Archive of past public talks:
This is an archive of all IoA public talks, going back to 2004. If you're searching for a particular talk, you can use the search box below to filter the talks between a particular range of dates.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Group Booking | Weather | Number of Visitors | Weekly Handout | Video |
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| 31st Mar 2021 | The Distant and Dusty Universe | Gareth Jones | No observing (after clock change) | 227 | watch | ||
| 24th Mar 2021 | How to build a galaxy | Emma Curtis Lake | Clear | 520 | watch | ||
| 17th Mar 2021 | Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about how our Universe began? | Chandrima Ganguly | Clear | 425 | watch | ||
| 10th Mar 2021 | The topsy-turvy quantum world | Ayngaran Thavanesan | Cloudy | 521 | watch | ||
| 3rd Mar 2021 | The life and adventures of binary supermassive black holes | Eugene Vasiliev | Cloudy | 746 | watch | ||
| 24th Feb 2021 | The James Webb Space Telescope | Emma Curtis Lake | Cloudy | 1306 | watch | ||
| 17th Feb 2021 | Exploring the Nature of Dark Matter | Vid Iršič | Cloudy | 753 | watch | ||
| 10th Feb 2021 | Black hole collisions and gravity waves | Matt Bothwell | Clear | 1089 | watch | ||
| 3rd Feb 2021 | The Hubble Space Telescope: Celebrating 30 Years of Discovery | James Trussler | Clear | 2524 | watch | ||
| 27th Jan 2021 | Gamma-ray Bursts (or, exploring the Universe using deadly explosions) | Aybuke Yoldas | Cloudy | 593 | watch | ||
| 20th Jan 2021 | Exploring the cosmos with a large collaboration | Oliver Friedrich | Cloudy | 274 | watch | ||
| 13th Jan 2021 | N/A | N/A | |||||
| 6th Jan 2021 | The star of Bethlehem | Nicole Pawellek | N/A | Cloudy | 383 | watch | |
| 30th Dec 2020 | NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK | ||||||
| 23rd Dec 2020 | NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK | ||||||
| 16th Dec 2020 | The birth and death of our Sun | Robin Catchpole | N/A | Cloudy | 184 | watch | |
| 9th Dec 2020 | The first galaxies in the Universe | Joris Witstok | N/A | Cloudy | 252 | watch | |
| 2nd Dec 2020 | How to build a Universe | Hayley Macpherson | N/A | Clear | 255 | watch | |
| 25th Nov 2020 | X-rays and the bare bones of the young universe | Nina Sartorio | N/A | Clear | 243 | watch | |
| 18th Nov 2020 | Why do galaxies die? | James Trussler | N/A | Clear | 299 | watch | |
| 11th Nov 2020 | How do we know what the early Universe was like? | Fruzsina Agocs | N/A | Cloudy | 260 | watch | |
| 4th Nov 2020 | Viewing Distant Sources with the Sharp X-ray Eyes of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory | Belinda Wilkes | N/A | Clear | 322 | watch | |
| 28th Oct 2020 | Why Black Holes won a Nobel Prize, and why we should care | Joanna Pietrowska | N/A | Clear | 526 | Watch | |
| 21st Oct 2020 | Observing the Dark Universe | Naomi Robertson | N/A | Cloudy | 271 | Watch | |
| 14th Oct 2020 | The Brief History of the Universe | Sergio Martin Alvarez | N/A | Clear | 390 | Watch | |
| 7th Oct 2020 | Light: An Astronomer's Best Friend | Nicole Pawellek | N/A | Partially cloudy | 815 | Watch | |
| 25th Mar 2020 | ** CANCELLED ** | St. Andrew’s – Tec | |||||
| 18th Mar 2020 | ** CANCELLED ** | (SCIENCE FESTIVAL) | |||||
| 11th Mar 2020 | ** CANCELLED ** | (SCIENCE FESTIVAL) | |||||
| 4th Mar 2020 | ** CANCELLED ** | 12th Cambridge scouts | |||||
| 26th Feb 2020 | Astronomy from the ISS | Andy Fabian | 1st Cambourne Beavers | Clear | 243 |
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| 19th Feb 2020 | The Unseen Universe | Anastasia Fialkov | (HALF TERM) | Cloudy | 168 |
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| 12th Feb 2020 | Gravitational lensing: a window to the invisible Universe | Anton Baleato | Hitchin Priory Rotary Club | Cloudy | 142 |
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| 5th Feb 2020 | Ecological Stars: The Recycling Machines of the Universe | Nina Sartorio | Shelford and Stapleford scout group | Cloudy | 135 |
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| 29th Jan 2020 | The Galactic Mosh Pit: Merging in the Early Universe | Gareth Jones | Cambourne Cubs | Cloudy | 192 |
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| 22nd Jan 2020 | Large scale structures of the Universe | Prakash Gaikwad | Beal High School | Cloudy | 112 |
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| 15th Jan 2020 | Physical cosmology: Exploring the science behind this year's Nobel prize | William Coulton | Ely Explorers | Clear | 170 |
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| 8th Jan 2020 | Cloudy nights and sunny days in exoplanets | Vivien Parmentier | Raining | 74 |
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| 1st Jan 2020 | NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK | ||||||
| 25th Dec 2019 | NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK | ||||||
| 18th Dec 2019 | The James Webb Space Telescope | Emma Curtis-Lake | Cloudy | 85 |
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| 11th Dec 2019 | Active galactic nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies | Amy Rankine | 1st Bar Hill Guides | Partially Clear | 212 |
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| 4th Dec 2019 | Cosmic collisions and the fate of the Milky Way | Mallory Thorp | Cambourne Village College | Clear | 148 |
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| 27th Nov 2019 | Struggling with the stragglers | Nina Sartorio | 2nd Cambourne Scouts | Cloudy | 127 |
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| 20th Nov 2019 | Music of the Spheres - The Connection between Music and Astronomy | Nicole Pawellek | 1st St Michaels Mead Scouts | Clear | 153 |
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| 13th Nov 2019 | Supermassive Black Holes - a tale of galactic giants | Joanna Piotrowska | 2nd Cambridge Cub Scouts | Partially Clear | 178 |
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| 6th Nov 2019 | 100 Years of Gravitational Lensing | Matt Auger | 1st Ely Scouts | Raining | 89 |
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| 30th Oct 2019 | The Skeleton of our Universe | Cora Uhlemann | Clear | 142 |
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| 23rd Oct 2019 | Are we alone? | Robin Catchpole | (HALF TERM) | Cloudy | 162 |
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| 16th Oct 2019 | Fast Radio Bursts | Anastasia Fialkov | 1st Comberton Cubs and Beavers | Clear | 123 |
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| 9th Oct 2019 | The biggest galaxy in the Universe? | Matt Bothwell | Clear | 156 |
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| 2nd Oct 2019 | A brief history of the Universe | Sergio Martin Alvarez | Clear | 127 | |||
| 20th Mar 2019 | The future of lunar exploration | Carolin Crawford | Science Festival | Partially Clear | 184 | watch | |
| 13th Mar 2019 | Life on Mars? Exploring 200 Years of Our Fascination with the Red Planet | Josh Nall | Science Festival | Clear | 265 | watch | |
| 6th Mar 2019 | Discovering New Worlds with Europe's Gaia and PLATO Space Missions | Nic Walton | Evergreen Elfins | Cloudy | 102 | ||
| 27th Feb 2019 | How to grow a massive star | Nina Sartorio | Clear | 226 | watch | ||
| 20th Feb 2019 | Telescopes as Time Machines | Anton Baleato Lizancos | (HALF TERM) | Partially Clear | 210 | watch | |
| 13th Feb 2019 | Why I haven't been to space | Zephyr Penoyre | 12th Cambridge Beaver Colony | Clear | 204 | watch | |
| 6th Feb 2019 | Are we alone? | Robin Catchpole | 1st Papworth Cub Scouts | Cloudy | 152 | ||
| 30th Jan 2019 | 'Oumuamua, interstellar traveller | Carolin Crawford | 5th Soham Brownies | Clear | 146 | watch | |
| 23rd Jan 2019 | How far away are the stars? | Matt Bothwell | 1st Newport (Essex) Scouts | Clear | 149 | watch | |
| 16th Jan 2019 | Challenging Einstein with gravitational lensing | Alessio Spurio Mancini | Shelford and Stapleford Scouts | Partially Clear | 106 | watch | |
| 9th Jan 2019 | The First Supermassive Black Holes: Where did they come from and how did they get so big? | Colin DeGraf | Beal High School | Cloudy | 104 | watch | |
| 19th Dec 2018 | You are what you eat: what can the chemistry of a planet tell us about its origins? | Mihkel Kama | Cloudy | 84 | watch | ||
| 12th Dec 2018 | Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) | Anastasia Fialkov | Cloudy | 114 | |||
| 5th Dec 2018 | A journey from your backyard to the stars | Ghina Halabi | Raining | 71 | watch | ||
| 28th Nov 2018 | Hidden Monsters: Supermassive Black Holes Lurking in the Dust | Manda Banerji | 2nd St Neots scouts | Raining | 84 | watch | |
| 21st Nov 2018 | Tales of Exploding Stars | Avishai Gilkis | 7th Royston Barkway Cubs | Clear | 162 | watch | |
| 14th Nov 2018 | How Supermassive Black Holes Talk to Their Host Galaxies | Martin Bourne | Soham Brigades | Clear | 223 | watch | |
| 7th Nov 2018 | Mapping the Galaxy with Gaia | Francesca De Angeli | 1st Stukeley Meadows Cubs | Partially Clear | 117 | watch | |
| 31st Oct 2018 | The Birth and Death of Stars | Robin Catchpole | Cloudy | 117 | watch | ||
| 24th Oct 2018 | Where are the Aliens? | Ryan MacDonald | (HALF TERM) | Clear | 284 | watch | |
| 17th Oct 2018 | Galactic mega-cities: A short story on galaxy clusters | Catrina Diener | 1st Caxton Brownies | Partially Clear | 98 | watch | |
| 10th Oct 2018 | Touching the Sun | Carolin Crawford | Jeremiah Scout group | Clear | 216 | watch | |
| 3rd Oct 2018 | What on Earth is dark energy? | Matt Bothwell | 3rd Saffron Walden Brownies | Clear | 171 | watch | |
| 21st Mar 2018 | Galactic Archaeology with Stellar Surveys | Anna Hourihane | Science Festival | ||||
| 14th Mar 2018 | Historical observations of supernova explosions in our Galaxy | Dave Green | Science Festival | Cloudy | 151 | ||
| 7th Mar 2018 | Cooking up planets in protoplanetary discs | John Ilee | 1st Cambourne Beaver Scouts | Clear | 188 | ||
| 28th Feb 2018 | What's on the menu of supermassive black holes | Thomas Wevers | 16th Cambridge Scouts | Cloudy | 91 | ||
| 21st Feb 2018 | Peering back to the dawn of time with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array | Renske Smit | 1st Hemingford’s cub pack | Partially Clear | 144 | ||
| 14th Feb 2018 | The first lights of the Universe and the world’s largest radio telescope | Eloy de Lera Acedo | (HALF TERM) | Raining | 83 | ||
| 7th Feb 2018 | The Discovery of Ultraluminous X-ray Pulsars | Dom Walton | The Partridge Group | Clear | 143 | ||
| 31st Jan 2018 | Light and Colour in the Universe | Robin Catchpole | 1st Meldreth brownies | Clear | 330 | ||
| 24th Jan 2018 | Telescopes the Size of the Universe | Matthew Auger | Hitchin Priory Rotary Club | Clear | 128 | ||
| 17th Jan 2018 | The biggest galaxy in the Universe? | Matt Bothwell | 3rd Ely Scouts | Cloudy | 186 | ||
| 10th Jan 2018 | Where Did We All Come From | Craig Mackay | Cloudy | 89 | |||
| 20th Dec 2017 | Visit the Menagerie of Extreme Worlds! | Mihkel Kama | Cloudy | 90 | |||
| 13th Dec 2017 | How to make an Earth | Amy Bonsor | Beal High school astronomy club | Cloudy | 101 | ||
| 6th Dec 2017 | Exploring the dark universe with Einstein’s telescope | Nick Bate | Magellan Explorers | Cloudy | 133 | ||
| 29th Nov 2017 | The birthplaces of planets | Dominika Boneberg | Partially Clear | 110 | |||
| 22nd Nov 2017 | The Dark Universe | Ricardo Chavez | 26th Cambridge cubs | Cloudy | 170 | ||
| 15th Nov 2017 | How do you measure the distances of stars? | Floor van Leeuwen | 1st Steeple Morden Guides | Cloudy | 155 | ||
| 8th Nov 2017 | The Phoenix Cluster | Helen Russell | Partially Clear | 145 | |||
| 1st Nov 2017 | A random walk through accreting black holes | Will Alston | Neale Wade academy school group | Partially Clear | 175 | ||
| 25th Oct 2017 | The inferno world with titanium skies | Ryan MacDonald | (HALF TERM) | Partially Clear | 225 | ||
| 18th Oct 2017 | What's all the fuss about gravitational waves? | Carolin Crawford | 1st St Michaels Mead Scout troop | Cloudy | 165 | ||
| 11th Oct 2017 | Exploring the astronomical world | Paul Murdin | 29th Cambridge cubs | Cloudy | 155 | ||
| 4th Oct 2017 | A beginner’s guide to the Big Bang | Matt Bothwell | Gateway cubs | Cloudy | 130 |
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| 29th Mar 2017 | Rivers of stars in the Milky Way | Thomas de Boer | Cloudy | 165 | |||
| 22nd Mar 2017 | A better solar system? | Amaury Triaud | 1st Cambourne scouts | Cloudy | 135 |