RAS GRANT APPLICATION STATUS REPORT GRANTS SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION BY 15 AUGUST 2010 Title/Purpose Applicant and Org. Amount Awarded 1. Stellar Monoliths Mr Max ALEXANDER FRAS £1000 2. Cosmic Rays at Snowdon Dr Karen APLIN FRAS Summit Denys Wilkinson Building £2000 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3RH [email protected] 3. An Astronomy Exhibition at Dr Marek KUKULA FRAS on behalf the Royal Albert Hall of Prof. Mark BAILEY £3420 Royal Observatory Greenwich National Maritime Museum Greenwich London, SE10 9NF [email protected] 4. Support to attend the 19th Mr Adam CHRISTOPHERSON International Conference on FRAS £800 general Relativity and Astronomy Unit Gravitation (GR19) – Mexico School of Mathematical Sciences City from 5-9 July 2010 QMUL [email protected] 5. Request for travel fund to Professor J.L. CULHANE FRAS on present a paper at COSPAR behalf of £250 assembly in Bremen (July Mrs Deborah BAKER 2010) UCL/MSSL Holmbury St. Mary Dorking e-mail: [email protected] 6. Your Universe, the UCL Dr Francisco DIEGO Festival of Astronomy Physics & Astronomy £1850.00 University College London London, WC1E 6BT [email protected] 7. Support to attend “Great Mr David EDEN FRAS Barriers in High Mass Star Astrophysics Research Institute £600 Formation” conference Liverpool John Moores University Twelve Quays House Egerton Wharf Birkinhead Wirral, CH41 1LD [email protected] 8. Raising Astronomical Prof. Martin WARD FRAS on behalf Aspirations in County Durham of £1000 Schools Dr Pete EDWARDS Institute for Computational Cosmology Dept. of Physics Durham, DH1 3LE [email protected] 9. Organisation support for Dr Ignacio FERRERAS FRAS JENAM 2010 Symposium: Mullard Space Science Laboratory £1000 “Galaxy formation and University College London Environment – 30 years later” Holmbury St Mary Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT [email protected] 10. Support for invited attendance Dr Claire FOULLON FRAS to the “Cluster 10th Centre for Fusion, Space & £634.50 Anniversary Workshop”, Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics, Corfu Island, Greece, 27 Sept University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 – 1 Oct 2010 7AL [email protected] 11. E-ELT at the Royal Society Professor Dan HILLIER Summer Exhibition STFC £1,000 [email protected] 12. Miss Yara JAFFE “The effect of the (In the process of applying for FRAS) £600 Environment on the Tully- School of Physics and Astronomy Fisher Relation” The University of Nottingham [email protected] 13. To attend conference in Japan Mr Sohan JHEETA FRAS (12th International conference £1,000 on the Physics and Chemistry of ice Sapporo, Japan, 5 to 10 Sept 2010 14. Support of Early Career Ms Nanna KARLSSON FRAS Researchers’ Workshop in £1665 Science Communication and Outreach 15. Developing Dark Skies in Mr Steve OWENS FRAS on behalf of Galloway Forest Park Mr Keith MUIR £2000 16. Visit of Kyle Murphy to Dr Andrew WALSH FRAS on behalf MSSL of £400 Mr Kyle MURPHY Mullard Space Science Laboratory Holmbury St. Mary Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT [email protected] 17. Support for attending Professor R. IVISON FRAS on behalf International Astronomical of £325 Youth Camp 2010 Mr Jack NELSON UK ATC Royal Observatory Blackford Hill Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ [email protected] 18. Support for attendance at the Dr Mark A. NORRIS FRAS Conference “A Universe of Dept of Physics and Astronomy £500 Dwarf Galaxies” UN Chapel Hill – USA [email protected] 19. Touch the Sky Mr Steve OWENS FRAS £3000 20. International Space University Miss Ruth PEARSON FRAS Fees £1500 21. Support for International Dr Hiranya PEIRIS FRAS Meeting “Unsolved Problems Dept. of Physics & Astronomy £2000 in Astrophysics and University College London Cosmology” Gower Street London, WC1E 6BT [email protected] 22. Funding for Attendance of Mr Yudish RAMANJOOLOO “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” Mullard Space Science Laboratory £800 in Japan Holmbury St. Mary Dorking, RH5 6NT [email protected] 23. Support to attend the Mr Valerio A.R.M. RIBEIRO FRAS Asymmetric Planetary LMJU £250 Nebulae V Conference etc., [email protected] 24. European Planetary Science Mr Joshua SNAPE Congress- Travel Expenses Dept. Of Earth Sciences £400 Gower Street London WC1E 6BT [email protected] 25. Solar Plasma Spectroscopy Dr Durgesh TRIPATHI Cambridge University £1,000 [email protected] 26. Building Bridges: Cooperation Dr Jacco VAN LOON of UK and Iranian Lennard-Jones Laboratories £3200 Astronomers Keele University Staffordshire, ST5 5BG [email protected] 27. 5th Alfven conference Professor Andrew COATES on behalf of £1017.50 Ms Anne WELLBROCK Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT [email protected] 28. Conference Attendance Grant Mr Daniel WENT FRAS (Fall AGU 2010) (December [email protected] £900 2010) 29. Meteor Camera for Mr Steve OWENS FRAS on behalf of Meteorwatch Mr Adrian WEST £284 30. “BRIGHT STAR” – Play Dr Helen WALKER FRAS on behalf Production Project of £2500 Ms Michelle WITTON Ms Violette TOSIC STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, SSTD Building R68, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX [email protected] 31. Grant for Travel (International Dr David WOKES (applied to become Conference) & Research a FRAS) £500 32. Astronomy Primary School Prof. Mike CRUISE on behalf of Mr. Textbooks Bakhshi YUNOS £4800 School of Physics & Astronomy The University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT [email protected] 33. Public Lecture associated with Prof Albert ZIJLSTRA FRAS Asymmetric Planetary and Dr C.J. WEARING £413 Nebulae V Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics The University of Manchester [email protected] [email protected] .