Why KICP and not CfCP

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Welcome to Extreme Astronomy _at_ the Planetarium
A Cosmology Short Course for Planetarium Staff

• Why KICP and not CfCP
• Goals of this Course
• Your Mission.
• Schedule
• Logistics
• Partners

Randall H. Landsberg Co-Course Director Director
Education Outreach
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KICP ?

• CfCP NSF Physics Frontier Center (2001)
• Profound Advances Education Outreach
• What is dark energy?
• Did inflation happen and if so why?
• What do the highest energy particles tell us
  about the cosmos?
• KICP Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
• 7.5 Million Endowment from Kavli Foundation
  (2004)

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Focus KICP Outreach
Signature Programs

• Museum Partnerships
• Space Explorers
• (Cosmology) Short Courses

Public Interest Excitement
Engaging Underrepresented Minorities in SMET
Teaching Teachers about Cosmology Providing
Tools
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KICP Short Courses 1 Per Year Planned with
Follow-Up
Goal of This Course To incorporate modern high
energy astrophysics into planetarium programming

• Framework for Understanding Modern High Energy
  Astrophysics
• Tools to Use _at_ Your Planetarium
• Visuals
• Movies
• Resources
• Seeds for Future Collaboration
• KICP Visitors Program
• Future Short Courses
• Shows for the Public

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Your Mission.

• Actively Participate in the Short Course
• Bring Modern Astrophysics Back to Your Home Inst.
• Provide Feedback
• During the Course
• Evaluation
• At GLPA follow-up session
• October 20 Wednesday (Noon-3pm)
• Keep us informed of your progress
• Follow Up Evaluation 1yr

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Course Schedule
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 800 AM Coffee and
Welcome (Randy Landsberg) Galileos 830-1000
AM Lecture Overview (Simon Swordy) Cyber
Space 1000 AM Discussion Coffee (Simon Swordy)
Galileos 1030 AM - 1200 PM Lecture Black
Holes, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Much More
X-ray Astronomy Then and Now (Mel Ulmer) Cyber
Space 12 PM Lunch Galileos 100-200 PM Demo -
3D Visualizations (Doug Roberts Mark
SubbaRao) Black Hole Theater 200-300
PM Lecture Gamma-Ray Astronomy from Space
(Carlo Graziani) Cyber Space 300-330
PM Discussion Coffee (Carlo Graziani)
Galileos 330-400 PM Tour Adler/Bookstore 400-5
30 PM Adler show/Tour 3D (Doug Roberts Mark
SubbaRao) 530-630 PM Lecture History of
High-Energy Astronomy (Dietrich Müller) Cyber
Space 630-830 PM Dinner at the Adler
Galileos 830 PM (optional) Adler Show Sonic
Vision (optional)
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Saturday

• SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2004
• 845 AM Coffee Question Answer Session
• 900-1030 AM Lecture Ground Based Gamma-Ray
  Astronomy
• (Scott Wakely) Cyber Space
• 1030-1130 AM Virtual Observatory Activity
• (Mark SubbaRao) Cyber Space
• 1130 AM - 100 PM Break-out Sessions box Lunch
  (Classrooms AB)
• 100-200 PM Lecture Cosmic Ray Neutrino
  Detection
• (Angela Olinto) Cyber Space
• 200-230 PM Discussion Coffee (Angela Olinto)
• 300-430 PM Cosmic Ray Experiments (Tom Jordan)
  Cyber Space
• 500 PM Dinner/Social in Chinatown
• Lao Sze Chuan 2172 S. Archer Avenue
• 600 PM RedMoon Theater "Sink, Sank, Sunk", Ping
  Tom Memorial Park

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Sunday (end 4pm)

• SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2004
• 900-1000 AM Coffee Lecture Supernovae
  Remnants
• (Jim Truran) Cyber Space
• 1000-1030 AM Discussion Coffee (Jim Truran)
• 1030-1130 AM Lecture Black Holes Active
  Galaxies (Doug Roberts) Cyber Space
• 1130 AM - 100 PM Lunch with QA (Doug Roberts)
  Galileos
• 100-230 PM Lecture High Energy Objects at
  Other Wavelengths (Lucy Fortson) Cyber Space
• 230-400 PM Informal QA/Close-out
  Coffee/snacks
• (Simon Swordy, Lucy Fortson, Randy
  Landsberg) Galileos

October 20, 2004 Noon-3pm Follow Up Session _at_
GLP)
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Logistics

• Location Adler (CyberSpace Galileos)
• Lecture Slides will be provided
• Hardcopy CD/Web (latter)
• E-mail Access
• Meals Provided
• Transportation Provided to/from
  Hotel/Adler/Socials
• See Bus Schedule
• Tiffany Miles Key Contact
• Will coordinate travel to airport (Sign-up sheet)
• Travel Reimbursement
• Inform her of any deviations (e.g., driving self)

NO Food In CyberSpace
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Thanks to

• All the Instructors
• PARTNERS
• GLPA
• Adler Planetarium
• Larry Ciupik
• Gary Sampson
• Bob Bonadurer