May 2023 Meeting

19/05/2023 – 7:30pm –  Speaker Professor Martin Hardcastle.

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History of radio sky surveys, why it’s important, and the work that’s done to find new galaxies with the Dutch radio telescope LOFAR.

Martin Hardcastle is an astrophysicist specializing in radio astronomy, high-energy astrophysics and the physics of active galactic nuclei. He has published more than 350 papers in refereed journals. A former Royal Society Research Fellow, he worked for Cambridge, Bristol and the Open University before moving to UH. He was formerly Director of the Centre for Astrophysics Research and is now Head of Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics.