Our Spring meeting will be held at the National Museum Cardiff in the Oriel suite on the topic of Cosmology: Galaxies and Stars. (Please note the change in room due to a leak in the roof of the Reardon Smith Theatre.)

You can access the 25% BAA member discount code by logging in to the BAA website and following this link. You enter it as a promo code on the screen where you provide your details.

The speakers are:

• Prof Mark Birkinshaw - Supermassive black holes and their effects on their surroundings
• Dr Timothy A Davis - How to build a galaxy: the processes shaping galaxy evolution across cosmic time
• Dr Ana Duarte Cabral - From spiral galaxies to stars: the role of galactic dynamics in shaping the birth sites of stars
• Dr Patricia Schmidt - Gravitational Waves: Messengers from the stellar graveyard
• Dr Nicolas Peretto - The formation of stars: from Sun-like to the most massive ones

If you need to cancel then please contact the BAA Office at office@britastro.org or 0207 734 4145 (staffed 10am to 4pm, Mon-Fri). To cover our costs, we are only offering refunds if you cancel 4 days or more before the event.

Travelling by car

A Visitor Car Park is situated behind the Museum, off Museum Avenue. Visitors parking here will receive a ticket at the point of entry and need to pay £6.50 for the day at a pay-station located at the rear of the car park. Please note that the pay-stations only accept card payments – no cash payments are accepted.

If there is no space here then you can find alternative parking via:

https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/near/national-museum-and-gallery-cardiff/

https://www.yourparkingspace.co.uk/cardiff/museums-and-galleries/cardiff-museum-parking

Meeting organiser: Hazel Collett

Image credit: Arp 426 the Perseus Galaxy Cluster by David Davies