Project leader: Anja Schroeder, anja@hartrao.ac.za Project location: South Africa and Africa in general through distance learning Project description: This is a pilot project to support students all over Africa who want to study Astronomy but where the university in their home country does not offer astronomy courses. Most universities offer a standard BSc degree in physics, […]
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Project leader: Eduardo Rubio-Herrera, erubio@astro.unam.mx Project location: Guatemala Project Description: The GUAtemalan School of Astrophysics (GUASA) aims to bring together local Central American/Caribbean undergraduate students of physics/mathematics/engineering, with experts from prestigious astronomical institutions from around the world. During each edition, we expect to cover a wide range of modern topics of astrophysics in order to […]
Project leader: Jaime Forero-Romero, je.forero@uniandes.edu.co Project location: Colombia Project description: We will host a one month school on the theoretical, numerical and observational aspects of cosmology. The school will bring together 4 researchers of international expertise and 25 students from Latin-America. The school will present current methods and research problems in cosmology. With this goal […]
Project leader: Binil Aryal, binil.aryal@uibk.ac.at Project location: Nepal Project description: Because of the effective outcome of previous schools of astronomy, Government of Nepal has decided to provide regular support to the national school. The proposed school will be the third but very important step that will combine and extend both previous schools. In this school, participants […]
Project leader: Jayant Murthy, jmurthy@yahoo.com Project location: Copperbelt University, *Zambia* Project description: There is now a new paradigm in astronomy where data from large missions have become accessible to anyone with good computer hardware and access to the Internet. In many ways, this has opened up frontier science to those institutions and countries who have […]