Summer lectures with a difference!
Here is an opportunity for young people to participate in a summer celebration of astronomy using their home computers and a broadband internet connection. All through the month of June 2010, almost every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, will be lectures and demonstrations at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, organised by the Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. These lectures can be accessed by anyone through online registration from any location of their choice.
The lectures are a precursor to the planned weekend course in Astronomy, by the Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The weekend course will be of one year duration to be held every saturday and sunday, and made accessible through online facilitation, for interested participants from anywhere in India and outside.
The June online lectures will be a mix of overall perspectives in professional as well as amateur astronomy.
Please send an email to nehruplanetarium @ gmail . com with subject heading "Registration for June lectures" to register for these lectures. To all registered participants, copies of the power point presentations of each lecture will be e-mailed before the lecture and the registered participants can interact with the speakers through Ustream chat.
The lecture will be webcast at moderate video quality and high quality audio streaming. Participants could opt to access either the videostreaming or audio streaming depending on the bandwidth access that they have. There will also be an uploading to Youtube as a deferred live presentation, with maybe a 10-15 minute lag.
In general, the lectures would start at 11:30 AM. The lectures will be uploaded in 10 minute segments to Youtube as also webcast - with small breaks after every 10 minute segment. This sequence will be from 11:30 AM to 1 PM. At 1:30 PM, the speaker maybe available for a 15 minute chat segment for any questions and discussions, that the participants may have, keeping in mind the phase lag due to deferred live uploading of lecture segments.
Interested participants could also let us know of topics that they would like to have covered, and we will try and see if they could be arranged in July or at a later time.
Well, this is a beginning exploration from our side, of such online possibilities which could help our community of educators, interested students and amateur astronomers interact together online, and celebrate our interest in astronomy.
Join the yahoogroup created for co-ordinating these online lectures.
Links to the lecture Youtube videos - On this page is also the link for the live Ustreaming of the lectures.
Topic : Positional astronomy and inspiring sky events
Time: 11:30 AM
Speaker : Dr. N. Rathnasree, Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Topic : Two "small" pieces of glass
Time 11:30 AM
Speaker : C. B. Devgun, S.P.A.C.E.
Topic : The nitti-gritties of using amateur telescopes
Time 11:30 AM
Speaker : Vikrant Narang, S.P.A.C.E., Astronomica
Topic : The joys of amateur astrophotography
Time : 11:30 AM
Speaker : Ajay Talwar, Amateur Astronomers Association, Delhi
Topic : No lecture. Testing of different live video and audio streaming formats and feedback
Time : 11:30 AM
Topic : Chandra - A stellar life
Time : 11:30 AM
Speaker: Dr. N. Rathnasree, Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Topic : Celestial photons at high energies
Time 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. P. C. Agarwal, Tata Institude of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Topic : No lecture and some testing with recorded segments from earlier lectures
Time : 11:30 AM
Speaker :
Topic : Physics of Astrophysics
Time : Recording at 11:30 AM. Video Streaming at 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. Patrick Das Gupta, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Delhi University
Topic : No lecture. Testing of different live video and audio streaming formats and feedback
Time : 11:30 AM
Speaker :
Topic : White dwarfs, neutron stars and blackholes
Time : Recording at 11:30 AM, Broadcast at 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. Panchapakesan, University of Delhi
Topic : Supernovae
Time : Recording at 11:30 AM, Broadcast at 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. Alak Ray, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Topic : Telescopes in astronomy - from Galileo to the 21st century
Time : 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, Director, Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
Topic : Geometry of Gravity
Time : 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. Patrick Das Gupta, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi
Topic : Very high energy astronomy
Time : To be announced
Speaker : Prof. P. Vishwanath, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Topic : Physics of the expanding Universe
Time : 1:00 PM
Speaker : Prof. T. R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi
Topic : Radio Astronomy
Time : 11:30 AM
Speaker : Prof. Yashwant Gupta, National Center for Radio Astrophysics, Pune (To be confirmed)
Topic : Tools of optical Astronomy
Time : 4:30 PM
Speaker : Prof. H. P. Singh, Director, Center for Science Education and Communication, University of Delhi
Links to the lecture Youtube videos - On this page is also the link for the live Ustreaming of the lectures.