Simulations insights into doubled barred galaxies | 13 July 2026
Prof. Victor P. Debattista – University of Lancashire
Lectures on stellar dynamics around black holes | 23-25 March 2026
Prof. John Magorrian – University of Oxford
Description: The distribution of stars in the inner parsec of our Galaxy is puzzling, which raises the question: what are the most important dynamical processes that have shaped the centres of the Milky Way and other galaxies? In these lectures we develop the topic of stellar dynamics around supermassive black holes, starting from the Newtonian two-body problem of undergraduate mechanics and working up towards the collective dynamical processes that occur in nuclear stellar clusters.
The long-term evolution of turbulent discs in high-redshift galaxies | 9 June 2026
Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn – Sydney Institute for Astronomy
The dust to ice ratio varies among and within interstellar clouds toward the Galactic Center | 28 May 2026
Savannah Gramze – University of Florida
Tidal Disruption Events: a window into black hole accretion | 29 Jan 2026
Prof. Daniel J. Price – Monash University
Shedding light on the early rise of Massive Black Holes in the JWST era | 15 Jan 2026
Dr. Alessandro Trinca – University of Edimburgh
Bridging Theory and Observations: Insights into SFE and Dust attenuation in high-z galaxies | 20 Nov 2025
Dr. Daisuke Toyouchi – University of Osaka
Galactic Archaeology: a Local Route to Cosmology | 23 Sept 2025
Prof. Francesca Matteucci – University of Trieste
Into the Galactic Nucleus: tracing the Dynamics and Evolution of the Milky Way’s Nuclear Star Cluster | 18 Sept 2025
Dr. Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti – University of Padova
Magnetic Field Evolution during Tidal Disruption Events | 9 Sept 2025
Simona Pacuraru – University of Birmingham
Probing dark matter with resonant dynamics of the Galactic bar | 18 Feb 2025
Dr. Rimpei Chiba – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Understanding the complexity of Gas-rich Galaxy Centres with idealised high-resolution simulations | 12 Feb 2025
Dr. Robin G. Tress – EPFL
Lectures on stellar dynamics | 18-22 Nov 2024
Prof. James Binney – University of Oxford
Description: Stellar dynamics proceeds in two stages. Stage I involves building models that are in statistical equilibrium in the sense that as their constituent particles move around, particles essentially swap places, leaving the model’s large-scale structure invariant. That is, Stage I focuses on mean-field theory. Stage II is concerned with understanding how fluctuations in the gravitational field that holds a model together drive the model’s long-term evolution.
Lecture 1 – 18 November – Overview
Lecture 2 – 19 November – Orbits & orbits trapping
Lecture 3 – 20 November – Mean-field models
Lecture 4 – 21 November – Fluctuations and collective phenomena
Lecture 5 – 22 November – Applications and examples (periodic cube)