Schedule

17:00: Welcome reception at University College London (Elvin Hall, 20 Bedford Way)

09:15 Welcome from Local Organising Committee

09:30 An X-ray view of the Universe: Helen Russell (University of Nottingham)

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Python workshop for astronomy (notebook): Jason Sanders (UCL)

12:00 Public engagement and the ORBYTS programme: William Dunn (UCL)

13:00 Group Photo

13:05 Lunch

14:30 Astrophysical Plasmas: Julia Stawarz (Northumbria University)

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Galaxy formation & evolution with JWST: Rebecca Bowler (University of Manchester)

17:00 Close

18:30 Social event organised by UCL PhD students - Social evening run in Battersea Park (meet ~18:30 at Pear Tree Café) followed by drinks at the Prince Albert from ~19:00!

09:15 Mental health and wellbeing during a PhD: Aris Tarabi (UCL)

10:15 Exoplanet detection: Annelies Mortier (University of Birmingham)

11:15 Coffee

11:45 Revealing the high redshift Universe with superconducting on-chip spectrometers: Peter Barry (Cardiff University)

12:45 Lunch

14:15 The ethics of astronomy: Kate Pattle (UCL)

15:15 Coffee

15:45 Cosmological simulations: Sophie Koudmani (University of Hertfordshire)

16:45 Black holes and gravitational waves: Stephen Green (University of Nottingham)

17:45 Close

09:00 Seeding life on habitable planets: Catherine Walsh (University of Leeds)

10:00 Martian ionosphere and M-MATISSE: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (University of Leicester)

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Galactic Archaeology with large stellar surveys of the Milky Way: Payel Das (University of Surrey)

12:30 Large scale structure and weak lensing: Joachim Harnois-Deraps (Newcastle University)

13:30 Free afternoon

09:00 Royal Astronomical Society: its work and becoming a member: Robert Massey & Patricia Burrell (RAS)  

09:30 Transient astrophysics: multimessenger events and stellar explosions: Gavin Lamb (Liverpool John Moores University)

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Careers inside and outside astronomy: Jay Farihi (UCL) 

12:00 Machine learning approaches to radio astronomy: Vanessa Graber (Royal Holloway, University of London)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Star formation in the Milky Way and beyond: Ana Duarte-Cabral (Cardiff University)

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity in Astronomy: Laura Wolz (University of Manchester)

16:30 The Sun: Laura Hayes (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

19:00 Conference Dinner: Thai Square Trafalgar Square

09:30 Exoplanet atmospheres: Anjali Piette (University of Birmingham)

10:30 The PhD experience: a panel discussion with current UCL PhD students. Enter your questions for the panel via this Google form (chaired by Hiba Noor & Richard Brooks)

11:30 Coffee

12:00 Fundamental Cosmology in the Era of Surveys: Sownak Bose (Durham University)

13:00 Close -- Final Remarks