Tuesday 5th April 2005
- Extreme environments and the laws of physics - Christine
Done
- Gravitational wave observations as a probe for strong
gravity - Peter Saulson
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee
- Planet formation: observations, Chair: Hugh
Jones
- Grid applications and e-Science, Chair: Andy
Lawrence
- Gravitational waves, Chair: Alberto Vecchio
- Gamma-ray bursts, Chair: Julian Osborne
- The solar interior and dynamo (UKSP), Chairs: Bill
Chaplin and Robertus Erdelyi
- Women in astronomy - Helen Walker/Yvonne Elsworth
- Data compression, classification and parameter estimation -
Ofer Lahav
- The potential of the Virtual Observatory (title TBC) -
Alex Szalay
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee
- Novel algorithms for astronomical analysis, Chair: Somak
Raychaudhury
- Planet formation: theory, Chair: Cathy Clarke
- Pulsars and supernovae, Chair: Andrew Lyne
- Historical astronomy, Chair: Peter Hingley
- Magnetohelioseismology: physics of the lower atmosphere
(UKSP), Chairs: Bill Chaplin and Robertus Erdelyi
19:00 - 20:00: Allison-Levick Public Lecture
Wednesday 6th April 2005
- Exoplanetary systems (title TBC) - Keith Horne
- Life in the Universe - Simon Conway Morris
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee
- Bayesian techniques in astronomy, Chair: Martin
Hendry
- Supermassive black holes, Chair: Steve
Rawlings
- Feedback in galaxies, Chair: Martin Haehnelt
- Planetary probes, Chair: John Zarnecki
- Coronal seismology (UKSP), Chairs: Bill Chaplin and
Robertus Erdelyi
- Careers - Chair: Dave Clements
- Young astronomers - Dave Clements/Helen Walker
- Inflation and the standard cosmological model - Andrew
Liddle
- String cosomology - Andre Lukas
- The first galaxies, Chair: Ian Smail
- Astroparticle and fundamental physics, Chair: David
Wark
- Accretion onto compact objects, Chair: Andy Norton
- Astro-chemistry: current trends and future directions, Anita Richards
- Coronal heating (UKSP), Chairs: Bill Chaplin and
Robertus Erdelyi
Thursday 7th April 2005
- Galaxy evolution through the eyes of SAURON -
Roger Davies
- Star formation in a galactic context - Neal
Evans
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee
- Galaxy evolution, Chair: Alfonso
Aragon-Salamanca
- The distribution of mass, Chair: Vince Eke
- Primordial fluctuations and cosmological backgrounds,
Chair: Anthony Lasenby
- New astronomical instrumentation, Chair: Ray
Sharples
- Active regions and flares (UKSP), Chairs: Bill Chaplin
and Robertus Erdelyi
- International Heliophysical Year 2007 - Richard
Harrison
- Poster session in the Avon Room, and RAS poster
competition
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee
18:30 - 19:30: RAS-NAM Public Talk
- ThinkTank, Millennium Point
- Big Bang, Simon Singh
Friday 8th April 2005
- Connecting theory and observations of stellar magnetic
activity: new results and new problems - Robert
Rosner
- Long-term solar variability: implications for global warming
(title TBC) - Mike Lockwood
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee
- Baryon physics in cosmology: simulations, Chair: Frazer
Pearce
- Low mass stars and stellar activity, Chair: Robin
Jeffries
- Astronomy in schools, Chair: Paul Roche
- Spitzer results, Chair: Seb Oliver
- From the solar wind to the heliosphere (UKSP), Chairs:
Bill Chaplin and Robertus Erdelyi
- Astronomy in schools - Paul Roche
- Large scale simulation of the Galaxy / AGN population -
Simon White
- Once and future surveys - Matthew Colless
- Schools astronomy talk running in parallel from 1.30pm -
Paul Roche
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee
- Star formation: models vs. observations, Chair: Derek
Ward-Thompson
- Baryon physics in cosmology: observations, Chair: Trevor
Ponman
- Future observing opportunities, Chair: Simon
Morris
