BAA RAG21 day conference
2021 Oct 16
This event will be held as a Zoom Webinar with a recording available on the BAA YouTube channel shortly afterwards. It will not be streamed live to YouTube.
Link to join the Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87034835288
Key note speakers:
Prof Ian McHardy, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton
The Black Hole and Star Formation History of the Universe – with a radio flavour
Dr Spencer Axani, MIT CosmicWatch
The counting of muons
Abstracts and a list of poster sessions: RAG21Presentationsv2.pdf
Agenda (subject to change)
| 9:45 | Zoom webinar opens | |
| 10:00 | Welcome | Alan Lorrain (BAA President) |
| 10:10 | The Black Hole and Star Formation History of the Universe – with a radio flavour | Prof Ian McHardy (Southampton) |
| 11:10 | Introduction to a new Radio Meteor Detecting Software and its application in the Study of Head Echoes | Dr Wolfgang Kaufmann |
| 12:00 | Observing the First Stars with Radio Arrays | Dr Emma Chapman (Imperial, London) |
| 12:10 | Using the Raspberry Pi for meteor observing | Phil Rourke |
| 12:20 | A Magnetic Field Sensor in my All Sky Camera | Tony Abbey |
| 12:40 | LUNCH | |
| 13:20 | Schumann Resonance Sensor – our journey to first light | Norman Pomfret |
| 14:05 | The counting of muons | Dr Spencer Axani (MIT CosmicWatch) |
| 15:10 | Radio observation of super nova SN2017EAW | Diane Swan |
| 15:20 | A First Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope | Peter East |
| 15:30 | Endeavours with muon counting | Paul Hearn |
| 15:45 | A UK meteor beacon at 50 MHz | Brian Coleman |
| 15:55 | VLF and magnetometry observations in lockdown | John Cook |
Conference organiser – Paul Hyde