news 23 September 201010:38

From September 23 - 24 the Royal Irish Academy hosted a joint specialist 2 day discussion meeting of the RIA, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland - Download flier

PRINCIPAL TOPICS:

• High-power transients, including gamma-ray bursts, hypernovae, TeV transients.
• Solar transients and the Sun-Earth connection.
• Stellar transients, including X-ray and radio transients, and other irregular stellar activity.
• Planetary system transients, including exoplanet and solar-system phenomena.

 SPEAKERS:

• GIBOR BASRI (University of California, Berkeley)
• ANDREW COLLIER-CAMERON (University of St Andrews)
• JOANNA HAIGH (Imperial College London)
• GREGG HALLINAN (University of California, Berkeley)
• LOUISE HARRA (MSSL, University College London)
• STEPHEN SMARTT (Queen’s University Belfast)
• DARACH WATSON (University of Copenhagen)

PUBLIC LECTURE

THE SUN-CLIMATE CONNECTION
BY PROFESSOR MIKE LOCKWOOD

(University of Reading/ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Thursday, September 23, 7pm, Emmet Theatre, Trinity College

Organising Committee:

Simon Jeffery (co-chair), Paul Callanan (co-chair), Peter Gallagher, Felix Aharonian, Andrew Shearer, Mike Redfern, Gilly Clarke, Don Pollacco, Graham Harper, Neil Trappe, Ray Bates.