International Festival for Astronomy | 9-11 November 2007

[ifa]

Hi all,

The Dutch Youth Association for Astronomy will organize the International Festival for Astronomy in November 2007. This event will start 9 november till 11 november, but you are already Thursday evening welcome, in Bunnik (nearby Utrecht), The Netherlands. There is a really fascinating program around the themes Cosmology and Amateur meets Professional.

Currently there are already 3 big speakers

- Robbert Dijkgraaf, a physicist working on String theory at the Amsterdam University and the Spinoza Prize winner.

- Carlos Frenk He is the director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology in Durham. This institute is famous about their simulation of the universe, and Carlos Frenk is well known about his work about the distribution of dark matter.

- Govert Schilling. Well known writer of scientific, mostly astronomic, articles in newspapers and international magazines like Sky and Telescope.

- Maybe you! On a conference the visitors has the opportunity to give a talk or present a poster about their own research or observations. Not obligatory, but very nice!

Furthermore, the European Southern Observatory, owner of the VLT, has a very big poster presentation! This is almost 60 m^2!

And we have a live connection with the VLT telescope in Chili!

At Saturday we will visit the Utrecht observatory, where currently also a real measurement is running, and SRON. SRON is building the detectors for the next generation X-ray and infrared satellites mainly based on superconducting principles.

The whole program, including food, drinks (normal amounts) and a shelter cost you just 75 euro! You want to know more about this event?

Check http://www.sterrenkunde.nl/jwg/ifa and register for this amazing festival!

The complete program will be in English.

See you at the International Festival of Astronomy!

[daz]

This looks really interesting! Just wish I'd known about it before now!!!

Is this going to be a regular thing? If so, I'll note it in the calendar

[ifa]

It is currently not a regular event. This event is now organised because the Dutch Youth association for Astronomy will exists 40 years.

If its a success we will see