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  • This week we talk to Dr Francisco Diego from UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy about his long and varied career at UCL, his passion for education and.
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  • The Sun, our closest star, has been a source of fascination and awe since the very earliest civilisations and was worshipped by many ancient.

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    Spotlight on... Dr Francisco Diego

    This week we talk to Dr Francisco Diego from UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy about his long and varied career at UCL, his passion for education and outreach, and the healing power of classical music.

    What is your role and what does it involve?

    I am a Lecturer in a module for first year undergraduate students (large numbers!) which involves practical work at the UCL Observatory, and the Admissions Tutor and Lecturer for the new course, Introduction to Astronomy (evening classes for mature students). I am also the founder and director of the UCL Your Universe Annual Festival of Astronomy and Particle Physics.

    I also run lectures and workshops for schools, teachers and the general public, called ‘The Mind of the Universe’ and ‘Think Universe’, developed under a couple of STFC Science in Society fellowships, reaching audiences of around 30,000 (in the UK, Mexico and Cuba). Some lectures have featured in the UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures.

    I have also appeared on TV documentaries such as Stephen Hawking’s Universe, BBC’s The Planets, Genius by Stephen Hawking, The Seven Ages of Starlight, The Secret Life of the Sun and the live BBC broadcast of the 1999 total solar eclipse, and I am a regular guest contributor to liv

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    As you are no doubt aware, the world is scheduled to end today (21st December 2012). At least according to a lot of interpretations of Mayan calendars.

    But how likely is this impending doom? And is that really what the Mayans were prophesising? These are the questions that were answered by Prof Elizabeth Graham of the UCL Institute of Archaeology and Dr Francisco Diego Quintana,UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy at a Lunch Hour Lecture on the 6th December.

    Prof Graham is a Mayan archaeologist who talked about the accuracy of the ‘prophecy’ and the facts behind it. She began with a warning: some interpretations claim the end of the world will actually happen on the 23rd December so don’t get too excited when you wake up tomorrow – there’s still time for an apocalypse.

    After attempting to explain the intricacies of the somewhat complicated Mayan calendar we got down to the business of the actual prophecy.

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    Space crash increases collision odds

    Friday, 13 Feb 2009 Gospel Baker
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