

Mon, 15 Jan
|Lecture Theatre
Living with a Star - the Many Faces of our Sun
by Professor Sarah Matthews of UCL
Time & Location
15 Jan 2024, 19:15 – 21:00
Lecture Theatre, Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF, UK
About the Event
Biography
Sarah Matthews is a Professor and Head of Solar Physics at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Her research interests focus on energy storage and release in magnetised plasmas, and in particular solar eruptive events and the origins space weather. Her work is mainly observational, bringing together multi-wavelength space and ground-based observations, but she also works in collaboration with magnetic field modellers in particular to interpret the observations in the context of current models. She also has an interest in instrumentation and is currently the PI for the EUV Imaging Spectromter (EIS) on the Japanese-UK-US Hinode satellite and has been leading the development of an Extreme Ultraviolet Camera for the succcessor to Hinode, Solar-C.