STFC Summer School

Programme

Sunday 1 September

Time	Title	Speaker
18.30	Welcome BBQ on Keele Hall lawn

Monday 2 September

Time	Title	Speaker
09.00	Welcome & Introduction	Dr Nick Wright (Keele)
09.15	Careers in Astrophysics & PhD tips	Dr Nick Wright (Keele)
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Star formation and young stars	Dr John Ilee (Leeds)
12.00	Transients and time domain astrophysics	Dr Joe Lyman (Warwick)
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Galaxy formation and evolution	Prof. Nina Hatch (Nottingham)
15.00	Coffee break
15.30	Star formation on galactic scales	Dr Ana Duarte Cabral (Cardiff University)
16.30	Brown dwarfs	Dr Sarah Casewell (Leicester)
17.30	Close

Tuesday 3 September

Time	Title	Speaker
09.00	Python workshop	Prof. Rob Jeffries (Keele) & Dr Barry Smalley (Keele)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Dark matter	Dr David Marsh (King’s College London)
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Helioseismology	Dr Rachel Howe (Birmingham)
15.00	Coffee break
15.30	Carbon footprint of astronomy and astrophysics	Dr Beatriz Mingo (OU)
16.30	Tour of Keele’s renewable energy plant	Matthew Dean (Keele)
17.30	Close
19.30	Social event at the Keele Postgraduate Association (KPA) Clubhouse

Wednesday 4 September

Time	Title	Speaker
09.00	Active galactic nuclei	Prof. Leah Morabito (Durham)
10.00	Astrobiology	Prof. Lewis Dartnell (University of Westminster)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	The Galactic Centre	Prof. Steve Longmore (LJMU)
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Public engagement	Dr Becky Smethurst (Oxford)
15.00	Coffee break
15.30	Open research	Dr Masi Noor (Keele)
16.30	Dark energy	Prof. Tom Collett (Portsmouth)
17.30	Close

Thursday 5 September

Time	Title	Speaker
09.00	Binary systems	Dr John Southworth (Keele)
10.00	Exoplanet detection	Dr Annelies Mortier (Birmingham)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Exoplanet atmospheres	Prof. Nikku Madhusudhan (Cambridge)
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Equality, diversity and inclusion in astrophysics	Dr Sheila Kanani (RAS / Lancaster)
15.00	Coffee break
15.30	Wellness and imposter phenomenon	Dr Órla Murray (Northumbria)
16.30	The first stars and galaxies	Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo (Cambridge)
17.30	Close
19.00	Conference dinner at Keele Hall

Friday 6 September

Time	Title	Speaker
09.00	The Solar System	Dr Meg Schwamb (Queen’s Uni. Belfast)
10.00	Careers in industry	Dr Mick Salt (TÜV SÜD Nuclear Technologies)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Gravitational waves and compact objects	Prof. Alberto Vecchio (Birmingham)
12.30	Close

Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct

The STFC Introduction to Astronomy Summer School is intended to be an event for learning, networking and collaboration, for new postgraduate students to prepare for their studies and meet other new students. It is vital that all participants not only enjoy the experience but feel safe while they do so. Accordingly, all attendees at the school, be they lecturers, organisers or students, are expected to show respect and courtesy to all other attendees.

We would like to make it clear that the STFC Introduction to Astronomy Summer School will be a harassment-free environment for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment in any form.

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, and technology choice. It also includes the use of sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

All communication given by lecturers, conference organisers and students should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language, jokes and imagery are not appropriate at any time.

We expect all participants to follow these rules at the school and all related social events. Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the conference organizers.

Above all else, please be kind.

 

If you wish to report an incident of any kind you can do so either by speaking directly to the organisers of this Summer School or (anonymously) using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/fpADNeBRmB.

We hope you have a wonderful time at this school.

Registration

Registration

Summer School registration form >

Registration deadline: 5pm Friday 16th August.

STFC Studentship holders and Self-Funded Postgraduates can register free-of-charge. Travel & subsistence can be claimed back using the Claim Form which will be provided on arrival, please keep all receipts.

Those in receipt of non-STFC funded studentships, postdoctoral research associates or employees of universities or other organisations can also register for a flat fee of £670 (to cover registration, accommodation for 5 nights, breakfasts, lunch, coffee breaks, and dinners each day, as well as social events and the conference dinner).

Travel and accommodation

Travel and Accomodation

The Summer School will be held in the Chancellor’s Building on the main Keele University campus, with accommodation provided on campus as well. For information on how to get to Keele, please visit this webpage.

Contact

Contact

For any enquiries, please contact Dr Nick Wright (n.j.wright@keele.ac.uk).