Past Events and
Syllabus
See the How to Find Us
Page to get directions to the M.A.S.
September 19th 2002
The Zdenek Kopal Memorial Lecture
Dr Ian Morison,
(Operations Manager, Jodrell Bank, University of Manchester)
"The
upgrading of MERLIN"
October 17th 2002
Professor John Parkinson,
(Sheffield University.)
"The
Sun in History"
November 21st 2002
Dr. Monica Grady,
(Natural History Museum)
"Meteorites
and the possibility of life in space"
December 19th 2002
The Presidential Lecture
Guy Duckworth, Esq., B.Sc.,
"The
Star of Bethlehem"
(Held in the Godlee Observatory, Main Building, UMIST)
January 16th 2003
Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith, FRS
(former Director of Jodrell Bank and former Astronomer Royal)
"Simple
Cosmology"
February 20th 2003
Dr. Omar Almaini,
(Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
"The
Hidden X-ray Universe"
March 20th 2003
Dr Neil Spooner,
(Sheffield Hallam University)
"Dark
Matter"
April 10th 2003
Annual General Meeting
(Held in the Godlee Observatory, Main Building, UMIST)
All the above lectures (unless otherwise indicated) are to
be held in room E7 of the Renold Building, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester
M60 1QD.
The Meetings start promptly at 7.30pm.
Past Events and
Syllabus
See the How to Find Us
Page to get directions to the M.A.S.
Maintained by Michael Oates