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September 2020
LDAS Monthly Meeting – The Atacama Large Submillimeter Array, Supercomputer astronomy
Tonights talk will be given by Neill Phillipson on the subject 'The Atacama Large Submillimeter Array' which is located, as the name suggests, in the Atacama desert of Chile. The talk will cover how it works and what discoveries it is making. There will be a break and an astronomy news update by Gordon Ewen.
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November 2020
LDAS Monthly Meeting – Gravitational wave astronomy reveals fatal end of a wild cosmic dance.
Tonights talk will be given, via Zoom, by Dr Ulrich Kolb, who says . "Since the Nobel prize winning first detection of gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes in 2015, the list of confirmed gravitational wave events from compact binary mergers has been growing steadily. A complementing rapid-response campaign by telescope facilities around the globe is searching for electromagnetic counterparts of these gravitational wave sources. I will review the state of play and report on some of my experience…
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