Talk format: Seminar

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    The Starlight Foundation: the starry sky as a scientific, cultural, environmental and sustainable economy resource.
    Starlight principles and recommendations are brought together in the “Declaration in Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight” (“La Palma Declaration...
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    The SUMO project: a survey of multiple populations in globular clusters
    The classical idea that globular clusters are the prototypes of simple stellar populations has been revolutionized in the last few years. Multiple sequences of...
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    The SuperWASP follow-up telescope
    SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, having detected 22 of the 52 transiting planets known to date. This stems from the...
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    The testing probe through the nebula: large-scale and long-term structures in the wind of a Wolf-Rayet star
    During the summer of 2013, a 4-month spectroscopic campaign took place at Teide IAC 80 and other professional and amateur observatories to observe the...
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    The three voices of the BRITE-SONG of Aldebaran
    Solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars are now commonly detected in thousands of stars with space telescopes such as NASA Kepler mission. Yet, most stars...
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    The transformation of galaxies in infall cluster regions
    The cutting off of gas supply in galaxies, whether it is exhausted internally or removed forcibly, can have dramatic consequences and are thought to build up...
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    The triggering mechanisms of powerful radio galaxies: mergers and interactions.
    Despite speculation that both starburst and nuclear activity in galaxies may be intimately linked via the common triggering mechanism of mergers and...
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    The Ubiquity of Coeval Starbursts in Massive Galaxy Cluster Progenitors
    The Universe’s largest galaxy clusters likely built the majority of their massive >10^11 M⊙ galaxies in simultaneous, short-lived bursts of activity well before...
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    The UK ATC and the submillimetre revolution with SCUBA-2
    I will present a brief overview of the work of the UK ATC and then go on to describe the difficulties of producing our most challenging instrument to date...