Programme of meetings for 2009/2010
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These meeting all begin promptly at 7.15 pm please make sure you arrive in plenty of time
| 2009 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title / Organiser |
| Sep 11th | Club Night | Simon Smith |
| Sep 25th | Club Night | John Meacham |
Oct 2nd | Dr Rodney Hillier. University of Bristol - Vice President BAS | What can clusters of galaxies tell us about the History of the Universe? This meeting will be held in the Hawthorns Woodland Road |
Oct 9th | Club Night | John Willis - Meeting will be held in the Lower School Hall |
Oct 16th | The search for exoplanets and The Kepler Mission. | |
Oct 23rd | Club Night | Allan McCarthy |
Oct 30th | CERN and Astronomy | |
Nov 6th | Mike Cowles | |
Nov 13th | Prof Tim Sumner - University of London | Dark Matter |
Nov 20th | Club Night | Janine Derry |
Nov 27th | Dr Edward Gomez - Cardiff University | The Universe in Chaos |
| Dec 4th | Dr Seth Shostak Seti Institute, California | Should we bother with SETI? A lively debate on the subject chaired by Prof Malcolm MacCallum Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol |
Dec 11th | Club Night - BAS Christmas Party | Tricia Brown |
| 2010 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title / Organiser |
Jan 15th | Katy Lancaster - University of Bristol | The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
Jan 22nd | Club Night | Simon Smith |
| Jan 29th | Dr Roger Moses University of Bristol | Cosmic Al-Chemical Furnaces |
Feb 5th | John Meacham | |
| Feb 12th | AGM | AGM |
Feb 19th | Club Night | Nigel Tasker |
Feb 26th | Club Night | Mike Cowles |
Mar 5th | Prof Mark Birkinshaw - University of Bristol - Vice President BAS | From an Idea to a Radio Image |
Mar 12th | Dr Chris Lintott - University of Oxford | Too many ellipticals : Galaxy Zoo & Galaxy Formation |
| Mar 19th | Club Night | Richard Mansfield |
| Mar 26th | Prof Mark Simms - University of Leicester | European Mars Rover |
Apr 2nd | Good Friday | No meeting |
| Apr 9th | Haley Gomez - Cardiff University | Herschel: seeing the stolen starlight |
| Apr 16th | Club Night | |
Apr 23rd | To See the Begining of Time | |
| Apr 30th | Club Night | |
May 7th | Andrew Burns Wiltshire AS | Reconnecting With the Skies: The Joys of Viewing |
May 14th | ||
May 21st | Guy Hurst - British Astronomical Association | Professional & Amateur liaison in Astronomy |
| May 28th | Club Night | |
| Jun 4th | Prof Andrew Coates - University of London | The Cassini Mission |
Jun 18th | Club Night | |