The BAA One Day Autumn Meeting will be held on the topic of Current Research Highlights at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX in conjunction with RAL Space and Newbury Astronomical Society.

Programme – Abstracts below

10:00 Registration and refreshments

10.20 Welcome on behalf of the BAA and NAS

10.30 Extreme flares from supermassive black holesDr Philip Wiseman (Southampton University)

11.30 Neutron stars and their environments Dr Bettina Posselt (Oxford University)

12.30 Lunch in the RAL Restaurant

14.00 The ATLAS sky survey and its Virtual Research AssistantDr Heloise Stevance (Oxford University)

15.00 The Solar System’s Outer Planets from JWSTDr Michael T. Roman (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester)

16.00 Refreshments

16.30 The Square Kilometre Array: Big Data and Transformational ScienceDr Chris Pearson (RAL Space)17:30 Close

Information on how to get to RAL can be found here:

https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/stfc/facilities/rutherford-appleton-laboratory/how-to-get-to-rutherford-appleton-laboratory/#contents-lis