Workshop on Astronomy-Themed Experiments
(ACE–Experiments2023)
We are pleased to announce a Workshop on Astronomy-Themed Experiments to be held at the Teaching Learning Centre of the Astronomy Centre for Educators (ACE) at IUCAA from the 8th to the 12th of August 2023. The Workshop is intended for faculty members interested in exploring, creating, and sharing experiments based on concepts in astronomy for instruction at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
A workshop on astronomy-themed experiments for faculty members of colleges and universities interested in exploring, creating and sharing laboratory experiments based on concepts in astronomy for teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels was organized from 8th to 12th August 2023 at IUCAA.
The long-term goal was to produce an open-source repository of astronomy- themed experiments covering diverse topics. There were about 30 participants from over a dozen institutions presenting a wide range of experiments. The workshop started with a presentation of a very creative set of experiments at the undergraduate level developed by Dipankar Bhattacharya and his team at Ashoka University.
The workshop covered a wide range of experiments including optical data analysis using archival data as well, such as from GAIA, a number of radio-astronomy related experiments including determining the rotation curve of the Galaxy from observations of neutral atomic hydrogen and analysis of pulsar data, planetary data analysis, cometary data and astrometry, stellarium-related experiments, gravitational lensing, gamma ray astronomy, gravitational waves, and on the Sun and stars. Many of the experiments have also been written up and will soon be put in the repository. The workshop was organized by Team ACE IUCAA.