Early Career Poster Exhibition

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RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition 2020

With NAM cancelled this year, the RAS are hosting an online poster exhibition for early career researchers, professionals, and students from across astronomy and geophysics.

Here you’ll find over 200 posters spanning a wide range of topics from black holes to active galactic nuclei, to Mars missions and outreach and education.

Posters are searchable by their authors, and research field tags.

Please take your time to look at the submissions, and get in touch with the authors!

We encourage you to tweet about the exhibition using the hashtag #RASposter2020. Please note that any communications relating to the exhibition must adhere to RAS Code of Conduct, available here.

A senior team of astronomers and geophysicists are judging the submissions based on the quality of the content, communication and design. Winners of the competition will be announced back here in November 2020.

Thanks for visiting and please do show your support for the early career researchers by sharing their submissions, and asking questions!

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Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data Science

As a data-driven science, Astrophysics has tremendous potential as both driver and consumer of machine-learning (ML) applications. In particular, astrophysicists glean the greatest physical insight from large-scale, population-based studies,…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

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Student (undergraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

My poster is going to be about the work I’ve been developing during my undergrad research in Astrophysics, where we are using numerical methods to simulate the galactic system in interaction Arp 245, in order to determine how the collision (…

Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Theoretical Physics

Energetic particles (cosmic rays) can interact with interstellar molecular clouds. Some types of these particles can undergo interactions which
decay to emit high energy electromagnetic radiation (gamma-rays), while other types can lose…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Magnetospheric
  • Ionospheric and Solar Terrestrial
  • Planetary Atmospheres

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986 we first detected and successfully mapped the the ultraviolet aurora across the planet’s surface. Since then we have only observed the planet’s aurora in the ultraviolet using the Hubble Space Telescope in…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astrobiology
  • Data Science
  • Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing in the form of multispectral imaging from spaceborne platforms has the potential to improve the pace and precision with which breeders determine agronomic attributes of new soybean varieties. This is because multispectral images…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense beams of electromagnetic radiation observed at gamma-ray frequencies. Observations show that GRBs fall in two categories, short-duration and long-duration. It is long believed that mergers of binary neutron…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Earth Science

Traditional seismic hazard and risk analyses usually employ ground motion prediction equations to estimate the ground shaking in a future earthquake at a given site. Earthquake ground motions are invariably evaluated in terms of one or more…

Student (postgraduate)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

For over 60 years, the scientific community has studied central supermassive black holes (SMBHs), yet fundamental questions on their genesis and evolution remain unanswered. Specifically, what are the dominant processes that govern the fueling of…

Early Career Professional (includes early career lecturers, science communicators, industry professionals and other early career Geophysics/Astronomy professionals outside of Academia)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics

The evolution of high mass stars has an extreme importance in Astrophysics, due to its influence in galaxy formation and the interstellar medium. Throughout their lifetime massive stars eject material into the surrounding environment through…