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In 2015 SIGMA, in association with Morayvia, held its first memorial lecture in honour of Prof. George Fraser (22 July 1955 – 18 March 2014). Born and brought up in Burghead, George was Professor of Detector Physics and Director of the Space Research Centre of the University of Leicester. Though his work was recognised internationally, his achievements are virtually unknown locally.
For this lecture SIGMA is honoured to host,
Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysics, Department of Physics | University of Oxford
‘Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night’
With improvements in telescopes and detectors astronomers no longer have to use long exposures (or long integration times). We are now seeing short-duration events, and variability on short time scales, in many branches of astronomy. This talk will describe some of the more amazing or surprising things we are finding.
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