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.
Two new lecturers appointed to the Department
Tuesday 20th October, 2015
We are pleased to welcome Dr Elke Roediger and Dr Marco Pignatari as new lecturers to the Department of Physics and Mathematics and researchers in the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics.
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.
Would Earth survive a devastating asteroid impact?
Monday 25th April, 2022
Dinosaurs didn’t know physics or have a planetary defense program. But we do By Gitanjali Poonia Jan 31, 2022, 6:26pm GMT+1 The Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” provided a nightmare scenario where a comet, 5 kilometers wide, collides with the Earth, wiping out everything that lives and breathes — including humans.