National Astronomy Meeting 2021

The Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting will now be held online due to Covid-19.

University of Bath: 19th - 23rd July 2021

The Royal Astronomical Society is proud to present the National Astronomy Meeting, NAM2021, to be hosted by the University of Bath from Monday 19th July to Friday 23rd July, 2021. This meeting was originally planned for July 2020, but had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the University of Bath have decided to hold NAM 2021 as a virtual conference.

The meeting will bring together members of the UK’s astronomy/astrophysics, UK Solar Physics (UKSP), and Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) communities, and presenting a wide-reaching programme to reflect the diversity and interests of these communities. You can find an overview of the programme, and further details on the parallel sessions and special lunches/discussion sessions taking place on these webpages.

That's a Wrap!

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That brings us to the end of NAM 2021! Thanks to all who presented their work this week, it has been inspiring to hear the work that is going on within our communities, and great to see all of the ongoing discussions taking place.

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting the conference, and the Royal Astronomical Society for their invaluable input and support behind the scenes, which extended our NAM programme to evening concerts, and fireside chats.

We'd also like to thank all of our LOC for their hard work in organising and running this conference, the SOC, the MIST council and the University of Bath Public Engagement team for ensuring that we had a diverse and balanced programme, and the NAMbassadors for their assistance with technical support.

And lastly, thanks to you all for participating in this conference as session convenors, chairs, presenters and audience members, and see you at NAM 2022, hosted by the University of Warwick.

Poster Prize Winners

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Many congratulations to all our poster prize winners! We had three primary poster competitions, and the prize winners are summarised below.

Winton Prize for best postdoc poster
Two joint winners share this prize:
Kylash Rajendran on “Super Rotation and the 2018 Mars Global Dust Storm”
Joanna Ramasawmy on “A sub-mm SDSS with the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope”

The Oxford University Press Prize for best student poster
Stephanie Campbell wins the prize for best poster on “Using HI gas to Model Dark Matter Halos in MaNGA”
Kellie de Vos is runner-up with her poster on “Clusters’ far-reaching influence of narrow-angle tail radio galaxies”

The MIST Rishbeth Prize
Zie Lewis wins the prize for best poster on “Looking for space weather impacts on UK power station transformers””
Aisling Bergin wins best student talk on “Solar cycle variation in empirical distribution and burst statistics of auroral electrojet and ring current geomagnetic indices”

Re-watch NAM evening events

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If you missed our evening events during NAM, or just wish to refresh you memory, the Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony, Public Minerva Lecture, and several of the Public Engagement activities are all available to watch at the links below:

Presidential Address

Awards Ceremony

Minerva Lecture by Prof Andrew Coates on Current and Future Mars Missions

When Art and Science Collide

Never Explain comedy event