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SUMMARY:2025 Annual Burbidge Dinner
DESCRIPTION:The after dinner speaker for this year’s Burbidge Dinner will be Professor Geraint Lewis. \nHeavenly Tensions: Is modern cosmology in crisis? \nIn this talk\, Professor Lewis will explore the growing tensions in modern cosmology—observational discrepancies that may signal cracks in the standard model. He will start with the Hubble tension\, a persistent mismatch between early- and late-universe measurements of the expansion rate\, which challenges our understanding of cosmic history. From there\, we will examine the cosmological principle\, the assumption of large-scale uniformity\, and how emerging evidence of dipole anisotropies—directional patterns in distributions of galaxies—may undermine this foundational idea. He will conclude with a “state of the nation” overview\, assessing whether cosmology is facing a genuine crisis or simply entering a new phase of discovery.  \nGeraint F. Lewis was born in Old South Wales and studied astrophysics at the University of London before earning his PhD from Cambridge in 1995. After research positions in the US and Canada\, he moved to Australia in 2000\, where he is now Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney. His research spans the influence of dark energy and dark matter on cosmic evolution\, the use of gravitational lensing to probe the nature of quasars and the distribution of dark matter\, and the dynamics of galactic cannibalism in the Local Group. Geraint is also a passionate science communicator\, with several books and numerous public talks exploring the deep questions of cosmology\, physics and the meaning of reality. \n  \n\nTicket prices:\n\nMembers Early Bird price (paid by 17 Oct): $65\nMembers price after 17 Oct: $75\nNon-members: $75 earlybird\, $85 after 17 Oct.\n\n\n\n\nPayment can be made to:\nAuckland Astronomical Society\n12-3061-0321397-00\nPlease use your surname and Dinner as references for the payment.\n\n  \n​ \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2025-annual-burbidge-dinner/
LOCATION:Sorrento In the Park\, Cornwall Park\, Auckland\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Burbidge Dinner
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241109T183000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241109T220000
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SUMMARY:2024 Burbidge Dinner
DESCRIPTION:The Burbidge Dinner is held annually in honour of the main founder of the Auckland Astronomical Society\, Professor Percy Burbidge. Proceedings will commence with a welcome followed by the announcement of the winners of the 2024 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition. One of this year’s judges\, Dylan O’Donnell will be present to award the prizes. The prize giving will be followed by a buffet dinner and an after dinner lecture by Dylan O’Donnell. \nNot just Pretty Pictures – The intersection between Science and Astrophotography. \nAstrophotography is regarded as one of the most difficult forms of photography. The skills required for many branches of specialized astrophotography overlap with the skills required for professional astronomy. Most of the time there is a clear distinction between these two groups but in many cases collaboration between them yields scientific results that could not have been achieved otherwise. \nDylan O’Donnell is an Australian award winning astrophotographer with a popular YouTube channel and social media following. He is a brand ambassador for Celestron telescopes and the founder & host of the Star Stuff astronomy event in Australia. He holds a masters degree in computer science and a bachelor degree in Astronomy and hosts a weekly space segment on ABC radio. Dylan also releases his astrophotography from the Byron Bay Observatory freely to the public domain. \n \nTickets for the 2024 Burbidge are now available. \nMember Ticket prices – Early Bird price until 12th October $70. Ticket price after 12th October $75 \nNon member ticket prices  – Early Bird price until 12th October $75. Ticket price after 12th October $80 \nTo order tickets please email events@astronomy.org.nz \nDoors Open 6:30pm \nWelcome to members and guests 7pm \nA cash bar will be available. \nEvent Venue \nWaipuna Hotel and Conference Center \n58 Waipuna Road\nMt Wellington\nAuckland \nThe Cosmic Bat LDN 43 (Captured and processed by Dylan O’Donnell) \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2024-burbidge-dinner/
LOCATION:Waipuna Events Center\, 58 Waipuna Road\, Auckland\, 1060\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Burbidge Dinner
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SUMMARY:2023 Burbidge Dinner
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Burbidge Dinner will be held on Friday 10 November at The Sorrento in Cornwall Park\, just up the hill from Stardome. This year’s guest speaker is Professor Fred Watson and he will be talking about the James Webb Space Telescope. \nFred is Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large in the Commonwealth Department of Industry\, Science\, Energy and Resources\, having worked at both of Britain’s Royal Observatories before joining the Australian Astronomical Observatory as Astronomer-in-Charge in 1995. \nRecognised internationally for helping to pioneer the use of fibre optics in astronomy during the 1980s\, Fred is best known today for his award-winning radio and TV broadcasts\, books\, music\, dark-sky advocacy and co-hosting the Space Nuts podcast. \nFred has adjunct professorships at Macquarie University and the Universities of New South Wales\, Sydney\, Western Sydney\, Southern Queensland and Wollongong. In 2003\,he received the David Allen Prize for communicating astronomy to the public\, and in 2006 was the winner of the Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. In January 2010\, Fred was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to astronomy\, particularly the promotion and popularisation of space science through public outreach. \nFred’s books include “Stargazer – the Life and Times of the Telescope”\, “Why is Uranus Upside Down? – and Other Questions About the Universe” (which won the 2008 Queensland Premier’s Literary Prize for Science Writing) and “Star-Craving Mad – Tales from a Travelling Astronomer”\, featuring highlights from his science tours around the world. His most recent books are “Cosmic Chronicles – a user’s guide to the Universe”\, and “Spacewarp – Doomsday Comets and other Cosmic Catastrophes”\, aimed at the 10+ age group. \nFred has an asteroid named after him (5691 Fredwatson)\, but says that if it hits the Earth\, it won’t be his fault. \nJAMES WEBB\nWebb’s new window on the Universe \nAfter decades of planning and construction\, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now fully operational. Its first science images made global headlines with their breathtaking clarity and depth when they were released last year. They show cosmic detail that was only hinted at by the Webb’s smaller cousin\, the ageing Hubble Space Telescope\, and foretell a game-changing career of discovery for the new instrument. In this entertaining and copiously illustrated talk\, Australia’s Astronomer-at-Large describes the Webb\, its images\, its mission and some of its discoveries. \nIn addition to Fred’s presentation\, the Burbidge Dinner will host the awards for the 2023 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition. \nTickets can be ordered by sending an email to Niven Brown at events@astronomy.org.nz\nEarlybird Members Price: $65.00 for payments received prior to 27 October 2023.\nEarlybird Non-members Price: $70:00 for payments received prior to 27 October 2023.\nPrices after 27 October are $70.00 and $75.00 for Members and Non-members\, respectively.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2023-burbidge-dinner/
LOCATION:Sorrento In the Park\, Cornwall Park\, Auckland\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Burbidge Dinner
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SUMMARY:2022 Burbidge Dinner
DESCRIPTION:The annual dinner for the Auckland Astronomical Society that includes the prizegiving for the New Zealand Astrophotography Competition and the Beaumont Prize for written contributions to the AAS Journal. \nThis year’s Burbidge Lecturer is Dr Charley Lineweaver. \nAstrobiologist\, Charles H. Lineweaver is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Research School of Earth Science ( www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley ). His research areas include exoplanetology (the statistical analysis of exoplanets and their habitability)\, cosmobiology (using our new knowledge of cosmology to constrain life in the Universe) and cancer (a new atavistic model). He recently completed an online video MOOC at: arewealone.us. Dr. Lineweaver earned a BA in history from the State University of New York at Binghamton\, an MA in English from Brown University\, a BS is physics from Ludwig Maximillian’s University in Munich\, and a PhD in physics at the University of California\, Berkeley in 1994. He is the son of a high school biology teacher and has lived in or traveled through 85 countries\, has spoken 4 languages semi-fluently at one time or another\, and was a semi-professional soccer player in New England and Germany. \nBurbidge after dinner lecture \nWhat can life on Earth (and in particular in New Zealand) tell us about life elsewhere in the universe? \nThe ubiquity of planets around other stars has made the question “Are we alone?” more compelling. Earth-like planets seem to be common. If there is life elsewhere\, what is it like and how can we find it? To quote Jared Diamond: “New Zealand is as close as we will get to the opportunity to study life on another planet”. The isolated and independent evolution of life on New Zealand plays an important role in our attempts to estimate what biological evolution elsewhere may be capable of. For more detail see arewealone.us (in particular video 7.1.3). \nEarly-bird prices are available until Friday 07 October 2022:\nMembers $60 per head (including partners)\nNon-Members $70 per head (including partners) \nFull price:\nMembers $65 per head (including partners)\nNon-Members $75 per head (including partners) \nPurchase Burbidge Dinner Tickets.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2022-burbidge-dinner/
LOCATION:Ellerslie Events Center
CATEGORIES:Burbidge Dinner
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SUMMARY:2021 Burbidge Lecture and New Zealand Astrophotography Competition Results
DESCRIPTION:Burbidge Lecture: Diving through exoplanet atmospheres 8:00pm The study of exoplanets\, planets that orbit stars other than the Sun\, is fascinating new field of research. The question “how do stars and planetary systems form and evolve?”” is one of the biggest in Astronomy\, and is at the root of one of the most important questions in science today: “How did we get here?”. I will take us on a journey to explore how we measure and understand the nature these strange new worlds beyond our Solar System. We will dive into the atmospheres of alien planets to discover the truly wild nature of planets in the universe from chains of rocky worlds around ultra-cool stars\, to exotic clouds of molten rock in the atmosphere of ultra-hot gas giants. \nHannah Wakeford is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Bristol\, UK where she leads a group researching the atmospheres of exoplanets using observations from space telescopes. Hannah’s work focuses on the exotic clouds of giant hot Jupiters\, down to chains of small rocky worlds around ultra-cool stars.  She studied for a Masters in Planetary and Space Physics at Aberystwyth University with field studies in Svalbard to measure the aurora\, and completed her PhD thesis on exoplanets at the University of Exeter before heading to the USA to work at NASA and STScI. Alongside her research she runs the monthly podcast Exocast all about exoplanet science and hosts the #ExoCup twitter competition for the public to crown the champion exoplanet of the year. New Zealand Astrophotography Competition Results We will be announcing the winners of the individual categories and well as the overall winner who receives the Harry Williams Trophy   \nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/AucklandAstronomicalSociety
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2021-burbidge-lecture-and-new-zealand-astrophotography-competition-results/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Burbidge Dinner,Monthly Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20201107T183000
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SUMMARY:Burbidge Dinner 2020
DESCRIPTION:Our guest speaker this year is University of Auckland Associate Professor JJ Eldridge\, who will give a presentation on Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and their contribution to the understanding of the origin of the chemical elements by stellar nucleosynthesis. \nWe will also announce the results of the New Zealand Astrophotography Competition for the Harry Williams Trophy and the Beaumont prize for the best member submitted article to the AAS Journal. \nThe Venue is the : Ellerslie Events Centre\, Pakuranga Hunt Room \nStart time: 7:00pm (doors open 6:30pm) \nTickets: $65 pp\, earlybird price of $60.00 is available until October 31. Includes a buffet dinner. \n  \nTickets can be booked: -by e-mail at events@astronomy.org.nz-by phone to Niven on 021 935 261 or Bill on 021 225 8175
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/burbidge-dinner-2020/
LOCATION:Ellerslie Events Center
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