Wycombe Astronomy Society (WAS)
What's On
If you are not a member of Wycombe Astronomical Society,
you are welcome to attend any of our meetings on a trial basis and with no charge.
Our hope is, therefore, to encouraging new members to join our Society.
Wed 04 Jun
|Zoom Meeting
Zoom lecture - Professor Derek Ward-Thompson - "A unified theory for star formation”
Time & Location
04 Jun 2025, 20:00 – 22:00
Zoom Meeting
About the Event
About Professor Derek Ward-Thompson
Derek is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Central Lancashire. He teaches across a rage of subjects in Physics and Astrophysics. His particular expertise lies in the fields of star and planet formation, as well as interstellar magnetic fields, from the most diffuse regions of space to the dense environments around the event horizons of black holes. He is part of the 'Event Horizon Telescope Consortium', which published the first ever image of a black hole in April 2019.
Derek's research interests lie in the fields of the formation of stars and planets, as well as in the environments surrounding black holes. He teaches on 3rd-year modules in 'Star Formation', 'Research Methods' and 'Atomic Physics'.He supervises undergraduate project students, as well as post-graduate MSc and PhD students. His text-book 'An Introduction to Star Formation' (Cambridge University Press 2011) won an ‘Outstanding Academic Title of…