Invited Speakers

Please find below a complete list of the invited speakers with titles of talks and biographies (as available).

• Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford, UK

        Keynote speaker

• Dr Arianna Borrelli, Technical University Berlin, Germany

        The joint rise of symmetry and symmetry-breaking in particle physics

• Professor Patricia Fara, Clare College Cambridge, UK

        The Marie Curie Effect

• Professor David Fegan, University College Dublin, Ireland

        The development of high-energy γ-ray astronomy

• Professor Peter Gallagher, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland

        Astronomy at Birr Castle down through the ages; from the Earl of Rosse to LOFAR

• Professor Daniel Kennefick, University of Arkansas, USA

        No shadow of a doubt: Eddington, Dyson and the eclipse expeditions of 1919

• Professor Walter Kutschera, University of Vienna, Austria

        One hundred years of nuclear physics

• Professor Nadia Robotti, University of Genoa, Italy

        The dream of alchemists: Rutherford, the first artificial transmutation and the discovery of the proton

• Professor Ana Simões, University of Lisbon, Portugal

        To be or not to be. Observing totality during the 1919 solar eclipse at Príncipe and Sobral

• Sir Roland Jackson, The Royal Institution, UK

        The life and science of John Tyndall

• Professor Johannes Orphal, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

        A brief history of climate science

• Professor Paul Hardaker, Institute of Physics, UK

        From the greenhouse effect to modern climate modelling