RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting report

Report on the RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting ‘System-scale observations and modelling of solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere (SW-M-I-T) coupling’.

Hunting for biosignatures on Mars

Nisha Ramkissoon, Mark Burchell, Peter Fawdon and Louisa Preston report from an RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on finding and identifying evidence for life on Mars

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Machine Learning

As individuals discourse is among the most regular approach to communicate. We depend huge amount on it that we perceive its significance when falling back on other correspondence structures like messages and instant messages where we frequently use emoticons to communicate the feelings related with the messages. As feelings assume an essential part in correspondence, the identification and investigation of the equivalent is of crucial significance in the present computerized universe of distant correspondence. Feeling recognition is a difficult undertaking, since feelings are abstract. There is no normal agreement on the best way to quantify or sort them. We characterize a SER framework as an assortment of procedures that cycle and order discourse signs to distinguish feelings installed in them. Such a framework can discover use in a wide assortment of use zones like intuitive voice based-partner or guest specialist discussion investigation. In this examination we endeavor to distinguish fundamental feelings in recorded discourse by breaking down the acoustic highlights of the sound information of accounts.

New eyes and ideas for the chromosphere

An RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting organized by Malcolm Druett and Ben Snow on 13 November 2020 drew a broad international audience to explore a tricky layer of the Sun

Meeting expectations

Sue Bowler chats with the organizers of the 13 March RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting “The near-Sun solar wind at solar minimum” about how they made it work for attendees in person and online – and the challenges and opportunities for our communities in the coming months.

Close binaries and common envelopes

David Jones, Jorge García-Rojas, Ondřej Pejcha and Roger Wesson report on their RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting exploring “Common envelope evolution and post-common-envelope systems”.