20th April Lecture: The End of Everything

Although it took only three minutes to make our Universe (see ‘Beginning of Everything’) it will take more than a trillion trillion years for it to come to an end.

In this talk Dr Steve Barrett (Liverpool University) will talk about this talk looks at what will happen to the Earth, the Sun, our the galaxy, all galaxies and the Universe on timescales ranging from thousands of years to eternity.

Talks in Person

This walk will be held at the Washington Wetlands Centre (Discovery Room).

The talk will also be broadcast via MS Teams (providing no technical and/or WIFI difficulties)

Please show you support to our speaker and the Society in person if you can be there on the lecture night.

Teams Talk Details

We now have MS Teams (this replaces Zoom) for live video streaming of the our monthly talks.

Please try to attend in person if you can as it goes along way in showing you support for our speaker and our Society.

Our Committee members David Ettie/Will Harvey are the admin/leads regarding administration and set up of our Teams Pro account.

If you don’t already have it we suggest you download the MS Teams app prior to the meeting.

Teams Meeting Details are:

MS Teams Link: Teams Link for Talk (Via browser or Teams App)

Hopefully we see you all at the Wetlands Centre (Discovery Room) , Raffle & Refreshments as usual.

When Where Who

Date: Sunday 20th April 2025,
Time: 7 pm.
Speaker: Dr Steve Barrett, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool.
Venue: At the Washington Wetlands Centre (discovery Room ) and Via Teams (Video Streaming Link).

Our speaker

Dr Steve Barrett, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool.

Steve is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, my research interests span all aspects of imaging, image processing and image analysis.

This includes medical imaging (biophysics), scanning probe microscopy of atoms, molecules and surfaces (nanophysics), microscopy of earth materials (geophysics) and astrophotography.

Honours & Prizes:

Sir Patrick Moore Prize (British Astronomical Association, 2019)
Greatest Contribution to the Student Experience (U Liverpool, 2017)
Senior Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy, 2015)
Guild ‘Lion’ Award (Liverpool Guild of Students, 2010)
Institute of Physics Prize (Institute of Physics, 2007)
Sir Alastair Pilkington Award for Teaching Excellence (U Liverpool, 2004)

The talk will held at the Washington Wetlands Centre (Discover Room) on Sunday and will run via Zoom .

If you haven’t been in a while why not come along and show your support.

Talks at the Wetlands and via Teams

Talks at Wetlands Centre

The SAS is planning to run this lecture from the our base of operations Washington Wetlands Centre (in the usual Discovery Room) and via Teams (Access details TBC).

Suitable hand sanitisers will be located in the room and at the our observatory.

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