Leading the first of the PhD student talks, Nicky Agius, a final year student gave a CARD on dust in Early type galaxies. She discussed the various instrumentation and telescopes currently available in two consortia, H-Atlas and GAMA, which she has used to probe the effect of dust. Nicky gave Read More …
Month: July 2013
JHI CARD by Joanne Bibby – Wolf Rayet stars and their role as Supernova Progenitors
This week’s CARD was given by another member of staff, Joanne Bibby, who has been teaching and running outreach at UCLan for the last year, after a stint at the American Museum of National History in New York. Joanne’s research focusses strongly on large surveys of massive stars in nearby, Read More …
Dimitris Stamatellos leads a JHI CARD: Planet Formation by Disc Fragmentation
Dimitris Stamatellos gave the first CARD this summer to an audience of JHI staff, postgraduates and summer interns. This discussion included a presentation of the work Dimitris has been carrying out with his radiative-hydrodynamic simulations on disc fragmentation and the formation of planetary systems. His clear and concise description of Read More …