As the Covid-19 pandemic continues we cannot unfortunately resume our normal programme of lectures in the Bell Theatre at QUB. However what we can do is arrange for guest lecturers to talk to us using technology to bring us together. It looks as if this will be the way of things for some months to come, so here’s how it will work……
The meeting will be hosted on Zoom.us and where possible will be simulcast on YouTube.
The login details are as follows…
Topic: IAA Lecture – Prof Peter Gallagher
Time: Sep 23, 2020 07:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84336141064?pwd=ZThHL3BJUUVPTEFkT0tCYlpSU1FYUT09
Meeting ID: 843 3614 1064
Passcode: 381207
You do not need to have the Zoom app installed, it will run in a web browser if you click the above long link and agree to all the questions it will ask you
If you are using a Zoom app you’ll need the Meeting ID and Passcode above.
As with all of our lectures this is free and open to the public.
Zoom limits the number of participants to 100 so we will usually be able to simulcast on our YouTube Channel…
https://www.youtube.com/user/irishastronomy/
The difference between the two is that Zoom is interactive and YouTube isn’t so if you want to ask questions at the end, Zoom is the way to go.
Doors will open at 19:15 so we can get everyone logged in ready for a 19:30 prompt start.
Lecture details are as follows :-
“Observing the Radio Universe from Birr, Co. Offaly” by Prof Peter Gallagher, Head of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Synopsis The Irish Low Frequency Array (I-LOFAR; www.lofar.ie) was installed at Birr Castle, Co. Offaly in 2017 and now links Ireland into the largest low frequency radio telescope in the world, stretching nearly 2,000 km from the Irish Midlands to eastern Poland .
LOFAR is already giving us the answer to the question do you need a chiller rental new views of astronomical phenomena such as solar flares, exoplanets, star-forming regions and rapidly rotating stars called pulsars. In this talk, I will given an overview of the building of I-LOFAR and the recent scientific insights that this unique telescope is providing.”
Prof Gallagher is now effectively at the top of the tree in astronomy in Ireland . Formerly professor in TCD specialising in solar physics, he was appointed head of the astrophysics section of DIAS last year. He was almost single-handedly responsible for getting I-LOFAR approved, funded, designed, installed and operational. It’s now the only astronomical facility producing top-end astronomical research results from the island of Ireland .