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Institute of Astronomy - Public

Date Title Speaker Group Booking Weather Number of Visitors Weekly Handout Video
11th Oct 2023 Asteroid belts around stars Yinuo Han 1st St Michaels Mead Scouts Raining 118
18th Oct 2023 Unveiling the galaxies that lit up the Universe Charlotte Simmonds 1st Histon Brownies Cloudy 123
25th Oct 2023 Searching for life in the Universe [Talk for younger audiences] Maggie Celeste HALF TERM Clear (ish) 284 Watch
1st Nov 2023 Reaching for the Sun Helen Mason Clear 127 Watch
8th Nov 2023 Our Expanding Universe Robin Catchpole Cambridge South Hockey Club Cloudy 104 Watch
15th Nov 2023 Exoplanet Atmospheres Greg Cooke Cyted Ltd Clear 194 watch
22nd Nov 2023 Dead planets around dead stars Laura Rogers 2nd Swavesey Brownies Cloudy 121 watch
29th Nov 2023 Unveiling the first stages of planet formation Francesco Zagaria 16th Cambridge Scouts Clear 156 watch
6th Dec 2023 Tuning into the Early Universe: Using Radio Waves to See Without Stars Joe Pattinson Cloudy 89 watch
13th Dec 2023 Galactic Archaeology with the oldest stars in the Milky Way Anke Arentsen 2nd Cambridge Scouts Cloudy 101 watch
20th Dec 2023 NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK
27th Dec 2023 NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK
3rd Jan 2024 NO OPEN EVENING THIS WEEK
10th Jan 2024 Unravelling the dark side of the universe Calvin Preston Clear 224 watch
17th Jan 2024 Protoclusters: ancient cosmic metropolis Seunghwan Lim Clear 103 watch
24th Jan 2024 TBD Martin Bourne 1st Potton Scout Group
31st Jan 2024 Shedding light on the Dark Universe Leah Bigwood Kings Hedges Guides Cloudy 103 watch
7th Feb 2024 Echoes of the Big Bang: probing the origin of our cosmos Emilie Hertig 1st Swaffham Prior Scout Group Cloudy 143 watch
14th Feb 2024 The first galaxies and their black holes Sandro Tacchella LSI Cambridge School Cloudy 164
21st Feb 2024 The sounds of the Universe Sarah Kane Cloudy 153 watch
28th Feb 2024 Cosmic lighthouses: Charting the universe with supernovae Matthew Grayling 1st saffron Walden cubs Cloudy 118 watch
6th Mar 2024 Hacking The Milky Way To Make a Gravitational Wave Antenna Stephen Taylor Fenstanton and Hilton Beavers Clear 180 watch
13th Mar 2024 Women in Astronomy International Women's Day speakers King's Ely Cloudy 120
20th Mar 2024 Ancient Egyptian astronomy and the Milky Way Or Graur 1st Ely Scouts Cloudy 169 watch
27th Mar 2024 From Galileo Galilei to JWST: How we observe the first galaxies Jan Scholtz Wildish Group Clear 210 watch

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