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Presentations…
Are we alone in the Universe? Thursday, 30th October 2008.
We live in a Universe perfectly suited to our existence and yet it seems to be silent out there. Is it possible that we are the only self aware beings in our Universe and if so why? Download a poster for the event here.
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Biography…
Dr Robin Catchpole from University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy. Robin works as an astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. having retired as Senior Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in July 2004. He Joined the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) from Bryanston School in 1962. After obtaining a BSc at University College London, he was posted to the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, S Africa (now known as the South African Astronomical Observatory) and spent the next 24 years, working first at the Radcliffe Observatory in Pretoria and then at the SAAO in Cape Town. Robin obtained his doctorate at the University of Cape Town on The properties of the SC Stars and the Chemical Composition of UY Cen, under the supervision of Prof. Brian Warner. In 1991 he returned to the RGO in Cambridge, until it closed in 1998, when he moved to Greenwich as Senior Astronomer. He has authored and co-authored over 100 research papers and articles and used a number of telescopes around the world including the Hubble Space Telescope. Research interests include the composition of stars, exploding stars, the structure of our Galaxy and galaxies with black holes at their centres. His current research interest is in the structure of the Bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy, as shown by Mira variables. Robin is currently part of the team designing the Solar Pyramid (http://www.solarpyramid.co.uk/); a project to build a 54m high sundial near Chesterfield in Central England. © Extracts from Robin’s web page at University of Cambridge
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Watch Robin talking on BBC News… Click Here You will need Real Player installed (download here). When loaded click on the play button.
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