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26th

November 2010

Universe in the Classroom

VSS Shastry Time: 10:30 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: Lecture Hall 1


VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop Venue:

SunTent

Telescope Making ( for Teachers ) Navnirmiti Time: 1400 - 1700

Activity: Workshop


27th

November 2010


VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop



VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

28th November 2010


Time: 1030 - 1300 Activity: Workshop

Venue: Lecture Halls 1 & 2

Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

Lantern Procession: Satellite Stories Joanna Griffin Time: 1300 - 1800

29th

November 2010

Fun with Optics

Dynam

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop



VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

Astronomy through Role Playing TV Venkateswaran (VP)

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: Gazebo

30th

November 2010

Fun with Optics

Dynam

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop



VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent


Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop Venue: Gazebo

Moon Vehicle Joanna Griffin, Drishya Learning Center

Time: 15:00 to 16:00

Activity: presentation

Venue: Lecture Halls 1 & 2

1

st December 2010


VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Telescope Making

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent


Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop Venue: Lecture Hall 1

2

nd December 2010

Demo of Astronomy Kit

Arvind Ranade (VP)

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop Venue:

Lecture Hall 2

Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

Telescope Making

Navnirmiti

(for Teachers)

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

3rd

December 2010

Astronomy through Role Playing

A Ramaswamy Tumkur

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Universe in the Classroom VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Telescope Making

Navnirmiti

(for Teachers)

Time: 14:00 to 16:00

Activity: Workshop

4th

December 2010


VSS Shastry

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Demo of Astronomy Kit

Arvind Ranade (VP)

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop


Sun Experiments

Navnirmiti

Time: 1030 - 1300

Activity: Workshop

Venue: SunTent

Live from Observatories

Skype sessions organised with the following Observatories (coordinated by Dr Niruj Mohan)

Nov 30 GMRT, NCRA/TIFR 10.30 am

Nov 30 IUCAA 12.00 am

Nov 30 VBT, Kavalur 2.40 pm

Nov 30 ARIES, Nainital 3.30 pm

Dec 1 IUCAA 12.00 am

Dec 1 GMRT/NCRA 2.00 pm

Dec 3 GMRT/NCRA 12.00 am

Dec 3 VBT, Kavalur 2.30 pm

Each session lasted for 30-45 min, and sometimes even an hour. The resource persons were GMRT/TIFR : Aritra, Ishwar Chandra, Sanjay K., Yashwant Gupta

IUCAA : Arvind Paranjpye, Swara Ravindran

VBT : Muthumariappan, various operators ARIES : Amitesh Omar

Special Lectures

Date: Friday, 26 November, 2010

Title: Yaaminiya Yaatrikaru

Vishwanath Palahalli (IIA)

Time: 1530

Activity: Lecture


Ask An Astronomer

Time: 1700 - 1730

Activity: Discussion


Date: Saturday, 27 November, 2010

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 1400 - 1700



Awe and Wonder

Rohini Devasher, Naveen Nanjundappa

Time: 1730 - 1930

Activity: Interdisciplinary


The experience of artists on zero gravity flights and many

joint ventures of space science and art were presented

incorporating the experience of awe and wonder of the

night sky. Date: Sunday, 28 November, 2010

Title: Cauldrons of Creation: How stars live and dieFiroza Sutaria (IIA)

Time: 1500 - 1630

Activity: Lecture Venue: Lecture Halls 1

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 1630 - 1730



Date: Monday, 29 November, 2010

Title: Time for a Change: Astronomy & the Indian

Calendar TV Venkateswaran (Vigyan Prasar)

Time: 1600

Activity: Lecture


Ask An Astronomer Time: 1630 - 1730



Date: Tuesday, 30 November, 2010

Title: Stories of Chandrayaan

S K Shivakumar, Director, Telemetry and Tracking and Command, (ISTRAC) , ISRO

Time: 1600

Activity: Lecture

Venue: Lecture Halls 1

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 14:00 – 15:30


Venue: Park

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 1700 - 1800



Date: Wednesday, 1 December, 2010

Title: Planets Across the Universe: the Inhospitable & the Habitable?

Rathnasree Nandivada (Delhi Planetarium)

Time: 1530

Activity: Lecture


Ask An Astronomer Time: 1430 - 1730 Activity: Discussion (Hall2)

Date: Thursday, 2 December, 2010

Title: The Violent Universe Biman Nath (RRI)

Time: 1530

Activity: Lecture


Ask An AstronomerTime: 1630 - 1730



Ask An Astronomer

Time: 11:30 – 12:45


Venue: Park

Date: Friday, 3 December, 2010

Title: The Mysterious Universe G Srinivasan (RRI)

Time: 1530

Activity: Lecture

Venue: Lecture Halls 1&2

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 1630 - 1730



Ask An Astronomer

Time: 11:30 – 12:45


Venue: Park

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 14:00 – 15:30


Venue: Park

Date: Saturday, 4 December, 2010

Title : Hrithik, 8-legged freaks from space, and us: The search for life in the cosmos

Jayant Murthy (IIA)

Time: 15:30

Activity: Lecture Hall 1

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 14:00 – 15:30


Venue: Park

The Impulsive Sun and its Relevance for Earth

Dibyendu Nandy (IISER, Kolkata)

Time: 1730 - 1830

Activity: Lecture


Ask An Astronomer

Time: 11:30 – 12:45


Venue: Park

Ask An Astronomer

Time: 14:00 – 15:30


Venue: Park

Films

Time: 1730 - 1830

Activity: Film


Cosmic Conversations (Srishti ) Date: Monday, 29 November, 2010

Short films made by students of Srishti on various aspects of astronomy in society, culture, tradition and behaviour.

Projecting Utopias: Space, The Final Frontier (Experimenta Film Society )

Date: Wednesday, 1 December, 2010

Projecting Utopias: A Wonderful New World (Experimenta Film Society)

Date: Thursday, 2 December, 2010

Projecting Utopias: Om Dar-B-Dar (Experimenta Film Society ) Date: Friday, 3 December, 2010

Theatre

Unscientific Storytelling Deepak Srinivasan (Srishti)

Time: 1730 - 1830

Activity: Theatre


Three presentations on 26, 27 and 28th November

It is an interwoven and fragmented narrative of our personal connects to modern science. Based on the biographies of

scientists it emphasised the role of imagination in our pursuit of understanding nature.

Skywatching

Evening with Stars ABAA & BAS

Date: Friday, 26 November through 5th

December 2010

Time: 1830 - 1930

Activity: Skywatching

Venue: Park

5th

December 2010

Symposium : Astronomy and Society: Public Ownership of Science

09:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Chandrakant Shukre

09:40 Introduction : Niruj Mohan

10:15 Sunderstanding – Vivek Monterio

11:15 Scientific Culture: Encultured Science – Chayanika Shah

13:30 Joys of Astrophotography - A Stellar Pastime - Ajay Talwar

14:45 Astronomy, Astrology & Scientific Temper - K Pappootty

15:45 The Scientist Child: The Unending joy of Discovery - Vijay Padaki 16:45 Moon Vehicle Cafe - Joanna Griffin

17:45 Conclusion

Abstracts:

Sunderstanding : Vivek Monteiro The sun is an unparallel resource for universalizing science. At no cost and low cost, simple tools can be constructed to

do non-trivial experiments. Day time astronomy has the potential to become mass scientific activity. Sunderstanding is

understanding what can be done with the sun as a scientific resource and as a learning resource.

Vivek Monteiro is a science communicator, who was trained as a theoretical physicist.

Chair: Rustam Vania

Respondents: Prajval Shastri, Sreekumar P

Scientific Culture: Encultured Science: Chayanika Shah Chayanika Shah is a former physicist, physics teacher, social scientist and social activist.

Chair: Jayant Murthy

Respondents: Niruj Mohan, Sabina von Kessel, Jyothsna Belliappa

Joys of Astrophotography - A Stellar Pastime: Ajay Talwar This is a short presentation which intends to convey the joy and satisfaction the author feels while pursuing

astrophotography. Today all astronomy and the associated science is conducted with astrophotography. Apart from

being a scientific pursuit, the business of collecting celestial photons is also an art form. The presentation covers both

aspects of astrophotography.

Ajay Talwar has been pursuing this stellar pastime for more than 20 years.

Chair: Shylaja BS

Respondents: Dibyendu Nandy, Joanna Griffin, Alison Byrns

Astronomy~ Astrology & Scientific Temper: K Pappootty India has made substantial progress in education but still people, educated in science, are lacking in scientific temper.

Astrology is the mother of almost all superstitions. The talk will give a brief history of how an observational science

like astronomy later decayed and was subverted to give rise to predictive astrology.

K Pappootty is a physics teacher and science communicator, and current director of the Encyclopedia Institute,

Government of Kerala .

Chair: Sabyasachi Chatterjee

Respondents: Prajval Shastri, Ravinder Banyal

The Scientist Child: The Unending joy of Discovery : Vijay Padaki The talk falls back on the speaker's experiences in some path breaking programmes of science teaching in the country

and attempts to integrate notions of scientific temper with cognitive development and personality development in children.

Vijay-Padaki is a theatre educator who has been committed to education enrichment over many years.

Chair: Indira Chowdhury

Respondents:, Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Svati Dandekar

Moon Vehicle Cafe: Joanna Griffin Moon Vehicle cafe critiques the dialogue of the space industry and astronomy research. It proposes that the formalised lecture rooms and offices of institutions, including the space of this symposium, are an obstacle to enriched, informed

and meaningful conversations taking place. Using examples from art practice and the Cafe Scientifique movement it

win look at how encounters, conversation and courage are needed to engage fully in the aspirational potential of our

connection to outer space.

Joanna Griffin is an artist who has worked closely with space science labs and the technology of satellites for the last

ten years. Since the launch in 2008 of Chandrayaan-l ; she has been leading the "Moon Vehicle" project out of Srishti

School of Art, Design and Technology.

Chair: Sreekumar P

Respondents: Sunilkumar, Kalpana Tanwar, Naveen Nanjundappa

Appendix:

List of schools which sent student volunteers

1. Bapu composite PU College, Yeshwanthapura

2. MES Prof. Subba Rao College, Vidyaranyapura

3. New Baldwin International Residential School

4. Nightingales School

5. Parikrama School, Sahakaranagar

6. Poornaprajna Education Centre, Widia

7. Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Diagnol Road, VV Puram

8. Sri Vani Education Centre, Basaveshwaranagar

9. St. Mary's High School, Peenya

10. VVS Sardar Patel School

11. Vijay College, Basavanagudi

List of rural schools whose visit was sponsored under rural support scheme

# Place No. of

students &

volunteers

Date Team leader Mode of

transport

Amount

requested

No. of

schools

1 Nelamangala 40 Dec 1 Mallikarjunaiah

9448723314

Hired vehicle 3100 1

2 Chamarajanag

ar

27+3=30 Dec 3 Nanjundaswamy

9632466320


3 Tumkur 30+1=31 Dec 3 Mamatha.M

9448250412


4 Magadi 45+5=50 Dec 3 Francis G Benjamin

9448669386


5 K.R.Nagar 20+2=22 Dec 4 Vajramuni

9880127376


6 Hassan 25+5=30 Dec.4 N.J.Somanath

9731613132


7 Gulbarga 10+1=11 Dec 4 Ninganna Sannakki

9902606052

Train 8000 5

8 Raichur 50 Dec 1 CD Patil

94484275854842758

5


9 Gadag 50 Dec 1 K A Hiremath

9880664661

Public bus 23220 1

List of teachers from BGVS / KRVP who served as resource persons for activities

M.D Latheef Sab , Challakere

Manjunatha , Chitradurga

Mustaq Ahamed.B , Chitradurga

Rajeshwar Reddy

Mahesh Kumar.M.Badiger

Prakasha.M.B

Ravindra.S

Shyam Lande

Sangamesh.I.Dindur

S.B Parasapur

G.B Santhosh Kumar

B.K Ramachandra

Vidya.B.S

Sumalatha

Manjula.D

Hemalatha.H.E

Purushothama.S.C

Pradeep

Lakshmi Kantha.M.S

H.S.T Swamy

K.Nagaraj

Ravi Shankar.S

Sridhara Mayya.M.N

Vijay.Basappa Fadi

Umesh.Yettinamani

S.Vajramuni

Francis G. Benjamin, Ramanagara

M.Gangadharappa

List of Volunteers from Association of Bangalore Amateur Astronomers

Jayanth Basavarajaiah

Prakash Subbabba

Chandrashekar G

Leela

Shivaparasad

Akshay Kumar Arun Bharadwaj

Aniruddha V

Akash Dalmia

Anusha M

Amog

Arun.B. S

Bharath A J

Bharath

Dilip Kumar

Jayanth M

Jayashree

Keerthi Kiran

Krithika M

Subramani Naveen

Rahul Jayanth

Madhava T S

Vishwanath Hawargi

Vivek Herur

Viral D

Arvind Benaka

Shaym

Abhinamanyu Reddy

Janani Reddy

Veena Reddy

Chiranjeevi Reddy

Sukreeth Reddy

Rea Charles Nithila Kumar

Abhay Maitreya

Vaishnavi Reddy

Trishala Gopinath

Abhay Nambiar

Ayuti Gosawami

Caturatam C S

List of volunteers from Bangalore Astronomical Society

Sundar

Akshaya

Viswa

Achyut

Ravi Babu

Malvika

Gautham

Naveen

Sunil

Kiran

Vivek

Dilip Kudva

Inayath Khan

Kshma Z

Pooja

Prakhar Mishra

Abhay

Ramesh

Ramesh-Partner

Volunteers from Various Research Institutes

First Name Last Name Organisation

Nagendra K N IIA faculty

Ravinder Banyal IIA faculty

Sabyasachi Chatterjee IIA faculty

Jayant Murthy IIA faculty

Dipankar Banerjee IIA faculty

Faseehana Saleem IIA engineer

Hema BP IIA PhD student

Kishore Kumar IIA MTechPhD student

Narsi Reddy IIA MTechPhD student

Sasikumar Raja IIA MTechPhD student

Tarun Sharma IIA MTechPhD student

Smitha HN IIA PhD student

Pradeep Chitta IIA PhD student

Appakutty M IIA Technical staff

Muniyandi A IIA Technical staff

Muthumariappan

Chinnathambi IIA Faculty

Umanath Kamath IIA faculty

Vishwanath Palahalli IIA faculty

Satya Narayanan IIA faculty

Murthy IIA technical staff

Rajaguru S.P. IIA faculty

Sumedh Ananthpindika IIA post-doc

Margarita Safonova IIA post-doc

Vyas A IIA student

Roopashree IIA student

Sajal IIA student

Jothirmay Paul IIA MTechPhD student

Dhananjaya S IIA admin

Neeharika Varma IIA postdoc

Mousumi Das IIA faculty

Vyas A IIA PhD student

Bala Iyer RRI faculty

Lijo RRI PhD student

Nazma Islam RRI PhD student

Chandra RRI PhD student

Dwarakanath RRI Faculty

Girish V ISAC faculty

Rakhee K ISAC PhD student

Radhika D ISAC PhD student

Sankar Subramanian ISAC Faculty

Radhakrishna V ISAC Faculty

Ramadevi M C ISAC Faculty

Nirmal Iyer ISAC PhD Student

Subramania Athray ISAC PhD Student

Sreejith P ISAC PhD Student

Uma Unnikrishnan ISAC PhD Student

Manju S ISAC Faculty

Monoj Bug ISAC Engineer

Vaishali S ISAC PhD student

Shyama Narendranath ISAC PhD

Seetha S ISAC Faculty

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