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SUMMARY:Lovell Lecture: Dr Ian Heywood
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DESCRIPTION:Lovell Lecture\nHow a MeerKAT sees the Universe\nDr. Ian Heyw
 ood\n\nThursday 6th Feburary\, 7:30pm\n\nMeerKAT is a new South African 
 radio telescope situated in the arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape p
 rovince. Inaugurated in July of 2018\, it is a connected network of 64 d
 ishes\, each 13.5 metres in diameter\, and is presently the most powerfu
 l telescope of its kind in the world.\n\nIn this lecture\, Dr Ian Heywoo
 d will present an overview of this machine and some of the results that 
 it has produced\, including some spectacular observations of the centre 
 of the Milky Way.\n\nDr Ian Heywood received his PhD from the University
  of Manchester in 2005\, where he used the MERLIN telescope to study the
  radio emission from explosions around binary stars. Following this he h
 eld post-doctoral positions at the University of Oxford\, where he worke
 d on imaging the radio jets from active galaxies\, as well as simulation
 s for the design of the Square Kilometre Array\, and software developmen
 t for the ALMA telescope. He moved to Australia in 2013 to work on the c
 ommissioning of the new ASKAP radio survey telescope\, where he was late
 r head of the astrophysics group at CSIRO’s Astronomy and Space Science 
 division. He returned to the University of Oxford in 2017\, where he now
  works mainly on delivering some large survey projects using the MeerKAT
  telescope. He has worked on a range of astrophysical topics\, but his r
 esearch has always revolved around the use of radio interferometry. He s
 pends a large fraction of his time developing new ways to reliably proce
 ss the huge volumes of data that modern radio array produce. He is very 
 excited to be returning to Jodrell Bank where he was taught this techniq
 ue for the first time.\n\nFood and Drink:\nThe Planet Café will be open 
 before the lecture serving snacks and drinks from 6.30pm.
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LOCATION:Jodrell Bank\, Bomish Lane\, \, \, \, Lower Withington\, Cheshir
 e SK11 9DL\, SK11 9DL
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