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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22nd Oct 2008 | The history of the Cambridge Observatory | Mark Hurn | St Neots St Marys Rotary Club | Clear | 120 | ||
| 15th Oct 2008 | A Phoenix on Mars | Carolin Crawford | Cloudy | 90 | |||
| 8th Oct 2008 | Are we alone? | Robin Catchpole | 1st Fen Ditton Cubs | Clear | 150 | ||
| 19th Mar 2008 | Cosmology for beginners | Adrienne Leonard | Clear | 210 | |||
| 12th Mar 2008 | Saturn and its moons | Carolin Crawford | Clear | 200 | |||
| 5th Mar 2008 | How unique is our Solar System? | Aaron Lee | Cloudy | 100 | |||
| 27th Feb 2008 | Partners at the edge: Kuiper Belt binaries | Zoe Leinhardt | Clear | 140 | |||
| 20th Feb 2008 | Ancient Astronomy | Anna Quider | Partially Clear | 135 | |||
| 16th Feb 2008 | The size and contents of our Solar Systemq | Robin Catchpole | Clear | 130 | |||
| 13th Feb 2008 | Hunting for the most distant galaxies in the universe | Lindsay King | Fog | 90 | |||
| 6th Feb 2008 | Building galaxies on our doorstep | Dan Zucker | Clear | 130 | |||
| 30th Jan 2008 | Recent results from the Hubble Space Telescope | Carolin Crawford | Clear | 150 | |||
| 23rd Jan 2008 | Measuring the Universe throughout history | Olaf Davis | Cloudy | 85 | |||
| 9th Jan 2008 | Taking the twinkle out of starlight | Craig Mackay | Clear | 100 | |||
| 19th Dec 2007 | Finding your way about the winter night sky | Carolin Crawford | Clear | 120 | |||
| 12th Dec 2007 | Light and colour in the Universe | Robin Catchpole | Partially Clear | 130 | |||
| 5th Dec 2007 | Things that go bump in the night: the life of an asteroid | Zoe Leinhardt | Clear | 80 | |||
| 28th Nov 2007 | Illuminating the dark matter in the Universe | Adrienne Leonard | Cloudy | 100 | |||
| 21st Nov 2007 | The X-ray Sky | Andy Fabian | Raining | 110 | |||
| 14th Nov 2007 | What is time? | Andrew Pontzen | Clear | 230 | |||
| 7th Nov 2007 | The Crab Nebula | Derek Jones | Cloudy | 105 | |||
| 31st Oct 2007 | NGC5466 and its tidal tails | Michael Fellhauer | Clear | 150 | |||
| 23rd Oct 2007 | Getting around the Solar System | Steve Wilkins | Cloudy | 140 | |||
| 17th Oct 2007 | The Messier Catalogue - from comets to galaxies | Carolin Crawford | Clear | 120 | |||
| 10th Oct 2007 | Are we alone? | Robin Catchpole | Clear | 80 | |||
| 28th Mar 2007 | A closer look at Radio Galaxies | Mary Erlund | Hazy | 100 | |||
| 21st Mar 2007 | Peculiar Galaxies | Carolin Crawford | Partially Clear | 350 | |||
| 14th Mar 2007 | National Scandal - how we didn't discover Neptune | Derek Jones | Clear | 400 | |||
| 7th Mar 2007 | Why the future isn't so bright : the history and future of star formation | Steve Wilkins | Clear | 135 | |||
| 28th Feb 2007 | Illuminating the Invisible: Dark Matter in the Universe | Virginia Corless | Clear | 80 | |||
| 21st Feb 2007 | Cosmic Collisions | Elena Belsole | Clear | 95 | |||
| 14th Feb 2007 | The Universe through the eyes of the Spitzer Space Telescope | Rob Kennicutt | Clear | 110 | |||
| 7th Feb 2007 | Why the sun shines | Adam Morgan | Clear | 120 | |||
| 31st Jan 2007 | Is there life out there? The search for extrasolar planets | Adam Miller | Hazy | 110 | |||
| 24th Jan 2007 | Comets | Carolin Crawford | Patchy Cloud | 125 | |||
| 17th Jan 2007 | Astronomical Blunders | Damien Quinn | Cloudy | 60 | |||
| 10th Jan 2007 | Leviathians of the cosmos: supermassive black holes | Ranjan Vasudevan | Clear | 80 | |||
| 20th Dec 2006 | Any Questions? Ask an astronomer.... | (Panel) | Fog | 25 | |||
| 13th Dec 2006 | Looking back to the dawn of time with the cosmic microwave background | Anthony Challinor | Cloudy | 50 | |||
| 6th Dec 2006 | Are computers consummate calculators of the cosmos? | Andrew Pontzen | Partially Clear | 110 | |||
| 29th Nov 2006 | Dark Matter: the hunt for a hidden Universe | James Graham | Hazy | 160 | |||
| 22nd Nov 2006 | Images with the Hubble Space Telescope | Neil Trentham | Raining | 85 | |||
| 15th Nov 2006 | Are we star dust or nuclear waste? | Robin Catchpole | Cloudy | 75 | |||
| 8th Nov 2006 | Heavenly Music of the Universe (Cambridge Music Festival) | Carolin Crawford | Raining | 130 | |||
| 1st Nov 2006 | Galactic Cannibalism: How the Milky Way eats its dwarf companions | Michael Fellhauer | Clear | 160 | |||
| 25th Oct 2006 | How to find a quasar | Natasha Maddox | Raining | 35 | |||
| 18th Oct 2006 | The view from the centre of the Universe | Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams | Cloudy | 140 | |||
| 11th Oct 2006 | Why is Pluto no longer a planet? | Carolin Crawford | Cloudy | 65 | |||
| 29th Mar 2006 | Black Holes | Giovanni Miniutti | Cloudy | 80 | |||
| 22nd Mar 2006 | Fascinating and fantastic nebulae | Carolin Crawford | Partially Clear | 420 | |||
| 15th Mar 2006 | Introducing Galaxies | Shoko Jin | Partially Clear | 200 | |||
| 8th Mar 2006 | Jets: From Stars to Galaxies | Mary Erlund | Cloudy | 90 | |||
| 1st Mar 2006 | Piercing the Universe | Matteo Viel | Clear (ish) | 130 | |||
| 22nd Feb 2006 | Private lives of stars | Ross Church | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 15th Feb 2006 | Simulations of the Universe | John Regan | Partially Clear | 200 | |||
| 8th Feb 2006 | Largest objects in the Universe | James Graham | Partially Clear | 200 | |||
| 1st Feb 2006 | Detecting Gravity's Waves | Jonathon Gair | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 18th Jan 2006 | Stars & Their Atmospheres | Kevin Marshall | Cloudy | 80 | |||
| 15th Jan 2006 | Finding Planets | Suzanne Aigrain | Partially Clear | 130 | |||
| 11th Jan 2006 | Carolin Crawford | Carolin Crawford | Clear | 200 | |||
| 21st Dec 2005 | Lisa Jardine-Wright & Robin Catchpole | Making A Comet for Christmas | Cloudy | 160 | |||
| 14th Dec 2005 | Distant Galaxies | Neil Trentham | Patchy Cloud | 60 | |||
| 7th Dec 2005 | Astronomical Toys: Instruments for the World's Largest Telescopes | Ian Parry | Cloudy | 60 | |||
| 30th Nov 2005 | What's New in Our Solar System? | Robin Catchpole | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 23rd Nov 2005 | The Ingredients of the Universe: Dark Matter & Dark Energy | Lindsay King | Cloudy | 60 | |||
| 16th Nov 2005 | Are We Star Dust or Nuclear Waste? | Robin Catchpole | Clear | 300 | |||
| 9th Nov 2005 | Explosions in the Universe | Nina Hatch | Clear | 250 | |||
| 2nd Nov 2005 | Stars, Gas & Dust in the Milky Way | Mark Wilkinson | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 26th Oct 2005 | The Importance of Stars | Richard Stancliffe | Partially Clear | 110 | |||
| 19th Oct 2005 | First Light: The Epoch of Re-ionisation | Jamie Bolton | Cloudy | 35 | |||
| 12th Oct 2005 | The Universe in X-rays | Robert Dunn | Cloudy | 20 | |||
| 5th Oct 2005 | Asteroids, comets, new planets & Pluto | Carolin Crawford | Cloudy | 35 | |||
| 30th Mar 2005 | Do the laws of Nature vary in space and time? | Michael Murphy | |||||
| 23rd Mar 2005 | The First Galaxies | Richard McMahon | Hazy | 300 | |||
| 16th Mar 2005 | A Day in the Life of Massive Stars | Maggie Hendry | Cloudy | 150 | |||
| 9th Mar 2005 | Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes | Arthur I Miller | Cloudy | 50 | |||
| 2nd Mar 2005 | Why do stars twinkle? And what can we do about it? | Nicholas Law | Partially Clear | 50 | |||
| 23rd Feb 2005 | Finding Planets | Suzanne Aigrain | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 16th Feb 2005 | The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life | Fergus Simpson | Partially Clear | 200 | |||
| 9th Feb 2005 | Dark Matter and Alternative Gravity | Justin Read | Cloudy | 110 | |||
| 2nd Feb 2005 | When Galaxies Collide | Alan McConnachie | Cloudy | 105 | |||
| 26th Jan 2005 | Radio Astronomy: Observing in other Wavelengths! | Natasha Maddox | Cloudy | 75 | |||
| 19th Jan 2005 | Black Holes | Matthew Worsley | Partially Clear | 120 | |||
| 12th Jan 2005 | Discovery of Maverick Stars | Emma Ryan-Weber | Clear | 100 | |||
| 5th Jan 2005 | History of Cosmology | Lisa Jardine-Wright | Clear | 30 | |||
| 23rd Dec 2004 | Christmas Lectures: A Rough Guide to the Wider Universe | Lisa Jardine-Wright | Cloudy | 40 | |||
| 22nd Dec 2004 | Christmas Lectures: A Rough Guide to the Local Universe | Lisa Jardine-Wright | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 15th Dec 2004 | Clusters of Galaxies | Robert Dunn | Cloudy | 40 | |||
| 8th Dec 2004 | The Expansion of the Universe | Fergus Simpson | Cloudy | 30 | |||
| 1st Dec 2004 | Forming Stars, Discs and Planets | Richard Alexander | Cloudy | 60 | |||
| 27th Oct 2004 | Mapping Distant Galaxies | Vivienne Wild | Cloudy | 30 | |||
| 24th Oct 2004 | Surveying the Milky Way Galaxy | George Seabroke | Cloudy | 65 | |||
| 20th Oct 2004 | The Life and Death of Stars | John Eldridge | Patchy Cloud | 35 | |||
| 17th Oct 2004 | Binary Stars | Ross Church | Cloudy | 70 | |||
| 13th Oct 2004 | Galaxy Formation: Painting by Numbers | Lisa Jardine-Wright | Cloudy | 25 | |||
| 10th Oct 2004 | Gravity & Exotic Objects of the Universe | Lisa Jardine-Wright | Cloudy | 65 | |||
| 3rd Oct 2004 | Planets Beyond the Solar System | Ian Parry | Clear | 25 |