UWC - CPUT Space Association

WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST, 13:10, venue C3: Annual General Meeting.

FRIDAY 2 AUGUST,13:10, venue B4: Film on the Square Kilometre Array, directed by UWC's own Professor Jarita Holbrook.

Information: Celebrating a golden anniversary (50 years, of men landing on the Moon) with a video and short talk before & after.

Date and Time: Fri 26 July 2019, 13:10
Venue: University of the Western Cape, B4

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Announcing the African Physics Newsletter

on Thursday 26 July starting 13h10, our Space Association is screening a video "Painting the way to the Moon".

The film - which won three best documentary awards at film festivals - is about how a mathematician, Ed Belbruno, used the three-body problem to calculate fuel-saving trajectories for space probes to orbit around the Moon or other planets.

Don't worry - no maths qualifications are needed to view this film! This movie is a very personal take on Ed Belbruno, viewed through his colleagues, and a ex-girl friend. It also features a poem dedicated to Ed Belbruno, written by UWC's own Keith Gottschalk, and set to space age music by Elaine Walker.

Venue: C 1 This is in the prefabs across the road from the Mathematics & Computational Sciences building. If there are still any construction site obstacles in front, just work your way around them.

"We invite graduate students and young scientists interested in Solar Physics, Interplanetary Medium, Geomagnetic Field and Earth Magnetism, and Ionized and Neutral Earth’s Atmosphere to send an application to the COSPAR Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop 2018 (SW-CBW 2018). The workshop will take place in the facilities of the Brazilian Space Weather Study and Monitoring Program (EMBRACE - “Estudo e Monitoramento Brasileiro do Clima Espacial") located at National Institute for Space Research (INPE - "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais”) in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 17 September to 28 September 2018. For more details, including financial support, visit the event website at: http://www.inpe.br/cospar-cbw2018-brazil Applications must be made through the website, deadline was postponed to May 31."

Workshop 2018 COSPAR - INPE - Home Workshop COSPAR - 2018

"WEATHER RE-SCHEDULING:
Hi, due to clouds, we re-schedule our attempt at star-gazing through a telescope
from tonight to MONDAY 14th May. We will set up our telescope from 6:30 pm in the
car park in front of the Physics block. See you there!

"WEATHER RE-SCHEDULING:
Hi, due to clouds, we re-schedule our attempt at star-gazing through a telescope from tonight to MONDAY 14th May. We will set up our telescope from 6:30 pm in the car park in front of the Physics block. See you there!

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CPUT Bellville Campus will be hosting the Cape Town participants.

Registration can be done on the ActInSpace website https://actinspace.org/

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No Capetonian will speak ill of clouds 'n rain - but we have to postpone our planned star-gazing tonight!

We re-schedule our star-gazing for MONDAY 7 MAY.
Matt & friends will start setting up our telescope after 18h30 in the car park in front of the Physics block.

Hope 2 C U there! Wrap up warmly. Bring hot chocolate!

As you know, we are uniquely a UWC-CPUT Space Association. Our first joint event with CPUT in 2018 will be participating in a hack-athon. For all IS and other interested students, we will email you with the link as soon as we get it.