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.
| 09:30 | coffee (and poster set-up) |
| 10:00 | introduction Prof. John Brown (Gla) |
| 10:10 | Philip Breen (Ed) The dynamical evolution of stellar-mass black hole subsystems in star clusters |
| 10:30 | Josh Logue (Gla) Inferring Core-collapse Supernova Physics with Gravitational Waves |
| 10:50 | Dr Paul Rimmer (StA) Taking Charge: Sources of Ionization in Brown Dwarf Atmospheres |
| 11:10 | coffee/ posters |
| 11:40 | Dr Scott Gregory (StA) Can we predict the global magnetic topology of a pre-main sequence star from its position in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram? |
| 12:00 | Invited talk: Prof. Donald Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire) Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution |
| 12:45 | lunch (provided free)/posters |
| 14:00 | Dr Denija Crnojevic (Ed) Galaxy evolution through resolved stellar populations |
| 14:20 | Dr Alex Russell (Gla) New Models for Solar Flares |
| 14:40 | Raphaelle Haywood (StA) Disentangling planet wobbles from starspot signatures |
| 15:00 | coffee/posters |
| 15:30 | Cormack Prize talk David Brown (StA) Falling planets: stellar spin-up through tidal interactions |
| 15:50 | Academic careers advice for early-stage career researchers — Individual career paths in astronomy (Drs Scott Gregory, Craig Stark, Alex Russell and Christiane Helling) — Bi-gender survey results on careers in astronomy Dr Christiane Helling (First survey results where published here.) — Discussion on ‘Careers in Astronomy’ |
| 16:30 | poster prize, end |
At 6pm, following the meeting, there will be a public talk at the RSE by Dr Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford) Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets. (Note this is now fully booked, but there are still spaces in the overspill room).