Greetings all The first meeting of Swinburne’s free Public Lecture Series 2010 will take place on Friday 19 February.

Title: The Extreme Side of Pulsars Presented by Sarah Burke-Spolaor and Lina Levin – PhD students working with Matthew Bailes, Director of the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Pulsars are the compact cores of dead stars that periodically flash radio beams at Earth. The regularity of their flashing makes them somewhat like highly accurate clocks–however not all pulsars are very well behaved. This lecture will give a background to pulsar astronomy and detail the extreme behaviours that some of these enigmatic stars exhibit. New, bizarre classes of pulsars are regularly being discovered, and we will present hot-off-the-press discoveries that have been made by an international team of astronomers that includes members of the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.

Venue: Swinburne University, Hawthorn Campus, BA building Room: BA201 Date: Friday 19 February Time: 6.20 pm for a 6.30 pm start Duration: 1 hour plus question time

Places are limited so please RSVP to Liz Thackray via email ethackray@swin.edu.au by Wednesday 17 February.

( http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/outreach/?topic=freelectures )

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