Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during each semester, on Mondays at 12:00 (normally an external speaker), and on Tuesdays at 13:00 (an internal speaker, such as a member of staff, postdoctoral or PhD researcher). These are usually held in the Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, room GU01, in the Brian Hoskins Building. Subject to capacity limits, both series are open to all. Click on the links below for the latest seminar schedules. Occasional seminars outside of the regular schedules are normally announced via e-mail within the department.
In addition, on Fridays during each semester we host a weekly weather and climate discussion (WCD) meeting:
Friday Weather and Climate Discussion
Monday Departmental seminar programme
Mondays 12:00 to 12:50 – Spring 2025
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building (unless otherwise indicated*)
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams (External Seminar Series channel). Users internal to the University of Reading can access recordings of the talks by following the links from the talk titles. For external access to the recordings, please contact the seminar organisers. Recordings are available for 90 days following the seminar, subject to the speaker’s consent.
For additional information or to arrange a seminar, contact Deepak Gopalakrishnan, Rhidian Thomas, and Alex Baker
| 19 Jan | Richard Seager Columbia University |
Tropical ocean dynamics drive the observed strengthening of the zonal SST gradient and models get it wrong |
| 26 Jan | (no seminar) |
(no seminar)
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| 2 Feb | Fabien Roquet University of Gothenburg |
The ocean’s centre of mass is deepening
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| 9 Feb | Stephan de Roode TU Delft |
Improving wind and solar radiation forecasts using large-eddy simulation models |
| 16 Feb | Lee de Mora Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
TBC |
| 23 Feb | TBC | TBC |
| 2 Mar | Pavel Berloff Imperial College London |
TBC |
| 9 Mar | Zilin Wang University of Reading |
Air Pollution–Atmospheric Boundary Layer Interaction: From Regional Scale to Urban Cities |
| 16 Mar | Benoit Mayer University of Reading |
TBC |
| 23 Mar | Marina Baldissera Pacchetti University College London |
TBC |
| 30 Mar | TBC | TBC |
Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers
Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 – Autumn 2025
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams, on the Internal (Tuesday) Seminar Series channel
For additional information or to arrange a seminar, contact Aheli Das, Andressa Andrade Cardoso, and Narender Reddy Kangari
| 7 Oct | Rhidian Thomas | Circulation impacts of the tropical Pacific SST trend |
| 14 Oct | Jon Shonk | UCanWBGT – an urban street canyon heat stress calculation method for weather and climate models |
| 21 Oct | Robin Hogan | EarthCARE: Unravelling the mysteries of clouds and aerosols |
| 28 Oct | Maarten Ambaum | Dynamics of the N. Atlantic storm track: discovering physics from data |
| 4 Nov | Sarah Shannon | The geography factor: How environmental conditions shape methane monitoring from space |
| 11 Nov | Fiona Spuler | Disentangling the joint influence of Pacific and Indian Ocean on the short rains over the Greater Horn of Africa using causal representation learning |
| 18 Nov | Bryan Lawrence | Handling data and provenance in an AI world: Tools and Techniques for many files and remote access (going beyond xarray and ChatGPT) |
| 25 Nov | Keith Shine & Laura Wilcox | Solar Radiation Management |
| 2 Dec | Mohamed Foudad | Clear-Air Turbulence in a Changing Climate |
| 9 Dec | No Seminar | – |
Click here for the latest Lunchtime Seminar schedule in PDF format