. The studentship programme is open to anyone, but we particularly welcome applicants from our three partner countries: the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. 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Sobre la privacidad y el tratamiento de Datos de Carcter Personal / Disclaimer on privacy and the treatment of sensitive personal information: https://www.ing.iac.es/disclaimer.html From phil.parry at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 10:20:06 2025 From: phil.parry at nottingham.ac.uk (Phil Parry) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:20:06 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Wifi issues in Cripps North Message-ID: <3605ab35-18b0-47cc-85db-bb1ba063ad53@nottingham.ac.uk> Hi all, It seems that two of the three wireless points in CAPT aren't working this morning, I've reported it and hopefully it will be fixed very soon. Cheers Phil P _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From phil.parry at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 11:34:32 2025 From: phil.parry at nottingham.ac.uk (Phil Parry) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:34:32 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Wifi issues in Cripps North In-Reply-To: <3605ab35-18b0-47cc-85db-bb1ba063ad53@nottingham.ac.uk> References: <3605ab35-18b0-47cc-85db-bb1ba063ad53@nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi again, hopefully all is OK now. Cheers Phil P On 18/02/2025 10:20, Phil Parry wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems that two of the three wireless points in CAPT aren't working > this morning, I've reported it and hopefully it will be fixed very soon. > > Cheers > > Phil P > > _______________________________________________ > CAPT mailing list > CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk > https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Emma.Chapman at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 13:29:11 2025 From: Emma.Chapman at nottingham.ac.uk (Emma Chapman) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:29:11 +0000 Subject: [Astro] PhD Helpers for Interview Days Message-ID: Good afternoon, We will have the PhD candidates with us next Monday 24th February and Tuesday 25th February. Can I ask that everyone be present, if possible, in A113 at 12pm on both days. I?ll give a short ten-minute presentation and then there will be a buffet lunch. I?m not quite sure how far the food will go so please let the candidates and PhD helpers have first choice! I?ll need a few helpers from the current PhD student cohort please, to sit downstairs and help point people to their one-to-ones and interviews. I?ll give you their timetables on the morning. Yannick and I will be interviewing in Nina?s office. I?ll need people 11am ? 3pm but you?re of course welcome to tag in and out amongst yourselves. Postdocs please do go and have a cup of tea and make some conversation with them if you need a break. Can we please offer them tea and coffee during the day, you can put any coffees on my tally. I?ll bring in some milk, tea bags, oat milk and biscuits etc? We?ve got 12 excellent candidates over the two days, and three positions to fill, I?m excited to meet them! Kind regards, Emma -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The seminar will be in C4. > > Post-seminar refreshments will be wine and cheese. > > Timings are as usual: > > - lunch at Lakeside, leaving CAPT ~13:00 (subsidised for a limited number of students -- let me know before the end of the day tomorrow) > - meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30 > - seminar at 15:45 in C5/C4 > - post-seminar wine and cheese at 16:45 > > This seminar will be conducted in person only. > > Best, > Jesse and Luke > > == > > X-raying Black Hole Accretion Flows > > X-ray observations of black hole accretion flows can be used to study the accretion disc, corona, and black hole spacetime. I will explain how a combination of spectroscopy and timing can be used to measure black hole spin, mass, and geometry of the accretion flow. However, existing models are incomplete because they cannot self-consistently explain all the features of observations, or model ?realistic? disc and corona geometries. I will describe our recent work on producing fast, flexible, numerical models that we plan to fit to X-ray spectral timing data. _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Michael.Andersonjennings at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Feb 20 10:01:37 2025 From: Michael.Andersonjennings at nottingham.ac.uk (Michael Anderson Jennings) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:01:37 +0000 Subject: [Astro] Lunch Talk - Trip to Lakeside In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Everyone, Reminder of our capt trip to lakeside today! We will be leaving CAPT at 1pm and aim to be back no later than 1:45pm. I would suggest everyone who plans on attending to congregate in the foyer from 12:50/12:55pm. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Michael Anderson Jennings Sent: Monday, February 17, 2025 11:27 am To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Lunch Talk - Trip to Lakeside Hi Everyone, For this week's lunch talk we will be having a CAPT outing visit to Uli's Cosmic Titans exhibition at Lakeside Art. We will be leaving CAPT at 1pm and aim to be back no later than 1:45pm. I would suggest everyone who plans on attending to congregate in the foyer from 12:50/12:55pm. Thanks, Mikey Mikey Anderson Jennings Astronomy PhD Student University of Nottingham Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joseph.Butler at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Feb 21 16:00:59 2025 From: Joseph.Butler at nottingham.ac.uk (Joseph Butler) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:00:59 +0000 Subject: [Astro] [CAPT] Cake! Message-ID: <40628BF3-1CC9-481E-BBAC-4FAC929A7F8F@nottingham.ac.uk> Hi everyone, Today we have a long Cuthbert the caterpillar cake (non-vegan) and some malt loaf (vegan). Enjoy! Joe _______________________________________________ CAPT mailing list CAPT at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/capt From Emma.Chapman at nottingham.ac.uk Sat Feb 22 14:40:48 2025 From: Emma.Chapman at nottingham.ac.uk (Emma Chapman) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:40:48 +0000 Subject: [Astro] PhD Helpers for Interview Days Message-ID: Good afternoon, Apologies for the short notice of this email ? I just found it in my drafts while wondering why no one had replied, whoops. We will have the PhD candidates with us on Monday 24th February and Tuesday 25th February. Can I ask that everyone be present, if possible, in A113 at 12pm on both days. I?ll give a short ten-minute presentation and then there will be a buffet lunch. I?m not quite sure how far the food will go so please let the candidates and PhD helpers have first choice! I?ll need a few helpers from the current PhD student cohort please, to sit downstairs and help point people to their one-to-ones and interviews. I?ll give you their timetables on the morning. Yannick and I will be interviewing in Nina?s office. I?ll need people 11am ? 3pm but you?re of course welcome to tag in and out amongst yourselves. Postdocs please do go and have a cup of tea and make some conversation with them if you need a break. Can we please offer them tea and coffee during the day. I?ll bring in some milk, tea bags, oat milk, biscuits etc? We?ve got 13 excellent candidates over the two days, and three positions to fill, I?m excited to meet them! Kind regards, Emma -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I need coverage from 10:30 ? 15:30 today and tomorrow, so please check in periodically and, if it?s quiet, consider joining for a bit. If you?re the last one there and need to leave, please find someone to take over. Sitting them alone for five hours is not a great look. Thanks so much in advance for your help. Every year some of the main positive feedback is how friendly the department is?it really makes a difference! A final reminder, everyone in A113 at 12pm please, if you can, for the short welcome talk and lunch. Emma P.S. You get lunch, doughnuts, and my undying gratitude! From: Emma Chapman (staff) Date: Saturday, 22 February 2025 at 14:40 To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: PhD Helpers for Interview Days Good afternoon, Apologies for the short notice of this email ? I just found it in my drafts while wondering why no one had replied, whoops. We will have the PhD candidates with us on Monday 24th February and Tuesday 25th February. Can I ask that everyone be present, if possible, in A113 at 12pm on both days. I?ll give a short ten-minute presentation and then there will be a buffet lunch. I?m not quite sure how far the food will go so please let the candidates and PhD helpers have first choice! I?ll need a few helpers from the current PhD student cohort please, to sit downstairs and help point people to their one-to-ones and interviews. I?ll give you their timetables on the morning. Yannick and I will be interviewing in Nina?s office. I?ll need people 11am ? 3pm but you?re of course welcome to tag in and out amongst yourselves. Postdocs please do go and have a cup of tea and make some conversation with them if you need a break. Can we please offer them tea and coffee during the day. I?ll bring in some milk, tea bags, oat milk, biscuits etc? We?ve got 13 excellent candidates over the two days, and three positions to fill, I?m excited to meet them! 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Silke Weinfurtner, who is hosting the event, thought this could be a great opportunity to bring the Quantum @ Nottingham community together. Scheduled activities are as follows: * 4:30-5:30pm: Private Tour of the Cosmic Titans exhibition for the Quantum community (Neil Walker and Silke Weinfurtner) * 6:00-7:00 pm: Quantum Technologies Public Discussion (Peter Knight - Science, Studio Above & Below - Art, Moderation by Helen Kennedy ) Abstract: Discover the impact of quantum physics and technology on our daily lives through the lens of art and science in this discussion between Sir Peter Knight and artist duo ?Studio Above & Below? as part of the Cosmic Titans Exhibition at Lakeside * 7:00-8:00 pm: Drinks Reception To attend the discussion talk at 6pm, reserve your place here: https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/quantum-technologies/ A private tour of the Cosmic Titans exhibition will be available from 4.30pm for the Quantum @ Nottingham community and drinks will be served after the talk from 7pm. Please fill in this form https://forms.office.com/e/r31WWECGkF to confirm attendance for catering purposes (in addition to reserving a place at the talk). --- Thursday 27th February at 1pm, A113 CAPT ? Astronomy Lunch Talk Joe Butler Energetics of Intracluster Light and Dark Matter The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters known as intracluster light (ICL) has been proposed as an observable tracer of the cluster?s dark matter (DM) halo. Investigating its energetics is essential for understanding how intracluster stars are dynamically linked to the underlying DM distribution and, consequently, assessing the reliability of the ICL as a DM tracer. In this talk, I will outline how the orbital properties of the intracluster stars differ from both the DM and galaxy population, and propose a possible mechanism to explain these differences. Thursday 27th February at 3pm, A113 CAPT ? Particle Cosmology Journal Club Student Journal Club --- Fridays at 4pm, CAPT Foyer ? 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Investigating its energetics is essential for understanding how intracluster stars are dynamically linked to the underlying DM distribution and, consequently, assessing the reliability of the ICL as a DM tracer. In this talk, I will outline how the orbital properties of the intracluster stars differ from both the DM and galaxy population, and propose a possible mechanism to explain these differences. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These objects are closely related to dark matter sources and compact alternatives to black holes. In this talk, I will introduce a novel form of superradiance induced by the internal space rotation of non-topological solitons and show its universal properties. Additionally, the effect of real space rotation is also discussed. -------------------------------------------------- Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars: 03th March: Tuomas Tenkanen (U. Helsinki) - On Monday! 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators 18th March: Ivano Basile (Max Planck) With Regards, -Elisa & Swagat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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First Annual Call Dear all, Of possible interest for Astronomy PhD students and their supervisors. https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/announcements/sciann17689.html Best wishes, Alfonso Alfonso Arag?n-Salamanca Professor of Astronomy School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Room B106b, Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK +44 (0) 115 95 16230 | alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk URL: http://nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/alfonso.aragon General teaching enquiries physics-teaching at nottingham.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I think this is a great opportunity! Best, Tutku From: Astro on behalf of Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca Date: Monday, 24 February 2025 at 15:50 To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [Astro] ESO Studentships ? First Annual Call Dear all, Of possible interest for Astronomy PhD students and their supervisors. https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/announcements/sciann17689.html Best wishes, Alfonso Alfonso Arag?n-Salamanca Professor of Astronomy School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Room B106b, Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK +44 (0) 115 95 16230 | alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk URL: http://nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/alfonso.aragon General teaching enquiries physics-teaching at nottingham.ac.uk -- Astro mailing list Astro at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/astro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes Dave ________________________________ From: David Maltby (staff) Sent: 14 February 2025 13:31 To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Third Announcement: Galaxy Memoirs, Inferring their past from their present - registration open [Please forward as appropriate] Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is the third announcement for the conference ?Galaxy Memoirs; Inferring their past from their present?, which will take place in B?zios, Brazil on 10-15th August, 2025. Registration is now open. Please check here for the registration fee deadlines and early bird rates. The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to Friday, 28th February. Scientific rationale Clues to a galaxy's past are encoded in its current appearance, and by hunting down these clues, we can infer much about the life histories of these objects. Detailed studies of small numbers of individual systems are complemented by large demographic surveys, and both approaches can be connected to galaxies' high-redshift progenitors. Current cutting-edge instrumentation is being used to obtain a wealth of multi-dimensional information on morphology, kinematics, stellar populations, and gas properties, both within individual galaxies and across the population; the next generation of facilities offers even more exciting possibilities. This conference seeks to bring together experts in the fields of galaxy dynamics, chemical evolution, and galaxy environment to discuss recent results, foster collaborative discussion, and understand how much of a galaxy's past can be inferred from its present-day state. The meeting also honours the careers of Profs. Michael Merrifield and Alfonso Arag?n-Salamanca, who have played important roles in advancing astronomy in this area. For more details and to submit your abstract, visit: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/GalaxyMemoirs2025 Contact: GalaxyMemoirs2025 at nottingham.ac.uk Galaxy Memoirs LOC/SOC Dr. David Maltby Research & Teaching Fellow School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michael.Andersonjennings at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Feb 27 09:21:08 2025 From: Michael.Andersonjennings at nottingham.ac.uk (Michael Anderson Jennings) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:21:08 +0000 Subject: [Astro] Lunch talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Reminder of Joe's lunch talk today at 1pm in A113. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Michael Anderson Jennings Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 9:52 am To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Lunch talk Hi everyone, This weeks lunch talk will be given by Joe. In A113 on Thursday at 1pm. Title and abstract are below: Energetics of Intracluster Light and Dark Matter The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters known as intracluster light (ICL) has been proposed as an observable tracer of the cluster?s dark matter (DM) halo. Investigating its energetics is essential for understanding how intracluster stars are dynamically linked to the underlying DM distribution and, consequently, assessing the reliability of the ICL as a DM tracer. In this talk, I will outline how the orbital properties of the intracluster stars differ from both the DM and galaxy population, and propose a possible mechanism to explain these differences. Thanks, Mikey Sent from Outlook for iOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, Alfonso Alfonso Arag?n-Salamanca Professor of Astronomy School of Physics and Astronomy University of Nottingham Room B106b, Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK +44 (0) 115 95 16230 | alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk URL: http://nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/alfonso.aragon General teaching enquiries physics-teaching at nottingham.ac.uk Hi all, Entries are invited for the annual Postgraduate Poster Competition. The competition is open to all postgraduate students in the School of Physics & Astronomy, and is sponsored by Cerca Magnetics.. Posters will be judged by representatives from Cerca Magnetics and by staff from the School, with substantial cash prizes for the top three entries. The competition will be held on Wednesday 12th March 2025, in C14 (Physics Building), with public viewing from 3-4pm. Wine, soft drinks and nibbles will be provided. All staff and students are encouraged to attend. The posters should be of the type displayed at academic conferences, but aimed at the level of a final-year undergraduate rather than a specialist in your own field. We had a fantastic variety of posters last year, and we look forward to seeing this year's entries. Your supervisor should be able to give some advice on the ingredients required for a successful poster. Posters from past four years can be found on SharePoint here, here, here and here. To enter a poster please provide a title and abstract with a maximum of 250 words by Wednesday 26th February, so that an abstract book can be prepared in advance of the day. We recommend that posters should be A1 size, as these fit best on our poster boards. Posters can be printed using the Wide Format Printing service managed by our external partner CDS - further details can be found at the at link here. Printing by CDS usually costs around ?2.50 per poster - this can be claimed back using the Student Expenses claim process with a project code from your supervisor. Please note that CDS make deliveries on Tuesdays and Thursdays only, you are advised to plan ahead and allow plenty of time, particularly since many others will also be printing posters. On the day poster entries should be mounted between 12pm and 1pm. If you are unable to mount your poster during this narrow time window please contact one of the admin team, and we may be able to mount it for you. If you wish to enter please fill in the form here with your name, research group, title of your poster and abstract. Best wishes Ella Ella Batchelor (she/her) Administrator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline is 31st March 2025. The advert will appear on other platforms shortly. For informal enquiries please contact me. Please help us by spreading news of this among your personal and professional networks! This is not a specifically Euclid position, but of course suitably qualified Euclideans are encouraged to apply! https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/81fa7fb4 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the UKCOSMO list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=UKCOSMO&A=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From James.Bolton at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Feb 28 10:01:55 2025 From: James.Bolton at nottingham.ac.uk (James Bolton) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:01:55 +0000 Subject: [Astro] FW: [LUVOIR] new Pollux@HWO mailing lists In-Reply-To: <4b5fba4d-47c6-4df0-835d-686371f2ead5@obspm.fr> References: <4b5fba4d-47c6-4df0-835d-686371f2ead5@obspm.fr> Message-ID: The following may be of interest. Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is still a long way off (2040+), but it?s now a big priority for the US / NASA following the 2020 decadal review. Despite the name, it will be useful for extragalactic science. Pollux is the proposed European-led UV spectropolarimeter for the HWO. For further info: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09067 https://zenodo.org/records/14856285 On 26/02/2025, 16:11, "luvoir.science-request at sympa.obspm.fr" wrote: [Apologies if you receive this message more than once.] Dear all, You receive this email because you were registered to one or more of the former Pollux mailing lists for LUVOIR, or have shown interest for Pollux in some way (e.g. attending a Pollux workshop). Since the project has now become Pollux for HWO, a new consortium has been set up, new working groups have been created, etc. The old (LUVOIR) mailing lists are not being used anymore and will be deleted, but new mailing lists have been created. If you wish (to continue) to be part of the Pollux consortium, its science and/or payload consortia, and/or would like to join a science WG, please register to one or more of the corresponding lists below. To register to a list, send an email to sympa at lam.fr with an empty body and a subject line of the form: subscribe list Firstname Lastname where you should replace "Firstname Lastname" by your name and "list" by the mailing list you want to subscribe to. To subscribe to several lists, you should send several emails (one per list). 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Helsinki) Seminar date: March 3rd, Monday, 1 pm UK time Venue: Seminar Room A 113 (Cripps North Building, CAPT) Title: TBA -------------------------------------------------- Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars: 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators 18th March: Ivano Basile (Max Planck) 25th: Pete Millington (Manchester) With Regards, -Elisa & Swagat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Abstract: Motivated by their prospects to produce potentially observable primordial gravitational wave background, as well as to provide a viable mechanism for baryogenesis, understanding the physics of Electroweak phase transitions has been a hot topic for a long time. In this talk, I will present developments from the past decade that have culminated in: i) automating the required dimensionally reduced, thermal effective field theory (EFT) descriptions; ii) gaining an intuitive understanding of the underlying 'supersoft' mass scale above the non-perturbative scale of confinement for scalar field-driven phase transitions; iii) including thermal loop corrections up to and including three loops; and iv) building effective perturbative descriptions for bubble nucleation and sphaleron rates in the thermal plasma. Finally, I will envision future directions for studying Beyond the Standard Model theories at high temperatures, and high-loop-order perturbative calculations beyond simple EFTs built upon high-temperature expansions. ________________________________ From: Particles on behalf of Elisa Todarello Sent: 28 February 2025 12:52 To: capt at nottingham.ac.uk ; maths-quantum-gravity-group at lists.nottingham.ac.uk ; ncog-people at nottingham.ac.uk ; O365-Gravity Laboratory ; tuomas.tenkanen at helsinki.fi Cc: Ella Batchelor (staff) ; Bobby Acharya ; Drande Patogu ; Leonora van Deurs ; Jacob Thornley ; Roberto Pignatiello Subject: [Particles] [CAPT] Particle Cosmology & Gravity Seminar MONDAY next week: Tuomas Tenkanen (U. Helsinki) Dear All, We have a seminar next week on Monday at 1 pm whose details are provided below - ----------------------------------------- Speaker: Tuomas Tenkanen (U. Helsinki) Seminar date: March 3rd, Monday, 1 pm UK time Venue: Seminar Room A 113 (Cripps North Building, CAPT) Title: TBA -------------------------------------------------- Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGM3OTk5NzQtZWEwZS00ZmUyLTk3MGUtZjFhY2M5OTU2MjI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f3250584-4b5f-48fa-a897-08e77f2246b7%22%7d List of upcoming Seminars: 04th March: NO SEMINAR (PhD interviews) 11th March: Diksha Jain (Cambridge) : Amplitudes, Correlators 18th March: Ivano Basile (Max Planck) 25th: Pete Millington (Manchester) With Regards, -Elisa & Swagat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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