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Programme of Lectures 2007-2008

   

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Autumn Term 2007

Sep 20 Light Pollution, the Astronomer and the Law
- Mr Martin Morgan-Taylor (DeMonfort University)
Sep 27 SOCIETY MEETING
 
Oct 4 The Distant Future of the Earth
- Dr Robert Smith (University of Sussex)
Oct 11 Robotic Telescopes and Remote Control Observing
- Nick James (BAA)
Oct 18 The Antikythera Mechanism
- Dr Freeth (Antikythera Mechanism Reseach Project)
Oct 25 HALF TERM
 
Nov 1 Europe's Cosmic Vision: a report on ESA's Space Science Programme
- Prof David Southwood (ESA - Director of Scientific Programme)
Nov 8 SOCIETY MEETING - CANCELLED
- Cancelled due to electrical works
Nov 15 Meridians
- Mr Dick Chambers
Nov 22 Latest Results From Mars
- Dr John Mason (BAA)
Nov 29 In the Beginning...
- Mr Roger Pickard (BAA President)
Dec 6 Neville Maskelyne, The Astronomer Royal who Opposed Harrison
- Dr Alan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford)
Dec 13 SOCIETY MEETING
   
Winter Term 2007
Jan 10 The Magnetic Astronomers, Magnetism, Geomagnetism from Petrus Perigrinus to Edmund Halley
- Dr Alan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford)
Jan 17 21st Century Cosmology - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Formation of Galaxies
- Dr Paul Murdin (RAS)
Jan 24 News from the American Astronomical Society Meeting - Part 1
- Dr John Mason (BAA)
Jan 31 SOCIETY MEETING
 
Feb 7 News from the American Astronomical Society Meeting - Part 2
- Dr John Mason (BAA)
Feb 14

Dark Matter
-Prof Timothy Sumner (Imperial College)

Feb 21 HALF TERM
 
Feb 28 Proving Einstein Right
- Prof Ian Morrison (Gresham Professor of Astronomy)
Mar 6 SOCIETY MEETING
 
Mar 13 The Aurora
- Mr Neil Bone (BAA)
Mar 20 Results from the Hubble Space Telescope
- Dr Carolin Crawford (Institute of Astronomy)
Mar 27

Impact  of the Earth-Moon System
- Ms Emily Baldwin

   
Spring Term 2008
Apr 24 Dark Universe
- Dr Francisco Diego (University of London)
May 1 Meteorites
- Dr Alan Longstaff (RGO)
May 8

The Celestial Geometry of  John Flamstead
- Dr Alan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford)

May 15 The SPITZER Infrared Telescope - last of NASA's 'Great Observatory' missions
- Prof Michael Rowan Robinson
May 22 SOCIETY MEETING
 
May 29 HALF TERM
 
Jun 5 The Astrobiological Significance of Impact Cratering
- Dr Daniel Miller (Geological Society)