Johannesburg Centre, Astronomical Society of Southern Africa


 

SCOPEX 2003 – SATURDAY 10 MAY 2003

VENUE:  SA MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUM, 22 ERLSWOLD ROAD, SAXONWOLD, JOHANNESBURG

PROVISIONAL LECTURE SCHEDULE (as @  01 MAY 2003):

TIME

LECTURER

TOPIC

10h00 Jim Knight - Former Director of the Solar Section of ASSA Solar Observing
11h00 Prof Okkie de Jager - Department of Physics, Potchefstroom University The H.E.S.S. Gamma Ray Telescopes in Namibia
12h00 Dr Claire Flanagan - Director Planetarium, Johannesburg People in Space
13h00 Dr Matie Hoffmann - Senior-lecturer: Department of Physics, University of the Free State Recent and future developments for Optical Astronomy in SA: Boyden and SALT
14h00 Dr. Michael Gaylard - Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Is Astronomy useless? No, it can tell what the time is and where you are. Space Geodesy at HartRAO
15h00 Prof David Block - Director: Cosmic Dust Research Laboratory: University of the Witwatersrand Penetrating Masks of Cold Cosmic Dust
16h00 Sarah Buchner – Astronomer HartRAO Interpreting the results from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
16h40 Emmanuel Petrakakis – Presenter at the Founding Convention of the Mars Society in Boulder Colorado 1998 Mars Society
17h00 Dave Gordon – Chairman of ASSA JHB What’s up in the Sky.
17h30 Dave Gordon and Chris Stewart
Chairman and Vice-Chairman of ASSA JHB
RAFFLE DRAW AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF EXHIBITORS COMPETITION AND LUCKY DRAW WINNERS !!!

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