DETAILED AGENDA

Main Conference Room: George Williams University, One-Step Lodge, Carrie Ann Room

All times are Central Daylight Time (CDT), which 5 hours earlier than UT.

View: GHOU 2011 Group Photo (by Kate Meredith); More photos (by Kate)

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MONDAY July 25 Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP)

9:00 am Carl Pennypacker. Progress in Global HOU

9:40 am Rich Lohman. Some Applications of "Stellarium" software. Please download and install Stellarium before this workshop if want to work along. Visit http://www.stellarium.org and download a version that works for you. I will be running 10.2, and I would recommend that version...at least for windows. On the website, look under "collaborate" and "older releases".

10:30 am BREAK

10:45 am Rosa Doran. Sun4all (Workshop). Please download (a) Sun4all materials (appendix and images), (b) SalsaJ, and (c) .zip file of FITS images

NOON LUNCH

1:15 pm Frank Pino. Ironwood North Observatory (Workshop) - Link: http://simulator.my-sky.com name: fpino password: helo

2:05 pm Rosa Doran. Home Made Spectroscope (Workshop)

2:55 pm BREAK

3:10 pm Kevin McCarron. Make spectra (Workshop)

4:00 pm Chander Devgun. Astronomy teaching in India

4:30 pm Marc Berthoud. Building Tools for the STEM Lab Education using the Arduino Platform.

6:30-8:30pm Reception on the Chopin Patio; No Host /Cash Bar, International Cheese Trays, Nuts and Party Mix.

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TUESDAY July 26 Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP)

9:00 am Rosa Doran. Salsa J (Workshop)

9:45 am Michel Faye, Suzanne Faye

10:30 am BREAK

10:45 am Richard Gelderman. Questioning Creationism: Middle School Teachers at the Creation Museum

11:15 am Robert T Sparks. Using Robotic Telescopes in Astronomy with Skynet

12:00  LUNCH

1:15 pm Vivian Hoette. Skynet (Workshop)

2:00 pm Peggy Piper. Asteroid Rotation Curves & SOFIA (Workshop)

2:45 pm Kyle Fricke/Bryan Mendez. Using WISE data in your classroom (Workshop)

3:30 pm BREAK

4:00 pm Hongfeng Guo. The Recent HOU Teaching and Activities in Chinese Schools

4:45 pm Vivian Hoette. Stone Edge Observatory & Afterglow Image Processing

5:15 pm DINNER

6:45 pm Tour of Yerkes Observatory followed by Yerkes Gift Store open-house.

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WEDNESDAY July 27 Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP)

9:00 am Connie Walker. Dark Skies Rangers activities. (Workshop)

9:45 am Connie Walker. GLOBE at Night. (Workshop)

10:30 BREAK

10:45 am Robert T Sparks. The Galileoscope (Workshop)

11:30 am Nancy Ali. NASA: Exploring the Infrared Universe through the World Wide Telescope (Workshop).  Participants with PCs are encouraged to download the free WorldWide Telescope software in advance of the session at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx. (Mac users should be able to use the online web client.)

12:15  LUNCH

Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) Conference Presentations

1:30 pm Bonnie Thurber. The Moon Over Us

2:00 pm Thomas Morin. The Great Constellation Project

2:30 pm Rosa Doran. GTTP - Challenges Ahead

3:00 pm Vivian Hoette. Skynet

3:30 BREAK

3:45 pm Patrick Miller. Student Asteroid Discovery:  International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)

4:15 pm Michel & Suzanne Faye

4:45 pm Roger Ferlet. Hands-On Universe - Europe (EU-HOU) - postponed to Thu

6:00 pm HOU-B-Q Dinner at Field House

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THURSDAY July 28 Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) Conference

9:00 am Ido Bareket (via Internet). Presenting Astronomy to the public. Astro-Edu network

9:30 am Roger Ferlet. Hands-On Universe - Europe (EU-HOU)

10:00 am Susan Murabana. Status of Africa HOU and Astronomy in Africa

10:30 am BREAK

11:15 am Poster session (a) Toshiro Handa. Poster: Global view of the annular solar eclipse in May 2012 and simultaneous observation of Venus transit in June 2012 to estimate the distance between Earth and Sun.
(b) Glenn Reagan (see abstracts page)

11:30 am  Donna Charlevoix. GLOBE.

NOON LUNCH

1:15 pm Chuck Ruehle. Telescopes to Tanzania

1:45 pm Ana Inés Gómez de Castro - Stellar Streams and Planets. New Developments by HOU-Spain

2:15 pm Kate Meredith and Tim Spuck. Global Connections in Astronomy (Workshop)

3:00 pm BREAK

3:15 pm Global Connections in Astronomy (Workshop, continued)

3:45 pm Rich Lohman. Universe Quest. Postponed.

4:15 pm Gustavo Rojas. GHOU/GTTP Activites in Brazil - Teacher training, outreach and IASC

4:45 pm Hongfeng Guo. China-HOU 2011

7:00 pm General Assembly Meeting

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FRIDAY July 29 Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) Conference

9:00 am Frank Pino. Progress at Ironwood Observatory

9:30 am Thilina Heenatigala (via Internet). Remote Observing with Astronomers Without Borders

10:00 am Avivah Yamani (via Internet). Social Network & Astronomy Outreach in Indonesia

10:30 BREAK

10:45 am Rich Lohman. Universe Quest.

11:15 am Rosa Doran.  Universe Quest scalability test in Portugal

12:15 Alan Gould. GHOU and NASA missions: Kepler and WISE

Each day, times for meals at George Williams College for those who pay for them:

Breakfast: 7:30 am - 9am
Lunch: 11:45am -1pm
Dinner:  5:15-6:30 pm