| *** Thirty Year Celebrations *** | ||||||||||||||||
| Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai | ||||||||||||||||
| "Planetarium through ages: Vision 2027" | ||||||||||||||||
| Conference of the Directors and Professionals | ||||||||||||||||
| of Indian Planetariums | ||||||||||||||||
| 19 & 20 March 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Accommodation | ||||||||||||||||
| Registered Participants | ||||||||||||||||
| Programme Schedule | ||||||||||||||||
| 19-Mar-07 | 9:30 a.m. | Registration | ||||||||||||||
| 10:00-10:05 | Mr. Piyush Pandey | Welcome | ||||||||||||||
| 10:05-10:15 | Session I | Chaiman Prof. S. M. Chitre | Opening Remarks | |||||||||||||
| 10:15-11:15 | Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Govind Swarup | Radio-waves and the Universe: from Big Bang to Black Holes | ||||||||||||||
| 11:15-11:30 | Tea Break | |||||||||||||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Prof. R. Subramanian | The early developments in planetarium technology | ||||||||||||||
| 12:00-12:30 | Dr. V. S. Venkatavaradan | The Joy of Show Making | ||||||||||||||
| 12:30-13:00 | Prof. M. N. Vahia | Imparting Basics of Astronomy to School Children | ||||||||||||||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |||||||||||||||
| Session II | Chairman Prof. R. Subramanian | |||||||||||||||
| 14:00-14:30 | Dr. B. G. Siddharth | Bringing frontiers of astronomy to planetarium audience | ||||||||||||||
| 14:30-15:00 | Dr. J. J. Rawal | New View of Solar System | ||||||||||||||
| 15:00-15:15 | Mr. Shrikant P. Pathak | Planetarium- Expectations to meet for young generation | ||||||||||||||
| 15:15-15:30 | Mrs. Alakananda Ghosh | Guiding the school teachers to teach astronomy | ||||||||||||||
| 15:30-15:45 | Tea Break | |||||||||||||||
| Session III | Chairman Dr. B. G. Sidharth | |||||||||||||||
| 15:45-16:15 | Mr. Piyush Pandey | Vision 2027: Changing Scene & Planetaria of future | ||||||||||||||
| 16:15-16:45 | Mr. Scott Niskach | Current State of Planetarium Projection Technology | ||||||||||||||
| Move to Sky Theatre | ||||||||||||||||
| 17:00-17:45 | Demonstration in Sky Theatre | Technology Demonstration: "Digistar 3 SXRD" - A high resolution E&S Digistar 3 System with Sony SXRD Projectors. | ||||||||||||||
| Screening of Planetarium shows: Astronomy Demo and show content from other Digistar3 Users & producers across the world. | ||||||||||||||||
| Move to Nehru Auditorium | ||||||||||||||||
| 18:00-20:00 | Cultural Programme in Nehru Auditorium | A parallel presentation of Hindustani & Carnatic Music by | ||||||||||||||
| Smt. Neela Bhagwat & Smt. Laxmi Rajgopal | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ghzal Recital by Mohammed Vakil | ||||||||||||||||
| 20:00-21:30 | Dinner | |||||||||||||||
| 20-Mar-07 | ||||||||||||||||
| Session IV | Chairman Prof. M. N. Vahia | |||||||||||||||
| 10:00-10:30 | Dr. P. Iyamperumal | Making student friendly shows | ||||||||||||||
| 10:30-10:45 | Mr. Pramod G. Galgali | Special effects in Planetarium shows | ||||||||||||||
| 10:45-11:15 | Dr. D. P. Duari | Planetarium – Emerging Multidimensional Role and its Social Impact | ||||||||||||||
| 11:15-11:30 | Tea Break | |||||||||||||||
| Session V | Chairman Dr. P. Iyamperumal | |||||||||||||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Dr. N. Rathnasree | Outreach activities in planetarium | ||||||||||||||
| 12:00-12:15 | Mr. H. R. Madhusudan | Science education activities at BASE | ||||||||||||||
| 12:15-12:30 | Mr. Jayant Gangopadhyay | Calicut Planetarium: Experimentations & Experiences | ||||||||||||||
| 12:30-13:00 | Mr. Sandip Bhattacharya | Planetarium – an audio-visual wonder | ||||||||||||||
| 13:00-13:15 | Dr. Gouri Sankar Roy | Programmes of Planetaium till 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 13:15-14:15 | Lunch Break | |||||||||||||||
| Session VI | Chairman Dr. V. S. Venkatavardan | |||||||||||||||
| 14:15-14:30 | Mr. Y. Ravi Kiron | Outreach Activities in Astronomy | ||||||||||||||
| 14:30-14:45 | Mr. Babul Chandra Bora | Popularisation of Astronomy in Assam | ||||||||||||||
| 14:45-15:00 | Mr. G. Ravi Kiran Reddy | How to motivate the children through planetarium shows | ||||||||||||||
| 15:00-15:15 | Mr. Bharat Adur | Astronomical Exhibits | ||||||||||||||
| 15:15-15:30 | Tea Break | |||||||||||||||
| 15:30-16:30 | Panel Discussions | |||||||||||||||
| Moderator | Dr. J. J. Rawal | Planetarium through ages: Vision 2027 | ||||||||||||||
| Panelists: Prof. R. Subramanian, Dr. N. Rathnasree, Mr. Scott Niskach & Mr. Sandip Bhattacharya | ||||||||||||||||
| Moderator | Mr. Piyush Pandey | Need for a Federation of Indian Planetariums | ||||||||||||||
| Panelists: Dr. D. Duari, Mr. Pramod Pande, Mr. Pramod Galgali & Mr. Y. Ravi Kiron | ||||||||||||||||
| Session VII | Chairman Dr. D. P. Duari | |||||||||||||||
| 16:30-16:45 | Mr. Aniket Sule | Careers in Astronomy | ||||||||||||||
| 16:45-17:00 | Dr. Carolina Ödman | Universe Awareness: an inspirational programme for young children | ||||||||||||||
| 17:00-17:05 | Mr. Piyush Pandey | Vote of Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| Break | ||||||||||||||||
| 20:00-21:30 | Dinner | |||||||||||||||