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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| 4th Dec 2019 | Cosmic collisions and the fate of the Milky Way | Mallory Thorp | Cambourne Village College | Clear | 148 |
 4_dec_2019.pdf |
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| 27th Nov 2019 | Struggling with the stragglers | Nina Sartorio | 2nd Cambourne Scouts | Cloudy | 127 |
27_nov_2019.pdf |
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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 |
20_nov_2019.pdf |
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| 13th Nov 2019 | Supermassive Black Holes - a tale of galactic giants | Joanna Piotrowska | 2nd Cambridge Cub Scouts | Partially Clear | 178 |
13_nov_2019.pdf |
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| 6th Nov 2019 | 100 Years of Gravitational Lensing | Matt Auger | 1st Ely Scouts | Raining | 89 |
6_nov_2019.pdf |
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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 |
23_oct_2019.pdf |
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| 16th Oct 2019 | Fast Radio Bursts | Anastasia Fialkov | 1st Comberton Cubs and Beavers | Clear | 123 |
16_oct_2019.pdf |
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| 9th Oct 2019 | The biggest galaxy in the Universe? | Matt Bothwell | Clear | 156 |
8_oct_2019.pdf |
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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 | ||
| 15th Mar 2017 | The top 10 ways to die in space | Michael Parker | 1st Warboys scouts | Clear | 250 | ||
| 8th Mar 2017 | Galactic Cannibalism | Kathryn Johnston | 12th Cambridge scouts | Clear | 171 | ||
| 1st Mar 2017 | How do we really know the age of the universe? | Sonali Shukla | 1st St Neot's Scouts | Raining | 150 | ||
| 22nd Feb 2017 | Asteroids and impacts - should we worry? | Robin Catchpole | 1st Cambourne cubs | Raining | 115 | ||
| 15th Feb 2017 | Astrophysics for Super-villains | Scott Thomas | (HALF TERM) | Raining | 190 | ||
| 8th Feb 2017 | Black holes: Where do they come from, and where are they now? | Colin deGraf | 1st Littleport Scout Troop | Cloudy | 159 | ||
| 1st Feb 2017 | How far are the Seven Sisters? | Thomas Maedler | Pupils from King's Ely School | Cloudy | 92 | ||
| 25th Jan 2017 | Alien Megastructures or a Cloud of Comets? | Christina Hedges | 16th Cambridge Scouts | Cloudy | 140 | ||
| 18th Jan 2017 | A dark matter: seeing the invisible | Rupert Allison | Partially Clear | 140 | |||
| 11th Jan 2017 | Supermassive black hole binaries: the long journey to coalescence | Davide Fiacconi | Partially Clear | 140 | |||
| 4th Jan 2017 | Early views of the Moon | Carolin Crawford | Cloudy | 135 | |||
| 14th Dec 2016 | Exploring Inner and Outer Space with the Dark Energy Survey | William Wester | students from Beal High School | Clear | 165 | ||
| 7th Dec 2016 | What heated up the Universe? | Girish Kulkarni | Linton scouts | Partially Clear | 175 | ||
| 30th Nov 2016 | How clumpy is the dark matter in the Milky Way? | Denis Erkal | Larmor Society, St John's | Clear | 190 | ||
| 23rd Nov 2016 | Forming the most massive stars in the Universe | John Ilee | 2nd St Neots scouts | Cloudy | 130 | ||
| 16th Nov 2016 | Finding earth-like planets | Amaury Triaud | 1st Fenstanton and Hilton scouts. | Cloudy | 170 | ||
| 9th Nov 2016 | Gravitational waves - listening to the birth of the Universe | Deyan Mihaylov | Hitchin Priory Rotary Club | Cloudy | 130 | ||
| 2nd Nov 2016 | Receding horizons: the discovery of other galaxies and the birth of cosmology | Anna Schooneveld | Murray Edwards Franklin Society | Clear | 180 | ||
| 26th Oct 2016 | Mapping the Universe with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Daniel Eisenstein | (HALF TERM) | Clear | 210 | ||
| 19th Oct 2016 | Planet-eating white dwarfs | Amy Bonsor | Sawston scouts | Cloudy | 135 | ||
| 12th Oct 2016 | Proxima b: the closest Earth-like planet? | Ryan MacDonald | Amino | Cloudy | 175 | ||
| 5th Oct 2016 | Latest results from Gaia | Gerry Gilmore | Clear | 200 | |||
| 23rd Mar 2016 | Neutron Stars | Nathalie Degenaar | Potton Scouts | Cloudy | 200 | ||
| 16th Mar 2016 | Black Holes and the Evolving Universe | Meg Urry | Beal High School Astronomy Club | Cloudy | 210 | ||
| 9th Mar 2016 | NASA's Kepler Mission & the Search for Earth-like Planets | Eric Ford | Raining | 95 | |||
| 2nd Mar 2016 | Cosmology after the first 5 minutes | Sarah Bosman | 2nd Somersham Brownies | Raining | 142 | ||
| 24th Feb 2016 | The Universe in X-rays | Michael Calzadilla | Friends of St Andrews Church, Bedford | Clear | 185 | ||
| 17th Feb 2016 | Juno - mission to Jupiter! | Carolin Crawford | 1st Hemingfords Cub Pack | Raining | 180 | ||
| 10th Feb 2016 | Quasars | Laura Keating | 1st Swaffham Prior Scouts | Clear | 255 | ||
| 3rd Feb 2016 | The Dark Energy Survey: Exploring the dark sides of the cosmos with the world's largest digital camera | Bjoern Soergel | Westminster College | Clear | 210 | ||
| 27th Jan 2016 | The Hot and Violent Universe | Ranjan Vasudevan | Blacktrace Company | Cloudy | 120 | ||
| 20th Jan 2016 | Earth: the little planet that could | Scott Thomas | 2nd Cambourne Guides | Clear | 260 | ||
| 13th Jan 2016 | Using the Moon to detect Life | Amaury Triaud | Cloudy | 125 | |||
| 6th Jan 2016 | Exploring Solar Systems | Ryan MacDonald | Cloudy | 120 | |||
| 16th Dec 2015 | Monsters in the dark; hunting for the Universe's most extreme galaxies | Matt Bothwell | Cloudy | 100 | |||
| 9th Dec 2015 | Accreting black holes: Welcome to the feast! | Matt Middleton | Cloudy | 115 | |||
| 2nd Dec 2015 | Gaia Alerts: science from the first year | Heather Campbell | Amino Communications Ltd | Cloudy | 110 | ||
| 25th Nov 2015 | Brown Dwarfs | Sonali Shukla | Hitchin Probus Club | Partially Clear | 184 | ||
| 18th Nov 2015 | Bubbles and filaments in galaxy clusters | Helen Russell | 2nd Hunts Hinchingbrooke Park Scouts | Partially Clear | 128 | ||
| 11th Nov 2015 | Next generation telescopes | Michael Parker | Blacktrace Social Club | Cloudy | 138 | ||
| 4th Nov 2015 | Tiny but powerful - the smallest supermassive black holes | Jenny Greene | Raining | 105 | |||
| 28th Oct 2015 | Mars vs 'The Martian' | Carolin Crawford | (HALF TERM) | Clear | 230 |