Cormack Meeting Schedule
09.00: Building open for placement of posters
09.30: Reception, coffee, poster session
09.55: Welcome
10.00: Session One Chair: John Peacock
10.00: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Ross Galloway (Glasgow A&A)
"Fast electron slowing-down and diffusion in a high-temperature source"
10.20: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Niall Deacon (Edinburgh, IfA)
"Meeting the neighbours"
10.40: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Mark Toner (Glasgow A&A)
"Unravelling fast protons and α particles in solar flares"
11.00: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Paul Clark (St Andrews, Physics & Astronomy)
"The nature of fragmentation in a turbulent environment"
11.20: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Shoaib Afridi (Glasgow Caledonian, Mathematics)
"The Caledonian symmetrical 5-body problem (CS5BP) for planetary systems and stellar clusters"
11.40: Presentation of 2003 Cormack prizes by Professor John Brown
11.45: Cormack vacation prizewinner (20 mins) Isla Simpson (St Andrews, Physics & Astronomy)
"Accretion onto stellar magnetospheres"
12.05: Cormack postgraduate prizewinner (30 mins) Ben Panter (Edinburgh, IfA)
"Cosmic star formation rate from the SDSS"
12.35: Sandwich lunch; poster session
13.45: Session Two Chair: John Brown
13.50: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Stephen Brindley (SETPoint West)
"STAR WOS (Schools Travelling Astronomy Roadshow West of Scotland)"
14.10: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Scott Gregory (St Andrews Physics and Astronomy)
"Accretion channeling in classical T Tauri stars"
14.30: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Tom McIvor (St Andrews Physics & Astronomy)
"Zeeman Doppler imaging of LQ Hya"
14.50: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Kirsty Selway (Glasgow A&A)
"Modelling the polarimetric signatures of extra-solar planets during microlensing events"
15.10: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Marek Kukula (Edinburgh IfA)
"Quasars, black holes and the evolution of massive galaxies"
15.30: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Matthew Pitkin (Glasgow IGR)
"Searching for gravitational waves from known binary pulsars"
15.50: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Eric Tittley (Edinburgh IfA)
"Cluster oscillations and cold fronts"
16.10: Contributed Talk (20 mins) Karina Caputi (Edinburgh IfA)
"A deeper view of extremely red galaxies"
16.30: Cream Tea
17.00: Royal Society of Edinburgh Open Presentation:
The Robert Cormack Bequest Lecture
Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS (Bristol University)
"Focussing the sky"
All talk times include 5 mins for questions/discussion