PhD positions available at the Milne Centre for 2018
Friday 15th December, 2017
The Milne Centre has been awarded 5 PhD Scholarships for 2018 as part of the Astrophysical Data Science Cluster (ADSC).
STFC awards £29k to Sergei Zharkov
Sunday 14th January, 2018
Sergei Zharkov has been awarded £29k by the STFC to host the 2018 Introductory Summer School for Research Computing in Solar Physics and Astronomy. This award will underpin the running costs of what should be an absolutely fantastic training opportunity for students from across the country.
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships
Friday 10th July, 2020
The Milne Centre will sponsor the nomination of one potential STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow during the upcoming fellowship round; expressions of interest in being that nominee can be emailed to Prof Brad Gibson.
STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2023
Tuesday 21st February, 2023
STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2023
Teaching school children in Thailand
Thursday 24th October, 2019
Members of the Milne Centre have just returned from a week of teaching astronomy and python to school children in Thailand. Now in its second year, the ThaiPASS program sees members of the Centre spend a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand, introducing children from disadvantaged backgrounds to programming in python and astronomy in the hope of encouraging them to further study in STEM subjects at University. The week was divided into a series of lectures and practical coding sessions, where the students could put their newly-acquired knowledge to the test. This year’s team consisted of Claire Cashmore, James Keegans, Mikkel Kristensen, Richard Stancliffe and Iraj Vaezzadeh, and former Milne Centre staff member Siri Chongchitnan. Topics covered included: introductory python, how to write a forward Euler integrator, stellar nucleosynthesis, supernovae and dark matter. [More details about the ThaiPASS program]
Tim Beers research stay at the E.A. Milne centre
Thursday 8th August, 2019
We are very fortunate to have Professor Tim Beers, Grace-Rupley Professor of Physics from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, visiting the E.A. Milne centre for the next 4 months.
University of Hull scientist part of major space breakthrough
Thursday 6th July, 2023
A University of Hull astrophysicist has contributed to a 15-year-long research project in which scientists, using large radio telescopes to observe a collection of cosmic clocks in our Galaxy, have found evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades.