2009 Press Releases
Radio Astronomy Past, Present and Future: Pushing Technology Forward
29.01.2009
Radio astronomy will be the focus for discussion at the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series at UCC.
29.01.2009
Radio astronomy will be the focus for discussion at the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series at UCC.
Titled: "Radio Astronomy Past, Present and Future: Pushing Technology Forward", Dr Denise Gabuzda will deliver the lecture on Wednesday, February 4th 2009.
Radio astronomy began with the discovery of cosmic radio signals by Karl Jansky in the early 1930's, and has greatly changed our view of the Universe. It was early realised that groups of radio telescopes could be used to reveal finer detail in radio images of astronomical objects. Very Long Baseline Interferometry can obtain resolutions 50-100 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope achieves. Today, radio astronomy is undergoing a technological revolution, with data sent from telescopes to processing centres along optic fibres at enormous rates of up to 30 Gbit/sec. Current developments are pushing toward the Square Kilometre Array - an international radio telescope with unprecedented high sensitivity planned to be finished in 2025.
Dr Denise Gabuzda is a Senior Lecture in the Department of Physics, UCC. Before coming to UCC, she carried out astrophysics research at universities and institutes in California, Canada, Russia, Japan and the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the origin and physical nature of "jets" of radio-emitting material that are ejected from the centres of active galaxies, and she is especially interested in finding new and creative ways to link observation and theory.
The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, February 4th 2009 at 8.00 pm in Boole IV Lecture Theatre. The SEFS Annual Public Lecture Series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS. The series of lectures will run weekly until Wednesday March 25th. Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/SEFS_LectureSeries_2009.pdf
All the lectures will be filmed and the films will be posted on the UCC Public Understanding of Science website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie The 2007 and 2008 Public Lectures are already posted on this website.
Admission to the lectures is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.
Picture: Dr Denise Gabuzda
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Radio astronomy began with the discovery of cosmic radio signals by Karl Jansky in the early 1930's, and has greatly changed our view of the Universe. It was early realised that groups of radio telescopes could be used to reveal finer detail in radio images of astronomical objects. Very Long Baseline Interferometry can obtain resolutions 50-100 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope achieves. Today, radio astronomy is undergoing a technological revolution, with data sent from telescopes to processing centres along optic fibres at enormous rates of up to 30 Gbit/sec. Current developments are pushing toward the Square Kilometre Array - an international radio telescope with unprecedented high sensitivity planned to be finished in 2025.
Dr Denise Gabuzda is a Senior Lecture in the Department of Physics, UCC. Before coming to UCC, she carried out astrophysics research at universities and institutes in California, Canada, Russia, Japan and the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the origin and physical nature of "jets" of radio-emitting material that are ejected from the centres of active galaxies, and she is especially interested in finding new and creative ways to link observation and theory.
The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, February 4th 2009 at 8.00 pm in Boole IV Lecture Theatre. The SEFS Annual Public Lecture Series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS. The series of lectures will run weekly until Wednesday March 25th. Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/SEFS_LectureSeries_2009.pdf
All the lectures will be filmed and the films will be posted on the UCC Public Understanding of Science website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie The 2007 and 2008 Public Lectures are already posted on this website.
Admission to the lectures is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.
Picture: Dr Denise Gabuzda
967MMcS