News Archive

  1. ★ Summer projects now on offer!!! If you are an undergrad student interested in carrying out a real research project in St Andrews during the summer break... check our projects here and contact us!!! Options for fundings are available, but deadlines are coming soon!!!


  1. ★Welcome to all the new Galaxies students and postdocs: Indranil Banik, Tim Hewlett, Noelia Jiménez, Maya Petkova, Felipe Ramón, and Layth Tajuldeen!!


  1. ★ This Autumn we are hosting two visitors from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC): Dr. Martin Stringer and Dr. Jesús Falcón-Barroso. They will deliver a lunchtalk for the whole Department on September 25 and October 30, respectively.


  1. ★ High school student Michaela Stewart joined the galaxies group last summer for her Nuffield internship. During her stay in our group she developed a new lab for the first year students, based on Hubble’s Law. To read her story, click here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics/news/Panda_news/amw_michaela_nuffield_27_09_14.php


  1. ★ Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans’ paper on the intrinsic shapes of galaxies got accepted by MNRAS, and is now available on astro-ph: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1099 (August 2014)


  1. ★ All the Galaxies Summer students have finished their work in St Andrews. We would like to say a big THANKS to all of them for the fantastic (and hard) work they have performed here. Wish you a nice holidays!!! (August 2014)


  1. ★ Congratulations to Milena Pawlik, who won the first prize in the PhD poster competition at NAM! (Portsmouth, 23-27 June, 2014). Her poster discusses her work on morphological changes in galaxies progressing through a post-starburst phase. (June 2014)


  1. ★ Some summer students have already arrived to the School of Physics and Astronomy. This summer, the Galaxies Group is hosting 12 students who  will develop galaxies-related scientific projects during 6 weeks. Welcome to all of them!!! (June 2014)


  1. ★ The CALIFA VII Busy Week was held in St Andrews in June, 9-12. 23 members of the CALIFA collaboration joined here to discuss the next steps of the project. If you want to see a picture of the group, click:

http://califa7bw.sciencesconf.org  (June 2014)