Tickets cost £5 for adults, £2 for under 16s, and free to BAA members, members of Leeds Astronomical Society, and BAA Affiliated Society members. The promo code for 100% discount can be found on the BAA website, the monthly Newsletter, and the meetings section at the back of the BAA Journal.

All attendees must book in advance.

Programme for the day

10:30 BAA President Dr David Arditti - Welcome

10:40 Prof Danial Marsh, Leeds – “planetary atmospheres” - To be replaced with video due to illness

11:40 Refreshment Break

12:00 Prof Brad Gibson, Hull – “Stellar Winds: Givers and Takers of Life”

13:00 Lunch Break

14:30 Intro to Leeds Astronomical Society

15:00 Dr Richard McKim, BAA Section Director - "Recent BAA studies of the Martian dust storms"

16:00 Refreshment Break

16:30 Dr Julian Pittard, Leeds - “Colliding Stellar Winds: Observations and Theory”

17:30 BAA President Dr David Arditti - Closing remarks

If you book a ticket and subsequently find you are unable to attend then please cancel your ticket to free up your place and provide us with accurate numbers for catering. Refunds are only available for tickets cancelled more than 7 days before the event and the Eventbrite fees of 6.5% plus £0.49 are non-refundable.

We expect face masks will be required at the venue. We will keep the event page on the BAA website up to date with any changes to requirements caused by the changing situation with COVID-19.

https://www.britastro.org/leeds2022

Organisers: Hazel Collett and Rod Leven

Prof Dan Marsh

Prof Dan Marsh joined the Priestley International Centre for Climate as the Chair in Comparative Planetary Atmospheres in January 2018. He holds the position jointly in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Dan divides his time between Leeds and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a senior scientist. Dan’s research interests are in planetary atmospheres, whole atmosphere modelling, climate change, upper atmosphere composition and space weather.

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio artist's impression of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Prof Brad Gibson

An Aussie-Canadian transplant, Brad is the Head of Physics & Maths, and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, at the University of Hull. Brad was responsible for first defining the Milky Way’s Galactic Habitable Zone (named a Top 10 News Story of the Year by National Geographic), determining the expansion rate of the Universe (for which their team was awarded the Gruber Prize in Cosmology), and building the world’s first Liquid Mirror Telescope Observatory. His 500+ outreach events over the past 6 years have reached nearly two million people around the world, including 70 schools and colleges around the UK. His commitment to widening participation and diversity, and improving the career prospects of physics students, led to his “Changing Face of Physics” campaign being named Best Practice in the Country by the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit.

(Picture Curtesy of Brad Gibson)

Dr Richard McKim

Richard is the Director of the BAA Mars Section and a past President of the Association. He has analysed BAA observations of Mars since 1980, writing the first monograph on Martian dust storms and many historical papers dealing with planetary astronomy. By profession a chemist, Richard is also an amateur musician.

Dr Julian Pittard

Dr. Julian Pittard has worked on colliding wind binaries for over 25 years. He studied under Dr. Ian Stevens at the University of Birmingham, finishing his PhD in 1999. He then moved to the University of Leeds, to study with Profs. John Dyson, Thomas Hartquist, and Sam Falle. He obtained a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2004 and became a Reader in Theoretical Astrophysics in 2011. He has supervised 10 PhD students and 4 postdoctoral research assistants, and published over 130 research papers in the major scientific astronomy journals.