JBCA Symposium 2008: Wednesday 5th November
This years JBCA Symposium will take place in the Lecture Room at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
The Symposium will be a day-long event comprising a series of brief talks covering the range of research undertaken at JBCA. Its aim is to bring us all up to speed on what research is going on throughout what is one of the largest Astronomy groups in the country, and to provide a good introduction to our research for recent arrivals to the group. It's also a very good opportunity to identify possibilities for intra-group collaboration. To this end the symposium format will comprise an overview and one focused presentation on a selected topic for each research theme. All talks are 15 mins, including time for questions, unless otherwise indicated.
A 40 seater coach will depart from immediately outside the Turing Building promptly at 08:30. Priority for spaces on the coach will be given to students and others who are unable to drive to JBO.
Weather permitting, we will attempt a JBCA group photo under the Lovell Telescope towards the end of the lunch break. Also during the lunch break there should be an opportunity to take a tour of the Lovell Telescope Control Room. If you haven't seen it before then this is your chance.
Finally, since it's November 5th and all that, immediately after the Symposium Ralph Spencer will be setting off a few fireworks in the field next to the far carpark. It's likely to be a bit boggy there so please bring appropriate footware. The coach will be available to take people back to Turing at around 18:00.
The symposium programme is as follows: (PDF version)
| 08:30: Coach departs Turing for JBO | |||
| Research Theme | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observational CMB | 09:30-09:45 | Richard Battye | Overview |
| 09:45-10:00 | Tess Jaffe | Modeling the Galactic Magnetic Field | |
| Cosmology and Galaxy Formation | 10:00-10:15 | Scott Kay | Overview |
| 10:15-10:30 | Stephen Appleby | Aspects of cosmological evolution in F(R) modified gravity models | |
| Gravitational Lensing | 10:30-10:45 | Neal Jackson | Overview |
| 10:45-11:00 | Dandan Xu / Sarah Bryan | Do we see enough substructures? -- study from galaxy lensing | |
| 15 min Coffee Break (Tea/coffee provided) | |||
| Active Galaxies | 11:15-11:30 | Ian Browne | Overview |
| 11:30-11:45 | Janine Van Eymeren | A kinematic study of the irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 2366 using HI and Hα observations | |
| Pulsar Astrophysics | 11:45-12:15 | Ralph Eatough | Overview (30 mins) |
| Stars and Star Formation | 12:15-12:30 | Albert Zijlstra | Overview |
| 12:30-12:45 | Nicolas Peretto | A galactic plane survey of dense molecular gas: Understanding the initial conditions of star formation | |
| 1 hour Lunch Break (Buffet lunch provided) Group photo under the Lovell Telescope (weather permitting!) Tour of the Lovell Telescope Control Room | |||
| Astrochemistry and Dust | 13:45-14:00 | Andrew Markwick-Kemper | Overview |
| 14:00-14:15 | Paul Woods | Young and old, big and small: Chemical modelling at opposite ends of the stellar evolution spectrum | |
| Galactic Microlensing and Exoplanets | 14:15-14:30 | Eamonn Kerins | Overview |
| 14:30-14:45 | Nick Rattenbury | Toward Earth-II | |
| Solar Plasmas | 14:45-15:00 | Philippa Browning | Overview |
| 15:00-15:15 | Mykola Gordovskyy | Particle acceleration in solar flares based on realistic current sheet model | |
| 15 min Coffee Break (Tea/coffee provided) | |||
| Technology Development | 15:30-15:45 | Lucio Piccirillo | Overview |
| 15:45-16:00 | Simon Melhuish | The Clover CMB telescope | |
| eMERLIN | 16:00-16:15 | Tom Muxlow | Overview |
| 16:15-16:30 | Rob Beswick | TBD | |
| SKA PDO | 16:30-16:45 | Richard Schilizzi | Overview |
| 16:45-17:00 | Roshene McCool / Neil Roddis | Signal transport & networks for the SKA / SKA antenna & receiver systems | |
| 17:00: Fireworks! | |||
| 18:00: Coach departs JBO for Turing | |||
Symposium organiser: Eamonn Kerins.
