Second Workshop on Astronomy for Inclusion

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Day 1 (November 17)   13:00-17:00 UTC

Keynote talk 1 : 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 1: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 2: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Keynote talk 2: 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 3: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 4: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Keynote talk 3 : 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)

Posters Exhibition during all the session

Day 2 (November 18)   17:00-21:00 UTC

Keynote talk 4: 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 5: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 6: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Keynote talk 5: 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 7: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Contributed talk 8: 10 min + 5 min (Q&A)
Keynote talk 6: 45 min + 15 min (Q&A)

Posters Exhibition during all the session

Keynote Speakers:

Stavros Katsanevas:

Professor exceptional class at University Paris Diderot, and the director of the European Gravitational Observatory (2018-). He has served as director of the Laboratory of Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (APC, 2014-2017), and co-director of the Laboratory of excellence UnivEarhs, an interdisciplinary collaboration between APC and the Institute de la Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), along themes also developed in APOGEIA. He has also served as deputy director of the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) of CNRS responsible for Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (2002-2012), coordinator of the EU funded ERANET ASPERA (2006-2012) gathering the European agencies funding Astroparticle Physics and first chairman of the European Consortium of Astroparticle Physics (APPEC) (2012-2015). His scientific contributions (close to 400 publications), concern Particle Physics at CERN and Fermilab, beam design (CERN to Gran Sasso), Astroparticle, applications (smart sensors, medical physics) and phenomenological studies and simulation. Stavros is the coordinator of the REINFORCE program.

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Gary Foran:

Staff member at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His field of research is galaxy formation and evolution. With the aim of understanding the physical processes behind the appearance and environment of galaxies, he uses spectroscopy to study the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of galaxies in the early universe.

As a teenager growing up in Sydney he had night-blindness. He was able to obtain his PhD in chemistry. In 1992 he was one of the foundation team members of the Synchrotron project, which generates powerful X-rays to analyse the molecular structure of various substances, and he worked in that field for more than 20 years. But after he turned 40, his visual field began collapsing inwards. After his retirement in 2010, it was in 2015 that Garry heard a radio interview with some of the astrophysics team from Swinburne University. He approached the team which was fantastically supportive, particularly who was his supervisor, Professor Jeff Cooke. He started a new line of work, collaborating on refining sonification methods with the help of Jeff Hannam, a sound designer at RMIT University.

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María del Carmen Argudo Fernández:

Astronomer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso and PhD from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) and University of Granada (UGR), Spain (2013). Her areas of interest in her research are the Galaxy formation and evolution, the effects of the environment on galaxies, Galaxy interactions, Star formation and Active galaxies. She leads the project AstroBVI (Astronomy Educational Kit for the visually impaired community in Central and South America) is an educational inclusion project funded by the Office of Astronomy for Development of the International Astronomical Union. BVI stands for the Blind and Visually Impaired community, who are often excluded from educational and outreach activities in relation to visually intensive areas of knowledge, as in the case of the astronomy. The goal of AstroBVI is to make Astronomy in general, and galaxies in particular, more accessible to schoolchildren with visual impairments.

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Danya Thompson:

As Planetarium Director she has provided support and guidance for all planetarium activities at Ball State University since 2012. She holds a MS in Physics and has over 10 years’ experience in STEM outreach.

Ms. Thompson has created various live planetarium programs and has worked on over 8 full-length fulldome planetarium programs in various roles such as: script writer, director, program manager, 3D content programmer, sound recorder and editor. Two of her programs, “Saturn & Beyond” and “Halloween: Celestial Origins,” are available for planetariums world-wide. Ms. Thompson has worked on various planetarium related projects including “A Study on Vulnerability, Power, and Connection in the Planetarium,” “Fostering Scientists in the Dome: Cultivating the Characteristics of a Scientist,” “GIS Data to Planetarium Dome,” “To the Stars and Back: Exploring Our Planetary Backyard – Summer Science Camp for Middle School Girls at Ball State University and Pre-service Teacher Field Experience for Multicultural Education,” and “The Charles W. Brown Planetarium STEM Hands-On Activity Stations.”.

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REINFORCE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, under Grant Agreement no. 872859