Category Archives: TF1 funded projects

Overview of Project

Basic astronomy is currently not taught in Haitian schools or colleges, as learned during recent lectures at UNIQ and ESIH by the PI. Both places however have expressed a strong interest in incorporating basic astronomy into their curricula, which is why HASC-1 was funded. Utilizing a tool, an all-sky-camera, offers a simple and effective way […]

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The Winter School on Astronomy is a four-day educational and cross-cultural rendezvous of astronomy targeted to university students. The school intends to inspire and breed a new generation of astronomers. Our goal is to bring opportunities for astronomy training and discussion with high-level experts for the young bright minds in the developing world. Invited lecturers […]

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In Latin America there is great enthusiasm for astronomy and interest in developing local observatories, but there are few astronomers in some of these countries able to develop new talents. In 2008, members of the Astronomy Institute at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Instituto Nacional de Astronomía, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) […]

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The “Summer Workshop on Radio Astrophysics, Tonantzintla 2017” will introduce the topic of Radio Astrophysics to students in the last year of careers in Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, and related fields. The registration will be open to students from Mexican and Central/South American institutions. Our main motivation to promote this specific area is the recent beginning […]

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Madagascar has recently introduced astronomy and astrophysics curriculum at Honours and Masters level at the University of Antananarivo. Students come from Physics background have embarked into the programme however there are lack of local expertise to conduct widely used cutting edge tools for research. This workshop will deliver a practical programming in Python for astronomy […]