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Three physics and astrophysics students studying at UCLan have had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii to view this year’s transit of Venus as part of the University’s internationalisation scheme. The students, Chris Rowley, Callum Slater, and Ben Miller, will spend time in Hawaii before the transit to soak up Read More …
Transit of Venus 2012 When Venus passes in a direct line between the Earth and the Sun, it is said to transit the Sun. A transit is visible as a black dot on the face of the Sun. The size of the dot is caused by the relative distances Read More …
Professor Don Kurtz has given a public lecture on Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on the 2nd May 2012. The Pythagoreans 2500 years ago believed in a celestial “music of the spheres“, an idea that reverberated down the Read More …
The joint UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting 2012 was held between 27-30th March in Manchester. This conference was well attended by members of the JHI, with many giving presentations. In the astrophysics sessions: Kelly Hambleton gave a talk on Heartbeat stars and Tidal Excitation which sparked some interest from the guys Read More …
In a first for the University of Central Lancashire, one of its staff has had their work recognised by their peers in the community more than 10,000 times. The JHI’s Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics – Brad Gibson – surpassed this remarkable milestone, coincidentally enough, on Christmas Day! With more than Read More …
International Astronomical Union Symposium 284 The beginning of autumn 2011 saw UCLan hosting Symposium 284 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The event was chaired by Dr Cristina Popescu, from the UCLan’s Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, jointly with Dr Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …