Maikalani Community Lecture Series (public talks) |
IfA solar physicist Ilia Roussev used this computer-generated model of a solar flare to illustrate his Maikalani Community Lecture, "Stormy Weather in Space," on February 15.
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Discovery of the Cosmos
Dr. Russ Genet
Saturday, February 18th at 6:30 pm
Over the centuries, scientific models of the cosmos have undergone major revisions. An Earth-centered model reigned supreme until Copernicus proposed and Galileo's observations confirmed a simpler sun-centered universe. By the late 1600s, Kepler's analysis and Newton's calculus had turned our solar system into a cozy clockwork universe, and astronomers understood that stars are extremely distant suns. In the early 20th century, Edwin Hubble discovered that spiral-shaped nebulae are galaxies well outside our Milky Way and that the universe is expanding. The latest word is that its expansion is accelerating—a runaway universe pushed apart by mysterious dark energy.
Russ Genet is a Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College. In the 1980s he pioneered automated telescopes, robotic observatories, and remote Internet access. Russ was the 92nd President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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IfA, Maui Open House
Held every Every Fall at the ATRC |
The Institute for Astronomy conducts a yearly open house. Faculty, staff and volunteers from Maui's schools and the Haleakala Amateur Astronomers share a variely of activilies and provide a tour of the ATRC building and labs. The lab tours include demostrations of instrumentation used in the otics lab, descriotions of experiments conducted by IfA researchers and hands on activites.
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This image was taken with the Faulkes Telescope North on 9/18/2009 by attendees of the 3rd annual IfA Maui Open House |
Open house lab tour
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Educational Activities and Partnerships with
Grade Schools, Colleges, Universities for Students and Teachers |
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Faculty at the IfA make trips out to the grade schools as well host groups of students at the IfA |
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The IfA partners with Akamai Workforce to advance students into science and Technology Careers. College students are offered insterships. The internships are lead by Ifa Faculty and staff as well as engineers in the community. Faculty from the IfA aslo participate in the Akamai Professional Developement Program. |
Students used Mira software to determine the brightness of stars. Photo by Karen Teramura.
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Eighteen students entering grades 7-12 and four secondary school teachers participated in the 2008 HI STAR (Hawaii Student/Teacher Astronomy Research) program June 8-14 at IfA and UH Manoa. The main goal of HI STAR is to equip interested and talented students and their teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue astronomy research during the school year. |
Maria Kazachenko (Montana State University) inspected the spectropolarimeter at the SOLARC telescope while attending the summer school in solar physics and astronomy offered by American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and IfA solar physicist Ilia Roussev at IfA's Advanced Technology Research Center on Maui |
Summer School activities offered by IFA’s Dr. Ilia Roussev as part of the Center for Computational Heliophysics in Hawaii. |
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Specialty Tours for Community Groups |
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While the IfA does not offer regular tours there are opportunites for groups to make arrangements for a special tour. |
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