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Hong Kong Science Museum |
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(Course ID: CDI020091727)
Date: Tuesday 17 November
Suitable for upper junior and senior secondary students (S3 - 7), teachers, and the adult general public.
2009 marks the International Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of humanity's first step on the moon. In the four centuries since Galileo's original telescopic observations, our understanding of the Universe and our place in it has been transformed by the discoveries of astronomers and our sojourns beyond the atmosphere of our home world. What difference has this made to our everyday lives, the ways in which we see ourselves as a species, and our perspectives on our future evolution and perhaps survival itself?
This lecture will include a building of a comet nucleus with the help of the audience and will highlight the many ways in which space technology is an essential component that the 21st century global society relies upon and yet takes for granted.
Speaker: Anu Ojha
UK institution: UK National Space Centre, Leicester
(Course ID: CDI020091728)
Date: Wednesday 18 November
Suitable for upper junior and senior secondary students (S3 - 7), teachers, and the adult general public.
In the 400 years since the astronomical telescope was first pointed skywards, no planet has so caught humanity’s imagination as Mars. Since 1965, spacecraft fly-bys, orbiters and landers have revealed a fascinating world – one that is presently more lunar than Earth-like and yet with tantalising clues that point to a warmer, wetter past. This lecture will explore how our understanding about the Red Planet has developed over the centuries and include spectacular demonstrations illustrating the consequences of Mars’ surface conditions on unprotected human explorers. Did life ever arise on Mars? Is it still there now? Could it be related to life here on Earth and could Mars become a future home – or perhaps refuge - for humanity?
Speaker: Anu Ojha
UK institution: UK National Space Centre, Leicester
(Course ID: CDI020091729)
Date: Thursday 19 November and Friday 20 November
Suitable for upper junior and senior secondary students (S3 - 6), teachers, and the adult general public
This lecture will focus on the origins of so-called emerging infections like pandemic influenza, HIV, SARS, and West Nile Virus. Dr. Chris Smith will explain how these viruses jump the species barrier to begin circulating in humans. Where do they come from? How do they adapt to us and our lifestyles? What can we do to stop them? Such questions and more will be explored and answered in this fascinating and timely talk.
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Smith
UK institution: University of Cambridge, Cambridge
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