The Federation of Astronomical Societies are holding their annual Convention and AGM at the Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, from 9:45am on 14th September: event details and a link to buy tickets are available online at http://fedastro.org.uk/fas/convention/convention-2019 (members of FAS member societies £8, Non-members £10 and £4 for all under-16s). A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door if there are any left from the online sales – check the website the day before to see how many are left.
Programme:
- Dr Mark Clilverd – “Solar storm effects on ground-based infrastructures”British Antarctic Survey, Winner of the RAS 2019 James Dungey Lectureship
- Dr Richard Ghail – “New insights from our closest Earth-sized exoplanet: Venus”
Royal Holloway College, London - Jenny Lister – “Astronomy for all: its place in education”
Primary School Teacher, Winner of the RAS 2018 Patrick Moore Medal for Education - Dr Floor van Leeuwen – “Details of the HR diagram as revealed by the second Gaia data release”
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge - Prof Carlos Frenk – “Everything from nothing: how our universe was made”Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University,
Winner of the RAS 2014 Gold Medal for Astronomy
Also:
- Lunchtime tours of the Northumberland and Thorrowgood telescopes
- Lunchtime tours of the Cavendish Museum
- Trade stands
- Lots of free car parking at the IoA
- Free tea/coffee/biscuits throughout the day
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