The JHI is pleased to report that Kelly Hambleton has been awarded First Prize at poster exhibition ceremony. Kelly’s work on the advanced morphological classification of galaxies involved a detailed comparison of observed galaxies with a large suite of simulated galaxies, the latter of which made extensive use of UCLan’s Read More …
Year: 2010
World-leading astrophysics conference at UCLan
UCLan has been selected to run a world-leading astrophysics conference: the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium 284. The symposium was proposed by UCLan’s Dr Cristina Popescu jointly with Dr Richard Tuffs from the Max Planck Institute fuer Kernphysik (MPI-K) in Heidelberg, Germany. The conference will be held at UCLan between Read More …
Galactic archaeologists awarded 1 million CPU hours as part of Europe’s Extreme Computing Initiative
After intense Europe-wide competition, as part of its Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI), DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) has recently announced the 10 successful UK recipients of 1 million CPU hours each. The DECI scheme has been established to recognise and reward potentially paradigm-shifting research with the tools and Read More …
UCLan’s Astrophysics Conference Proceedings has been released by the American Institute of Physics
“HUNTING FOR THE DARK: THE HIDDEN SIDE OF GALAXY FORMATION” A BIG INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS FOR UCLAN The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has just announced the latest volume in its Conference Proceedings Series: “Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation” (see AIP webpage) edited by UCLan’s Drs. Read More …
Spectacular new images of the Sun revealed
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is playing a crucial role in the distribution of spectacular new pictures of the Sun which are now being captured by the recently-launched Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). The images of the Sun captured by SDO are the equivalent to ten times the quality of Read More …
JHI at the Big Bang
Solar physicists from the University of Central Lancashire exhibited at the Big Bang Exhibition in Manchester from the 11th-13th March, an event that attracted around 20,000 visitors from Lancashire and beyond. Scientists from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute led the Living with a Star stand which concentrated on the Sun and Read More …