Webcasts of RAS meetings

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The following RAS Specialist Discussions are available as webcasts (with video footage and digital presentations) and podcasts (audio only).

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2006 Jan: Life and Death of Star Clusters
2006 Feb: Titan Revealed - Latest finds from Cassini/Huygens measurements
2006 Oct: The Future of Computational and Theoretical Astrophysics in the UK
2006 Nov: Solar-System Exploration by Spacecraft and by Sample Analysis
2006 Nov: The 2006 Harold Jeffreys Lecture: Titan after the Cassini-Huygens Mission
2006 Dec: RAS 'Young Astronomers' meeting
2006 Dec: The 2006 Whitrow Lecture: Our Implausible Universe
2007 Jan: Linkages between the Solar Interior and Photosphere
2007 Feb: The 2007 Presidential Address
2007 Feb: The 2007 Bullerwell Lecture
2007 Mar: Are AGN cosmic thermostats?

Oct 2007	Prof. Mike Lockwood	Southampton/RAL	Long-term variability of the Sun and recent climate change
	Dr Giovanna Tinetti	STFC/University College London	Finding water vapour in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet


Nov 2007	Dr Kate Land	University of Oxford	Exploring anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background
	Dr Sanjeev Gupta	Imperial College London	Megaflood in the English Channel makes 'island' Britain
	Prof Renee C Kraan-Korteweg	University of Cape Town	What secrets of the universe does the Milky Way hide?
	Dr Chris Davis	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	The NASA STEREO mission: improving the space weather forecast


Dec 2007	Dr Mike Griffin	NASA	Lunar Exploration: the value of expanding the human range of action
	Prof Mario Livio	Space Telescope Science Institute	The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the HST


Jan 2008	Dr Hugh Hudson	Berkeley	Microflares now, major flares soon
	Professor Alan Smith	MSSL on behalf of the UK Penetrator Consortium	MoonLITE - a UK led penetrator mission to the Moon
	Professor Mark J Burchell	University of Kent	Impacts: Drivers of change in the Solar System
	Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson	RAS President	RAS response to the STFC budget cuts


Feb 2008	Professor Andrew Roberts	National Oceanography Centre Southampton	The Geophysics of global climate change
	Professor Eva Grebel	Heidelberg	A comparative study of the dwarf companions of the Milky Way and M31
	Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson	Imperial College	The 2008 RAS Presidential Address. The cosmological distance ladder - to redshift 1000


May 2008	Professor Andy Lawrence	University of Edinburgh	Big imaging surveys and data access: how to open the floodgates but avoid drowning
	Professor Janusz Sylwester	Space Research Centre, Wroclaw, Poland	Ongoing and future solar X-ray experimenting at the Solar Physics Division of Polish Space Research Centre
	Dr. Rhaana Starling	University of Leicester	What can we learn from Gamma-ray Bursts?
	Professor Iwan Williams	Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London	Tunguska and the role of the event in assessing the NEO threat to Earth

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