Description
Organisers: NAZIM ALI BHARMAL, Meryem Kubra DAG, DEBORAH MALONE
This parallel session focuses on the dynamic interplay between astronomy and technology, examining how astronomical innovations influence fields beyond space sciences and how advancements in other disciplines contribute to the progress of astronomy. The session will explore the transformative impacts of astronomical technologies on engineering, medicine, environmental science, data analytics, and social systems.
Key topics may include the application of space telescope imaging technologies in medical devices, the adaptation of adaptive optics systems for environmental monitoring. Additionally, the integration of astronomical data analysis techniques into social sciences and other interdisciplinary interactions will be discussed. By bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, this session aims to highlight the value of interdisciplinary collaboration and the broader societal impact of astronomical innovations.
Through these discussions, the session seeks to strengthen the connections between astronomy and other disciplines, emphasizing the scientific and societal importance of technologies originating from space sciences.
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Supriyo Ghosh (University of Hertfordshire)07/07/2025, 09:05The Interplay between Technology and AstronomyTalk
โWavelength calibration establishes a physical scale by mapping absolute wavelengths onto the pixel positions of the detector of any astronomical spectrographs. Precise wavelength calibration is crucial for measuring physical quantities, for example, radial velocities via high-resolution spectrographs. In general, hollow-cathode lamps (e.g. ThAr), Fabry-Perot etalons, and laser frequency combs...
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Gavin Dalton (University of Oxford/RALSpace)07/07/2025, 09:20The Interplay between Technology and AstronomyTalk
The integration and commissioning of WEAVE has been an extended process marred by Covid, a Shipping Crisis, Volcano and Forest Fires, as well as the usual issues one expects with a complex instrument. Aside from external events there are some useful lessons from the process that I will relate, as these have relatively broad application and should be retained within the community for future reference.
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Fawada Qaiser (Durham University)07/07/2025, 09:35The Interplay between Technology and AstronomyTalk
The field of astronomy is undergoing a transformative era, driven by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its methodologies and practices. In this talk, I will explore how AI is revolutionizing the study of the cosmos by enabling astronomers to process vast datasets, uncover hidden patterns, and accelerate discoveries. From identifying exoplanets and classifying galaxies to...
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Mark McCulloch (The University of Manchester)07/07/2025, 09:50The Interplay between Technology and AstronomyTalk
Simons Observatory UK is a state-of-the-art cosmic microwave background observatory with hardware currently under development at various institutions in the UK, and telescope infrastructure being assembled in the Atacama Desert in Chile. In this talk I will outline the SO:UK receivers and show how some of the microwave, superconducting and cryogenic technologies developed for CMB observatories...
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Dr Pauline Simon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)07/07/2025, 10:05The Interplay between Technology and AstronomyTalk
One common feature of many fields is the necessity to forecast the temporal evolution of signals and the question is always more challenging when the signal is irregular and multiscale. For instance, we can find forecasting the temperature variation or the localisation of rainy clouds in meteorology, the daily or monthly stock exchange for finance applications, tiny variations in...
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