Members of the group presented papers at conferences, as listed below, during the two-year period covered by this report. Attendance at some of these conferences was partially supported by the PPARC rolling grant; other sources of funding include Royal Society and University travel grants, college funds, and, in the case of students, RTSG and PPARC studentships.
Shocks in Astrophysics, Joint UMIST/CCP7 meeting, Manchester, UK, January 1995.
Solar and Interplanetary Transients, IAU Colloquium 154; Pune, India, January 1995.
Astrophysical applications of stellar pulsation, IAU Colloquium 155; Cape Town, South Africa, February 1995.
Quasars and AGN: High resolution imaging, National Academy of Science meeting, Irvine, California, March 1995.
Towards the source gamma-ray bursts, 29th ESLAB symposium, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, April 1995.
Extragalactic Jets, ROE Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1995.
CO: 25 years of millimeter-wave spectroscopy, Tucson, Arizona, May/June 1995.
Jets from stars and galactic nuclei, Bad Honnef (nr Bonn), July 1995.
Clifford (Geometric) Algebras, Banff Summer School, Banff, Canada, July 1995.
New Observing Modes for the Next Century, Hilo, Hawaii, July 1995.
Workshop on Star Formation, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1995.
General Relativity and Gravitation 14, Florence, Italy, August 1995.
Cold gas at high redshifts, (workshop), Hoogeveen, The Netherlands, August 1995.
Energy Transport in Radio Galaxies and Quasars, (NSF sponsored), Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1995.
3rd International Workshop on Terahertz Electronics, Zermatt, Switzerland, August 1995.
Röntgenstrahlung from the Universe, Würzburg, Germany, September 1995.
XXVth General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Lille, France, August/Sept 1996.
Extragalactic Radio Sources, IAU Symposium 175, Bologna, Italy, October 1995.
Stellar Surface Structure, IAU Symposium 176, Vienna, Austria. October 1995.
OSA Adaptive optics topical meeting, Garching bei Munchen, Germany, October 1995.
Third Huntsville symposium on gamma-ray bursts, Huntsville, Alabama, November 1995.
Science with Large Millimetre Arrays, Garching bei Munchen, Germany, December 1995.
TeraHertz Technology for Astronomy, IEE Colloquium on Terahertz Technology, London, December 1995.
High Sensitivity Radio Astronomy, Jodrell Bank, January 1996.
Workshop on Optical/Infrared Interferometry and Adaptive Optics, Berkeley California, January 1996.
Infrared Space Interferometry, ESA workshop, Toledo, March 1996.
Microwave Background Anisotropies, Rencontre de Moriond, Moriond, France, March 1996.
Seventh International symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 1996.
National Astronomy Meeting '96, Liverpool April 1996.
High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, April 1996.
Workshop on radio jets in X-ray binaries, Jodrell Bank, April 1996.
The Distance Scale, STScI conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1996.
Les Journees Relativistes, Ascona, May 1996.
From Stardust to Planetisimals, Santa Clara, California, June 1996.
ESO Workshop on Science with the VLT Interferometer, Garching bei Munchen, June 1996.
Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow, ESO/SPIE conference, Landskrona, Sweden, June 1996.
Accretion Phenomena and Associated Outflows, IAU Symposium 163, Port Douglas, Queensland, July 1996.
Molecules in Astrophysics: Probes and processes, IAU Symposium 178, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 1996.
Coronal Mass Ejections. Bozeman, Montana, August 1996.
2nd Naramata summer school on the ISM, Naramata, British Columbia, August 1996.
Portuguese National Astronomy Meeting, Evora, September 1996.
Submillimetre and Far-Infrared Space Instrumentation, ESLAB 30, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 1996.
5th Course on `Topics in Astrofundamental Physics', Erice, September 1996.
Gigahertz-peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep-Spectrum Radio Sources (workshop), Leiden, The Netherlands, Sept/Oct 1996.
Critical problems in Physics, 250th Anniversary conference, Princeton University, New Jersey, November 1996.