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Speakers confirmed to date:
Pietro Zucca - Trinity College Dublin, Astrophysics Research Group
Talk Title: The Sun-Earth Connection
Pietro is persuting pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Solar Physics and Space Weather. Pietro obtained his undergraduate studies at Padova University obtaining a BSc in Astronomy. After that he received his Masters in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Bologna University. In 2009 Pietro started in Trinity College with the help of an Erasmus grant and carried out a research project in solar radio physics. In 2010 he joined the Astrophysics Research Group (ARG).
Pietro's current area of research is focused on solar physics, using the e-Callisto spectrograph to measure the solar radio bursts, with particular interest in type II shocks. Radio signatures are decisive in understanding the behavior of the solar corona, studying plasma emission processes and Langmuir waves. The goal of his research is to study the effects of solar storms on telecommunications and space weather and involves collaborations between the Schools of Physics, Computing and Engineering, to understand the physical link between solar storms and telecommunication dropouts in Ireland.
Masha Chernyakova - Dublin City University
Talk Title: The Origin and Highlights of the Solar System
Masha is a lecturer in the astrophysics department of Dublin City University. Masha has previously worked for 5 years at the Integral Science Data Center (Switzerland), where she got a chance to extend the theory and to organize several multiwavelengths campaigns. In 2007 Masha received a Schrodinger fellowship in Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and continued the work in the area of high energy astrophysics studying emission from the highly accelerated particles in different astrophysical sources from both theoretical and observational point of view. In 2001 Masha received a PhD degree from the AstroSpace Center of Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia for work relating to theoretically studied emission from the binary system with a millisecond pulsar.
John Flannery, South Dublin Astronomy Club
Talk Title: "Riddle of the Lunar Atmosphere"
When a total eclipse of the Sun occurs we are awestruck by the beautiful pearly light of the solar corona. But it is only in the last 150 years or so that we have begun to understand the Sun's atmosphere and even come to the realisation it's a solar feature and not lunar. For a long time it was believed the Sun's corona was actually a dense lunar atmosphere. Why was this so and how did solar physics develop as a science? This talk tells the story.
Ronan Newman, Galway Astronomy Club
Title: "The Aurora Borealis: Capturing Nature's Celestial light show from Ireland"
Ronan Newman is a native of Claremorris, Co Mayo and first became interested in astronomy and Spaceflight from the age of 7, since then like many it has become a lifelong hobby with something new and exciting to hear about every day. Like any child of that age he remembers being astounded when reading about the giant Saturn 5 Moon rocket from books owned by his father and a progression into astronomy from there.
Being an amateur astronomer at such an early age made him look different in the eyes of his fellow school classmates and made him the butt of every single astronomical joke imaginable. But even still at the age of 10 he got his first telescope for Christmas, a 2 inch refractor and used it alongside a planisphere to navigate and learn his way around the night sky, something he still advocates to this day as the only way to learn the constellations properly.
In 1998 he was one of the founding members of the Galway Astronomy Club which was formed in the aftermath of Comet Hale Bopp. He has been on the committee since then in various positions while for the past six year has held position of secretary and webmaster. A central part of his role is astronomy outreach and bringing that astronomical wonder and excitement that he has felt over the many years into the minds of the younger generation; the Astronomers of the Future.
Amongst other interests like Binocular and naked eye astronomy, wide field astrophotography and Planetary Science he is an avid Spaceweather enthusiast. In this year alone he has managed to forecast and image six auroral displays from his present home in Charlestown, Co Mayo by interpreting data from several orbiting space craft that continually monitor our Sun – Earth environment.
In this simple talk he will look at the history of Aurora spotting in Ireland and show what signs to look for when wathing for the Aurora and will also dwell into another Solar linked Phenomena known as Noctilucent Clouds.
Pietro Zucca - Trinity College Dublin, Astrophysics Research Group
Talk Title: The Sun-Earth Connection
Pietro is persuting pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Solar Physics and Space Weather. Pietro obtained his undergraduate studies at Padova University obtaining a BSc in Astronomy. After that he received his Masters in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Bologna University. In 2009 Pietro started in Trinity College with the help of an Erasmus grant and carried out a research project in solar radio physics. In 2010 he joined the Astrophysics Research Group (ARG).
Pietro's current area of research is focused on solar physics, using the e-Callisto spectrograph to measure the solar radio bursts, with particular interest in type II shocks. Radio signatures are decisive in understanding the behavior of the solar corona, studying plasma emission processes and Langmuir waves. The goal of his research is to study the effects of solar storms on telecommunications and space weather and involves collaborations between the Schools of Physics, Computing and Engineering, to understand the physical link between solar storms and telecommunication dropouts in Ireland.
Masha Chernyakova - Dublin City University
Talk Title: The Origin and Highlights of the Solar System
Masha is a lecturer in the astrophysics department of Dublin City University. Masha has previously worked for 5 years at the Integral Science Data Center (Switzerland), where she got a chance to extend the theory and to organize several multiwavelengths campaigns. In 2007 Masha received a Schrodinger fellowship in Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and continued the work in the area of high energy astrophysics studying emission from the highly accelerated particles in different astrophysical sources from both theoretical and observational point of view. In 2001 Masha received a PhD degree from the AstroSpace Center of Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia for work relating to theoretically studied emission from the binary system with a millisecond pulsar.
John Flannery, South Dublin Astronomy Club
Talk Title: "Riddle of the Lunar Atmosphere"
When a total eclipse of the Sun occurs we are awestruck by the beautiful pearly light of the solar corona. But it is only in the last 150 years or so that we have begun to understand the Sun's atmosphere and even come to the realisation it's a solar feature and not lunar. For a long time it was believed the Sun's corona was actually a dense lunar atmosphere. Why was this so and how did solar physics develop as a science? This talk tells the story.
Ronan Newman, Galway Astronomy Club
Title: "The Aurora Borealis: Capturing Nature's Celestial light show from Ireland"
Ronan Newman is a native of Claremorris, Co Mayo and first became interested in astronomy and Spaceflight from the age of 7, since then like many it has become a lifelong hobby with something new and exciting to hear about every day. Like any child of that age he remembers being astounded when reading about the giant Saturn 5 Moon rocket from books owned by his father and a progression into astronomy from there.
Being an amateur astronomer at such an early age made him look different in the eyes of his fellow school classmates and made him the butt of every single astronomical joke imaginable. But even still at the age of 10 he got his first telescope for Christmas, a 2 inch refractor and used it alongside a planisphere to navigate and learn his way around the night sky, something he still advocates to this day as the only way to learn the constellations properly.
In 1998 he was one of the founding members of the Galway Astronomy Club which was formed in the aftermath of Comet Hale Bopp. He has been on the committee since then in various positions while for the past six year has held position of secretary and webmaster. A central part of his role is astronomy outreach and bringing that astronomical wonder and excitement that he has felt over the many years into the minds of the younger generation; the Astronomers of the Future.
Amongst other interests like Binocular and naked eye astronomy, wide field astrophotography and Planetary Science he is an avid Spaceweather enthusiast. In this year alone he has managed to forecast and image six auroral displays from his present home in Charlestown, Co Mayo by interpreting data from several orbiting space craft that continually monitor our Sun – Earth environment.
In this simple talk he will look at the history of Aurora spotting in Ireland and show what signs to look for when wathing for the Aurora and will also dwell into another Solar linked Phenomena known as Noctilucent Clouds.
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