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Postal address :   Dr.  J.  B.  Jones,
Astronomy Unit,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road,
London, E1 4NS,
United Kingdom.
 
E-mail : Bryn.Jones    [followed by @qmul.ac.uk]
 
Telephone : 020 7882 5491       (international number +44 20 7882 5491).
Fax. : 020 8983 3522       (international number +44 20 8983 3522).
 
Office number : 355 in the School of Mathematical Sciences.

WWW home page (this page) :   http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jbj/
Queen Mary Astronomy Unit staff details page :   http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/personnel/academicstaff/jones.shtml
Personal home page (materials less associated with
    work, primarily history of astronomy and eclipses) : 		http://www.jonesbryn.plus.com
 
Picture of Bryn (if you need to know what I look like):   here





Introduction

Welcome to my home page. I am an astronomer in the Astronomy Unit of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary, University of London.



Research

The AAT at sunrise I am currently working on a number of projects concerning extragalactic astronomy, in particular the Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey. I also use observations from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.

The Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey (FCSS): The 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope is being used to study all objects with blue magnitudes between 16.5 and 19.7 in the direction of the Fornax Cluster of galaxies, including stars as well as galaxies. We are attempting to obtain as unbiased samples of dwarf galaxies in the cluster as we can. Further details can be found at Bryn's Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey web page in Nottingham and at Michael Drinkwater's Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey page in Melbourne. Data from the survey are publicly available at the FCSS Database at the University of Melbourne.

The AAT These projects use the 2dF Spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and the replacement AAOmega system. I have pictures of 2dF and the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring in Australia.

Bryn's old home pages at the University of Nottingam and at the University of Bristol contain information about my older research, and some background information.

You can find a list of some of my publications at the NASA Astrophysics Data System database. However, this list may not list some recent publications (for more recent papers, you might want to try this link, but this misses some papers and includes some by other researchers, an inevitable problem for someone with the surname Jones). Preprints of some of these publications can be found at the astro-ph papers archive.



Teaching

Office hours: I am usually available to see students in my office during normal working hours.

I am the lecturer for the Queen Mary Astrophysics MSc/Postgraduate Certificate/MSci courses about The Galaxy (ASTM002) and and Research Methods in Astronomy (ASTM005).

For information about the Oscillations, Waves and Patterns mathematics module see the module's web page

I have pages about the:

Fuller details of individual lecture modules on the full- and part-time Astrophysics MSc, Astrophysics Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Astronomy and Astrophysics are available on the Astronomy Unit website. Details are also available about how to apply for these postgraduate courses in astrophysics and astronomy.
Information is also available on how to apply for PhD positions in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.

Bryn has previously taught the MSc module Angular Momentum and Accretion Processes in Astrophysics. See here for the current website, and here for an archived copy of the old module website.



Computing

Some brief notes about computing issues are available.



Other subjects

A picture of Comet McNaught as seen from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Thursday, 11th January, 2007:

Comet McNaught   Comet McNaught

The comet is visible on the left of the main picture, to the left of the small crane. The picture on the right shows an expanded view. The image was recorded from Queen Mary through window glass around 17:00 UTC before the comet disappeared into the horizon haze.



There are images of the transit of Venus of 8th June, 2004, the partial solar eclipse of 3rd October, 2005, and the partial solar eclipse of 29th March, 2006.

Pictures of telescopes and observatories are available.

Some general notes about galaxies prepared to accompany a general lecture about galaxies given on a course about astrophysics.

There is a map of the Queen Mary Mile End campus: I had trouble finding this on the College website.

See my personal web page for information about the history of Astronomy and eclipses.








   
This page was created in January 2004 by Bryn Jones and is maintained by him.
E-mail:  Bryn.Jones [followed by @qmul.ac.uk]
WWW home page (this page) : http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jbj/
It was last modified on 7th June, 2007.

The views and opinions expressed in these pages are strictly those of the page author. The contents of these pages have not been reviewed or approved by Queen Mary, University of London.