The National University of Mongolia, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and the East Asian Regional Node (EA-ROAD) recently hosted the first and largest conference in astrophysics in Mongolia. Prior to the start of the conference, the organizers held an Autumn School on binary and multiple stars for Mongolian and international astrophysics students. The formal conference […]
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I arrived in South Africa on the 15 of March 2014, delightfully met by an old, young-by-age and full-of-life acquaintance from Ethiopia, Dr Solomon Belay! A colleague from Zambia, Mr Prospery Simpemba, and another from Namibia, Dr. Michael Backes, were also there, getting ready to attend Scifest Africa, the biggest science festival in Africa, where […]
Brief experience evaluation: Athanasios Taramopoulos, Project leader of the OAD funded project “Astronomical Measurements in Ancient Greece” To the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development: Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on the initiative to spread Astronomy to ordinary people, school and university students. It is a really amazing science and draws everybody’s attention and excitement. […]
My Two Weeks (April 24 – May 6, 2014) Visit to University of Cape Town and South African Observatory (SAAO) by Dr. Romanus Eze, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I first visited Bloemfontein, where I presented a paper titled “Suzaku Observations of Fe_Kalpha line in some Hard X-ray Emitting Symbiotic Stars […]
Today we speak about the Raspberry Pi. In the Computing world the Raspberry Pi has been the talk of the town for a while – actually for the last year or so. What is it? The Raspberry Pi is definitely not a piece of cake but a small credit card size fully functional computer which […]
