Time |
Event |
Venue/Speaker |
09.05 – 09.10 |
WELCOME |
Corrie Imrie |
09.10 – 09.20 |
OPENING |
Ian Halliday |
09.20 – 09.30 |
INTRODUCTION |
John Reid |
|
Scientific lectures |
Chair: Charles Wang |
09.30 – 10.00 |
Photons and future particle accelerators |
Robert Bingham |
10.00 – 10.30 |
Maxwell and the classical wave-particle dualism |
Tito Mendonça |
10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
Picture Gallery |
|
Scientific lectures |
Chair: John Reid |
11.00 – 11.30 |
The magnetic sun |
Richard Harrison |
11.30 – 12.00 |
From the Maxwell theory of Saturn’s rings to the negative-mass instability |
Renato Fedele |
12.00 – 12.30 |
Dynamics of astrophysical discs |
Gordon Ogilvie |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Buffet Lunch |
Picture Gallery |
|
Scientific lectures |
Chair: Marian Wiercigroch |
14.00 – 14.45 |
How Maxwell’s equations are used on a daily basis in down-hole logging for oil and gas exploration |
Barbara Anderson |
14.45 – 15.30 |
An example of Professor Maxwell’s work relating to electromagnetics concerning present day water pipeline leak location solutions |
Anthony Bond& Ranald Macdonald |
15.30 – 16.00 |
Tea/Coffee |
Picture Gallery |
| |
Scientific lectures |
Chair: John Watson |
16.00 – 16.30 |
TBA (Talk from QinetiQ) |
Douglas Wright |
16.30 – 18.00 |
Poster session |
Picture Gallery |
18.00 – 18.30 |
Free time |
|
18.30 – 19.00 |
Bus to King’s College |
|
19.00 |
Dinner |
Crombie Hall |
21.00 |
Bus to the Patio Hotel/City Centre |
|
Time |
Event |
Venue/Speaker |
08.15 – 09.00 |
Bus to King’s College |
MacRobert Building MR51 |
|
Scientific lectures |
Chair: Geoff Dunn |
09.00 – 09.30 |
Using electromagnetic waves to heat fusion plasmas |
Alan Cairns |
09.30 – 10.00 |
Localization of intense electromagnetic waves in plasmas |
Padma Shukla |
10.00 – 10.30 |
Coherent electromagnetic wave generation by relativistic electrons |
Alan Phelps |
10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
MR Lounge |
|
Scientific lectures |
Chair: Graham Hall |
11.00 – 11.30 |
Maxwell’s equations - Solution methods, past, present and future |
David Lowther |
11.30 – 12.00 |
Perspectives on the relevance of gravitation for the covariant description of electromagnetically polarizable media |
Robin Tucker |
12.00 – 12.30 |
Electromagnetism, relativity and the gauge approach to quantum gravity |
Charles Wang |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
Crombie Hall |
|
Lectures OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |
MacRobert Lecture Theatre |
14.00 – 14.05 |
INTRODUCTION |
Albert Rodger |
|
PUBLIC lectures |
Chair: Michael Thompson FRS |
14.05 – 14.40 |
James Clerk Maxwell at Aberdeen |
John Reid |
14.45 – 15.25 |
Maxwell and the science of colour |
Malcolm Longair |
15.25 – 15.55 |
Tea/Coffee/Refreshments |
MR Lounge |
|
PUBLIC lectures |
Chair: Michael Sandford |
15.55 – 16.35 |
Maxwell on subjects great and small: Saturn’s rings and molecular science |
Elizabeth Garber |
16.35 – 17.15 |
Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory and the special theory of relativity |
Graham Hall |
17.15 |
Closing |
|
17.15 – 19.00 |
Free time |
|
17.30 |
Bus to the Patio Hotel/City Centre |
|
19.15 |
Banquet |
Patio Hotel |
