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POPULAR LECTURE
  [10/8/99, 20:00, Theatre]
Heather Couper Darkness at Noon: secrets of the sun and its eclipses
 
RAS MONTHLY A&G MEETING
  [12/8/99, 10:30-12:45, Theatre]
The President Introductory Address
Ian Halliday News from PPARC
Donald Lynden-Bell Dynamics Newton knew and we don't
Andre Heck Characteristics of astronomy-related organizations
Robin Catchpole ROG: what we want to do for you
Leon Mestel will give the The Inaugural Tayler Lecture:
"A very ambitious aim: to understand the structure of the entire Universe"
 
PLENARY TALKS
  [09:00-10:00, Theatre]
10/8/99:  Nigel Weiss Solar activity and climatic change
12/8/99:  Matt Mountain The Gemini Telescopes: first results and future developments
13/8/99:  Richard Ellis Galaxy formation and cosmology: challenges for the new millennium
 
THEORETICAL & OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY
   Chair: Bernard Carr    [10/8/99, 10:30-17:30, Theatre]
   C1 - Large-scale structure   [10:30-12:30]
Carlos Frenk The evolution of galaxy clustering
Jasper Wall Large-scale structure determined from radio AGN
Peter Coles New statistical approaches to large-scale structure
Ian Browne An overview of the CLASS gravitational lens survey; the Hubble constant and constraints on the cosmological constant
Tom Shanks The eclipse of cold dark matter?
   C2 - Galaxies and background radiation   [13:30-15:00]
Michael Rowan-Robinson The star formation history of the universe: an infrared perspective
Geoff Busswell Using simple optical galaxy-count models to explain the sub-mm background
Steve Serjeant Resolving the FIR background: latest results from the UK sub-millimetre survey and deep ISO surveys
Paolo Ciliegi ELAIS : A deep survey with the ISO satellite
   C3 - Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium   [15:30-17:30]
Richard Griffiths The HST Medium Deep Survey Key Project: Latest Results on Gravitational Lensing
Ian Robson The SCUBA revolution
Mike Edmunds Dust in galaxies - first results from the SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey
Sara Ellison Metals in the Lyman-alpha forest
Joop Schaye The equation of state of the intergalactic medium
 
GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
  Chair: Phil Charles [10/8/99, 10:30-17:30, Theatre Lounge]
  G1 - Planets, Star Formation and Cool Stars   [10:30-12:30]
Andrew Collier Cameron Towards direct spectroscopic detection of extra-solar giant planets
Derek Ward-Thompson Observations of the initial conditions of protostar formation
David Williams Stellar jets - active at both ends?
Serena Viti Chemical evolution ahead of Herbig--Haro objects
Peter Sarre Molecules in cool stars and circumstellar regions
Phil Lucas A population of very young brown dwarfs in Orion
  G2 - Interacting Binaries    [13:30-15:00]
Ron Hilditch Doppler imaging and eclipse mapping of the mass-exchangingl binary star V361 Lyrae
Liza van Zyl The asteroseismology of accreting white dwarfs
Coel Hellier Outbursts of EX Hya
Zach Ioannou The low mass X-ray binary X2127+119 in M15
Catherine Brocksop Multiwavelength observations of Cygnus X-1
  G3 - Stars, Atmospheres & ISM    [15:30-17:30]
Helen Walker ISO observations of dust around Vega-like stars
Bob Warwick The distribution of cool gas in the local interstellar medium
Richard Ryan Self-consistent models of the magnetospheric structure of rapidly rotating stars
Russell Cannon A spectroscopic survey of Carbon Stars in the LMC: implications for the dynamical and star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
Roger Bell The importance of FeI as a continuous absorber in the solar photosphere
Dafydd Evans An automatic CCD drift-scan survey with the CMT
 
EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY
   Chair: Andy Fabian    [12/8/99, 13:30-17:30, Theatre]
  E1 - Normal and Seyfert galaxies   [13:30-15:00]
Simon Kemp Infrared imaging of barred spiral galaxies
Rick Edelson AGN X-ray Variability: Power Spectra, Interband Correlations, and Comparison with XRBs
Simon Vaughn X-ray spectral complexity in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
Ken Pounds Evidence for a high accretion rate in narrow-line Seyferts
Tim Robinson Testing the photoionisation models of powerful radio galaxies
  E2 - Evolution of galaxies   [15:30-17:30]
Carlotta Gruppioni The nature of the faint radio galaxy population
Pierluigi Monaco The quasar - elliptical galaxy connection
Nick Cross The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the local luminosity density and Omega(M)
Laurence Jones The X-ray evolution of clusters of galaxies at high redshift from WARPS
Duncan Forbes The evolution of merger remnants and elliptical galaxy scaling relations
Andy Fabian The obscured growth of massive black holes
 
GEMINI
   Chair: Pat Roche   [12/8/99, 13:30-15:00, Theatre Lounge]
Pat Roche Introduction and overview
Phil PuxleyGemini: preparing for the first observations
Dave King Science with CIRPASS
Jeremy Allington-Smith Science with GMOS
Ian Crawford Science with HROS
 
OBSERVATORY REPORTS/ASTRONOMICAL COMPUTING
   Chair: Adrian Russell   [12/8/99, 15:30-17:30, Theatre Lounge]
Ian RobsonJCMT report
Andy Adamson UKIRT report
Russell CannonAAO report
Don PollaccoING report
Phil DiamondMERLIN/VLBI report
 
Alan Penny
Martin Bly
Dave Rawlinson 		UK Astronomical Computing and Starlink
 
PLANETARY ASTRONOMY
  Chair: Alan Fitzsimmons    [13/8/99, 10:30-12:30, Theatre Lounge]
Tony Cook Lunar and Mercurian topography
Alan Fitzsimmons Recent observations of the Kuiper Belt
Simon Green Interplanetary and interstellar dust detection from STARDUST and Cassini
Derek McNally Comet Hale-Bopp and the DIBs
Fred Taylor The Martian atmosphere & climate, and the 1999 Mars Climate Surveyor mission
Iwan Williams 0bservations of the Leonids in 1998
 
PROJECTS & MISSIONS
  Chair: Gordon Bromage   [13/8/99, 10:30-12:30, Neptune Room]
Rowena Sirey The JIF process
Mike Edmunds VISTA
Paul Barr INTEGRAL
Vitaly Kudryavtsev ANTARES - a deep-sea neutrino telescope
Alan Penny The Darwin space interferometer and the search for life in space
Neil Spooner Underground dark matter searches - status and prospects
 
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