The SUPA Cormack Astronomy Meeting will take place at the Dalhousie Building from the University of Dundee on December 4th, 2024 (see information below regarding access and location). The meeting is organised by scientists at the Universities of Dundee, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, and supported by the RSE. It is aimed at bringing together cosmologists, astrophysicists and solar physicists from all around Scotland, from early-career scientists and students, to more senior members. Registration closes on November 20th.
If you attended the meeting and want to provide some feedback, please use this form before January 15th.
The meeting schedule is below.
Any questions or comments, please contact the organiser.
Please remember that, as with any other SUPA meeting, we abide by the SUPA Code of Conduct.
University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building – Schedule
Programme
First session
Chair: Karen Meyer
10:00-10:15 – Balveer Singh (University of Dundee) – Dynamics of Cool Plasma Ejecta in the Solar Atmosphere
10:15-10:30 – Jonah Klowss (University of St Andrews) – The contribution of magnetic helicity condensation to ambient increase in the Solar Open Flux
10:30-10:45 – Keziah Mariya Shaji (University of Glasgow) – Investigation of molecular hydrogen emission during magnetic flux emergence on the Sun
10:45-11:00 – Jade Piat(University of Edinburgh) – Relativistic Effects in Galaxy Clustering with DESI
Second session
Chair: Callum Donnan
11:30-11:45 – Alexander Gordon (University of Edinburgh) – Studying galaxies with tidal features in the era of LSST and Euclid
11:45-12:00 – Karla Z. Arellano-Cordova (University of Edinburgh) – Chemical Evolution Near and Far: tracing abundance patterns across cosmic epochs
12:00-12:15 – Sophia Flury (University of Edinburgh) – Clearing the Path to Cosmic Reionization
12:15-12:30 – Ferdinand Hollauf (University of Dundee) – North PHASE observations of Tr 37
12:30-12:45 – Giovanni Maria Strampelli (Space Telescope Science Institute) – Star formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster
12:45-13:00 – Sandip Varkey George (University of Aberdeen) – Embracing the chaos: Nonlinear dynamics of close binaries for classification and prediction
Third session
14:00-14:15 – Vincent Okoth (University of Edinburgh) – Narrowband Imaging of Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) and Its Rotation Period through Morphology
14:15-14:30 – Erica Molnar-Bufanda (University of Edinburgh) – Vehicles to the Past: Characterizing the Activity of Long Period Comets
14:30-14:45 – Gergely Friss (University of Edinburgh) – How good are rocky exoplanets as cradles for life?
14:45-15:00 – Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh) – The JWST Weather Report from the Nearest Brown Dwarfs
Fourth session
15:30-15:45 – Holly (Hanbee) Seo (University of St Andrews) – Spitzer Stacking of IC 348 to Probe Planetary Mass Objects
15:45-16:00 – Reem Alfaidi (University of Glasgow) – Long Short-Term Memory for Early Warning Detection of Gravitational Waves
16:00-16:15 – Narenraju Nagarajan (University of Glasgow) – Identifying and Mitigating Biases in Machine Learning for the Gravitational-wave Detection Problem
16:15-16:30 – Shashwat Singh (University of Glasgow) – Constraining Massive Black Hole population from LISA observations
