Trinity College Dublin

The spring meeting of the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland (ASGI) will take place in Trinity College on Friday 27th of March, 2009. All talks will be held in the SNIAM Lecture Theatre. Coffee and posters will be in the SNIAM Conference Room. Directions to the SNIAM building can be found on our contacts page.

• 10.00 -- 10:30 COFFEE
  
  
• 10:30 - Eamon Scullion (Armagh): "Quakes at the Solar transition region"
  
  
• 10:50 - Jason Byrne (Trinity): "Combining the STEREO twin views of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections"
  
  
• 11:10 - Shane O Sullivan (UCC): "Magnetic Field Strengths in the Radio Cores of Blazars"
  
  
• 11:30 - Evan Keane (Jodrell Bank): "Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs): Recent Observations & Results"
  
  
• 11:50 - Denise Gabuzda (UCC) on LOFAR
  
  
• 12:10 - Mike Redfern (Galway) on the IYA
  
  
• 12:40 - Oisin Creaner (Institute of Technology Tallaght):"Grid searches of astronomical catalogues for candidate Exoplanets and Quasar studies"
  
  
• 13:00 -- 13:50 LUNCH (Brian Espey will comment on PRTLI5 grad school submission)
  
  
• 13:50 - INVITED Peter Coles (Cardiff): "Beyond the Concordance Cosmology"
  
  
• 14:40 - Patrick Kavanagh (DCU): "Diffuse X-ray Emission in the Core of Westerlund 1"
  
  
• 15:00 - Sean Delaney (DIAS): "Particle acceleration in Supernova Shocks"
  
  
• 15:20 - Aofe Jones (DCU): "Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in astrophysical plasma flows"
  
  
• 15:40 - Joe McCauley: TCD's WHS Monck Observatory
  
  
• 15:55 - Tolis Christou (Armagh): "Twice in a lifetime: observing the mutual eclipses and occultations between the Uranian satellites"
  
  
• 16:15 END