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External talks (academic)
  • Chameleon clusters in f(R) gravity on 5th Sep 2013 3:15:pm Location: COSMO 2013, Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge
  • Phenomenology of Unified Dark Matter on 3rd Sep 2013 5:15:pm Location: Cambridge (UK)
  • Chameleon Clusters: Modelling halo properties in the presence of screening effects on 2nd Jul 2013 2:55:pm Location: Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
  • Testing gravity with large-scale structure on 17th May 2013 2:00:pm Location: University of Sussex
  • Testing gravity at custer and near-horizon scales on 29th Apr 2013 1:00:pm Location: Princeton University
  • Testing gravity with large-scale structure: Nonlinear and near-horizon scales on 27th Apr 2013 11:40:am Location: University of Pennsylvania
  • K-essential entanglement entropy on 26th Apr 2013 4:50:pm Location: Granada, Spain
  • PTHalos. Fast galaxy mock catalogues using 2LPT, and their applications on 11th Mar 2013 2:00:pm Location: ICE, Barcelona, Spain
  • The clustering of SDSS BOSS galaxies,and the construction of mock galaxy catalogues on 16th Jan 2013 2:30:pm Location: University of Pennsylvania
  • The 3D clustering of SDSS-II Boss DR9 galaxies and eht construction of mock catalogues on 20th Dec 2012 11:15:am Location: University of Barcelona
  • Notes on VLBI with LOFAR on 3rd Dec 2012 12:00:pm Location: Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Perth WA, Australia
  • Evolution of radio galaxies and their impact on the evolving Universe on 28th Nov 2012 3:00:pm Location: CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Epping, Sydney NSW, Australia
  • Evolution of radio galaxies and their impact on the evolving Universe on 2nd Nov 2012 3:30:pm Location: CIRA, Perth WA, Australia
  • Exploring the radio undetected QSOs of the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. on 13th Sep 2012 1:30:pm Location: SEPnet Grand Challenges Conference, Southampton University, 12-13 September 2012
  • Cosmological constraints on the decomposed generalized Chaplygin gas model on 10th Sep 2012 2:40:pm Location: UCAS S201 COSMO12 Beijing China
  • Phenomenology of Unified Dark Matter models with fast transition on 4th Sep 2012 4:10:pm Location: Guimaraes, Spanish Relativity Meeting in Portugal
  • Cosmological constraints on f(R) gravity on 20th Aug 2012 10:15:am Location: Centro de ciencias de Benasque, Spain
  • Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS-III BOSS and the construction of mock catalogues on 15th Aug 2012 9:45:am Location: Benasque, Spain. Modern Cosmology Meeting
  • Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS-III BOSS and the construction of mock catalogues on 2nd Aug 2012 10:00:am Location: ICTP, Trieste Italy, LSS Workshop/Meeting
  • Interacting Dark Energy and Modified Gravity on 2nd Jul 2012 1:00:pm Location: MG13 conference Stockholm
  • Cluster density profiles as a test of modified gravity on 26th Jun 2012 9:20:am Location: Ringberg castle, Germany
  • Measuring Kinetic Luminosity Functions of Powerful FRII Radio Galaxies on 1st Jun 2012 10:00:am Location: CEA Saclay, Paris
  • Large Scale Bias, Peak Background Split and Primordial Non-Gaussianity on 23rd May 2012 9:00:am Location: LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), Marseille, France
  • Weak lensing at non-linear scales on 9th May 2012 10:00:am Location: DES meeting, MPE
  • The 3D clustering of SDSS-III BOSS DR9 galaxies and the construction of mock catalogues on 27th Apr 2012 9:11:am Location: Sussex University
  • Observational constraints on the cosmic spin of the most massive black holes on 17th Apr 2012 10:00:am Location: Cerro Calan, Santiago, Chile
  • Playing in the dark: simple toy models for Unified Dark Matter with fast transition on 3rd Apr 2012 11:00:am Location: Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon. VIIth Iberian Cosmology Meeting.
  • The 3D clustering of the SDSS-III BOSS DR9 galaxies on 3rd Apr 2012 9:00:am Location: Lisbon University. IBERICOS meeting
  • Constraining Modified Gravity and Dark Energy Models with Weak Lensing on 29th Mar 2012 3:00:pm Location: NAM2012
  • SDSS-II Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernova on 29th Mar 2012 11:45:am Location: NAM, Manchester
  • SDSS-II Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernova on 16th Mar 2012 1:00:pm Location: Photometric Classification Workshop, Chicago
  • Non-Gaussian perturbations from mixed inflaton-curvaton scenario on 7th Mar 2012 4:30:pm Location: Queen Mary, University of London
  • Non-Gaussian perturbations from mixed inflaton-curvaton scenario on 13th Feb 2012 12:00:pm Location: AIMS, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Non-Gaussian perturbations from mixed inflaton-curvaton scenario on 31st Jan 2012 12:00:pm Location: University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Cosmology with SDSS-II Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernova on 12th Jan 2012 1:00:pm Location: AIMS, South Africa
  • Tilted Ekpyroris on 7th Dec 2011 12:00:am Location: UK Cosmo - Kings College - London
  • Forecasting gNL for mixed Isocurvature and Adiabatic Modes on 13th Sep 2011 2:10:pm Location: UK Cosmo ICG
  • Interesting solutions in massive gravity on 6th Sep 2011 12:00:pm Location: Barcelona U.
  • Analysis of SDSS-II Supernova with SDSS-III, Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) host galaxy redshift on 3rd Sep 2011 5:40:pm Location: Azores summer school
  • A Detailed General Relativistic Model of Cosmological Lensing on 29th Aug 2011 3:10:pm Location: ERE2011 Madrid
  • Light Propagation through exact non-linear inhomogeneities in LCDM cosmology on 25th Aug 2011 1:50:pm Location: COSMO11, Porto, Portugal
  • Non-Gaussian perturbations from mixed inflaton-curvaton scenario on 23rd Aug 2011 4:40:pm Location: COSMO11, Porto, Portugal
  • Complementarity of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect and Redshift-space Distortions on 12th Aug 2011 1:00:pm Location: Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen
  • Light Propagation through exact non-linear inhomogeneities in LCDM cosmology on 28th Jul 2011 1:45:pm Location: RESCEU/DENET Summer School, Japan
  • Tilted Ekpyrosis on 6th Jul 2011 3:45:pm Location: PASCOS2011, Cambridge, UK
  • Can the graviton have a mass? on 6th Jul 2011 1:31:pm Location: PASCOS 11, Cambridge
  • Testing Cosmological Models using RSD and ISW on 27th Jun 2011 11:00:am Location: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
  • Can the graviton have a mass? on 20th May 2011 4:30:pm Location: UK Cosmology Meeting - DAMTP
  • Can the graviton have a mass? on 7th May 2011 1:00:pm Location: University of Nottingham
  • Non-Gaussianity and Gravitational Waves from Curvaton on 30th Mar 2011 1:00:pm Location: AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France
  • BOSS SN talk – overview of my method and results on 25th Mar 2011 10:30:am Location: BOSS collaboration meeting, Cloudcroft, New Mexico
  • BOSS SN talk – galaxy host on 24th Mar 2011 5:00:pm Location: BOSS collaboration meeting, Cloudcroft, New Mexico
  • Non-Gaussianity and Gravitational Waves from Curvaton on 22nd Mar 2011 1:30:pm Location: IPhT, CEA/Saclay, France
  • Solving the Big Bang singularity using string theory on 22nd Mar 2011 12:40:pm Location: YITP, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Developing Trispectrum Estimators to measure non-Gaussianity in the CMB on 21st Mar 2011 11:00:am Location: YITP, Kyoto, Japan
  • Photometric redshifts for SERVS on 16th Mar 2011 1:00:pm Location: SERVS collaboration meeting at IAP, Paris
  • Exact inhomogeneities in LCDM cosmology on 7th Mar 2011 12:00:pm Location: African Instiute of Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Testing cosmological models using the ISW effect with forthcoming radio surveys on 24th Feb 2011 10:15:am Location: Leiden
  • The cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes from radio observations on 21st Feb 2011 4:45:pm Location: Probing the Radio Continuum Universe with SKA Pathfinders, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Observational constraints on the cosmic spin of the most massive black holes on 4th Feb 2011 2:30:pm Location: Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Large Scale Bias, Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Simulations on 4th Feb 2011 12:00:pm Location: Imperial College, London
  • Clone of The seed magnetic field generated by non-linear effects on 28th Jan 2011 12:00:am Location: Cambridge (DAMTP)
  • The seed magnetic field generated by non-linear effects on 27th Jan 2011 12:00:am Location: Oxford
  • Learning from Simulations. Mass function Systematics and Primordial NonGaussianities on 20th Dec 2010 10:15:am Location: University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • Large Scale Bias in Cosmological Simulations on 16th Dec 2010 11:00:am Location: CIEMAT, Madrid
  • The Chemical Enrichment Histories of SDSS Galaxies on 15th Dec 2010 11:10:am Location: IAU symposium 277, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • High-redshift obscured quasars with ALMA on 14th Dec 2010 12:00:am Location: University of Manchester, ALMA Early Science Community
  • What happened before the Big Bang? (In Spanish) on 1st Dec 2010 11:58:am Location: Institute of Physical Sciences (UNAM-Cuernavaca), Mexico
  • The Chameleon Effect on 29th Nov 2010 11:49:am Location: University of Guanajuato (Leon), Mexico
  • Does Hořava-Lifshitz gravity really describe our Universe? on 23rd Nov 2010 11:51:am Location: VIII workshop of the DGFM-SMF (Chiapas U.), Mexico.
  • SDSS II Supernovae with BOSS host redshifts on 4th Nov 2010 11:00:pm Location: SDSS II SN meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
  • Chemical compositions of SDSS-II galaxies on 26th Oct 2010 9:30:am Location: IPMU, Tokyo, Japan
  • Stellar Masses of BOSS Galaxies on 25th Oct 2010 12:00:am Location: BOSS AGN and Galaxy Evolution working group meeting, IMPU, Tokyo, Japan
  • The non-linear evolution of CMB: non-Gaussianity and spectral distortions on 13th Oct 2010 3:00:pm Location: YITP, Kyoto
  • The non-linear evolution of CMB: non-Gaussianity and spectral distortions on 7th Oct 2010 12:00:pm Location: Nagoya University
  • Photometric redshifts of SERVS galaxies on 28th Sep 2010 10:00:am Location: CTIO, La Serena, Chile
  • Inferring the spin of SMBHs from the radio luminosity function on 28th Sep 2010 12:00:am Location: University of Birmingham, "AGN: populations, parameters and power" workshop
  • Non-Gaussianity from nonlinear effects in the CMB on 27th Sep 2010 2:00:pm Location: Cosmo10 (Tokyo)
  • Large-scale Perturbations from the Waterfall Field in Hybrid Inflation on 16th Sep 2010 11:00:pm Location: 4th UniverseNet School - Frontiers of Particle Cosmology - Lecce - Italy
  • SDSS III BOSS SN mashine gun talk on 16th Sep 2010 10:00:am Location: SDSS III collaboration meeting, Paris
  • Large-scale Perturbations from the Waterfall Field in Hybrid Inflation on 5th Sep 2010 11:00:pm Location: UK Cosmo Meeting Durham
  • Stellar Masses of BOSS galaxies on 3rd Sep 2010 10:45:am Location: "The 70th open puzzle in galaxy formation and evolution", Portsmouth, UK
  • Pitfalls in Dark Parametrization on 13th Aug 2010 5:00:pm Location: Centro de Ciencias de Benasque (Benasque, Spain)
  • High-redshift quasars obscured by kiloparsec dust on 13th Jul 2010 12:00:am Location: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, "The Infrared/X-ray Connection in Galaxy Evolution" workshop
  • Will Multiple Probes of Dark Energy find Modified Gravity? on 2nd Jul 2010 12:00:pm Location: University of Pennsylvania
  • Redshift-Space Distortions for Galaxy Pairs with Wide Angular Separation on 24th Jun 2010 11:50:am Location: Beijing, China
  • Supernovae in SDSS II with BOSS hostz on 23rd Jun 2010 11:00:am Location: Workshop on redshift surveys and large scale structure, Beijing, China
  • Will Multiple Probes of Dark Energy find Modified Gravity? on 21st Jun 2010 12:00:pm Location: University of Pittsburgh
  • The cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes on 11th May 2010 12:00:am Location: Agios Nikolaos, Crete, "Astronomy with Megastructures" workshop
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 29th Apr 2010 12:00:am Location: University of Durham, seminar at the Institute for Computational Cosmology
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 28th Apr 2010 12:00:am Location: University of Edinburgh, seminar at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
  • Cuásares ocultos con alto corrimiento al rojo on 17th Mar 2010 12:00:am Location: Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 27th Jan 2010 12:00:am Location: Imperial College London, seminar at the Astrophysics Group
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 13th Jan 2010 12:00:am Location: University of Southampton, School of Physics & Astronomy
  • Cool dust in z~2 obscured quasars on 14th Dec 2009 12:00:am Location: Obergurgl University Centre, Austria. "The Origin of Galaxies: Lessons from the Distant Universe" conference.
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 21st Oct 2009 12:00:am Location: University of Kent at Canterbury, seminar at the Physical Sciences department
  • Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes on 9th Oct 2009 12:00:am Location: House colloquium at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg
  • Curvaton Model on 28th Jun 2009 11:00:pm Location: Summer School: Exploring the Cosmological Frontiers, Perimeter Institute
External talks (outreach)
  • The Transit of Venus and the Scale of the Universe on 24th May 2012 11:00:pm Location: Portsmouth Grammer School Physics Club
  • Intech space themed ‘Adults Evening’ on 1st Mar 2012 5:00:am Location: Intech Science Center, Winchester. Audience ~100 adults
  • Why Cosmologists believe in Dark Matter and Dark Energy on 12th May 2011 7:00:pm Location: The Fax Fox, 11-13 Victoria Road, Southsea, PO5 2SP
  • The energy content of the Universe and Measuring distances with Type Ia Supernovae on 10th Mar 2011 8:30:pm Location: Southampton Astronomical Society
  • Skeptics in the Pub on 25th Jan 2011 7:00:pm Location: The Mermaid, 222 New Road, PO2 7RW
  • Meet the Scientist on 22nd Aug 2010 11:00:pm Location: INTECH Science Centre and Planetarium, Winchester, UK
  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Supernova Cosmology on 23rd Oct 2009 11:39:am Location: Isle of Wight
  • EBP Maths Working Lunch on 20th Oct 2009 9:30:am Location: Sunsail, Port Solent, Portsmouth PO6 4TH
  • Modern Cosmology on 27th Jun 2008 12:00:pm Location: Portsmouth High School

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