Our monthly general meetings are usually recorded. You can watch the latest meeting video here, or browse the list of previous recordings below. Subscribe to our YouTube channel if you don’t want to miss the next one!
Meeting Recordings
- MPAS Meeting September 2025Main talk: “TeraNet-3 and Laser Space Communications”, by Ayden McCann, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the Astrophotonics group at the University of Western Australia.
- MPAS Meeting August 2025Main topic: “From Apollo to Artemis”, with videos by Apollo 17 astronaut Dr Harrison Smith, and Dr Giulia Magnarini from the Natural History Museum, London. Courtesy of the Geological Society, London.
- MPAS Meeting July 2025Main talk: “Reflections on Presenting”, alternatively titled “Customs Confusion, Dinosaur Dung and Meteorite Mishaps” by Committee member, and experienced cruise ship public speaker, Trevor Hand.
- MPAS Meeting June 2025Main talk: “Touching the Sun”, by Prof. Chris Lintott, courtesy of Gresham College, London.
- MPAS Meeting May 2025Main talk: “How the James Webb Space Telescope Was Designed”, by Dr. Mark Clampin, Astrophysics Division Director, NASA, courtesy of the Royal Institution, London.
- MPAS Meeting April 2025Main talk: “Astronomical Spectroscopy: Understanding The Complex Chemistry Hidden Between The Stars”, by Prof. Martin McCoustra, Herriot-Watt University, Prof. Serena Viti, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands, and Prof. Wendy A. Brown, University of Sussex, courtesy of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chemistry World, London.
- MPAS Meeting March 2025Main talk: “The Secret Life of Snowflakes”, by Prof. Kenneth Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology, courtesy of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada.
- MPAS Meeting February 2025Main talk: “A Century of Relativity: from the Big Bang to Black Holes to Interstellar”, by Feynmann Prof. Emeritus Kip Thorne, California Institute of Technology, USA, public talk courtesy of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, Australia.
- MPAS Meeting January 2025Main talk: “Space Debris Removal: Technologies, Missions and Science”, by Prof. Inna Sharf, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, courtesy of the Dept. of Physics, McGill University.
- MPAS Meeting November 2024Main talk: “The Weirdest Stars in the Universe”, by Assist. Prof. Emily Levesque, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, public talk courtesy of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada.
- MPAS Meeting October 2024Main talk: “The Art and Science of Webb Imagery” by Alyssa Pagan & Joe DePasquale, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- MPAS Meeting September 2024Main talk: “Our Mathematical Universe”, by Professor Max Tegmark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, public talk from 30-January-2014 courtesy of the Royal Institution, London.
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