Astrophysics · Computing · Space science education
I model the first million years of a very large star.
I am a PhD researcher building STELCOR, a stellar evolution code for the earliest lives of massive stars.
I teach computer science on the Sussex coast, and I am building a space science centre while I am at it.
And I give talks about all three.
The catalogue
Three topics across
Seven talks.
Here are my three most popular talks, with more talks available on the relevant page.
- 02 The Evolution of Stars With stunning images from a wide range of sources, we explore how stars are born, how they live and their ultimate demise. In so doing, we explore our relationship with the stars.
- 04 The Voyager Missions An exploration of the two Voyager craft that explored the outer planets and now travel outside the influence of the solar winds. During this talk we explore what we knew before these missions, the Pioneer missions, the Grand Tour, where the craft are now and what the future holds. All whilst looking at some beautiful images of our slar system.
- 07 Black Holes and Compact Objects An exploration of the death of massive stars.
The rest of it
Three strands, one working week.
The research feeds the teaching, the teaching feeds the talks, and the talks send students back to both. It is less tidy than that sentence makes it sound.
Research
STELCOR is a stellar evolution code for the approach to the main sequence in stars of eight to sixty solar masses — the phase most grids skip, and the one where the initial conditions have not yet been forgotten.
Teaching
A Level and BTEC computing at Oxford International College Brighton, taught against real astronomical data, alongside an effort to put research-grade instruments in students' hands.
Booking
Schools, societies, festivals and departments. Everything an organiser normally has to ask for — kit, travel, lead time, fees — is written down before you write to me.