We are pleased to announce that Professor Brad Gibson has been named the 2012 Kevin Westfold Distinguished Visitor, by Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Over the course of the 2012 year, Professor Gibson will work in collaboration with the Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis Group at Monash to integrate cutting-edge nucleosynthetic prescriptions Read More …
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Kelly Hambleton awarded 2010 Summer Internship Research Prize
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 …
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 …
UCLan and NASA to share an avalanche of secrets from the Sun
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) today announced its role in a major international team that will shine new light on the Sun’s mysteries like never before. On 11th February 2010*, NASA will launch a new solar observing satellite named the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which will study the Sun’s Read More …
UCLan awarded £0.3M grant to unravel the origin of infrared emission in the early Universe
Dr. Cristina C. Popescu of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at UCLan has been awarded a £0.3M grant from the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) to investigate the origin of infrared emission from galaxies in the early universe. The funding will be used to help Read More …
Third annual Undergraduate Research School
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute is pleased to announce the third annual Undergraduate Research School from the 14th to the 18th December 2009. We are funding up to 20 delegates (third and fourth year undergraduates in astronomy, astrophysics, physics, mathematics or computer science) to spend a week with the researchers of Read More …