The next IAA public lecture will be on Wednesday 6 March, at 7.30 p. m. It will be given by Professor Tom Ray, of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS).

 

The title is “From Pebbles to Planets: Our changing ideas of how the Solar System formed”.

 

Prof Ray is a leading researcher in many areas of astronomy and astrophysics, and is Co-Principal Investigator of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), one of the four main instruments on board the James Webb Space Telescope, the replacement for the HST.

 

Tom studied at Trinity College Dublin before working at Jodrell Bank, the University of Manchester, the University of Sussex and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. He is currently Professor of Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, specialising in star formation.

 

Tom has given several lectures to the IAA, and is an excellent and entertaining speaker, so you shouldn’t miss this one.

 

Admission is free, including light refreshments, and all are welcome.

 

This lecture will as usual be in the Bell Lecture theatre, Physics building find out here now, main QUB Campus.