Note: All sessions, except for the poster papers, take place in the Auditorium of McKenna Hall, the Center for Continuing Education.
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Public Talk by Invited Speaker
Clive Ruggles (University of Leicester), "Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds?"
9:15 pm to 10:15 Welcoming Reception (cash bar)
8:00 am to 8:30 am: Greetings and Introduction of Participants:
Co-chairs of the Workshop: Marv Bolt (Adler Planetarium and Astronomy
Museum), David DeVorkin (Smithsonian), Matt Dowd (University of
Notre Dame Press).
Introduction of Participants.
Throughout: Poster Papers
Poster papers are located across the hall from the auditorium.
Durruty Jesús de Alba Martínez (University of Guadalajara), "Calling to Mars? Ideas on Extraterrestrial Communication by a Catholic Priest and Astronomer in the Early Twentieth Century"
Peter Henry Cheasley (Independent Scholar), "Is There Music in Space?--Yes"
Dennis Duke (Florida State University), "Computer Animations of Ancient Planetary Models"
Gerald S. Hawkins and Vance R. Tiede, "Stonehenge Computer Confirmed"
James Marshall (Independent Scholar): "Fort Ancient State Memorial Walls Tested for Archaeoastronomical Azimuths"
8:30 am to 9:30 am: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Cultural Astronomy
Chair: Craig B. Waff (Air Force Research Laboratory)
Stephen McCluskey (West Virginia University), "Church Orientations and Astronomical Principles: Indigenous, Greek, or Roman?"
Christopher Turner (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), "Wovoka's Vision: Total Solar Eclipse Iconography as Found in Plains Indian Ghost Dance Imagery"
9:30 am to 10:30 am: Poster Viewing and Group Photograph (weather permitting)
10:30 am to 11:30 am: Teaching about the Extraterrestrial Life Debate
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Organizer: Michael J. Crowe (University of Notre Dame)
Chair: Matt Dowd
Presenters:
Michael J. Crowe, "Teaching Extraterrestrials at the University of Notre Dame"
Peter J. Ramberg (Truman State University), "Teaching the Plurality of Worlds Debate in an Interdisciplinary Context at Truman State University"
Commentator: Steven J. Dick (NASA)
11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Lunch
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Calendars and Years, Part 1
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Lis Brack-Bernsen (Regensburg University), "The 360 Day Year in Mesopotamia"
Wayne Horowitz (Hebrew University), "The Astrolabes: Astronomy, Theology, and Chronology"
John Britton (Independent Scholar), "Calendars and Year-lengths in Mesopotamian Astronomical Practice"
John Steele (University of Durham), "The Length of the Month in Babylonia during the Late Babylonian Period"
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm: Poster Viewing and Break
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm: Calendars and Years, Part 2
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Leo Depuydt (Brown University), "The Calendar Year in Ancient Egypt"
Sarah Symons (University of Leicester), "A Star's Year: The Annual Cycle in the Ancient Egyptian Sky"
Uwe Glessmer (University of Hamburg), "Knowledge of Calendars through the Library of Qumran"
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm: break
4:45 pm to 6:15 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Premodern
Chair: Teasel Muir-Harmony (Smithsonian)
Bill Brewer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Similarities between Young Children's Initial Cosmological Theories and Early Cosmological Theories in Greece and China"
Stamatina Mastorakou (Imperial College, London), "Ancient Popular Astronomy, Third Century B.C. to First Century A.D.: Aratus's Phaenomena"
Giora Hon and Yaakov Zik (University of Haifa), "Science and Instruments: Theory and Practice of Early Telescopic Observations"
6:15 pm: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
This optional session is especially for those who have contributed to or are interested in the forthcoming Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. A brief update on the status of the project will be made, and editors of the volume will be present to answer questions.
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Gathering at the Home of Marv Bolt (directions will be distributed to drivers)
8:00 am to 10:00 am: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Twentieth Century
Chair: Tom Hockey (University of Northern Iowa)
Jordan D. Marché II (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "The Space Astronomy Laboratory Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison"
Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan), "Curtis versus Einstein"
Trudy E. Bell (Independent Scholar), "The San Luís Observatory: Dudley Observatory's Nearly-Forgotten Southern Observing Station"
Robert J. Havlik (University of Notre Dame), "A Fair Use of Arcturus: A Syzygy of Scholarians of the Yerkes Observatory In the Lighting of the Chicago Century of Progress, 1933"
10:00 am to 10:30 am: Poster Viewing and Break
10:30 am to 12:30 pm: Early Mathematical Astronomy, Part 1
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Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke
Presenters:
Teije de Jong (Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek"), "Babylonian Observations of First and Last Appearances of Venus"
Lis Brack-Bernsen (Regensburg University), "On the Prediction of Lunar Eclipses"
Mathieu Ossendrijver (Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics, Freiburg, Germany), "Mathematization and Astronomy in Babylonia"
John P. Britton, "Almagest IV.2 Revisited"
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Early Mathematical Astronomy, Part 2
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Organizer/Chair: Dennis Duke
Presenters:
Dennis Duke, "Who Knew What, and When? The Timing of Discoveries in Early Greek Astronomy"
Alexander Jones (University of Toronto), "The Astronomical Inscription from Keskinto (Rhodes)"
Paul Mills (Utah Valley State College), "The Corruption of the Ancient Constellations - Hipparchus' Lonely Battle"
Nathan Sidoli (University of Toronto), "Menelaus' Theorem in Ptolemy, Theon, and the Early Arabic Tradition"
Glen van Brummelen (Bennington College), "The Islamic Almagests: Trigonometric and Astronomical Tables and Computation after Ptolemy"
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm: Poster Viewing and Break
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm: Rheticus and Friends
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Organizer: Dennis Danielson (University of British Columbia)
Chair: Glen van Brummelen
Presenters:
Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma), "How Rheticus Became a Copernican"
Owen Gingerich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), "Instrumental Friends in Bavaria: Schöner, Apianus, and Petreius"
William B. Ashworth (University of Missouri and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology), "Rheticus, Bearing Gifts"
Dennis Danielson, "How Rheticus Stayed a Copernican"
7:00 pm Banquet (Cash Bar Reception will begin at 7:00,
Dinner will be served at 7:30)
Welcoming Remarks: TBA
Invited Speaker: Clive Ruggles, "Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds?--Case Studies"
9:30-10:30 pm: Optional Open Session at the Notre Dame Observatory (Nieuwland Science Hall)
Those interested will depart directly from the banquet. The event is, of course, weather permitting.
8:00 am to 10:00 am: Preservation of Astronomy's Assets
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Organizer/Chair: Thomas R. Williams (Rice University)
Panel Members:
Clive Ruggles: "Astronomy
and World Heritage: The UNESCO Initiative and the UK's
Involvement"
Sara Schechner (Harvard University), "In Advance of the Wrecking Ball and Dumpster: Museum Efforts to Preserve Astronomical Instruments Large and Small"
Richard Kron (Yerkes Observatory): "Yerkes Observatory: A View from Within"
Harry Butowsky (National Park Service)
10:00 am to 10:30 am: Poster Viewing and Break
10:30 am to 11:30 pm: Historical Studies on Astronomy, Nineteenth Century
Chair: Marv Bolt
Christopher Fluke (Swinburne University of Technology), "The Universe in Three Dimensions: The First Era of Stereoscopic Astrophotography"
Nicholas Kollerstrom (University College, London), "The Naming of Neptune"
11:40 am: Business Meeting