This week the Wednesday Department seminar (27 Jan 2021) will be delivered by Prof. Ilya Mandel (Melbourne), at 10 am (please note the unusual time). Please find below title and abstract of his talk. If you did not receive the Teams invitation email please send me an email (er198[at]leicester.ac.uk). Title: “The promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics” […]
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Meet SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Bob and Doug – National Space Centre Q&A
Join our National Space Centre colleagues for a LIVE Space Astronaut Q&A with SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, this Friday 22 January 19:00-20:00. Thanks to the team at NASA Astronauts, we are delighted to be joined online by joint Operations Commander on the first crewed flight of the SpaceX Crew […]
AstroSeminar: Prof. Isobel Hook, “Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future”
This week the department seminar will be delivered by Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster), at usual time (3.00 pm) on Teams. Please find below title and abstract of her talk. If you did not receive the Teams invitation email please send me an email (er198[at]leicester.ac.uk). Title: Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future Abstract: In this […]
NASA’s Juno Mission Extended
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter, has had its mission extended for the next four years. Leicester planetary scientists were delighted to receive the news that NASA has authorised a mission extension, so that Juno – which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 – can continue to deliver new insights into the giant planet. NASA’s […]
Photographs of the Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction
In December 2020, we asked members of the Physics and Astronomy community to look up and capture a chance-of-a-lifetime conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – here are some of the photos. As we described in our December blog post, on December 21st Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer together than at any point in the previous […]
PlanetarySeminar: Python tutorial for space physics
Later this month, on Wednesday January 27, Dr Angeline Burrell will be presenting a virtual seminar titled “Python tutorial for space physics”. The seminar will be held over Teams at 14:00 (click here to join). Please see below for her abstract. Abstract: Python is a free and open source programming language that is very useful […]
PlanetarySeminar: Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling at Saturn and Jupiter
Dr. Gabby Provan, a planetary researcher in the School of Physics and Astronomy, joined the MIST team (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial) to discuss the latest findings from Jupiter and Saturn. Abstract: The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn are both rapid rotators, with active volcanic moons and complicated ring systems. Their magnetospheres are driven both by […]
AstroSeminar: How can we observe forming planets and their surroundings?
Tomorrow (13th Jan) the Wednesday seminar will be delivered by Prof. Judit Szulagyi (ETH, Zurich) at usual time (3pm). Please find below title and abstract of the talk. Members of the School of Physics and Astronomy who did not receive the link via email can send an email to er198[at]leicester.ac.uk to receive the link. Title: How can […]
National Space Centre Live Q&A – Astronaut Jeff Hoffman
Join the team at the National Space Centre for a LIVE Space Q&A with Jeff Hoffman, Friday 15 January, 19:15-20:15. Professor Jeff Hoffman was the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours on the Space Shuttle and is an honorary graduate and Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Hoffman […]
Entries Open for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
The University of Leicester is back hosting its own 3 Minute Thesis annual competition and this year it is open to Early Career Researchers and PostDocs. 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Entries will be judged on their ability to communicate research in a non-technical […]
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