HIGH TIME RESOLUTION OPTICAL ASTROPHYSICS ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, LONDON 2013 APRIL 12
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Programme  Friday, April 12th 2013 10:00-10:30: Coffee and Posters 10:30-12:55: Morning Session (Chair: Tom Marsh, Warwick) 10:30-10:40: Introduction & Aims - Vik Dhillon (Sheffield) - VIEW SLIDES 10:40-11:10: High-speed Observations of White Dwarfs - Boris Gaensicke (Warwick) - VIEW SLIDES 11:10-11:30: ULTRACAM Observations of a Stripped Red Giant Star - Pierre Maxted (Keele) 11:30-11:55: Flickering in Black-Hole X-ray Binaries and Cataclysmic Variables - Phil Uttley (Amsterdam) 11:55-12:15: Masses, Clouds and Aurorae of Brown Dwarfs - Stuart Littlefair (Sheffield) - VIEW SLIDES 12:15-12:35: Extrasolar Planets - Peter Wheatley (Warwick) - VIEW SLIDES 12:35-12:55: Lessons from Irradiated Pulsar Binaries - Rene Breton (Southampton) - VIEW SLIDES 12:55-13:45: Lunch and Posters 13:45-15:30: Afternoon Session (Chair: Dainis Dravins, Lund) 13:45-14:15: Studying the Solar System with Stellar Occultations - Bruno Sicardy (Meudon) - VIEW SLIDES 14:15-14:30: Exploration of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud by Serendipitous Occultations - Francoise Roques (Meudon) - VIEW SLIDES 14:30-14:50: Eliminating Scintillation Noise from Ground-Based High-Speed Photometry - James Osborn (Durham) - VIEW SLIDES 14:50-15:10: Recent Results from the OPTIMA Photo-polarimeter - Gottfried Kanbach (MPE) - VIEW SLIDES 15:10-15:30: First Science Observations with ARCONS - a 2024 pixel MKID Camera for Optical/IR Astronomy - Kieran O'Brien (Oxford) - VIEW SLIDES 15:30-16:00: Tea and Posters 16:00-18:00: RAS Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting 18:00-19:00: Drinks Reception

contacts:   Prof. Vik Dhillon, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK     Tel: +44 (0)114 2224528     Email: vik.dhillon .at. sheffield.ac.uk Prof. Tom Marsh, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK     Tel: +44 (0)24765 74739     Email: t.r.marsh .at. warwick.ac.uk