List of UVCS Events for the SOHO Fifth Anniversary and Sun-Earth Day Celebrations

The SOHO satellite before launch

A CME as observed by UVCS and LASCO

 

 


The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is now in its fifth year of science operations. To mark the anniversary, the European Space Agency  (ESA) and NASA are sponsoring a world-wide celebration with talks and events planned for Friday, April 27, 2001. Other talks for the anniversary will take place throughout the period April 22-30, 2001. The talks are suitable for general audiences. Talks being given by scientists associated with the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS), which is one of the instruments on SOHO, are listed below.

 SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. UVCS is a collaborative scientific investigation of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), the University of Florence and other scientific organizations in Italy and Switzerland.

 


 

In USA & Canada

 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Date/Time Thursday, 26 April, 7:30 pm
Address 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speakers David Aguilar, John Kohl, Steve Cranmer, Danuta Dobrzycka, 
Mari Paz Miralles, Leonard Strachan
Coordinator David Aguilar (SAO Public Affairs)
Tel/Fax 617-495-7462 / 617-495-7468
Email daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu

               

 Boston Museum of Science
Date/Time Friday, 27 April at 11:30 am; Sat., 28 April, 2:30 pm
Address Science Park, Boston, MA 02114
Speakers Leonard Strachan (English); Mari Paz Miralles (Spanish)
Coordinator Noreen Grice (Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science)
Tel/Fax 617-589-0273 / 617-589-0454
Email ngrice@mos.org

 

 H. R. Macmillan Space Centre
Date/Time Wednesday, 25 April at 7:30 pm
Address 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, CANADA
Speaker Peter Smith
Coordinator Heather Armond (Macmillan Space Center)
Tel/Fax 604-738-7827, ext. 249 / 604-736-5665
Email harmond@hrmacmillanspacecentre.com

 

 Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
Date/Time Friday, 27 April at 2:00 pm
Address 3 Institute Drive, Concord, NH  03301
Speaker Angela Ciaravella
Coordinator Jeanne Gerulskis (McAuliffe Planetarium)
Tel/Fax 603-271-7831 / 603-271-7832
Email jgerulskis@starhop.com

 

 University of Maryland
Date/Time Saturday, 28 April, 10 am
Address College Park Campus, College Park, MD 20742
Speakers Yuan-Kuen Ko, Michael Uzzo and Salvatore Mancuso
Coordinator Gretchen Walker (University of Maryland)
Tel/Fax 301-405-0355 / 301-314-9067
Email gwalker@astro.umd.edu

 

The talks below are restricted to participants at the schools and colleges listed:

 

Wellesley College (Department of Astronomy)
Date/Time Monday, 30 April at 12:30 pm
Address 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Speaker Danuta Dobrzycka

 

Muskingum College
Date/Time Friday, 27 April at 3:00 pm
Address 163 Stormont Street, New Concord, OH 43762
Speaker Bogdan Valcu (Muskingum)

 

Melrose Middle School
Date/Time Friday, 27 April
Address 360 Lynn Fells Parkway, Melrose, MA 02176
Speaker Jennifer Raymond

 

Concord-Carlisle High School
Date/Time Friday, 27 April
Address 500 Walden Street, Concord, MA 01742
Speaker Daniel Phillips

 

Cummings School
Date/Time Friday, 27 April at 8:30 am
Address 42 Prescott St., Somerville, MA 02143
Speaker Irene Porro

 

 

In ITALY

 

 Firenze
Date/Time TBD
Location Universita' di Firenze
Speaker Marco Romoli (Universita' di Firenze Osservatorio)

 

 Torino
Date/Time TBD
Location

Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino
Speakers E. Antonucci and S. Fineschi

 

 Catania
Date/Time TBD
Location

Lyceo scientifico and TBC Uni of Catania
Speaker D. Spadaro  

 

 Palermo
Date/Time TBD
Location

Osservatorio Astronomico G.S.Vaiana
Speaker Fabio Reale

 

 Trieste
Date/Time TBD
Location

Trieste Astronomical Observatory
Speaker Mauro Messerotti

 

 Rome
Date/Time TBD
Location

University La Sapienza & Military Academy Livorno
Speaker Alessandro Cacciani

 

 Napoli
Date/Time TBD
Location

Osservatorio di Capodimonte
Speaker Thomas Strauss

 

 

In UK

 

 Aberystwyth
Date/Time Public Lecture on Sat, 28 April
Location University of Wales
Speaker Shadia Habbal