Past Lectures
Speakers who have contributed a talk to the David Elder lecture series in the Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre include:
Date | Speaker | Title |
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30 Mar 2022 | Dr Sheila Kanani MBE | Cassini Huygens and the Lord of The Rings |
24 Feb 2022 | Prof Martin Hendry | Einstein’s Universe: the dawn, and exciting future, of gravitational-wave astronomy |
27 Jan 2022 | Dr Alice Gorman | Archaeology on the Moon |
23 Nov 2021 | Prof. Mike Brown | Planet Nine from Outer Space |
7 Oct 2021 | Dr. Ben Hamlington | Using satellites to understand changing sea leavels |
26 Feb 2020 | Prof. Philippa Browning | Solar Flares: The most energetic explosions in the solar system |
29 Jan 2020 | Astrid Werkmeister | Satellite Applications: Bringing Space Down to Earth |
27 Nov 2019 | Dr Beth Biller | Weird New Worlds |
29 Oct 2019 | Dr Brooke Simmons | Black Holes, Exoplanets, and Hurricanes: Making the next generation of discoveries |
25 Sep 2019 | Andrea Boyd | International Space Station Flight Control |
27 Feb 2019 | Marcus Chown | The Day Without a Yesterday |
30 Jan 2019 | Prof. Mark McCaughrean | Once Explorers, Always Explorers |
12 Jan 2019 | Sue Nelson | The Mercury 13 and the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer |
28 Nov 2018 | Dallas Campbell | Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet |
31 Oct 2018 | Markus Nordberg | Connecting the Worlds of Micro to Macro: from Open Science to Open Innovation — CERN as a Case |
26 Sep 2018 | Prof. Leo Hollberg | Space, Time and Quantum Clocks |
8 May 2018 | Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher | Living with a Star |
28 Mar 2018 | Prof. Matt Griffin | Seeing the Invisible Universe: Infrared Astronomy from Space |
31 Jan 2018 | Prof. Sheila Rowan | Gravitational waves – turning on the soundtrack to the Universe |
29 Nov 2017 | Prof. John Brown | Comets – bringers of death, bringers of life, and cosmic probes |
25 Oct 2017 | Tania Johnston | Reaching New Heights in Astronomy |
27 Sep 2017 | Steve Owens | Universe or Multiverse? |
15 Jun 2017 | Prof. Martin Hendry | Exploring The Dark Side of the Universe |
2 Mar 2017 | Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Cosmic Fireworks – Finding Transient Events in the Universe |
2 Feb 2017 | Prof. Monica Grady |
Collision and Catastrophe |
1 Dec 2016 | Dr Matt Taylor |
Chasing a Comet |
3 Nov 2016 | Dr Paul McNamara |
LISA Pathfinder and the Hunt for Ripples in Space |
6 Oct 2016 | Dr Stuart Clark |
The Search for Earth's Twin |
8 Sep 2016 | Prof. Chris Lintott |
Is the Milky Way Special? |
29 Aug 2016 | Prof. Joe Giaime |
Gravitational Waves and LIGO |
3 Mar 2016 | Dr Pippa Goldschmidt | Writing in the Stars |
4 Feb 2016 | Dr Marek Kukula | The Intimate Universe |
3 Dec 2015 | Prof. Massimiliano Vasile | Stardust |
17 Nov 2015 | Dr Bernie Fanaroff | The Unseen Cosmos |
Glasgow Science Centre is proud to host the David Elder Lectures in partnership with the University of Strathclyde's Department of Physics.
