IYA2009 Teleblogged : Ron Ekers on "Large Radio Astronomy Projects”

What a closing ceremony it is !! Getting more exciting !! New innovative ideas/ suggestions to carry forward the basic theme of IYA2009, yes it should go beyond IYA2009, and I hopw it will continue to do so, in the times to come !!

I was just having a break after making the first post of my so-called tele-blogging (Is it a legal word, let me know, I don't think I coined a word, do I ?) I just googled "teleblogging" lolz, it says there are 34,200 results,

And Yes, the 4 Noble Prizes in astronomy !!

Any way now back to tele-blogging, I was listening to the comprehensive presentation given by Ron Ekers on "Large Radio Astronomy Projects”. Ron was from Australian and he went on to say so much important stuff, while I was busy taking screen shots, It was really astounding and I was kinda enchanted to the flow he maintained during his presentation, and there were also comments, afterwards made by the audience, especially Catherine, the former president,

And Let's go through some shots I captured..

I agree with Lee, the pictures say 1000 words...

And the speech is over now, I'll post some more images/ photos with regard to this in the next post !!!

It's the Coffee break now, Lee, it's the time you stood up from the bench !!!

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IYA2009 Closing Ceremony, Padua, Italy -- For me it's Tele- blogging

Yes, Lee Pullen, You and cosmic diary have inspired me !! I am grateful that I can tele-blog from Sri Lanka about the same event as you do, with the inspiration from you !!

Well now the fascinating talk of astronomy in wavelengths is over, I wish it went some time, but we should be aware that it's time permitting as well,  Thank you Isabelle Grenier for such an educating presentation, I really liked the slides she used,

Now comes another person to the podium, and I can see that the name of the person, engraved in the beautiful holder, is replaced. As I recall it was Sabrina, who was doing this stuff and I remember how she was helping Catherine previous day !! Today the face is not much clear !! But let's keep watching !!

Now focus on the speaker !!

He is Roberto Gilmozzi, surely Italian, as the accent sounds !! He is speaking about Telescopes, of course the eyes on the skies, the sophisticated and cutting-edge eyes !! He will continue to speak on Large Ground-based Optical Telescopes, as per the agenda, and now I've attache herewith some images that I took as screen captures.

Keep tuned in,

And I should thank to Lee again for mentioning me in his LiveBlog posts. and for the facebook as well, for letting me communicate with Lee at the same time, he's doing an outstanding job out there in the squeezed bench !!

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IYA2009 Closing Ceremony Day 2

The last day of the IYA2009 Closing Ceremony, is today , 10th of January 2010, or in numerical way, 10/01/2010 , well I see a certain significance in this number, What about you? zeros, ones and just a two,

Well, now let's go to the story !!

In the morning following events took place, If you have already gone through the agenda, you will have an insight of those, In the meantime I recorded the event and as it seems now, there has been something gone with my recorder, however I was successful yesterday and I uploaded 3 videos to youtube featuring IYA2009 Closing Ceremony, I'm sure there are many to come !!

Now it's the noon in Italy, (evening in Sri Lanka) there's about a time gap of 4 hours and 30 minutes roughly. IYA2009 Closing ceremony is now in a break and everybody is having lunch. They have stopped the streaming and there's a good music being played instead, so I started blogging listening to that background music.

However now I began to see the streaming, still the music is on and I see a woman performing something near the podium.
And this lasted for a while, there was some sideshow, in the project !

Now I started recording again !!

Well the lunch seems to be over, it should be 2.00 pm in Italy now !! The woman began to speak,

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, how I understand, she should be Isabelle Grenier, She is talking about "Astronomy at all the wavelengths"..
I should say that the show is really brought out interestingly with the picture-rich slide show,

I believe Lee's blogging in the other end from the very auditorium from Padua, Italy !!

Now it's time I looked up Lee's blog, to see any update afterward the lunch,
He should have a good Italian lunch, by the way, let's see !!

And don't forget to check out Lee's live blog 

Here is the online streaming too, http://www.virtualmeeting.info/astronomy/beyond2009/diretta.html

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IYA2009 Closing Ceremony - Speech of Vincenzo Giorgio,Thales Alenia Space, Principal Sponsor of IYA2009

I just uploaded the video that I recorded, featuring the address of Vincenzo Giorgio, of Thales Alenia Space, Principal Sponsor !!

This is what he said in his speech (in video). He spoke on "Unlocking the secrets of the Universe". And I think cocktail party is progressing there in Padua now. I was on a chat with Lee of Cosmicdiary. He was there blogging in his LiveBlog for CosmicDiary and the live stream is also finished now. I wonder if they are gonna start the streaming again for the Orchestra to happen tonight !!

Don't forget to catch up Lee Pullen with his Live blog tomorrow @ http://cosmicdiary.org/closing_ceremony !!

And this is the video !!

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Agenda of Closing Ceremony International Year of Astronomy 9-10 January 2010, Padova - Italy

Here in the beyond2009 site I just came across the PDF version of the program of Closing Ceremony International Year of Astronomy 9-10 January 2010, Padova - Italy. Go ahead and download it !!

Here is the link and I'm posting the same thing here for your convenience !!

Link : http://www.oapd.inaf.it/othersites/beyond2009/program.pdf

Saturday, January 9th

10:00 - 13:30 Registration

Session I - Welcome and Overview of IYA2009 - Chair: Edoardo Vesentini

14:00 - 15:00 Welcome addresses:

Giuseppe Zaccaria Università di Padova, Rector;
Flavio Zanonato, Padova Mayor;
Walter Erdelen, UNESCO Assistant Director General;
Robert Williams, IAU President;
Tommaso Maccacaro, INAF President;
A Contribution from Italian University & Research Department

15:00 - 15:30 Catherine Cesarsky: “Overview of IYA 2009”

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Session II - IYA2009 in the World - Chair: Catherine Cesarsky

16:00 - 16:20 Pedro Russo: “Coordinating IYA 2009 »

16:20 - 16:40 Lars Christensen: “What Worked Best in IYA2009"

16:40 - 18:10 Six 15-minute talks by SPOCs:

Claudio Moises Paulo (Mozambique); Ayman El Sayed (Egypt); Maria Cristina
Pineda (Honduras); Nguyen Quynh Lan (Viet Nam); Irina Vavilova (Ukraine);
Ranjeev Misra (India)

18:10 - 18:20 Vincenzo Giorgio (Thales Alenia Space): "Unlocking the secrets of the Universe"

18:30 - 21:00 Cocktail

21:00 - 22:30 Concert of “Civica Orchestra di Fiati di Padova”

Sunday, January 10th

Session III - Legacy of Galileo - Chair: Roger Maurice Bonnet

09:00 - 09:30 Francesco Palla: "Stars and Planets of Galileo"

09:30 - 10:00 Enrico Bellone: “Galileo and the Development of Scientific Thought”

10:00 - 10:30 George Coyne: “Galileo & the Church: Lessons Learned“

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Session IV - Science & Society - Chair: Lodevijk Woltjer

11:00 - 11:30 Giorgio Novello (Diplomatic Adviser, Ministry of Economic Development):

"Astrophysics: an asset for economic growth"

11:30 - 12:00 Norio Kaifu: “Impact of Astronomy and IYA on Asian Society”

12:00 - 12:30 George Miley: “Importance of Astronomy for Society: Education, Development and

Capacity Building”

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Session V - Astronomy After the IYA - Chair: Silvia Torres-Peimbert

14:00 - 14:30 Isabelle Grenier: “Astronomy at all Wavelengths”

14:30 - 15:00 Roberto Gilmozzi: “Large Ground-based Optical Telescopes”

15:00 - 15:30 Ron Ekers: “Large Radio Astronomy Projects”

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Closing Session - Astronomy After the IYA Chair: Franco Pacini

16:00 - 16:30 Antonella Nota: “Future of Space Astronomy”

16:30 - 17:00 Robert Williams: “The IAU & Astronomy After the IYA”

17:00 - 17:10 Closure of the IYA2009

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