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PIXE-PAN 2008
June 16 to 27 (for teachers)
June 23 to 27 (for students)

JINAs Summer Program at Notre Dame's Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics will be held from June 16 to 27 (for teachers) and from June 23 to 27 (for students). This is a terrific opportunity to learn more about nuclear physics/astrophysics, operating an accelerator, and cosmology! Additional information and application forms are available online at http://www.jinaweb.org/outreach/PIXE/. The application deadline (submittable online!) is April 1st.

Practical Observational Astronomy from the Sierra Nevada
Laboratory Course
July 27- August 1, 2008

Learn the stars and your telescope under the dark, clear skies of the northern Sierra Nevada at San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus. Great personal attention by instructor Martin Sirk and co-instructors Steve Gottlieb and Ray Cash. Enjoy the majestic beauty of the Sierra Buttes and Lake Basin region by day and then the awesome display of stars at night. For registration information email jsteele@sfsu.edu

For more information, go to: http://www.sfsu.edu/~sierra/Course_Astronomy.html

3rd Heidelberg Summer School
September 1 - 5, 2008

First Announcement and Call for Applications

The "International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg" announces the 3rd Heidelberg Summer School: The Art & Craft of Astronomical Instrumentation -- from optical to infrared wavelengths.

The availability and proper use of state-of-the-art instrumentation techniques is the basis for scientific progress in observational astronomy. A number of new instruments have become available recently or will enter service in the very near future. Other fascinating instrumental proposals will be realized in somewhat more distant future, however, their concepts need to be defined well in advance. The IMPRS summer school 2008 is aiming to introduce young colleagues to some of the instrumental opportunities they will use tomorrow.

Topics to be covered by the main lecturers will include:
Optical-/NIR-Interferometry :: Adaptive optics :: Herschel FIR instrumentation: SPIRE / PACS / HIFI :: ELT :: JWST :: H.E.S.S. :: GAIA :: CoRoT :: LBT :: survey techniques

The main lecturing program is presented by invited speakers and is accompanied by science talks on specific topics by local experts.

Confirmed invited lecturers are:

Thomas BLOEKER, European Space Agency
Roberto GILMOZZI, European Space Agency
Albrecht POGLITSCH, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial
Physics
Andreas QUIRRENBACH, Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg University
Wolfgang WILD, SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research

Applications for participation are invited from graduate students and early post-docs working in scientific disciplines related to the content of the school. A limited number of grants are available to partially cover travel expenses of participants.

Deadline for application is June 15, 2008.

Please find more information, our poster, and the application forms under
www.mpia.de/imprs-hd/
www.mpia.de/imprs-hd/SummerSchools/2008/

NSTA Conferences 2008

NSTA conferences offer the latest in science content, teaching strategy, and research, all presented by science educators who want to enhance and expand their professional growth. They also offer featured speakers, educational field trips, short courses, exciting social events, and the largest exhibition of science materials around.

NSTA generally hosts four conferences each year - a national conference in the spring and three regional conferences in the fall.

National - Boston, MA: March 27-30

Midwestern - Cincinnati, OH: December 4-6
Western - Portland, OR: November 20-22
Southern - Charlotte, NC: October 30 - November 1

Complete listing of future conferences

 
 
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