Astro-Expo 2004

                   

   
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This years Astro-Expo 2004 which is being run in association with the Discover Science and Engineering project, promises to be even more exciting and mind blowing than last years Astro-Expo 2003(read the report).  Preparations are well underway.  Already many exhibitors have booked space for Astronomy Ireland's flagship event.  Many more have yet to confirm.  The list of exhibitors and lecturers promises to be a mouth-watering mix of the bizarre, the interesting and the truly amazing.
One of the highlights of this years exhibition will be an Astronaut who is being sent to Ireland by the European Space Agency specially to open the event and give a lecture on Space Travel.  Space Encounters will have their Mobile Planetarium at the exhibition.  It is certainly not an event to be missed as you can see from the list below.  Our popular Astronomy Ireland dinner is on the Saturday November 13 in the Regency Hotel, Drumcondra (sample menu).  It is open to everyone and is a good chance to get to know each other.  Why not make a weekend of it!!

 Provisional List of Exhibitors

  • European Space Agency (Paris)
  • Astronomy Ireland
  • Astronomy and Space Shop
  • Astrosoc - DCU Astronomy Club
  • Astro Art - Tony Oakey (Kilkenny)
  • Armagh Planetarium
  • Brownstown Observatory (Meath)
  • DCU Astrophysics
  • Irish Centre For Gifted Children
  • Irish Raelian Movement
  • Irish Skeptics Society
  • Kingsland Observatory (Roscommon)
  • Liverpool John Moores University, Astrophysics Research Unit
  • Marsh's Library
  • Natures Treasures (Meteorites etc)
  • NUI Galway Astrophysics 
  • NUI Maynooth Astrophysics
  • Planetary Society
  • TCD Astrophysics
  • Space Encounters (Mobile Planetarium)
  • Shooting Stars Ceilings

 

Provisional List of Lectures and Lecturers (Liable to change)

Saturday 13 November
  • 1:00pm Space Travel - Gerhard Thiele ESA Astronaut and Shuttle Veteran
  • 3:00pm The Cosmological Constant by Oisin MacConamhna - Stephen Hawking's Irish Student.
  • 5:00pm Spaceship One - Paul Reilly.  Eyewitness account with pictures of the launch of the first commercial tourist spacecraft.

Sunday 14 November

  • 1:00pm Astronomy with Robotic Telescopes by Dr. Andrew Newsam, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University
  • 3:00pm Isaac Newton Remembers....... - By Isaac Newton (aka Prof. Mike Edmunds)
  • 5:00pm Ireland's Search for Extrasolar Planets - SuperWASP by Damian Christian.  The imaging and detection of planets around other stars

Date/Time:
 Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th November open from 12 to 6pm.

Call (01) 847 0777 to book 
  Venue:        The Hub, D.C.U. Glasnevin, Dublin 9 Click here for a map!
Lectures: 5euro each

Exhibition: 3euro (FREE to students and under16s)

Dinner (Saturday 8pm Regency Hotel): 25euro ALL WELCOME  
 
Car Parking Rates (Click for details)                                                                         
Accomodation list close to the Exhibition