SAS Lecture: Lecture: James Webb Space Telescope JWST+3


Washington Wetlands Centre , Discovery Room

About this event :

In this talk Dr Steve Barrett will talk about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)  nearly 3 years after the launch of the JWST on Christmas Day 2021, this shorter talk reviews some of the images and spectra released to date.

 

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:

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

 

When Where Who

  • Date:  Sunday 24th November 2024,
  • 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. 

Your host : Martin Kennedy