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I'm pleased to advise that the next Section Meeting will be held on Saturday 13th June 2009 at the Faculty Lecture Theatre, Trevithick
Building, Cardiff University.
The lecture theatre has a capacity of 150 delegates and has full rojection facilities including PC, Laptop and Apple Mac.
We also have the Junior Common Room available which has loose seating and a capacity of 200 and so plenty of room for exhibitions.
Tea and coffee will be available during the morning and afternoon.
Lunch will be available in the refectory and will offer a choice of three meals; Meat, Fish
or Vegetarian together with a drink (Cold or Hot) and a Sweet:
Steak & Ale pie with chips/Veg; Battered Cod & Chips; Vegetarian Option (usually pasta or pie based); Apple Pie & Custard; Soft Drink.
The cost of the meeting will be £10 per head which will include all refreshments including lunch. There will be no reduction if you do
not require lunch.
I am very grateful to Paul Roche and Alison Tripp of the Faulkes Telescope team for helping with the arrangements and for meeting some
of the costs.
The programme is now complete but poster papers will be very welcome.
These details can also be found on the Section web site at
http://www.britastro.org/vss/ and a list of accommodation in the area
can be found here:
http://britastro.org/vss/Hotel%20Listings%20in%20Cardiff%20City%20Centre%20_1_.pdf
Roger Pickard, Director
PROGRAMME
10.00 am - Tea/ Coffee - Welcome
10.45 - 11.30 Vanessa Stroud, Faulkes Telescope Project/Open University/LCOGT: A Search for Photometric Variability in Massive
Stars Using the MACHO and OGLE Microlensing Surveys
11.30 - 12.00 David Boyd, VSS: Results from the international CCD photometry campaign on DW UMa
12.00 - 12.30 Tony Markham, VSS: A non-telescopic 100,000
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Stan Waterman, VSS: Some interesting stars in Cygnus
14.30 - 15.15 Fraser Lewis, Faulkes Telescope Project/Open University/LCOGT: Photometry of quiescent LMXBs
15.15 - 16.00 Tea Break
16.15 - 17.15 Dr Danny Steeghs, Warwick University: Mapping the acrretion flows in compact binaries
17.15 - Short Presentations: Gary Poyner, VSS: V630 Cas; Jeremy Shears, BAA: Precursor to a superoutburst; Clive Beech, BAA: Review of
visual data for 2008
18.00 - Close
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