This week is the annual Royal Astronomy Society’s NAM week – the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting.

It is an opportunity for astronomers to showcase the latest astronomical research being carried out all around the UK. In 2007 it was been held at the University of Central Lancashire, in 2006 at the University of Leicester, and in 2005 at the University of Birmingham.

This year, we are at the historical Queen’s University Belfast, with an attendance of over 600 astronomers from all around the UK, from the students studying to get their doctorates to their professors. There are so many talks on such a wide variety of subjects that there are six different lectures running simultaneously!

I hope to post my highlights of the meeting over the next few days…

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