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MY YEAR IN SPACE
Colonel Mike Fincke, USAF (ret)
THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30pm
UH Manoa Bilger Bldg, Room 152
Open to the public, Free admission
Summary of the Talk
Colonel Mike Fincke, USAF (ret) is a spaceflight veteran with over 381 days in space and 9 spacewalks.
He will share some of his adventures in space including what daily life is aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as well as some of the groundbreaking science that has been produced on the ISS. Currently waiting for his next flight, Colonel Fincke is the lead Astronaut for the United States’ next two space ships that will take crew to the ISS, Space-X’s Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner. He will share updates on the development of those spacecraft as well as NASA’s plans to fly beyond Low Earth Orbit with NASA’s new Orion spacecraft.
Future Focus 2017 and connection to the University of Hawaii
Colonel Fincke will be in Honolulu as key note speaker to the Future Focus 2017 (Hilton Hawaiian Village October 4th and 5th, 2017).
Colonel Fincke was mission specialist on the penultimate Space Shuttle mission, STS-134, which launched on May 16, 2011. This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument to the International Space Station, where it will operate until 2024. AMS is a state-of-the-art particle detector that measures cosmic rays, antimatter and dark matter in space. The University of Hawaii plays a big role in the data analysis of the AMS experiment. At the Physics Department of the University of Hawaii, Professor Veronica Bindi and her team collaborate with NASA in using AMS data to improve the radiation shields for future manned missions to Mars.
Please join us for an evening of space and spaceflight!
Cosmic Ray Day Workshop
Saturday September 30, 2017 / 8.45 am - 3.00 pm
Kamehameha Kapalama School: Building Konia, Room 212.
Bring your Laptop.
The Cosmic Ray Day is an event for high school teachers and student.
In the morning lectures and background informations on Cosmic Rays and Solar Activity.
Special Talk on 2017 Solar Eclipse Experience by Shadia Habbal (UH Institute for Astronomy), followed by a Solar Eclipse Activity.
You will have lunch with Physicists and Astronomers, a great chance to talk with them about your curiosities! (lunch will be provided).
The afternoon Kamehameha students will present their Research with Muon Detectors, and then you will focus on AMS-02 and Quarknet activities, about Solar Modulation.
You will investigate how solar modulation affects particles, using the proton rate measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS-02), a particle detector flying on board the International Space Station (ISS).
When is the Best Time to Send Astronauts to Mars?
Enjoy the new series of videos from a workshop for teachers and students!
- Why human wants to explore?
- Why we want to go to Mars?
- What kind of risks scientists have to overcome to send human to the red planet?
- How can we live on Mars?
In this video-presentation, Professor Veronica Bindi explains all the necessary steps to send Astronauts to Mars.
We collaborated with the STEM-Pre Academy to create this videos.
Click on the link to go to the webpage! STEM-PRE Academy: Humans to Mars
April 1st, 2017
Particle Pyhysics Masterclass: From Quarks to the Cosmos!
Location: Punahou School, Mamiya Science Center; Room 104 and Cornuelle Hall.
Experience authentic astrophysics with the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory and particle physics with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at CERN.
Learn about IceCube and how neutrinos help us explore the extreme Universe.
Discover the world of quarks and leptons with data from CERN.
Hands-on analyses using data from the IceCube and CMS Collaborations: High Energy Neutrinos from the Cosmos; Measurement of W and Z bosons.
Morning lectures by Jason Kumar, Carsten Rott, Jamie Gainer, and Warren Huelsnitz.
Lunch with physicists;
Organized by UH Physics Outreach.
Sponsored by UH Manoa Physics Department, NSF QuarkNet Program.
- Saturday, February 25th, 2017
Special Teen Presentation - When is the Best Time to send Humans to Mars
Presentation by Dr. Veronica Bindi on: When is the best time to send humans to Mars.
The students also had lunch with physicists, a great chance to talk with them about curiosities!
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