2007 USA-HOU Conference

VHS video tapes of HOU material were handed out. See online version on the HOU Video pages.

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24 June SUNDAY check-in at Aurora Univ.
5:15-6:30 Dinner
All actual conference sessions starting MONDAY are at Yerkes Observatory.

Yerkes Observatory

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25 June MONDAY

AM

7:30-9:00 BREAKFAST

8:45 Networking among conference attendees

9:00 Kyle Cudworth and Vivan Hoette – Welcome to Yerkes

9:15 Carl Pennypacker
Welcome to HOU conference and overview talk (30 min)

9:45 Bryan Mendez
WISE mission and EPO (40 min)

10:30 BREAK

10:45 Carl Pennypacker and Alan Gould
WISE Asteroid Search program and HOU (30 min – 1 Mb ppt)

11:15 Patrick James Miller
International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC). (30 min). See also Word file about IASC.

11:45 LUNCH

PM

1:30 Patrick James Miller and Jeff Davis
Training session on IASC – how to use the software and participate.
Part I (1 hr)

2:30 BREAK

2:45 IASC Training Part II (1 hr)

3:45 BREAK

4:00 Rich Lohman
Kenya workshop (25 min)

4:30 Kate Meredith
HOU Wisconsin and Update on the Collaborative Projects

5:15 DINNER

7:30-ish Gary Soper
Welcome/Hospitality Suite on “Misty” sailboat. Evening. (?? hrs)

9:00 Networking among conference attendees + Night Observing

Rowan Danou (son of HOU TRA Kate Meredith) takes a look through the Yerkes 40″ refractor telescope (largest refractor in the world)

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26 June TUESDAY

AM

7:30-9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00 Rachel Ross
Las Cumbres Observatory (30 min; 2.5 mb ppt)

9:30 Carl Pennypacker
Big HOU challenge #1: expanding telescope network (30 min)

10:00 Anahita Sidhwa
Teaching Astronomy Online (30 min)

10:30 BREAK

10:45 Rich DeCoster
An observing program for Mira (20 min)

11:15 Carl Pennypacker and Jenifer Perazzo
Curriculum integration with a unit on Moon-Earth for Bellevue School District (20 min; 683 kb ppt)

11:45 LUNCH

PM

1:30 Rich Lohman
Distance to the Stars – a course for the PROMISE program done in Michigan and Ohio last summer. (30 min; 4.3 mb ppt)

2:00 Alan Gould
Workshop: Kepler – HOU module Search for Extrasolar Planets (1 hr – 2.4 mb ppt) See also Sample Excel file of binary star data for CX AQR.

3:00 BREAK

3:30 Laura DiMartino
Cool teaching tricks (30 min)

4:00 Roy Morris
Using models as part of the scientific method. See also this Word document: Eratothenes Modeling Lab.

4:30 Kevin McCarron, HOU Illinois+Yerkes

5:00
Flex time – last minute Share-a-thon items

5:15 DINNER

8:00 Networking among conference attendees + Night Observing

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27 June WEDNESDAY

7:30-9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00 Alan Gould
Big HOU challenge #2: Image Processing (IP) software upgrade (1 hr – 2.3 mb ppt)

10:00 Vivian Hoette and Kaoru Kimura
Process HST Archival Images with Subaru/Makali’i Image Processor (40 min)

10:45 BREAK

11:00 Carl Pennypacker and colleagues
Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) (20 min)

11:30 Alan Gould
Real Astronomy Experience (RAE) update (20 min) [eliminated—time used by IP workshop]

11:50 LUNCH

PM

1:30 David Barnaby
Judging at the Intel International Science Fair – cataclysmic variables project won 1st place in Physics & Astronomy Category (30 min; 3.4 mb ppt)

2:00 Alan Gould
Workshop: Curriculum Revision – (1 hr – 1 mb ppt) See also

• Description of HOSS activities (middle school; pdf)
• Tables of Contents for all high school HOU books (ms word)

3:00 BREAK

3:30 John Kolena, HOU Perspectives

4:15 Mike Ford
Remote astronomy and CCD imaging at the Elk Creek Observatory in Holton, Kansas. My website to access the telescope is http://www.elkcreekobservatory.org. Go do the bottom link. I have all of the remote hardware installed for dome control and now working on integrating the software to ACP. Please email me to request time. I will give you a username and password. I’m going to do some testing before I release it to the world. Hopefully, if funding goes through, I will also have a Meade LX200 GPS 16″ up and ready to go by November.

4:45 Flex time – last minute Share-a-thon items

5:15 DINNER

8:00 Networking among conference attendees + Night Observing

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28 June THURSDAY

9:00 Trey Jalbert, Carl Pennypacker
Global Cosmology Education program based at Lawrence Berkeley Lab

9:30 Harlan DeVore, HOU North Carolina

10:00 Alan Gould
Skype Professional Development Cells

10:30 BREAK

11:00 Vivian Hoette
Astronomy Resources Connecting Schools (ARCS) and
Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists (YAAYS)

11:45 CLOSING CEREMONY/LUNCHEON

Give-away: Here is a HOU video that was on some VHS tapes that were given to attendees at the HOU conference.