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Programme of Lectures 2005-2006

   

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Autumn Term 2005
Sep 22 The Life of a Professional Astronomer
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Dr Adam Burnley (University College London)
Sep 29 The Jupiter System
- Dr John Rogers (Cambridge)
Oct 6 SOCIETY MEETING
Oct 13 Songs of the Stars
- Prof Don Kutz
Oct 20 Surprise Lecture
- Nick James (BAA)
Oct 27 HALF TERM
Nov 3 33 Cameras
- Mr Doug Ellison
Nov 10 SOCIETY MEETING
Nov 17 Galactic Supernovae and their Remnants
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Dr John Mason (BAA)
Nov 24 Einstein's Legacy
- Dr Fay Dowker
Dec 1 Extra-Solar Planets
- Dr Robert Smith (Sussex University)
Dec 8 Sir Robert Staywell Ball 1840-1915, Astronomer and Populariser
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Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford)
Dec 15 SOCIETY MEETING

Winter Term 2006
Jan 12 A History of Light
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Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford)
Jan 19 Developments in Solar Physics
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Dr Lucie Green (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Jan 26 SOCIETY MEETING
Feb 2 Applications of the Essential Enabling Technologies for Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond; Nuclear Power and Propulsion
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Mr David Fearn (Britsh Interplanetary Society)
Feb 9 Space Science in Europe
- Prof David Southwood (ESA)
Feb 16 HALF TERM
Feb 23

SOCIETY MEETING

Mar 2 Hayabusa at Itokawa and New Horizons to Pluto
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Dr John Mason (BAA)
Mar 9 Golden Age of X-ray Astronomy
- Dr Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire)
Mar 16 Measuring Variable Stars Using a CCD Camera
- Mr David Boyd (RAL (Ret) )
Mar 23

Bubbling Black Holes
- Dr Caroline Crawford (Institute of Astronomy)


Spring Term 2006
Apr 20 Past, Present and Future
- Dr Robert Massey (Royal Observatory Greenwich)
Apr 27 The Latest Astronomical Satellite: ATRO-F and Infrared Astronomy
- Dr Dave Clements (Imperial College)
May 4 Dynamics of Saturn's Magnetosphere
- Dr Nick Achilleos
May 11 SOCIETY MEETING
May 18 Sir George Airy: Astronomer and Engineer
- Mr Gilbert Satterthwaite
May 25 Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
- Professor Ofer Lahav (University College London)