This inservice workshop for middle- and high-school science teachers is a 2-credit course at Penn State's Graduate School officially listed as Astro 597B. Transcripts can be obtained after the course is complete from the Penn State Registrar (www.psu.edu/registrar). In the program below, activities take place in 541 Davey Laboratory and Dr. Brandt is the presenter, unless otherwise noted.
Questions regarding the Workshop can be referred to Chris Palma (cpalma@astro.psu.edu,
814-863-6091).
Monday, July 15
9:00-9:30 Workshop introduction, National Science Education Standards
(Palma)
9:30-10:30 The Milky Way Galaxy
BREAK
10:45-12:00 Research talk: The halo of our Galaxy (Palma)
Slides from Presentation
LUNCH
1:30-3:30 The closest galaxies
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4:30-5:30 Research talk: Colliding galaxies (Charlton)
DINNER
IF CLEAR 9:00-midnight Nighttime observing on Davey Lab roof
(Durrell, Palma)
IF CLOUDY 7:30-9:30 Video presentation (Brandt) Room TBA
Tuesday, July 16
09:00-10:30 Galaxy distances and the cosmic distance ladder
BREAK
11:00-12:30 Distant galaxies
LUNCH
1:30-2:30 Research talk: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Richards)
Powerpoint Presentation
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3:00-4:00 Research talk: The Hubble/Chandra Deep Field (Hornschemeier)
Powerpoint Presentation
DINNER
IF CLEAR 9:00-midnight Nighttime observing on Davey Lab roof
(Durrell, Palma)
IF CLOUDY 7:30-9:30 Chandra ds9 activities (Hornschemeier) (214
Boucke)
Wednesday, July 17
0900-10:30 Expansion of the Universe and the Hubble Law
BREAK
10:45-12:00 Research talk: Matter between the galaxies (Charlton)
LUNCH
1:30-3:30 The Big Bang and the age of the Universe
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4:00-5:00 Dark matter I
DINNER
IF CLEAR 9:00-midnight Nighttime observing on Davey Lab roof
(Durrell, Palma) M13 image
IF CLOUDY 7:30-9:30 Video presentation (Brandt) Room TBA
Thursday, July 18
9:00-10:30 Dark matter II
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10:45-12:00 Research talk The first stars in the Universe (Abel)
LUNCH
1:30-3:00 Active galaxies and supermassive black holes
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3:30 - 4:30 Research talk: The large-scale geometry of the
Universe (Schneider)
4:30-6:00 Free time: curricular materials, planetarium, WWW, etc
6:00-7:30 WORKSHOP BANQUET (Cafe Laura, Mateer Bldg)
7:30-8:30 Research talk: Building very large telescopes
(Ramsey)
(115 Mateer) Powerpoint Presentation
Friday, July 19
9:00-10:30 Speculations on modern cosmology (Charlton)
BREAK
10:45-11:30 Discussion: Astronomy and NSES in the secondary classroom
(Hornschemeier) Powerpoint Presentation
11:30-12:00 Workshop evaluations