Stellar Winds: Givers and Takers of Life

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 15th May 2025 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: Meeting Room

Dr Brad Gibson will explain how the winds blown form stars such as our own Sun, are not to be simply ignored, there are hidden features, both positive and negative, from the building blocks of life, to destroyer of civilisations. Dr Brad Gibson will explore in this talk both of these good/bad and the role they play in the development/destruction of life.

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Speaker: Prof. Brad Gibson

An Aussie-Canadian transplant, Brad is the Head of Physics & Maths, and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, at the University of Hull.  Brad’s work has gained a degree of notoriety by defining the Milky Way’s Galactic Habitable Zone (named a Top 10 News Story of the Year by National Geographic), determining the expansion rate of the Universe (for which their team was awarded the Gruber Prize in Cosmology), and building the world’s first Liquid Mirror Telescope Observatory.  Brad’s 400+ outreach events over the past 6 years have reached more than a million people around the world, including nearly 100 schools and colleges around the UK.  His commitment to widening participation and diversity, and improving the career prospects of physics students, led to his “Changing Face of Physics” campaign being named Best Practice in the Country by the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit.