Learn about LOFAR at the Winchester Science Festival

The inaugural Winchester Science Festival is taking place over the weekend of 20th-22nd July 2012. This event will be celebrating the best of Hampshire and World Science and feautures some of the best science communicators in the UK.

The Sunday programme includes a lecture at 2pm on "Exploring the low-frequency Universe with LOFAR", given by Dr Anna Sciafe from Southampton University.



Talk topic: The LOFAR radio telescope is currently the largest radio telescope network in the world. And the westernmost station of this vast array is located in Hampshire, a mere 10 miles from Winchester. Please join Dr Scaife for a fascinating journey into deepest space and deepest Hampshire as she discusses the truly amazing facilities we have on our very doorstep. 


 Tickets for the event are on sale at the Winchester Discovery Centre, costing £3. 

LOFAR "geeks" talk at Intech

By popular demand following the Intech Space Lecture on LOFAR last November, Derek Mckay-Bukoski will give a second talk at Intech on LOFAR focusing  on the technical aspects of the project.

Thursday 1st March 2012, 7.30pm.

Wide Area Surveys with LOFAR (and other radio telescopes)

LOFAR-UK member, Dr. Matt Jarvis (Hertfordshire, Surveys KSP) spoke yesterday at the Very Wide Area Surveys conference being held this week at the Space Science Telescope Institute (STSci - those are the people who run the Hubble Space Telescope among other things) in Baltimore, MA, USA. He talked about the plans for radio continuum surveys over large areas of the sky which are planned with both LOFAR and other future radio telescopes.

The talk was webcast, and can be watched on the STSci Webcast Site, as well as below.