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Institute of Astronomy - Public

Date Title Speaker Group Booking Weather Number of Visitors Video
9th Oct 2024 Galaxies Going Bananas: Evidence for a New Population of Filamentary Galaxies in the Early Universe Viraj Pandya (external guest speaker) Cloudy 127 Watch
16th Oct 2024 On the origin of the diversity of exoworlds Stefano Facchini (external guest speaker) Cloudy 121
23rd Oct 2024 Meet the Cosmic Giants: Understanding Supermassive Black Holes Stephanie Buttigieg Clear 253 Watch
30th Oct 2024 Searching for Aliens Maggie Celeste HALF TERM Clear 201 Watch
6th Nov 2024 All Stars Great and Small Avishai Gilkis Cloudy 131 Watch
13th Nov 2024 It’s not easy growing a supermassive black hole Rebecca Smethurst (external guest speaker) 2nd Cambourne Guides Cloudy 256 Watch
20th Nov 2024 Mysteries of the Early Universe Anastasia Fialkov Institution of Mechanical Engineers Clear 194
27th Nov 2024 NO PUBLIC OPEN EVENING None
4th Dec 2024 NO PUBLIC OPEN EVENING 1st Houghton Scouts
11th Dec 2024 Unveiling the mysteries of the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Charlotte Simmonds Clear 187 watch
18th Dec 2024 What we know (and don’t know) about galaxies Calvin Preston
25th Dec 2024 NO PUBLIC OPEN EVENING
1st Jan 2025 NO PUBLIC OPEN EVENING
8th Jan 2025 Journey to the centre of an exoplanet James Rogers Cloudy 154
15th Jan 2025 Black Holes Richard Dyer Rebels and Walks
22nd Jan 2025 Introduction to Type Ia Supernovae Cosmology Mickael Rigault Comberton Young Farmers
29th Jan 2025 Aurorae, Space Weather and the Solar Wind Oli Basquette King's Ely Senior School
5th Feb 2025 Dust in Galaxies Gabriel Maheson
12th Feb 2025 Cosmic Alchemy and the Universe in Us Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
19th Feb 2025 Galaxy Guess Who! (Children's Astronomy Evening) Charlotte Simmonds HALF TERM
26th Feb 2025 Forming stars and black holes in the early Universe Sandro Tacchella Trinity College Postdoctoral Society
5th Mar 2025 TBD International Women's Day Speakers
12th Mar 2025 TBD Eddington Lecturer (external guest speaker)
19th Mar 2025 Debate -- are White Dwarfs stars? Katherine Kauma and Sarah Kane

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