Scientific Programme

Session organizers are shown in italics
Session identification numbers are shown in bold
Abstracts of talks and posters associated with each session may be found via a links on individual programm pages.
Click here to see the scientific programme arranged by topic

Monday 
 
Session1
1200-1330
Session 2
1430-1600
Session 3
1630-1800
TCD
 11   UKSP: Solar Interior
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)		12   UKSP: Photospheric and Chromospheric Activity
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)		13   UKSP: Transition Region Dynamics
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)
Monday
18:00 - 20:30
Registration
+ Reception
Trinity College
Dining Hall
 
 
    
Tuesday
Session 1
0900-1030
Session 2
1100-1230
Session 3
1400-1530
Session 4
1600-1730
A

01    Welcome and Opening Ceremony
Tom Ray (ASGI chairman)

88   The Vision 2020 Programme
David Southwood (Director of Science, ESA)		20   Cosmology: Observational
Peter Coles (Nottingham)		20   Cosmology: Observational
Peter Coles (Nottingham)
B
  14   UKSP: Coronal Heating
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)		40   UKSP: Space Weather
Peter Cargill (Imperial College)
C
  66   Binary Stars
Chris Tout (IoA) 		60   Interstellar Medium
John Dyson (Leeds)
D
 23   Gamma-Ray Bursts
Brian McBreen (UCD) 		82   Advanced Technologies
Gillian Wright (ROE) 		81   Data & Computational Grids
Luke Drury (DIAS)
Tuesday
12:30 - 14:00
RAS Young Fellows
Robert Smith (Sussex)
  
18:30 - 22:30
RAS Club reception and dinner
 
 
 
19:00 - 22:30
Science in the Gravity Bar
     
Wednesday
Session 1
0900-1030
Session 2
1100-1230
Session 3
1400-1530
Session 4
1600-1730
A
20   Cosmology: Observational
Peter Coles (Nottingham)		21   Cosmology: Theory & Simulations
Peter Coles (Nottingham)		22   Galaxies/AGN
Brian McBreen (UCD) + Evert Meurs (Dunsink) 		22   Galaxies/AGN
Brian McBreen (UCD) + Evert Meurs (Dunsink)
B
15   UKSP: Coronal Structure and Dynamics
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)		16   UKSP: Flares, CMEs and Solar Wind
Gerry Doyle + Robert Erdelyi (Armagh/Sheffield)		62   Cool Stars
Moira Jardine (St Andrews) 		62   Cool Stars
Rob Jeffries (Keele)
C
64   AGB stars
Anita Richards (Jodrell Bank)		65  post-AGB stars
Don Pollacco (QUB) 		80   Computational Astrophysics
Simon Jeffery (Armagh)		80   Computational Astrophysics
Matthew Bate (Exeter)
D
87  Satellite Infrared Astronomy
Helen Walker (RAL) 		86   Future Space Facilities
Martin Ward (Leicester)		41   Life and Death from Space
Monica Grady (Nat. Hist. Mus.)

50   Archaeoastronomy
Clive Ruggles + Frank Prendergast
(Leicester/Dublin Inst. Tech.)

Wednesday 
12:30 - 14:00
Women in Astronomy Lunch
  
17:45 - 19:00
Standing Committee
of Astronomy Professors
Advanced Materials Conf. Room
New Physics Bldg, TCD
 
 
19:30
Public Lecture
Steven Beckwith (STScI)
Edmund Burke Hall
Trinity College Dublin
"The beginning of time: looking back with the Hubble Space Telescope" 
 
    
Thursday
Session 1
0900-1030
Session 2
1100-1230
Session 3
1400-1530
Session 4
1600-1730
A
42   Extra-Solar Planets
Barrie Jones (Open University)

02   Royal Astronomical Society (including Tayler lecture by John Faulkner )

 24   High-Energy Cosmic Rays
Paula Chadwick (Durham)		25   Particle Astrophysics
Neil Spooner (Sheffield)
B
51   History of Astronomy
Emily Winterburn (Soc. for History of Astronomy) 		 19   The career of Len Culhane
Louise Harra (MSSL)		 17   UKSP: Science results from SOHO-CDS
Andrzej Fludra (RAL)
C
70   Astrophysical Atomic & Molecular Data
David Flower (Durham) 		 61   Star and Planet Formation
Jane Greaves (ATC)		61   Star and Planet Formation
Jane Greaves (ATC)
D
52   Astronomy Education
Margaret Penston (RAS)		 85   Opportunities in Ground-Based Astronomy
Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield)		85   Opportunities in Ground-Based Astronomy
Clive Tadunter (Sheffield)
Thursday 
13:00 - 14:00
Gemini Phase II Tutorial
Room E104
The Guard Room
 
 
 17:45 - 18:30
PPARC Plenary Session
Dublin Castle
Theatre A Dublin Castle
Theatre A
 
 
20:00
Conference Dinner
Irish Gala Night
Trinity College Dublin
Dining Hall
 
 
    
Friday
Session 1
0930-1100
Session 2
1130-1300
Session 3
1430-1600
 
A
26   Accretion & High-Energy Astrophysics (extragalactic)
Paul Callanan (UCC) 		67   Accretion & High-Energy Astrophysics (X-ray binaries)
Paul Callanan (UCC) 		83   Adaptive Optics and Interferometry
Chris Dainty (NUIG)		 
B
63   Massive Stars
Paul Crowther (UCL)		53   Careers for Astronomers
Helen Walker (RAL) 		68   Variable Stars and
Asteroseismology
Don Kurtz (UCLAN) 		 
C
43   Exploring the "terrestrial" planets
Sarah Dunkin (RAL) 		44   Meteorites & the early solar system
Ian Sanders (TCD)		45   Comets and Asteroids
Tolis Christou (Armagh) 		 
D
18   SOHO-CDS Users Meeting
Andrzej Fludra (RAL)		18   SOHO-CDS Users Meeting
Andrzej Fludra (RAL)		18   SOHO-CDS Users Meeting
Andrzej Fludra (RAL)		 

Lecture Halls:

A: Main Conference Hall: Capacity 300

B: Bedford Hall: Capacity 100

C: D105 "Press Room": Capacity 60

D: D203 "Presidents Suite": Capacity 60

 

Last Updated on 2/04/03
By Simon Jeffery 		 
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