Hands-On Universe International

If you are interested in hosting a Global HOU conference, write Carl Pennypacker.

Educational/Global Collaboration Topics:

1. Reports from HOU's Nations from five continents
2. New pedagogy
3. WebCam astronomy
4. Journal of Student Astrophysical Research and Explorations
5. Global Network of Telescopes
6. Work with the IVO
7. Collaboratories
8. Outreach with Science Centers
9. How to run teacher workshops
10. Better Portals to the IVO for students, teachers, and the public
11. Establishing self-sustaining HOU programs in your nations.

2007 Global Hands on Universe (GHOU) Conference:

July 13 - 17, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan

2006 Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU)Conference:
August 7 to 10, 2006 at
Observatoire de Haute Provence, FRANCE

See

GHOU2006 Conference Website

Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2005

August 1st to August 5th, 2005

National Astronomical Optical Observatory

Beijing, China

Scientific Research Topics:

1. Global Networks of Telescopes
2. Science with Networks of Telescope
3. Common Observation Request Exchange (CORE)
4. Variable and Transient Object Observations
5. Mediating and understanding the appropriate science and
   the role of 2 meter telescopes, the IVO, and small telescopes.
6. Tools for parsing and understanding data from the IVO, such as the cone search tool.
7. Survey of the variable sky and new VO-Variable object tools
8. AGN Research, Cataclysmic Variables, Planets outside our solar system, etc.

2004 Global Hands-on Universe Conference: Networked Telescopes and the IVO Science, Education and Collaboration In the New Millenium
25-31 July 2004
St Petersburg, Russia

The 2004 Global HOU conference was held in St Petersburg, Russia, at Pulkovo Observatory (Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and Astronomical Institute of the St Petersburg State University.

2002 Global HOU Conference
was at Paris, France,
July 24 - 29, 2002, at
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
12 rue Cuvier
75252 Paris Cedex 05
near the Seine river on the Left Bank

See
Photos of Global HOU 2002

The conference featured a tour the ancient Observatoire de Paris, visit to one of the first prime meridians (before Greenwich), a group excursion to the scene of one of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, that has astronomical roots.