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The Jodcast - Interviews
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Full-length interviews from the Jodcast.
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Interview with Taïssa Danilovich
Dec 2, 202000:22:26Tap to summarizeDr. Taïssa Danilovich talks about Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars, a stage that all stars up to 10 solar masses evolve onto late in their lives before dying as white dwarfs. As these stars are relatively cool, complex molecules which would be destroyed by hotter stars can form around them. She discusses the molecules that are formed from the gas ejected by the star's solar wind, and what they tell us about the environment around the star, as well as the composition of interstellar dust. She also talks about her recent work with ALMA.
Transcribe →Interview with Simon Johnston
Dec 20, 201900:14:16Tap to summarizeSimon Johnston talks about pulsars and their irregularities, particularly in the timing of pulsars. He discusses his work using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to sample pulsars and what information can be gained from using these samples, before briefly explaining the possible use of MEERKAT to get a larger sample size. He then discusses his history at Manchester, where he did his PhD, and finishes by mentioning Gamma ray pulsars and the link between the radio work he has been doing and space based missions searching for gamma ray emitting objects.
Transcribe →JodBite with Laura Driessen
Dec 20, 201900:22:22Tap to summarizeLaura Driessen tells us about Tiaan talks to Laura Driessen about the first new transient source discovered with the MeerKAT telescope, a flaring stellar system. Searching for transients in the radio is challenging, and looking for stellar flares is even more so. Laura talks about her recent paper and has also written an article on The Conversation for a more general science audience on this..
Transcribe →Interview with Atsuhisa Ota
Oct 24, 201900:07:18Tap to summarizeAtsuhisa Ota talks about his work studying anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
Transcribe →JodBite with Shahbaz Chaudhry
Oct 24, 201900:08:55Tap to summarizeShahbaz Chaudhry tells us about the coronal heating problem.
Transcribe →Interview with Sadie Jones
Oct 11, 201900:11:17Tap to summarizeThis month we talk to Sadie Jones of the University of Southampton about her work in astronomy outreach.She discusses how she got into astronomy and got a job in outreach, before talking about the work that the university does, including its impressive mobile planetarium.Sadie also discusses the recent public outreach projects she has been involved in organising, for example talking about supernovae in an airport and a cipher challenge to decode strange messages from space.
Transcribe →Interview with Fabio Antonini
Sep 13, 201900:17:30Tap to summarizeEmma Alexander talks to Dr Fabio Antonini, a Rutherford fellow at the University of Surrey. Dr Antonini tells us about his work modelling gravitational wave sources, particularly black holes in binary systems, and explores the implications of LIGO observations for such modelling efforts.
Transcribe →Interview with Jonathan Pober
Aug 8, 201900:22:08Tap to summarizeJonathan talks about his work with 21cm line and understanding galaxy formation and cosmology. He talks about the challenges and triumphs of characterizing the 21cm signals using the SKA phase telescopes.
Transcribe →Interview with Leen Decin
Apr 17, 201900:15:57Tap to summarizeLeen Decin talks about the atomium project.
Transcribe →JodBite with Tana Joseph
Apr 17, 201900:25:05Tap to summarizeTana Joseph tells us about black hole binaries, multi-messenger astronomy and her STEM communications company AstroComms
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