Astro21 Programme
The meeting will be held in the Faculty of Arts Building (NOT the Physics department) which is in the centre of Warwick's main campus. Talks will be in lecture theatre FAB0.03. Please check the interactive campus mapLink opens in a new window to see the location and find directions.
The first two days of the meeting will be dedicated to the scientific legacy of Prof. Tom Marsh. During his 40-year career, Tom authored some 800 scientific papers on all manner of astronomical objects: binary stars, white dwarfs, variable stars, supernovae, and applying his techniques to find extra-solar planets and explore the Kuiper Belt. He won the Royal Astronomical Society’s Herschel Medal in 2018, awarded for investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics.
The third day will focus on the history of the Astronomy & Astrophysics group.
| The Scientific Legacy of Tom Marsh | The History of Warwick Astro | |||||
| Wednesday 4th September | Thursday 5th September |
Friday 6th September | ||||
| 10:00 | Registration on site | 10:00 | White Dwarf Pulsars - David Buckley | 10:00 | Why was Warwick Astro established? - Mark Smith | |
| 10:30 | Welcome - Danny Steeghs | 10:50 | The X-ray transient EP240309a (EP J115415.8-501810): A fast spinning intermediate polar - Stephen Potter | 10:40 | Tom Marsh: from Oxford to Southampton to Warwick - Phil Charles | |
| 10:40 | Doppler Tomography - Keith Horne | 11:10 | A link between white dwarf pulsars and polars: A multiyear, multiwavelength study of Gaia22ayj - Antonio Rodriguez | 11:20 | Tom Marsh and AM CVn Binary Systems - Matthew Green | |
| 11:30 | The bright eclipsing polar HU Aqr: showcase for DopTom and eclipse mapping of a magnetic CV - Axel Schwope | 11:30 | Dynamical Black holes - Jorge Casares | 11:40 | Tom Marsh and the quest for double degenerates - Ralf Napiwotzki | |
| 11:50 | Is the period bouncer SSS J122221.7-311525 indeed a period bouncer? An X-shooter study in quiescence - Vitaly Neustroev | 11:50 | Mini-HAWHs: A pilot survey designed to discover new quiescent BHs - Sara Navarro Umpiérrez | 12:00 | The discovery of V1460 Her - Richard Ashley | |
| 12:10 | Title TBC - Gagik Tovmasian | 12:10 | SS433: evolving and revolving - Katherine Blundell | 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Double white dwarf binaries - Gijs Nelemans | 14:00 | ULTRACAM, ULTRASPEC and HiPERCAM - Vik Dhillon [pre-recorded] | 14:00 | Warwick Astro: the past - Boris Gänsicke | |
| 14:50 | The Diverse Outcomes of Interacting Double White Dwarf Binaries - Ken Shen | 14:50 | Hunting for Spiders with ULTRACAM - John Paice | 14:40 | Extragalactic and Transient Astronomy at Warwick - Elizabeth Stanway | |
| 15:10 | The First few days of a Type Ia - Lars Bildsten | 15:10 | Eclipsing white dwarf binaries - Steven Parsons | 15:00 | Radio emissions and accretion physics of AM CVn systems - Anwesha Sahu | |
| 15:30 | A new type of double degenerate - Kevin Burdge | 15:30 | Title TBC - Steven Bloemen | 15:10 | Warwick Astro - The Present & Future Don Pollaco | |
| 15:50 | Ultracompact binaries: the ultimate survivors - Paul Groot | 15:50 | Coffee break | 16:00 | Share a memory: opportunity to show pictures or tell a story - All welcome | |
| 16:10 | Coffee break | |||||
| 17:00 | Circumbinary exoplanets in main and post main-sequence binaries - Amaury Triaud & Thomas Baycroft | 16:50 | JWST Observations of X-ray Binaries: Tom's legacy lives on - Poshak Gandhi | |||
| 17:20 | The Long and Short of Transiting Debris Around White Dwarfs - JJ Hermes | 17:10 | The Near-UV eXplorer (NUX) to study the variable near-UV sky - Rudy Wijnands | |||
| 17:40 | End of the day | 17:30 | End of the day | 17:00 | End of the day | |
| 18:00 | Observatory visit 1 | Reception | ||||
| 18:30 | Observatory visit 2 | |||||
| 19:00 | Observatory visit 3 | |||||
| 20:00 | Dinner | |||||