Special LOFAR Edition of the Jodcast

Following their visit to Chilbolton last month to help with the repairs to LOFAR-UK, the Jodcast has just released their special LOFAR edition.

They talk to Dr Neal Jackson (Manchester) about LOFAR itself; Dr Tom Hassall (Southampton) about using it to detect pulsars and (very soon to be Dr) Anna Kapinska (Portsmouth) about how it can be used to study active galactic nuclei.

LOFAR related Postdoc Position at ICG, Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) is advertising a postdoctoral position for

Development of software to incorporate the international baselines of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) into the LOFAR core array pipeline and data reduction framework. 

For more details see the job advert.

Tuning into the Universe in Portsmouth

Dr. David Bacon, of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth (and SEPnet) gave a talk for National Science and Engineering week entitled "Tuning into the Universe". It was covered by the University of Portsmouth student news channel.

06. CCi Live_18-03-11 from CCi Live on Vimeo.

Coverage of the lecture starts at about 9.5 minutes in.

Tuning into the Universe in Portsmouth

As part of National Science and Engineering Week, (11-20th March 2011) there are several LOFAR related talks happening next week. For example:

Tuning into the Universe

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 6.00-7.00 pm, Portland Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH

A public lecture by Dr David Bacon, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth. Billions of light years away, galaxies have given out radio waves that speed across the Universe. Light now, some of them have reached a humble field a few miles outside Winchester, where they are being received by some of the antennae of the new LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR). This is an astonishing Europe-wide radio telescope, which will be used to try to make important discoveries about galaxies and the Universe as a whole. In this talk, I will describe LOFAR and the attempts we are making to use it to probe the furthest reaches of the Universe. David Bacon is a research fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth University. He is co-ordinator for Cosmology in the Surveys Key Science Project with LOFAR.

AUDIENCE: General public and school groups are welcome to this free event, book through events@port.ac.uk

More details.