Programme & Posters

The meeting will take place in the rooms of the RSE, with talks in the lecture room, posters in Wellcome West and catering in Wellcome East. Directions to the RSE from Waverley Station can be found here.

The meeting will start at 9:30 and end at 16:00. The full  SUPA Cormack Astronomy Meeting (pdf) is now available:

09:30 coffee (and poster set-up)
09:55 Introduction Andy Lawrence (Edi)
10:00 Iain Hannah (Gla) HXR flares and microflares
10:20 Claudia Cyganowski (StA) The Early Stages of Massive Star Formation: Insights from GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects
10:40 Jorge Penarrubia (Edi) Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies
11:00 – 11:20 coffee/ posters
11:20 Alasdair Wilson (Gla) Ionization in MHD-Gas interactions
11:40 Paulo Simoes (Gla) Implosion of Coronal Loops during the Impulsive Phase of a Solar Flare
12:00 Beth Biller (Edi) Weather on Brown Dwarfs and Planets
12:20 Soko Matsumura (Dundee) Effects of Dynamical Evolution of Giant Planets on Survival of Terrestrial Planets
12:40 – 13:30 lunch / posters
13:30 David Nisbet (Edi) HiZELS – An investigation of distant star-forming galaxies
13:50 Mehmet Alpaslan (StA) These are not the voids you are looking for!
14:10 Pratika Dayal (Edi) The earliest galaxies: probing cosmic dawn
14:30 – 15:00 tea / posters
15:00 Cormack prize talk: Pasquale Galianni (StA) Testing MOND in the Solar System with LISA-pathfinder
15:20 Anna Lisa Vari (Edi) Rotation, tides, and pressure anisotropy: new dynamical models for globular clusters
15:40 Giles Hammond (Gla) Gravitational Wave Astronomy
16:00 Meeting Ends
Lawrence @ the Standing Order

The posters to be presented at the meeting:

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