GLORIA Project community Open Day - Bologna, May 15, 2014

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Programme

Thursday, 15 May 2014: Community open day [about 50 participants expected]


  • 10.00 − 13.30: Citizen astronomy
    • 10.00 - 10.30: What is GLORIA?
      Alberto Castro-Tirado, CSIC, Spain (PDF)
    • 10.30 - 11.00: GLORIA live demonstrations
      Fernando A. Serena and Esteban González, UPM Madrid, Ángela González-Rodríguez, CSIC Granada, Spain

    • 11.00 - 11.30: Coffee/networking
       
    • 11.30 - 12.00: GLORIA as a resource for stimulating inquiry-based learning and scientific thinking in the classroom
      Rosa Doran - NUCLIO and Go-Lab project, Portugal (PPTX)
    • 12.00 - 12.30: The Zooniverse - 1 million citizens doing astronomy
      Oxford, UK (via Hangouts/Skype) (PDF)
    • 12.30 - 13.00: EU-UNAWE: Universe to inspire young children
      Lech Mankiewicz and Kamil Złoczewski - Center for Theoretical Physics PAS, Poland (HTML)
    • 13.00 - 13.20: RTS2: open source suite to robotise your telescope
      Standa Vítek - CVUT, Czech Republic (PDF)

  • -- Lunch --

  • 14.30 − 18.30: GLORIA for students, teachers and all - why use GLORIA?
    • 14.30 - 15.30: Breakout groups - Task: ‘Design your own GLORIA experiment’

      Description: Groups of maximum 6 participants are paired with a GLORIA team member to devise (and implement?) their own GLORIA experiment. They write as they go (blog, or Googledocs, or equivalent) and these docs can be gathered as a starting point for these new users’ community experiments. We invite the interested people to do some research or/and send ideas before the workshop using this form.
      We propose the following three groups: 1. Experiments in GLORIA, 2. Telescopes integration and control, 3. Experiments and tools for educational activities.

    • 15.30 - 16.00: The artistic view of the Universe
      Emer O'Boyle - UCD, Ireland and AntonelloGhezzi - Bologna(PPTX) and (PDF)
    • 16.15 - 16.30: Talk by GLORIA: 1. ‘How to grow the GLORIA network’, 2. ‘Adding your telescope to GLORIA’ (*)

    • 16.30 - 17.00: Coffee/networking
       
    • 17.00 - 17.15: The new Parco Antola 80-cm telescope
      Andrea Dellacasa and Andrea La Camera - DIBRIS, Università degli Studi di Genova (PDF)
    • 17.15 - 17.30: Interacting with schools and the general public using remotely controlled telescopes: the Teramo Observatory experience
      Matteo Di Carlo - INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo (PPTX, PDF)
    • 17.30 - 18.00: Growing and sustaining a community of telescope users
      John Baruch - Bradford, UK (PPTX, PDF)
    • 18.00 - 18.30: Public Outreach Activities in Ireland
      Niall Smith - BlackRock Castle, Ireland (PPT)


Note that all the presentations will be broadcast live on the GLORIA YouTube channel
(direct link to be announced later).

Participants can carry one or more posters regarding activities related to the topics of the meeting.