Conferences and public outreach events which we organise or co-organised.
For more outreach information see here.
2023
Graz-Vienna Exoplanet Scientist Meeting III
4 October 2023, Vienna, Austria
IWF @ Urania
3 October – 5 December 2023, Graz, Austria
PLATO workshop on 3D climate and clouds
11 – 14 September 2023, Graz, Austria
Graz in Space 2023
7 – 8 September 2023, Graz, Austria
Sommerschule Alpbach 2023
11 – 20 July 2023, Alpbach, Austria
Graz-Vienna Exoplanet Scientist Meeting II
5 May 2023, Graz, Austria
Steiermark Schau 2023
29 April – 5 November 2023, Tierwelt Herberstein, Austria
2022
Graz-Vienna Exoplanet Scientist Meeting I
21 October 2022, Vienna, Austria
Summerschool: From Stardust to Extrasolar Planets: Dynamics of exoplanetary and solar system bodies
15 – 27 August 2022, Isle of Skye, Scotland
NBIA Workshop on Radiation Transfer in Astrophysics
6 – 10 June 2022, Copenhagen, Les Houches, Denmark
2021
Scottish Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf meeting (SEBD11)
end of April 2021, St Andrews
2020
SEBD10
21 October 2020, virtual meeting, Edinburgh
(originally planed in Spring 2020 in St Andrews which was cancelled because of CV19)
From Clouds to Planet II: The Astrochemical Link
28 Sep – 2 Oct 2020, Harnack Hause, Berlin (SOC member, cancelled because of CV 19)
Summer events of the St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science
SUPA/SUSSP Summer school ‘Exoplanets and Solar System Dynamics’
18/21 August – 30 August 2020, Isle of Skye at Sabhal Mór Ostaig (postponed to 2021 due to CV19, SOC and LOC member)
Cloud Academy II
8 – 13 March 2020, Les Houches, France (cancelled because of CV19)
2019
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Autumn Spring meeting 2019 (SEBD9) at the University of Edinburgh, Jointly chaired by Beth Biller (Edinburgh) and Christiane Helling (St Andrews), 24 October 2019
Summer events of the St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Spring Spring meeting 2019 (SEBD8) at the University of St Andrews, Jointly chaired by Christiane Helling (St Andrews) and Beth Biller (Edinburgh), 24 April 2019
St Andrews Observatory Open Night: 16 March 2019 (18-21h)
StA-CES organised the series of talks.
Summary: We had an amazing set of talks despite the horrible weather. And we had an amazing audience of which the children asked us the most fundamental questions:
1) Where do we go when the Sun stops shining?
2) Why are planets round although they form from fluffy dust particles?
3) Why do we have gas planets?
4) Why do planets have different temperatures?
2018
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Autumn meeting 2018 (SEBD7) at the University of Edinburgh, Jointly chaired by Beth Biller (Edinburgh) and Christiane Helling (St Andrews), 24 October 2018
Cloud Academy : Cloud Formation and Properties in Extrasolar Planets
Les Houches Advanced School for Physics, September 23-28, 2018
University of St Andrews Open Association
Christiane Helling gave a Lecture on StA-CES April 2017
The Physics and Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres
Symposium at the European Week Astronomy and Space Science, Liverpool, 3- 6 April 2018
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Spring meeting 2018 (SEBD6) at the University of St Andrews, Jointly chaired by Christiane Helling (St Andrews) and Beth Biller (Edinburgh), 26 April 2018
2017
1st British Planetary Science Congress
Session convening ‘Building solar systems, moons and exoplanets’ together with Paul Savage
3-5th December 2017, Glasgow (SOC member)
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Autumn meeting 2017 (SEBD5) at the University of Edinburgh, Jointly chaired by Beth Biller (Edinburgh) and Christiane Helling (St Andrews)
27 October 2017
UK Exoplanet Community meeting 2017
15 – 17 March 2017, St Andrews, UK
Sparkling clouds and the crackling of lightning in extrasolar planets
Christiane Helling gave a talk as part of the Winter series of British Science Association during Women in Science Festival in Dundee.
16 March 2017, D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theater, Tower Building, Dundee University; admission free
Research Lab Tour for 2nd year Physics students
Gabi Hodosan and Graham Lee deliver short talks about ‘Life, Electricity, Atmosphere, Planets’ and their works about lightning and 3D global circulation modelling for 2nd year physics students as part of our School’s Research Lab tour
( 26 and 27 January 2017, room 310A)
2016
Advanced Topics lecture 2
given by Christiane Helling on “Sparkling clouds and the crackling of charges in atmospheres of extrasolar planets”
28 September 2016
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Spring meeting 2016 (SEBD4) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Jointly organised by Beth Biller (Edinburgh) and Christiane Helling (St Andrews), 21 September 2016
Freshers’ Lab tour 2016
Gabi Hodosan and Daniel Tootill give a short introduction to our 1st year physics students about what research the LEAP group is conducting. The event takes place during the School’s welcome event during presessional week, on 6 September 2016.
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Spring meeting 2016 (SEBD3) at the University of St Andrews, Jointly organised by Christiane Helling (St Andrews) and Beth Biller (Edinburgh), 25 April 2016
Research Lab Tour for 2nd year Physics students
Dr Paul Rimmer and Graham Lee deliver short talks about ‘Life, Electricity, Atmosphere, Planets’ for 2nd year physics students as part of our School’s Research Lab tour
(28 & 29 January 2016, room 310A)
2015
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Autumn meeting 2015 (SEBD2) at the University of Edinburgh
Jointly organised by Beth Biller (Edinburgh) and Christiane Helling (St Andrews)
2 September 2015
LEAP Summer Lecture Series
- 11 June 2015 Ian Dobbs-Dixon: ‘Theoretical background on GCMs’
- 18 June 2015 Irena Vorgul: ‘From kinetics to MHD: MHD equations as used in astronomy, cyclotron emission, etc’
- 25 June 2015 Graham Lee: ‘Nucleation Theory or Data visualisation (globe mapping/colour schemes)’
- 2 July 2015 Paul Rimmer: ‘Theory and modelling of kinetic gas chemistry’
- 30 July 2015 Christiane Helling: ‘Theory and Modelling of cloud formation and cloud charging’
- 5 August 2015 Gabriella Hodosan: ‘From seed ions to lightning flashes: Producing lightning discharges on Earth’
Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Spring meeting 2015 (SEBD1) at the University of St Andrews
Jointly organised by Christiane Helling (St Andrews) and Beth Biller (Edinburgh)
27 April 2015
Research Lab Tour for 2nd year Physics students
Dr Craig Stark, Dr Paul Rimmer and Graham Lee deliver short talks about ‘Life, Electricity, Atmosphere, Planets – researching the coolest objects in the universe’ for 2nd year physics students as part of our School’s Research Lab tour (27 & 30 January 2015)
2014
Conference
Electrification in dusty atmospheres inside and outside the solar system
8-11 September 2014, Pitlochry, Scottish Highlands
–> publication in ‘Surveys in Geophysics’: Atmospheric electrification in dusty, reactive gases in the solar system and beyond
2. LEAP Retreat
4-5 June 2014
MUSA, St Andrews
Open Night at St Andrews Observatory
8 March 2014
The University Observatory holds its first Open Night of 2014. Many activities are going on, of course observational, for kids, but also a couple of 15mins-talks are given.
Dr Christiane Helling contributes with a talk ‘Lightning in Gemstone Clouds in Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets’
Dr Paul Rimmer contributes with a talk ‘Super-collisions over your head: high-energy physics and cosmic ray air showers’
Isabel Rodriguez Barrera contributes with a talk ‘Supernovae’
Graham Lee demonstrates the local radio telescope.Ionising processes in atmospheric environments of planets, Brown Dwarfs, and M-dwarfs
RAS discussion meeting, 10 January 2014, London
see also University press release
2013
Open Night at St Andrews Observatory
30 November 2013
The University Observatory holds its second Open Night of 2013. Many activities are going on, of course observational, for kids, but also a couple of 15mins-talks are given.
Dr Christiane Helling contributes with a talk
‘Lightning in Gemstone Clouds in Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets’
1. LEAP Retreat
26 November 2013
MUSA, St Andrews
Dundee Science Festival 2013
Drs Natalia Korolkova & Paul Rimmer merge their areas of scientific expertise during their contribution ‘Quantum Communication with Extraterrestrial Planets: Worlds with gemstone clouds and a quantum way to talk to other worlds’ to the Dundee Science Festival in November 2013.
Dr Craig Stark, Gabriella Hodosan and Graham Lee will support this activity by helping with a Cosmic Ray Experiment.
Three presentation will be held on 18 November 2013.
European Planetary Science Congress 2013, 8-13 September 2013, London
Programme Group: Magnetospheres and Space Physics
Session: MG 3.1. Energetic Particles and Hard Radiation above Thunderclouds (EPHRAT)
NAM 2013, 1-5 July 2013, St Andrews
See parallel sessions:
22. Brown dwarfs and low mass stars: Program
37. Characterising exoplanet atmospheres: theory confronts observations