Slide 1 Slide 2 Turning the AAVSO Mission and Vision Into a Strategic Plan Mike Simonsen April 2008 Mike Simonsen April 2008 Slide 3 Why Bother? Fundraising More than anyone…

Slide 1Whats a Light Curve? Unexpected Difficulties Learners Have Using Graphs Tim Slater University of Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Chair Stephanie Slater…

Slide 1Whats a Light Curve? Unexpected Reasoning Difficulties Learners Have Using Light Curves Tim Slater University of Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Professor…

Slide 1Review of Cataclysmic Variables : Unification model for various types of variations Makoto Uemura (Kyoto University : VSNET team) Slide 2 Contents Recent works of…

Slide 1Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network: Keeping Education in the Dark Rachel J. Ross Global Hands On Universe July 2007 Photo by: Rob Ratkowski, Maui Slide…

Slide 1Stochastic Gravitational Lensing and the Nature of Dark Matter Chuck Keeton Rutgers University Gravitational lens database -- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/castles with:…

Slide 1THE SUN AND ITS RELATION TO OTHER STARS 1 Slide 2 Stellar astronomy Well discuss properties of solar-type and other stars – lets first review some preliminaries:…

Slide 1Galaxies This lesson deals with important topics relating to galaxies. Each of these topics represents a great body of knowledge and areas of interest to research.…

Slide 1Physics of stars Syllabus week topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.Statistics…

Slide 1Astrophysics Literature: http://www.aldebaran.cz/~zacek/http://www.aldebaran.cz/~zacek/ … this presentation http://www.aldebaran.cz/astrofyzika/http://www.aldebaran.cz/astrofyzika/…