The European Astronomical Society Annual General Meeting is set to take place from 23-27 June 2025 in University College Cork. 

• Conference will boost local economy by €2.8 million
• Cork’s biggest international conference to date
• Public astronomy events planned throughout the week of the conference

‘Exoplanet Formation’ Research group lead, Dr. Bertram Bitsch, recent publication.

Professor Bertram Bitsch, School of Physics, UCC participated and co-organised the "Challenge Accepted: Linking Planet Formation with Present-Day Atmospheres" workshop this week at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.

Dr. Michael Tremmel attended the 15th International LISA Symposium 2024 which was held in Dublin between the 7th and 12th July.

The Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years Conference which was held in Kinsale last week from 29th April to 3rd May 2024 was a huge success! 

INAM 2023 will be hosted by School of Physics, UCC on August 24th & 25th. 

Dr. Michael Tremmel and collaborators have issued a new paper published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics. 

Professor Paul Callanan of School of Physics, UCC was invited to take part in the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival which ran from 4th - 7th April 2024. 

Diets of the stars: differences in ‘twin’ stars may be due to ingesting planets, study finds

Last week, the School of Physics welcome 2 representatives from the European Astronomical Society, Professor Lex Kaper and Professor Marc Audard and 2 from Kuoni Congress, Ms. Laurie Bosson and Mr. Franck Grosset, as part of University College Cork's bid to host the European Astronomical Society's annual meeting in 2025.

On Wednesday February 7th, Professor Bertram Bitsch, Professor Paul Callanan, Dr. Mark Kennedy and Dr. Michael Tremmel travelled to Dunsink Observatory in Dublin to take part in a meeting with the European Space Agency's Director of Science, Professor Carole Mundell.

This visit to CERN was organised by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DfHERIS) and consisted of a delegation of stakeholders from across the Irish education and research landscape, including UCC Physics and Tyndall National Institute. 

Dr. Mark Kennedy, School of Physics, UCC as a member of the ULTRACAM collaboration led by Professor Vik Dhillon (University of Sheffield) has recently been trained to use HiPERCAM on the Gran Telescopio Canarias. 

Dr. Mark Kennedy, School of Physics, UCC visited the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany from November 28th to December 1st.

The Irish Independent reports: Dr Mark Kennedy of University College Cork’s School of Physics has co-authored a paper published in Nature today outlining the findings from one of the most powerful explosions ever witnessed.

*Image of a galaxy merger, the precursor to massive black hole binaries/mergers.

Cork Astrophysics is now an official member group of the LISA Consortium.

Dr. Mark Kennedy of School of Physics, UCC attended a workshop in the Lorentz Centre, June 2023.

ASTRONET, publishes today its Science Vision and Infrastructure Roadmap 2022-2035, a strategic plan for European Astronomy.

Professor Paul Callanan, School of Physics, UCC visited the European Southern Observatories telescopes in Chile last week.

Dr Mark Kennedy from the School of Physics, UCC is part of an international team of researchers that has used a NASA telescope to further our understanding of one of the most exotic types of objects in the Universe: neutron stars.

We're delighted to welcome back Dr Mark Kennedy to the Astrophysics: X-ray Binaries research group, for his two-year IRC Govt of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on his project "Invisible Monsters: Searching for the hidden population of galactic black holes"!