2019/20 Talks
Our talks start at 7.30 p.m. and are hosted by the School of Physics and Astronomy at:
Cardiff University
Queen's Buildings
The Parade
Cardiff
CF24 3AA
All attendees are kindly invited to sign the visitors' book upon arrival!
| Date | Description | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ||
| 5th September | Comets - Ghostly Wanderers in Space | Ian Ridpath - Author and Writer of Astronomical Topics |
| 19th September | From the Dendera Zodiac to Ptolemy's Almagest; Three Millennia of Astronomical History | Dr Allan Chapman - University of Oxford |
| 3rd October | The Influence of Music on Astronomy | Peter Williamson - Solarsphere |
| 17th October | Grey Mars; The World Beneath the Red Dust | Lucy Kissick. PhD student - University of Oxford |
| 31st October | It's a Big Bang Universe; The Discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation | Prof Ian Robson - Royal Observatory Edinburgh |
| 14th November | Britain's Best Top Ten Astronomers Ever! | Prof David Hughes - University of Sheffield |
| 28th November | The Silver-On-Glass Revolution | Rob Marriot - Instrumentation Consultant |
| 12th December | ISM (Dust and Gas) in Nearby Galaxies | Dr Matthew Smith - Cardiff University |
| 2020 | ||
| 9th January | Astronomy in an Age of Revolutions; The Foundation and Founders of the Royal Astronomical Society 1820 | Prof Mike Edmunds - Cardiff University |
| 23rd January | Potential for Life on the Moons of the Solar System | Martin Griffiths - Dark Sky Wales |
| 6th February | Detecting the Invisible Universe | Amber Hornsby - Cardiff University |
| 20th February | Isaac Newton and How he Demonstrated the Laws of Gravity | Dr Jane Clark - Cardiff Astronomical Society |
| 5th March | Time in the Past, Present and Future | Prof Fay Dowker - Imperial College London |
19th March Cancelled
| The Crowd and the Cosmos | Prof Chris Lintott - University of Oxford |
2nd April Cancelled
| Space Weather and Plasmas; Modern Views of Heliospheric Research | Dr Claire Foullon - University of Exeter |
16th April Cancelled
| Surviving Armageddon | Phill Wallace - Cardiff Astronomical Society |
30th April Re-arranged for 23rd July - see below
| Annual General Meeting | |
14th May Cancellled
| A Universe from Scratch | Dr Julian Onions - University of Nottingham: School of Physics and Astronomy |
28th May Cancelled
| Stones, Stars and the Sky; Archaeoastronomy and the Role of the Heavens in our Lives | Simon Perks - Bristol Astronomical Society / Science Writer on Archeoastronomy |
11th June Cancelled
| TBC | |
25th June Cancelled
| Ice Giants; The Hottest Places we should be Visiting | Osnat Katz - Society for Popular Astronomy |
9th July To be held on the Zoom video conferencing platform
| When Galaxies Collide | Dr Megan Argo - University of Central Lancashire |
23rd July To be held on the Zoom video conferencing platform
| Annual General Meeting |