Conveners
Astronomical Culture
- Gasper Kukec Mezek (Linnaeus University)
Astronomical Culture
- Gasper Kukec Mezek (Linnaeus University)
Explaining the dynamics of a binary star system can be a tricky task, especially for students that may not be confident in using the disciplinary discourse of physics and astronomy. In this talk, we examine video data of a pair of physics students, showing how they successfully reason about binary star motion without the terminology of Newtonian mechanics, but rather by recruiting their bodily...
The “Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations” (VASCO) project uses existing survey data to search for exceptional/unknown astrophysical transients (see Villarroel et al. 2020) that might occur during a 70 years of time baseline, in particular vanishing objects. The broad set of astrophysical goals range from searching for natural astrophysical objects e.g. Active...
Space and astronomy offer important opportunities for helping young people to increase their science capital. Motivated also by the UN's sustainability goals and the challenge of Earth's changing climate, Chalmers is building a new visitor centre and exhibition covering space and astronomy technology at Onsala Space Observatory, with kids in years 2-9 as a main target audience. We present...
I will present a handful of initiatives that we, the Swedish astronomical community, could choose to implement to support young researchers. In our current system, these groups (PhD students and postdocs) are the most vulnerable to exploitation, bullying, and general insecurity in their career situation.
