Mozambique lacks highly qualified astronomers and astrophysics as well as a scientific culture in the subject. To minimize these shortcomings and foster interest on the subject among young university students we organised thee activities as described in the OAD proposal. JEDI – MZ 1. Country of workshop: Mozambique 2. City/Location: Praia do Bilene – Tenda Tora 3. […]
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Report of the Astrolab project for the period July 2015 – June 2016 Michèle Gerbaldi and Jean-Pierre De Greve The 5th EAAS workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 June – 1 July 2015: Simpemba, Copperbelt University, Zambia, gave a presentation on ‘Experiences of the Starlight in the university lab’. The planned training sessions of M. […]
A report on the Regional Astronomy Workshop on Astronomy Data Analysis School 07 – 18 November 2016 Copperbelt University (CBU), Kitwe – Zambia At Copperbelt University, (CBU, Kitwe – Zambia), the students in Pure Physics and Physics with Education have an Introductory Astronomy course as compulsory at second year of their programme. For the Physics […]
We have created a toolkit for setting up a physics or astronomy student club. The guide is aimed at university undergraduates who wish to start their own student society. Download the folder at the link below for the full guide, as well as some additional resources. What is a physics student society? A physics student […]
The First Arab Winter School of Astrophysics (FAWSA) provided a platform for astrophysics knowledge sharing, triggering collaborations between fellow Arab astrophysicists, and building a strong professional Arab community in the field. The scope of the winter school covered the following fields: ● Solar System and Exoplanets ● Solar Physics ● Galactic Astronomy : Stars, Stellar Clusters, Nebulae, SNR […]