Meet the Keynote Speakers: Kyle Walker
Dr. Kyle Walker walks between two worlds: the world of computational astrophysics, and the world of computational atomic and molecular physics.
What Women Want?
In this ‘beyond’ post, we explore factors that affect women’s interest in physical science careers.
Meet the Keynote Speakers: David Koo
Prof. David Koo may not paint with all the colors of the wind, but he does study how galaxies change over time using all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Meet the Keynote Speakers: Konstantin Batygin
Planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin discusses the elusive Planet Nine and how he fell into astrophysics whilst waiting for his rock band to become the next Metallica.
Illuminating teaching, and the art of going where you want to go
We all teach, in some form, every single day. For many academics that means a class full of students eager to learn. And yet we are so very rarely taught to teach. Here we introduce one simple morsel that can improve our way of explaining something immensely: deciding what you want to say, and then saying it.
Let’s talk about policy, baby
Whether we like it or not, policy affects the way we do science. Read on to learn about it, and how you can help shape policy yourself!