Events 2006

2006

Please note that events, lectures etc. are subject to change throughout the year and the following is only intended as a guide.

January

9	New Year Lecture DCU
	"Challenger and Columbia" by Colm J. Cannon
10 -14	BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2006
12	"The Big Bang" by Dr. Simon Singh.
	8pm McNeill Theatre, Hamilton Building TCD.

February

8	Astronomy Evening Classes DCU
13	Public Lecture DCU
	"Newton watches Andromeda with X-ray Eyes" by Dr. Ulrich Kolb, Open University, U.K.
27	"Solar Eclipses - Past, Present and Future" (a must for anyone thinking of going to Turkey for the Eclipse Trip).
	By David Grennan

March

13	Public Lecture DCU
	"The Hunt for Extrasolar Planets in Globular Clusters" By Dr. Ray Butler, Dept. Physics, NUI Galway
29	Total eclipse trip to Turkey. Email eclipse@astronomy.ie for brochure

April

10	Public Lecture DCU
	"Star Death: Cosmic Pollution and Cosmic Recycling" By Dr. Brian Espey, Astrophysics and Physics Course Director, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.
28/29	Star-B-Q: Food and Fun underneath the Stars HERE

May

8	Public Lecture DCU
	"Archaeoastronomical Discoveries" by Paul Griffin

June

12	Public Lecture DCU
	"Adaptive Optics" By Professor Chris Dainty of NUI Galway

July

10	Public Lecture DCU
	"Astronomical imaging with a CCD camera" by Kevin Sweeney

August

14	Public Lecture DCU
	"Celestial Mechanics" By Patrick Browne BSc. NUI Galway
26	Star-B-Q - 2nd of the Summer Info and Booking

September

11	Public Lecture TCD (Note venue change)
	"Current European Space Exploration" By Dr. David Southwood of ESA

October

5	Astronomy Evening Classes Trinity College Details here
9	Public Lecture Trinity College
	"NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration/ ESA's Aurora Program" By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society
20	Public Lecture Trinity College
	"Mathematics, the Stars and Black Holes" By Dr. Peter Duffy of UCD.

November

1	8pm Moon Watch, Papal Cross Car Park, Phoenix Park, Dublin

9,10,11,12	Toys 4 Big Boys Exhibition RDS

13	Public Lecture Trinity College
	"Blackrock Castle Robotic Observatory" by Dr. Niall Smith of CIT

28	Moon and Uranus Watch, Countrywide.

December

2	Astro - Expo 2006 Ireland's Biggest Astronomy and Space Exhibition
11	Christmas Lecture Trinity College
	"Women in Astronomy" By Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University.

13	Geminids Meteor Shower/Mars Watch Countrywide.