Scientific Programme
The summer school program will run in the week 6-10 September 2010, starting on Monday morning, and finishing lunchtime Friday.
The programme below also indicates lunch and tea-breaks.
Breakfast lunch and dinner will all be in the Rootes building (building number 50 on the 2010 campus map, 48 if you are looking at an older map) .
Coffee breaks will be on the science concourse, outside the lecture theatre.
All lectures are in the Physics Lecture Theatre, at the councourse level of the main Physics building.
Provisional Programme
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Sunday 5/9 |
Monday 6/9 |
Tuesday 7/9 |
Wednesday 8/9 |
Thursday 9/9 |
Friday 10/9 |
09:15 |
Welcome from Head of Department |
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09:30 |
Solar System Alan Fitzimmons (QUB) |
Star formation
Cathy Clarke (Cambridge) |
Radio and sub-mm astronomy
Steve Rawlings (Oxford) |
Ground-based facilities Mike Bode (Liverpool) |
Astrobiology
Charles Cockell (Open Uni) |
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10:20 |
Exoplanet Observations
Andrew Collier Cameron (St Andrews) |
Binary Systems and Evolution
Boris Gaensicke (Warwick) |
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Omar Almaini (Nottingham) |
TEA | Cosmological Simulations
Carlton Baugh (Durham) |
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11:10 |
TEA |
TEA | TEA | ESA missions - Paul McNamara (ESA) |
TEA | |
11:40 |
Exoplanet Theory
Richard Nelson (QMW) |
Gravitational Waves
Mike Cruise (Birmingham) |
Galactic Archaeology
Gerry Gilmore (Cambridge) |
12:00 LUNCH | Observational Cosmology
S.Bridle (UCL) |
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12:30 |
LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH AND CLOSE | ||
14:00 |
Low mass stars and brown dwarfs Hugh Jones (Hertfordshire) |
Pulsars
Patrick Weltevrede (Manchester) |
Galaxy Clusters
Trevor Ponman (Birmingham) |
AFTERNOON AT WARWICK CASTLE | ||
14:50 |
High mass stars and super-novae
Paul Crowther (Sheffield) |
Accretion onto Compact Objects
Chris Done (Durham) |
AGN
Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield) |
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15:40 |
TEA | TEA | TEA | |||
16:10 |
The local Universe distance scale David Bersier (Liverpool) |
Gamma-ray Bursts
Andrew Levan (Warwick) |
High redshift galaxies
Andy Bunker (Oxford) |
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17:30 |
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18:30 |
Welcome reception | DINNER on campus |
DINNER on campus |
Conference Dinner - Coventry Guildhall | ||
19:30 |
Pub quiz (sports pavilion) | DINNER on campus |