Wednesday

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Author	Session Time	Talk start	Abstract
Total: 102
Bringing space to the classroom(7)
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Fraser Lewis	09:00 - 10:30	09:10	Astro Cymru, the Faulkes Telescope Project and Go-Lab	Edit View
Amanda Poole	09:00 - 10:30	09:35	Space Camp UK – Engaging children in Astronomy and Space Science	Edit View
Sarah Llewellyn-Davies	09:00 - 10:30	09:55	The National Space Academy	Edit View
John Baruch	09:00 - 10:30	10:15	Motivating Schools to drive an Astronomy Outreach programme.	Edit View
Charles Barclay	13:30 - 15:00	14:27	Making Space in the timetable - GCSE Astronomy as a unique qualification	Edit View
William Dunn	13:30 - 15:00	14:47	ULiS: University Learning in Schools – a Partnership between University Researchers and School Teachers to Improve Student Outcomes	Edit View
Dr Jen Gupta	16:30 - 18:00	17:29	Real astronomy research in the classroom with the Zooniverse	Edit View
Current Developments in Numerical Astrophysics(19)
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Ziri Younsi	09:00 - 10:30		Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	09:00 - 10:30	10:15	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
C. Gareth Few	13:30 - 15:00	13:55	Grid Refinement Criteria for Shock Resolution in Simulations of Galactic Discs	Edit View
Matthieu Schaller	13:30 - 15:00	14:07	The SWIFT code: A task-based approach to cosmological hydro simulations	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	13:30 - 15:00	14:15	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Mr Simon Daley-Yates	13:30 - 15:00	14:19	Implementing Radiative Driving in Numerical MHD Simulations of Magnetically Confined Winds of Massive Stars	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	13:30 - 15:00	14:30	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	13:30 - 15:00	14:31	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Paolo Pagano	13:30 - 15:00	14:43	A strategy for MHD simulation of flux rope ejections	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Andrew Robertson	16:30 - 18:00	16:55	Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:07	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:15	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:17	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Benjamin T. Lewis	16:30 - 18:00	17:19	Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Protostellar Outflows: the effect of varying the field strength and angle.	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:31	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:45	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Ziri Younsi	16:30 - 18:00	17:46	Time-Dependent General-Relativistic Radiation Transport	Edit View
Defining Habitability in the Universe(8)
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Jane Greaves	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Biochemistry of Icy Solar System Moons	Edit View
Jane Greaves	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Biochemistry of Icy Solar System Moons	Edit View
Lewis Dartnell	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Extremophiles and defining the habitability limit of life	Edit View
Jane Greaves	13:30 - 15:00	13:55	Biochemistry of Icy Solar System Moons	Edit View
Joanna Barstow	13:30 - 15:00	14:00	Detecting signatures of habitability using transit spectroscopy	Edit View
Dr Eric Lopez	13:30 - 15:00	14:15	Overestimating Eta-Earth: The Importance of Photo-Evaporation	Edit View
Jane Greaves	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Biochemistry of Icy Solar System Moons	Edit View
Jane Greaves	16:30 - 18:00	17:05	Biochemistry of Icy Solar System Moons	Edit View
Dust, Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies Throughout Cosmic Time(21)
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Rowan Smith	09:00 - 10:30	09:15	The formation of CO dark gas in Milky Way type galaxies	Edit View
Jacob Ward	09:00 - 10:30	09:30	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
Sebastien Viaene	09:00 - 10:30	09:45	Dusting off NGC 4370. A diffuse dust component in this lenticular?	Edit View
Christopher Clark	09:00 - 10:30	10:00	The Surprising Diversity of Dust-Selected Galaxies in the Local Submillimetre Universe	Edit View
Flor Allaert	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	The relation between gas, dust and total mass in edge-on spiral galaxies	Edit View
Jacob Ward	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
Jacob Crossett	13:30 - 15:00	13:45	Slow Quenching in Groups using NUV	Edit View
Jacob Ward	13:30 - 15:00	13:45	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
Martin Stringer	13:30 - 15:00	14:00	Seeking the signatures of cosmology in star formation trends	Edit View
Jillian M. Scudder	13:30 - 15:00	14:15	Does gas content alter star formation rate enhancement in galaxy interactions?	Edit View
Asa F. L. Bluck	13:30 - 15:00	14:30	Why do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? – Evidence for Quenching of Central Galaxies via Black Hole Growth	Edit View
Kate Rowlands	13:30 - 15:00	14:45	The evolution of the cold ISM following a starburst	Edit View
S. Duivenvoorden	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Star formation in different environments with Herschel	Edit View
Joao Pedro Ferreira	16:30 - 18:00	16:45	Emission Line Galaxy Demographics in the last 10 Gyrs with CANDELS Broadband Colours	Edit View
Jacob Ward	16:30 - 18:00	16:45	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
Myrto Symeonidis	16:30 - 18:00	17:00	The Herschel census of infrared SEDs through cosmic time	Edit View
Nancy Hine	16:30 - 18:00	17:15	Dust obscured activity in Lyman-alpha blobs at z∼3	Edit View
Jacob Ward	16:30 - 18:00	17:24	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
Nathan Bourne	16:30 - 18:00	17:30	The Obscured History of Galaxy Evolution: Resolving the Confusion with the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey	Edit View
Jacob Ward	16:30 - 18:00	17:42	Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds	Edit View
William Cowley	16:30 - 18:00	17:45	What Halo Masses Dominate the Cosmic Infra-red Background?	Edit View
Magnetic fields of planets and cool stars(12)
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Victor See	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Exoplanets and their host stars	Edit View
Stuart Littlefair	09:00 - 10:30	09:15	Optical and IR signatures of aurorae on brown dwarfs	Edit View
L Mejnertsen	09:00 - 10:30	09:30	Global simulations of Neptune’s magnetosphere using the Gorgon MHD code	Edit View
D. J. Southwood	09:00 - 10:30	09:45	Breaking of rotational symmetry of aligned rotators by hydromagnetic wave emission: How Saturn and pulsars may be linked.	Edit View
Aditi Sood	09:00 - 10:30	10:00	Dynamical model for spindown of solar-type stars	Edit View
Gregory Hunt	09:00 - 10:30	10:15	Field-aligned currents in Saturn’s magnetosphere: Relationship between Sub-corotation and Planetary Period Oscillation Currents	Edit View
Andy Smith	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail: A comprehensive magnetic field survey	Edit View
Caitriona M Jackman	13:30 - 15:00	13:45	Field dipolarization in Saturn’s magnetotail with planetward ion flows and energetic particle flow bursts: evidence of quasi-steady reconnection	Edit View
R Johnson	13:30 - 15:00	14:00	Is Jupiter’s mid-to-low latitude ionosphere corotating?	Edit View
William Dunn	13:30 - 15:00	14:15	Observations of Jupiter’s Auroral X-ray Emission coinciding with a Coronal Mass Ejection	Edit View
J. J. Reed	13:30 - 15:00	14:30	The role of Io in the dynamics of Jupiter’s magnetosphere: A sandpile modelling approach	Edit View
Suzanne M. Imber	13:30 - 15:00	14:45	Magnetic flux circulation at Mercury	Edit View
Outreach with a virtual reality headset: drop in demo session(1)
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Andy Lawrence	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Outreach with a virtual reality headset: drop in demo session	Edit View
Solar Physics General Session(6)
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Andrea Caleo	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Differential rotation and radiative equilibrium in the Sun: the radiative zone and the tachocline	Edit View
Aditi Sood	09:00 - 10:30	09:15	Suppression of kinematic dynamo shear flow	Edit View
Giuseppe Nistico	09:00 - 10:30	09:30	N-S asymmetry of the solar magnetic field from polar jets	Edit View
C. D. Johnston	09:00 - 10:30	09:45	A Computational Method for Modelling Chromospheric Evaporation	Edit View
Alexander Russell	09:00 - 10:30	10:00	Magnetic energy release in coronal loops: a better way to relax	Edit View
Iain G. Hannah	09:00 - 10:30	10:15	NuSTAR's First Solar Observations	Edit View
Stellar, Exoplanet and Galactic Science from Massive, High-precision Variability Surveys(14)
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Oliver Turner	09:00 - 10:30	09:00	Planets Transiting Bright Host Stars with WASP-South	Edit View
Benjamin Pope	09:00 - 10:30	09:18	Systematics Correction and Cluster Science with Kepler-2	Edit View
Nicholas Cross	09:00 - 10:30	09:36	Using the VISTA Science Archives for variable star and transient science in the VVV.	Edit View
Hugh Osborn	09:00 - 10:30	09:54	New Discoveries from the WASP Archive	Edit View
Peter Wheatley	09:00 - 10:30	10:12	The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)	Edit View
Alex Binks	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Using SuperWASP Rotation Periods to Detect Young Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood	Edit View
Marcus Lohr	13:30 - 15:00	13:48	Eclipsing binaries, multiples and orbital period changes in SuperWASP	Edit View
Donald Kurtz	13:30 - 15:00	14:06	Advances in asteroseismology with Kepler data	Edit View
Barry Smalley	13:30 - 15:00	14:24	Asteroseismology with SuperWASP	Edit View
Jessica Kirkby-Kent	13:30 - 15:00	14:42	The Impact of Lightcurve Detrending on Parameter Determination for WASP Photometry	Edit View
Thomas North	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Prospects for detecting transiting planets around red giants	Edit View
Caitlin D Jones	16:30 - 18:00	16:48	Potential For Diagnosing Red Giant Evolutionary State And Binarity Using Ensemble Asteroseismology.	Edit View
Avon Huxor	16:30 - 18:00	17:06	AGB Carbon Stars from the Catalina Surveys: Probing Sagittarius and Triangulum-Andromeda in the MW Halo	Edit View
Mr I. Braker	16:30 - 18:00	17:42	Photometric variability of White Dwarfs with Kepler and K2	Edit View
The science of space weather: progressing our understanding(5)
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J. P. Eastwood	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Science from an operational space weather mission at the L5 Lagrange point	Edit View
D. Shaun Bloomfield	16:30 - 18:00	16:50	Improving Solar Flare Prediction by Combining Active Region Classifications	Edit View
Gemma Kelly	16:30 - 18:00	17:04	Behaviour of the UK geo-electric field during the March 2015 geomagnetic storm	Edit View
Andrew Nicholas	16:30 - 18:00	17:18	SSULI/SSUSI Full-Orbit Ionospheric Tomography	Edit View
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont	16:30 - 18:00	17:32	SMILE: Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer	Edit View
The Sun, its Influence on the Heliosphere and the Role of the Solar Orbiter Mission(5)
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Anthony Yeates	13:30 - 15:00	13:30	Global magnetic field modelling: how will solar orbiter help?	Edit View
Louise Harra	13:30 - 15:00	13:50	Bulk properties of major flares with and without CMEs	Edit View
J.L.Culhane	13:30 - 15:00	14:05	Active Region Upflow Plasma, its Possible Contribution to the Slow Solar Wind and the Role of Solar Orbiter	Edit View
Tim Horbury	13:30 - 15:00	14:20	Short, intense velocity enhancements in fast streams in the inner heliosphere	Edit View
Hamish Reid	13:30 - 15:00	14:35	Solar Electron Beams Through the Heliosphere	Edit View
The Variable Sun: Cycles, Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities(4)
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David R. Williams	16:30 - 18:00	16:30	Waves in the Solar Atmosphere: reviewing the last few years’ discoveries	Edit View
Christopher Rhys Goddard	16:30 - 18:00	17:00	Detection of Quasi-periodic rapidly propagating EUV intensity perturbations using SDO/AIA	Edit View
Richard Morton	16:30 - 18:00	17:30	Wave damping in the chromosphere	Edit View
Ben Snow	16:30 - 18:00	17:45	Chromospheric seismology above sunspot umbrae	Edit View

Full details of the Parallel Sessions for each day

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Wednesday