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Upcoming Events |
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| Friday, June 19, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: JD Armstrong, "Exoplanets: Discovering New Worlds" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. Flyer |
Earlier Events |
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| Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Lecture: IfA astronomer Lisa Kewley, "Oxygen: Breathing the Universe," UH Manoa Art Building auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, May 22, 2009 | AstroTalk, Beyond the Eyeball: Come See What You Are Missing, Dr. Glen Petitpas, Submillimeter Array, 7:15 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, May 15, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Maui astronomer Harriet Witt, "The Copernican Revolution: A Fact of History? Or a Bare Beginning?" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. Flyer Abstract |
| Saturday, May 2, 2009 | Astroday, Prince Kuhio Plaza, Hilo, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. |
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Dr.Paul H.I. Coleman, Associate Astronomer,, "Kilohoku (Hawaiian astronomy) Then and Now," at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. Flyer Abstract |
| Sunday, April 5, 2009 | IfA Manoa Annual Open House, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Exhibits, games, talks for all ages. |
| Friday, March 20, 2009 | AstroTalk, Dr. Mark Chun (IfA), "Adaptive Optics Systems: All Creatures Great & Small," 7:15 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Lecture, David Jewitt (IfA), "The New Solar System," UH Manoa Art Building auditorium (Room 132), 7:30 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, March 13, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Dr. Fern Duvall, " ‘Ua‘u (Hawaiian Petrels): Hawaii’s Mountain Birds of the Night That Traverse the Far Northern Pacific Ocean," at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. Flyer Abstract |
| Friday, February 13, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Dan O'Gara, Superintendent of Halekala Division, IfA, "Laser Ranging at Haleakala Observatories, 1972 to the Present," at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. Flyer. |
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 | AstroTalk, Dr. Kevin Grazier (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech), "Jupiter as a Sniper Rather Than a Shield," 7:15 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, January 30, 2009 | 2009 International Year of Astronomy Kauai Celebration: Public Star Party, Telescope Observing, & Lecture by Dr. Sanjay Limaye, University of Wisconsin Madison, “Unveiling Venus,” Kauai Community College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Flyer press release |
| Friday & Saturday, January 30-31, 2009 | Astronomy and Astrobiology Workshop for secondary teachers and their students in grades 7 through 12, Kauai Community College, Learning Resource Center, Rm 123, sponsored by University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy & NASA NAI Team. Flyer (pdf) |
| Friday, January 23, 2009 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Casey Fukuda, Haleakala Amateur Astronomers, "The Logical Phases of Amateur Astronomy" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free |
| Thursday, December 11, 2008 | AstroTalk, Dr. Robert Jedicke (IfA), "Einstein vs. Santa: Is Santa Breaking the Laws of Relativity?" 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Monday, December 8, 2008 | Dr. Robert Jedicke (IfA) "Einstein vs. Santa: Is Santa Breaking the Laws of Relativity?" UH Manoa Art Building auditorium (Room 132). 7:00 p.m. Free. |
| Saturday, December 6, 2008 | The Universe Tonight at the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station: Dr. Mark Chun (IfA), "Adaptive Optics in Astronomy," 6 p.m. Free. Stargazing follows. |
| Friday, December 5, 2008 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Dr. Robert Jedicke (IfA) "Einstein vs. Santa: Is Santa Breaking the Laws of Relativity?" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. |
| Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Event, "It's About Time," a panel featuring Bob Joseph (IfA), "The History of Time"; Klaus Keil (HIGP), "The Time of Formation of the Solar System"; Gareth Wynn-Williams (IfA), "The Beginning of Time"; and John Learned (UH Physics & Astronomy), "My Clock Runs Faster than Your Clock," with Shadia Habbal as moderator. UH Manoa Art Building auditorium (Room 132). 7:30 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, November 21, 2008 | AstroTalk, Wayne Rosing, Las Cumbres Observatory, "Education and the LCOGT Global Network," 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 114. Free. |
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | AstroTalk, Dr. Andy Adamson, Associate Director, UKIRT, Joint Astronomy Centre, and Dr. Antonio Chrysostomou, Associate Director, JCMT, "Viewing the Heavens with Different Eyes: The Infrared & Submillimeter Skies," 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, November 14, 2008 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Ms. Cynthia Giebink and Dr. Stuart Jefferies (both IfA) will give a talk entitled "A South Pole Travelogue" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: Dr. Jeff Morgan will give a talk entitled "The Pan-STARRS PS1 Telescope: Saving the World One Asteroid at a Time" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. |
| Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Lecture, "X-Raying Dark Matter," IfA astronomer Pat Henry. Manoa Valley Theatre, 2833 East Manoa Rd., 7:30 p.m. Free. Free parking is available on the street, in the IfA lot, or in the Safeway lot. |
| Saturday, September 6, 2008 | Friends of the Institute for Astronomy special workshop at the IfA Maui building Maikalani and atop Haleakala Observatories. Limited to 30 people who are members of the Friends. $80 plus air transportation and lodging. Call 956-6665 for more information. |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | "SETI: If the Cosmic Telephone Rings, Should We Answer it?," IfA astronomer Gareth Wynn-Williams, IfA Manoa Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Free. |
| Saturday, August 9, 2008 | Escorted trip to Mauna Kea Observatories for Friends who have made gifts to the IfA at the Contributor level or higher. |
| Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | Maui Maikalani Community Lecture: IfA postdoctoral fellow David Harrington will give a talk entitled "Stellar Winds: Observing Stars from Haleakala" at 6:30 p.m. on at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. Free. |
| Friday, July 18, 2008 | Dr. Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, UH Manoa, "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: A Prelude to Lunar Bases," 7 p.m., Kilauea Military Camp, Koa Room. Stargazing to follow, weather permitting. Free. |
| Monday, June 30, 2008 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Lecture, "Other Worlds," John Johnson, IfA NSF Fellow. IfA Manoa Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, June 20, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui. Sol Kaho`ohalahala will present "Mai Ka Lani: Mauka–Makai," an examination of the Hawaii of old, the people, their works, their knowledge, advancements and achievements that lay a path to the future. "I ka wa mamua, I ka wa mahope." Moving toward the future requires that we look to the past. Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
| Monday, June 2, 2008 | "Killer Asteroids," a talk by IfA astronomer Robert Jedicke. IfA Manoa Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. (light refreshments at 6:30). Free. |
| Friday, May 16, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui, Stuart Jefferies (IfA), "Imaging in the 21st Century." Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
| Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Astroday, Prince Kuhio Plaza, Hilo, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. |
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Annual Manoa Open House, 11 a.m to 4 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, April 18, 2008 | AstroTalk, Glen Petitpas, Submillimeter Array, "The Secret Lives of Galaxies: The Invisible Ingredients" 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, April 11, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui, Shadia Habbal (IfA), "Total Solar Eclipses and the Secrets of the Sun," Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
| Friday, March 28, 2008 | AstroTalk, Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui, Jean-Charles Cuillandre of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope will show his film, Hawaiian Starlight: Exploring the Universe from Mauna Kea, which features time-lapse photography of the observatories on Mauna Kea set to original music. Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
| Monday, March 3, 2008 | Frontiers of Astronomy Community Lecture, "Oceans: Origins and Distribution of Water on Earth and in Space," UH Manoa Art Building Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. Free. Speakers: Robert Jedicke and Karen Meech (IfA), Michael Mottl (UH Oceanography), Torrence Johnson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado) |
| Friday, February 15, 2008 | AstroTalk, Tim Livengood, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "EPOXI and a New EPOCh of Extrasolar Planet Exploration" 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, February 15, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui, by Dr. Ilia Roussev, IfA, "Stormy Weather in Space," Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
| Monday, January 28, 2008 | “From Brown Dwarfs to Gamma-Ray Bursts: Award-Winning Graduate Student Research at the Institute for Astronomy,” 7:30 p.m., IfA Manoa auditorium. Three graduate students will describe their independent research projects in talks aimed at nonscientists. Free. |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 | AstroTalk, Phil Sakimoto, University of Notre Dame, "The International Year of Astronomy: Uniting Heaven and Earth," 7 p.m., UH Hilo, University Classroom Building, room 100. Free. |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 | Public Lecture on Maui, by Rob Ratkowski, Haleakala Amateur Astronomers, "How to Use the Telescope You Received for Christmas," Maikalani (Advanced Technology Research Center), 6:30 p.m. Free. |
