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Name | Jason L. Sanders |
Label | Associate Professor |
jason.sanders@ucl.ac.uk | |
Url | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapjls |
Summary | I am an astrophysicist interested in the evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. For a list of publications, see research publications. |
Work
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2020 - Present London, UK
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2014 - 2020 Cambridge, UK
Education
Talks
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Feb 2025 The history of the Milky Way’s bar
Kavli Galaxies Discussion Group
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Jul 2024 Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia: How do we measure stellar ages?
IoA50 New Frontiers of Astronomy
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Dec 2023 The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
AIP group meeting, online
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Nov 2023 Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia
Departmental Seminar, University of Hull
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Oct 2023 The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
Surveying the Milky Way: The Universe in Our Own Backyard, Pasadena, California
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Oct 2023 The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way: Galactic archaeology with Mira variables
VVV-X workshop, Vatican Observatory
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Sep 2023 Stellar populations of the inner Galaxy: structure, kinematics, age and chemistry
Revealed by Gaia, Cambridge
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Jul 2023 The epoch of bar formation in the Milky Way
Galactic Bars, Granada
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Mar 2023 Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia
Departmental Seminar, Queen Mary's University London, UK
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Feb 2023 The structure of the bar of the Milky Way from near infra-red observations and stellar kinematics
Mapping the Milky Way Lorentz Center workshop, University of Leiden
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Sep 2022 The epoch of bar formation
Puzzles of the Galactic Centre workshop, Heidelberg
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Oct 2021 Evidence for sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia supernovae from the last major merger
HRMOS science workshop, online
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Sep 2021 Our place in the Universe: using billion+ stellar datasets to reveal the formation of the Milky Way
Royal Society Meeting of Minds, London
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Jul 2020 How fast is the Milky Way bar rotating?
Galaxies Coffee discussion session, MPIA, Heidelberg
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Feb 2020 Uncovering the history of the Milky Way with Gaia
Royal Society Specialist Discussion, UK
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Oct 2019 Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
Departmental Seminar, University of Durham, UK
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Jul 2019 Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
Departmental Seminar, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK
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Jul 2019 Transverse Bar/Bulge Kinematics with Gaia and VVV
International Astronomical Symposium 353, Shanghai, China
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May 2019 Our Multi-Dimensional Time-evolving Galaxy
Departmental Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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Nov 2018 Kinematics of the Galactic bulge with VVV and Gaia DR2
The life and times of the Milky Way, Shanghai, China
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Nov 2018 Halo discussion (invited)
The life and times of the Milky Way, Shanghai, China
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Jul 2018 Tidal disruption of dwarf galaxies
Stellar Haloes across the Cosmos, Heidelberg, Germany
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Dec 2017 Chronologically dissecting the Galaxy
Week of WEAVE, Barcelona, Spain
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Nov 2017 Dark-matter haloes of the Local Group
Departmental Seminar, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
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Aug 2017 Heating history of the solar neighbourhood with Gaia DR1
The science of Gaia and future challenges, Lund University, Sweden
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Jul 2017 Chemo-dynamical Milky Way models in the era of Gaia
National Astronomy Meeting, Hull, UK
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Jul 2017 Dynamical modelling of globular clusters and tidal streams
Departmental Seminar, University of Leicester, UK
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May 2017 The dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
Departmental Seminar, University of Cardiff, UK
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May 2017 The dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
Departmental Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK
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Apr 2017 Dwarf spheroidal scatter
Coffee talk, University of Edinburgh
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Nov 2016 Revealing the dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
Departmental seminar, University of Bristol, UK
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Oct 2016 Revealing the dark-matter halo mass spectrum of the Milky Way
Departmental seminar, Lund University, Sweden
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Jun 2016 Extended DFs for the Galactic Disc(s)
Oxford mini-symposium, University of Oxford, UK
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Mar 2016 Dark matter annihilation in Milky Way dwarf spheroidals
Wednesday lunchtime talks, University of Cambridge, UK
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Dec 2015 Chemo-dynamical modelling of large spectroscopic surveys (APOGEE & Gaia-ESO)
Gaia-ESO Third Science, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Jul 2015 Stream modelling
Streams workshop, Ringberg, Germany
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Nov 2014 Extended distribution functions for the Galactic disc
Gaia-ESO Second Science, Porto, Portugal
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Nov 2014 Dynamics of the Milky Way
Lunchtime Newcomer talks, University of Cambridge, UK
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Apr 2014 Extended Distribution Functions and Tidal Streams
2nd Oxford-Heidelberg meeting, University of Oxford, UK
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Feb 2014 Dynamics of the Milky Way: Tidal streams
Galaxy Evolution meeting, University of Oxford, UK
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Aug 2013 Streams in angle-action space
Gaia Challenge meeting, University of Surrey, UK
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Aug 2013 Tidal streams and the Galactic potential
Milky Way Workshop, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany
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Jul 2013 Modelling RAVE with Extended Distribution Functions
RAVE meeting 2013, Oxford, UK
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May 2013 Stream-orbit misalignment
International Astronomical Union Symposium 298, Lijiang, China
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Apr 2013 Chemodynamical distribution functions
Gaia-ESO First Science, Nice, France
Teaching
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2023-PRESENT London, UK
PHAS0037 co-lecturer
UCL
Third-year undergraduate Physical Cosmology co-lecturer
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2021-2022 London, UK
Teaching assistant for PHAS0007
Practical Physics & Computing 1
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2020-2023 PhD training course organiser and lecturer
UCL
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2020-2021 Teaching assistant for PHAS0029 Practical Physics & Computing 2
UCL
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2019 Lecturer for 49th Saas Fee school on The Milky Way in the Gaia era
Saas Fee Switzerland
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2017-2019 3rd year Undergraduate Stellar Dynamics and Structure of Galaxies supervisions
University of Cambridge
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2015-2020 Part III Masters Project supervisor
University of Cambridge (four students)
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2014-2020 1st year Undergraduate Physics supervisions
University of Cambridge
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2013-2014 3rd year Undergraduate General Relativity Tutorials
University of Oxford
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2012-2013 3rd year Undergraduate Special Relativity Tutorials
University of Oxford
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2012 2nd year Quantum Mechanics marking
University of Oxford
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2012 3rd year Undergraduate Astrophysics Labs
University of Oxford