2004 Robert Cormack Bequest Meeting

The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Mon 26 Apr 2004


Cormack Bequest Meeting, Monday, April 26, 2004

PROGRAMME

Purpose of Meeting: This annual meeting is intended to enable astronomers and other interested individuals in Scotland to present, and to see, a broad selection of what is currently going on in Scottish astronomy. The meeting focuses primarily on research but also encompasses teaching and Public Understanding work.

Meeting Venue: The 2004 meeting will take place in the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 - 26 George Street, Edinburgh from 10:00am to 4.30pm.

The programme this year will comprise a series of short talks (15 minutes) and posters. Speakers will include the Cormack Undergraduate and Postgraduate prize winners for 2003. The meeting will be followed from 5.00 to 6.00 by a specially invited, public lecture, 'Focussing in the Sky', by Sir Michael Berry, FRS.


  • St.Andrews Astrophysics attendees: (proposed talks/posters)
  • E.Cackett
  • P.Clark --- (talk) The nature of fragmentation in a turbulent environment
  • A.Collier-Cameron (possible 30-min talk) exoplanets
  • M.Dominik --- (poster) PLANET: A microlensing probe of compact galactic objects from giant stars to terrestrial planets
  • S.Gregory --- (talk) Accretion Channeling in Classical T Tauri Stars.
  • K.Horne
  • T.McIvor -- (talk) Zeeman Doppler Imaging of LQ Hya
  • M.O'Sullivan
  • R.Stapleton
  • F.Vincent
  • C.Walker
    not planning to attend: C.Leigh, T.Lister, R.Hilditch
    no information: everybody else.

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    Keith Horne (kdh1@st-andrews.ac.uk)