Science Programme

  • The plenary sessions, 9.00-10.30, Monday to Thursday, and from 14.00 Thursday will be held in the Weston Auditorium.
  • All parallel sessions will be sited in the suite of lecture theatres adjacent to the Weston Auditorium, or in the Weston.
  • In the programme below, parallel sessions are identified by shorthand titles: full titles are given in the list beneath the programme

Posters can be of sizes up to A0 portrait (width: 841 mm, height: 1189 mm) or A1 landscape (width: 841 mm, height 594 mm). Posters may ONLY be attached to the poster boards using Velcro (supplied).

The conference Abstract Book is now available in PDF format.

  Mon 20th Tue 21st Wed 22nd Thu 23rd
09:00- 10:30 09:00 Welcome from
UoH Vice-Chancellor

09:05 RAS introduction

09:10 Address by
Lord Drayson

09:50 STEREO: from the Sun to the Earth - Richard Harrison, RAL Chilton

10:10 Electron Acceleration and Loss in the Radiation Belts - Richard Horne, BAS Cambridge
ESO programme

09:00 ESO overview - Tim de Zeeuw, ESO

09:30 Exo-planets - Michel Mayor, Geneva

10:00 Dynamics and Evolution of Star Forming Galaxies at z=1-3 - Linda Tacconi, MPE Garching
ESA programme

09:00 Astronomy in ESA's science programme - David Southwood, ESA

09:50 Highlights from high energy astrophysics missions - Arvind Parmar,ESTEC

10:10 Hightlights from solar-terrestrial missions - Daniel Mueller, ESA/GSFC
09:00 Astronomy, physics and astrobiology with the Square Kilometre Array - Joseph Lazio, NRL Washington DC

09:30 Highlights in ground-bassed gamma-ray astronomy - Werner Hofmann, Heidelberg

10:00 Asteroseismology in the era of the CoRoT space mission - Conny Aerts, Leuven/Nijmegen
10:30- 11:00 Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters
11:00- 12:30 Cosmology
Radio Astronomy
BDs/planets


MIST /MHD seismology *
UKSP /Solar Atmosphere
Explosive transients
AGN
Mercury
European Astronomy
Cosmology
Radio Astronomy
BDs/planets


MIST /UKSP /Particle acceleration
ESO 1: ALMA
MHD seismology *
X-rays, next decade
Near volume of galaxies
Pro-Am session
Machine learning
High redshift surveys
Gravitational lenses
Life cycle of dust
IYA 2009

MIST /UKSP /Solar minimum
Upcoming ESA missions
Binary stars
Milky Way & satellites
VO
Star formation
High redshift surveys
Gravitational lenses
Life cycle of dust
IYA 2009

MIST /Heliospheric structure
UKSP /Dynamics of solar magnetic fields
High-energy astrophysics
Star formation
Astroseismology
Galaxy clusters
12:30- 14:00 EAS Business Meeting
MIST Business Lunch
RAS Women's Lunch
BLAST! Screening
Careers Lunch
UKSP Lunch
Starry Messenger Premier
PATT Chairs Meeting
SCAP Lunch
14:00- 15:30 Cosmology
Radio Astronomy
BDs/planets


UKSP /MHD seismology *
MIST /General session
Explosive transients
AGN
Epoch of reionisation
2-4m telescopes
Cosmology
Radio Astronomy
BDs/planets
IYA 2009


MIST /Particle acceleration
UKSP /Solar & stellar interiors
ESO 2: E-ELT
X-rays, next decade
Gravitational waves
Near volume of galaxies
Minor SS bodies
High redshift surveys
Gravitational lenses
Life cycle of dust
IYA 2009

MIST /UKSP /Solar minimum
Space technologies
Binary stars
Milky Way & satellites
VO
Star formation
RAS Programme

14:00 Introduction and Welcome

14:15 Awards Ceremony

14:50 RAS Invited Lecture by George Ellis (University of Cape Town), the 2009 RAS Gerald Whitrow lecturer on "Evidence and Theory, Fact and Fancy: the state of Cosmology today".
15:30- 16:00 Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters Coffee/Posters
16:00- 18:00 16:00 EAS introduction and award to Tycho de Brahe prize recipient

16:05 EAS Tycho Brahe Prize Lecture - Kinematically decoupled galaxies - Françoise Combes
(Obs de paris, France)

Cosmology
Radio Astronomy
BDs/planets


MIST /UKSP /Magnetic reconnection
MHD seismology *
Explosive transients
AGN
Epoch of reionisation
2-4m telescopes
High redshift surveys
Gravitational lenses
Life cycle of dust

MIST /General session
UKSP /Stars as the Sun
ESO 3: Observing
Gravitational waves
Near volume of galaxies

17:30 EAS General Assembly
High redshift surveys
Gravitational lenses
Life cycle of dust
IYA 2009

MIST /UKSP /Solar-STP missions
High-energy astrophysics
Star formation
Galaxy clusters
Community Forum

16:00 - Community Forum:
Panel Discussion with

Andy Fabian (Chair)
Joachim Krautter
Keith Mason
Mike Cruise
David Southwood
Roberto Gilmozzi
19:30- 20:30 Public Lecture

Speaker: Giovanna Tinetti
(UCL, Royal Soc. Fellow)

Title: Characterising extrasolar worlds today and tomorrow
Public Lecture

Speaker:Gary Hinshaw
(NASA)

Title: Taking the Measure of Our Universe
Public Lecture

Speaker: Michael Hoskin
(Cambridge)

Title: William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens
Public Lecture

Speaker: Michael Foale
NASA, Astronaut)

Title: Astronomy and the Making of an Astronaut

* the MHD seismology session is joint between the general programme, MIST and UKSP.

Full names of symposia/sessions

Symposia (5x1.5 hrs, listed first in each time period above)

Sessions (ranging in length from 1x1.5hrs to 4x1.5hrs)

Special sessions to inform the community (not open to general abstract submission)

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