Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2006
professor ron ekers
PROFESSOR RON EKERS was appointed Foundation Director of CSIRO's
Australia Telescope National Facility in 1988 and he continued in
this role until 1 March 2003, when he took up his Federation
Fellowship.
He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1963 and gained
his PhD in astronomy at the Australian National University in 1967.
His professional career has taken him to the California Institute of
Technology, the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, UK,
the Kapteyn Laboratory in Groningen, The Netherlands, and the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Mexico USA. He was
director of the VLA, the major national radio telescope in the USA,
from 1980 until 1987.
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a
Foreign Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science in 1993, a
Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005. He is the President of the
International Astronomical Union.
Ron's research interests include extragalactic astronomy,
especially cosmology, galactic nuclei and radio astronomical
techniques.
Seminar:
Paths to discovery in
radio astronomy
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