Contents

• Director's summary of the year
• Structure and management
  • Within the School of Physics
  • Within the SRCfTA
• Strategic objectives of the SRCfTA
• Research highlights
  • A charge on neutrinos in a plasma?
  • Simply scintillation
  • Dark matter illuminated
  • Dusty reconnection in magnetized plasmas
  • Pulsar waves: AM or FM?
  • The eclipsing binary pulsar PSR B1259-63
  • The remarkable X-ray binary Circinus X-1
  • The complex fields of active stars
• National and international links
  • Collaborations
  • Visitor program
  • Research meetings
    • Within the School of Physics
    • Working groups
    • Workshops and conferences
• Student training
• Other activities
  • Publicity
  • Computing
  • Observing
• Financial statement
• SRCfTA staff
• Research projects
• Publications
  • Published in 1997
  • Submitted for publication
• Conference presentations
• Visitors
• Talks
• Committee membership
• Advisory Board
• Affiliations and abbreviations
• About this document ...