Talk format: Seminar

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    Astronomy in the Middle East - Current Status & Future Challenges
    In recent years, many countries throughout the Middle East - in particular the more prosperous states - have made great progress in education, higher education...
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    Astrophysical probes of dark matter
    Dark matter makes up most of the mass of the Universe but remains mysterious. I discuss recent progress in constraining its properties by measuring its...
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    Atmospheric Dynamics in Mira Stars: A Spectropolarimetric Insight
    To study the extended atmosphere of evolved stars such as Mira-type variables, spectropolarimetry is an innovative tool. For many kinds of stars, it has been...
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    Automatic unsupervised classification of all Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy spectra
    Using the k-means cluster analysis algorithm, we carry out an unsupervised classification of all galaxy spectra in the seventh and final Sloan Digital Sky...
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    BAO, RSD and higher order statistics. Introduction to RSD modelling
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    BAO, RSD and higher order statistics. Multipole expansions and 3 point correlation functions
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    BAO, RSD and higher order statistics. RSD, BAO modelling and measurement, and bispectrum
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    Bar characterization from S4G imaging: Gaining insight into the secular evolution of disc galaxies
    The ΛCDM model predicts that galaxies originate in dark matter haloes, undergoing in their early age a process of continuous merges with other galaxies that...
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    Beyond precision cosmology: some examples
    The standard cosmological model has been established and its parameters are now measured with unprecedented precision. However, there is a big difference...