SUPA Cormack Astronomy Meeting 2024

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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

9:30-10:00 – Welcome and coffee
10:00-11:00 – First session
11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – Second session
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:00 – Third session
15:00-15:30 – Coffee break
15:30-16:30 – Fourth session
16:30-17:00 – Invited talk: Aberdeen’s New Astronomy Facilities and Aberdeen-led CAP2028 Full Bid
 
 
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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

Chair: Matthew Swayne
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

Chair: Aritra Gon
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
16:30-17:00 – Charles Wang (University of Aberdeen) – Aberdeen’s New Astronomy Facilities and Aberdeen-led CAP2028 Full Bid

Travel and directions

Maps of the campus and building location can be found here.
It is about 15 min walk from the Dundee Rail Station and 20 min walk from Dundee Bus Station. If coming by bus, you may want to check if your bus stops at Overgate or West Marketgait, and then it will be 10 min or less to walk. There are multiple buses that will bring you from the train station to West Marketgait (99, 22, 39, 42, 5, 17, to name a few) or from the bus station to Airlie Place (and then it is 6 min walk).
Parking on campus is very limited and it tends to be quite full from 9:30am on. If you need to come by car, please contact the organiser ASAP so she can provide you with the details (although there is no guarantee that you’ll find parking on campus, especially if you do not arrive very early).
Otherwise, there are parking houses such as Greenmarket Parking and some surface pay-and-display bays nearby, but those are likely going to be busy.

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