From here to the edge of the observable Universe

Course programme

Friday 15 April 2016

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 Contents and Distance Scale of the Universe
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 16 April 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Our Solar System from Fire to Ice
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Asteroids and Impacts. Should we worry?
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30 The Evolution of the Stars and the Sun
18:30 Dinner
19:45 -22:00 Visit to the Institute of Astronomy to use telescope. If cloudy; The Sun and Climate Change.
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 17 April 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Black Holes, Dark Matter and Vacuum Energy
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Are We Alone?
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch.