Countdown to Launch

Dr Olivia Jones https://www.roe.ac.uk/~ojones/ 2021 is an exciting year for astronomy, with the launch of the highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (Webb). Webb, NASA’s and ESA’s flagship mission, will revolutionise astronomy. It will be the largest and most powerful telescope launched into space, and it has strong Scottish connections with one of the key […]

Maths vs. Covid-19

Professor Julia Gog OBE https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/professor-julia-gog-obe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gog Julia is the David N. Moore Fellow in Mathematics, Director of Studies in Mathematics at Queen’s College, Cambridge and Professor of Mathematical Biology in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. She is also a member of the Cambridge Immunology Network and the Cambridge Infectious […]

Cosmic Vision: Space-Quakes

Professor Katherine Blundell OBE https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/blundell https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-katherine-blundell/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Blundell Katherine was appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy in 2019. She is a Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University and a Research Fellow at St John’s College. Before this she was one of the Royal Society’s University Research Fellows, a Research Fellow of the 1851 Royal Commission, and a […]

Investing in Nature

Professor Jacqueline McGlade https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/professor-jacqueline-mcglade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_McGlade Professor Jacqueline McGlade is the Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment at Gresham College. She is also a Professor of Resilience and Sustainable Development at University College London and Professor at the Maasai Mara University in Kenya. On leave from her role at UCL, Professor McGlade was Director of […]

CloudCatcher – How to Help Catch Clouds From Space

Dr Caroline Cox https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Caroline-Cox.aspx https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/caroline-cox/cloudcatcher/about/team Clouds are beautiful. Seen from Earth, they provide a constantly changing backdrop to the sky. Seen from space, they are spectacular formations. However, clouds can be problematic for many Earth Observation missions interested in making observations of the atmosphere or land below them. Dr Cox discussed the process of identifying […]

Light and Dark. A Story of the Cosmos

Dr Marika Asgari https://www.roe.ac.uk/~ma/ https://www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/people/ma.html Light is the main observable in cosmology, but most of what we “see” with this light is how the dark universe behaves. Dr Asgari explored how the light from millions of distant galaxies are used to shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Active Galactic Nuclei and Tidal Disruption Events

Philip Short https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/philip-short https://twitter.com/philshort17?lang=en A tale of hungry black holes and unfortunate stars. At the centre of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these black holes are in an ‘active’ state, pulling in a steady stream of material from the surrounding area. While in this state these black holes have a significant […]

Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?

Professor Sarah Hart https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004985/sarah-hart https://twitter.com/sarahlovesmaths?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_B._Hart https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hart-99879899/?originalSubdomain=uk Sarah Hart is the first woman Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, and was appointed in 2020. She is Professor of Mathematics and Head of Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck, University of London. She studied at Oxford and Manchester, gaining her PhD in 2000. Postdoctoral research and teaching […]

A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making

Dr Anna Ploszajski https://www.annaploszajski.com/ https://twitter.com/AnnaPloszajski?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ploszajski https://www.instagram.com/annaploszajski/?hl=en From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists can’t measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into intricate statuary, or know how it feels […]

The Maths of Life and Death

Dr Kit Yates https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/kit-yates https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://kityates.com/ https://wikitia.com/wiki/Kit_Yates Kit is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. His research demonstrates that mathematics can be used to describe all sorts of real-world phenomena: from embryo formation to […]

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