Purpose of Meeting: This annual meeting enables 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. The 2005 meeting serves in addition as the launch event for the new Scottish Universities Physics Alliance ( SUPA ) Astro-Space Theme.
Meeting Venue:
The 2005 meeting will take place in the
School of Physics and Astronomy , at the
University of St.Andrews .
The meeting begins at 10:00 and concludes at 17:30.
The programme (below) comprises a series of short talks (15-20min)
and posters. Speakers include the Cormack Undergraduate
and Postgraduate prize winners for 2004.
A catered lunch will be provided for the speakers.
A kiosk at the venue offers soup and sandwiches, and there are
also lunch venues nearby at the Gateway Centre and Kinburn Park.
Carnegie Centennial Lecture:
At 6pm, Prof
Mario Livio
presents The Carnegie Centennial Lecture,
' BEAUTY IN A DARK UNIVERSE'.
A wine reception follows the lecture.
| start | dur | |
| 09:30 | 25 | COFFEE and POSTER SETUP |
| 09:55 | 05 | SESSION 1 -- Keith Horne |
| 10:00 | 20 | Jim Dunlop (Edi) SUPA/Astro-Space |
| 10:20 | 30 | Colin Cunningham (Edi) Sheila Rowan and Val O'Shea (Gla)-- SUPA/TEOPS |
| 10:50 | 20 | Lyndsay Fletcher (Gla) and Duncan McKay (StA) SUPA/SWAP: Solar Activity and Space Weather |
| 11:10 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK -- POSTERS |
| 11:40 | 00 | SESSION 2 -- Chair: John Brown |
| 11:40 | 20 | Thomas Barber (Cormack Undergraduate Prize) The Age of Galaxies |
| 12:00 | 30 | Christina Walker (Cormack Postgraduate Prize) Brown Dwarf Disk Structure and its Implications |
| 12:30 | 20 | Antonio Diaz (StA) Waves in solar coronal loops . |
| 12:50 | 90 | LUNCH -- POSTERS |
| 14:20 | 0 | SESSION 3 -- Chair: John Brown |
| 14:20 | 20 | Colin Cunningham (Edi) Extremely Large Telescopes: their dramatic possibilities for science and their dramatic challenges for technology |
| 14:40 | 20 | Clare Dobbs (StA) Centrally condensed turbulent cores: Massive stars or fragmentation? |
| 15:00 | 20 | Laura Bone (Gla) Multiwavelength observations of a partially occulted solar flare. |
| 15:20 | 20 | Scott Gregory (StA) Accretion onto Complex Stellar Fields |
| 15:40 | 30 | COFFEE BREAK -- POSTERS |
| 16:10 | 00 | SESSION 4 -- Chair: Keith Horne |
| 16:10 | 20 | John Veitch (Gla) The Search for Gravitational Waves |
| 16:30 | 20 | Rhona Maclean (StA) Magnetic topology of the solar corona |
| 16:50 | 20 | Duncan Mackay (StA) Transport of magnetic flux on the Sun |
| 17:10 | 20 | Barnaby Rowe (Edi) Flexion: a new probe into the dark matter halos of galaxies |
| 17:30 | 30 | BREAK -- POSTERS |
| 18:00 | 60 | Mario Livio , BEAUTY IN A DARK UNIVERSE |
| 19:00 | 60 | wine reception |