A talk by

Robin Catchpole

Friday 11^th November, 2005

starting at 7.30 pm

Nottingham University

Maths & Physics Building, Room B13

[Campus map – http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/campuses/documents/up-map.pdf]

Abstract

Everything we see around us, with the exception of the hydrogen in water, was made in stars. In this talk we will see how this happened from the moment when the universe was a few seconds old and look into the future to see the ultimate fate of our Sun.

Robin Catchpole works at the Institute of Astronomy Cambridge having recently retired as Senior Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. He has authored and co-authored over 100 research papers and articles and has used a number of telescopes around the world including the Hubble Space Telescope. His research interests include the composition of stars, exploding stars, the structure of our Galaxy and galaxies with black holes at their centres.

No charge is made to attend meetings, non-IMA members are welcome

The event is coordinated by East Midlands Branch Secretary, Dr Stephen Hibberd, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, email: stephen.hibberd@nottingham.ac.uk.

Details of East Midlands Branch activities: http://www.ima.org.uk/EMidBranch/ima.html