| OSSE/NASA IDEAS Teaching Space Science Workshop | |||||
| Office of Space Science Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||||
| 1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin | |||||
| 11 - 15 August 2003 | |||||
| Schedule, subject to real-time modifications as needed! | |||||
| Speakers: Sanjay S. Limaye, Jatila van der Veen, Wilton T. Sanders, Lawrence M. Krauss, Rosalyn A. Pertzborn | |||||
| CDT | 11 August, Monday | 12 August, Tuesday | 13 August, Wednesday | 14 August, Thursday | 15 August Friday |
| Room 1225 | Room 1225 | Room 1225 | Room 1225 | Room 1225 | |
| 9:00 | Sanjay Limaye: Welcome and Intdocutions | Jatila van der Veen - Intro to astro techniques for measuring distance and age | Jatila van der Veen - High Z SNe Ia and the expanding universe | Jatila van der Veen - Globular clusters and the age of the Universe | Work on Implementation Plans and activity/curriculum plan |
| 9:15 AM | Rosalyn Pertzborn: Expectations for the Workshop | Individual Work Time and Program Evaluation | |||
| 9:30 AM | Wilt Sanders: Missing Baryon Explorer, a SMEX Mission proposed to NASA | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| Room 1253 | Room 1253 | Room 1253 | Present preliminary activity/curriculum plan | ||
| 10:45- 12:15 pm | Jatila van der Veen - Cosmology in 2003: the Universe Adventure | Image processing lab #1:Intdo to astronomical digital imaging techniques | Image processing Lab #2: Light curve for supernovae | finish lab 3: get HR diagram and find age of stars | |
| Lunch | End of Workshop | ||||
| Room 1225 | |||||
| 1 - 2:15 | Jatila van der Veen - CMB presentation | LAWRENCE KRAUSS: State of the Universe address | Jatila - photometry theory | informal lab time to finish up whatever left to do and practice | |
| Break | |||||
| Room 1553 | Room 1225 | Room 1253 | Room 1253 | ||
| 2:30 - 4:30 | CMB comupter labs: COBE for Big Kids and CMBFAST Modeling | Q&A period with LMK till ~ 3 PM, then continue working on intro to digital imaging | Image processing Lab#3: B and V magnitudes for a star cluster | Discussion of results and lab uses with students | |
| Dinner | On your own | On your own | On your own | On your own | |
| 7:00 PM | Visit to Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin | LAWRENCE KRAUSS | Yerkes Rain Date | ||
| We will most likely car pool. Williams Bay is about 75 minutes drive away. | Public Lecture: The Physics of Star Trek, 1605 S. Park Street | 7:30 - 11:00 pm FOLK DANCING Outdoors at the Libray Mall | |||
| 9:00 PM Washburn Observatory Public Night (Weather Permitting) | |||||