iau strategic plan for astronomy development long-term vision goals for 2010 – 2020 strategy...
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IAU STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT
• Long-term vision
• Goals for 2010 – 2020
• Strategy– Integrated strategic phased approach– Increase regional involvement (bottom-up)– Enlarge number of active volunteers– Initiate new types of activity– Build on IYA momentum and cornerstones– Advance UN Millennium Goals– Exploit new tools and opportunities – Create small “Global Astronomy for Development Office”
• Implementation roadmap
• Fundraising possibilities
http://www.iau.org/education/strategic_plan/ Draft: Final version within next month
ACTIONS FOR YOU!!
• Discuss the plan with the directors of your institutes and your universities– Participation in long-term institute twinning?– Fund staff to lecture in developing countries– Interest in becoming regional node? – Interest in hosting the Global Astronomy for Development Office?
• shared cost but prestigious
• Go and discuss the plan with your governments – e.g. Departments of international development? If useful, ask IAU to help
• Lookout for funding opportunities and approach IAU if we can help– International and national foundations– Multinational companies operating in developing countries– Bilateral agreements between governments– International and regional development agencies– Credible philanthropists– Future large projects: 1% for global development in astronomy
• Have strong arguments ready to use
ASTRONOM
Y
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware
Complex software ELECTRONICS
Most sensitive detectors Fastest
clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
Shanghai, China Kashima, JapanParkes, Australia
LINKING CONTINENTS WITH VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETERS
GIANT METREWAVE RADIO TELESCOPEPUNE, INDIA
SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPESUTHERLAND, SOUTH AFRICA
CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
ASTRONOMY
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware
Complex software
ELECTRONICS Most sensitive
detectors Fastest clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
PHYSICS Laboratory of extremes
Making heavy
elements
CHEMISTRY
Producing organic
molecules
BIOLOGYBuilding blocks of
life
MATHEM-ATICS Abstract thought
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
ASTRONOMY AS SCIENCE
• Inexpensive laboratories for studying laws of physics under extreme conditions:
– Largest energies (~ 1061 erg). – Largest densities (~1018 kg/m3). – Most tenuous vacuum – Largest sizes (> 10 million light years)
• Frontier science do-able from anywhere in world
ASTRONOM
Y
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware
Complex software ELECTRONICS Most sensitive
detectors Fastest clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
PHYSICS Laboratory of
extremes Making heavy
elements
CHEMISTRY
Producing organic
molecules
BIOLOGYBuilding blocks of
life
MATHEM-ATICS
Application of sophisticated formalisms
INSPIRATION
Career in science and technology
ANTHRO-POLOGY Ancient
civilizations Our roots
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
CULTURE AND SOCIETY
ASTRONOMY
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware
Complex software ELECTRONICS Most sensitive
detectors Fastest clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
PHYSICS Laboratory of
extremes Making heavy
elements
CHEMISTRY
Producing organic
molecules
BIOLOGYBuilding blocks of
life
MATHEM-ATICS
Application of sophisticated formalisms
INSPIRATION
Career in science and technology
ANTHRO-POLOGY Ancient
civilizations Our roots
HISTORYEvolution of
Universe Our roots
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
CULTURE AND SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
Everything came out of the Big Bang!!
ASTRONOM
Y
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware
Complex software ELECTRONICS Most sensitive
detectors Fastest clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
PHYSICS Laboratory of extremes
Making heavy
elements
CHEMISTRY
Producing organic
molecules
BIOLOGYBuilding blocks of
life
MATHEM-ATICS
Application of
sophisticated formalisms
INSPIRATION
Career in science and technology
ANTHRO-POLOGY Ancient
civilizations Our roots
HISTORYEvolution of
Universe Our roots
PERSPECTIVEIMMENSITY OF
UNIVERSE Tolerance and
global citizenship
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
CULTURE AND SOCIETY
ASTRONOM
Y
OPTICS High-precision adaptive
optics
COMPUTERS Fastest hardware Complex software
ELECTRONICS Most sensitive
detectors Fastest clocks
SPACE Satellites Miniaturization
Precision
PHYSICS Laboratory of extremes
Making heavy
elements
CHEMISTRY
Producing organic
molecules
BIOLOGYBuilding blocks of
life
MATHEM-ATICS Abstract thought
INSPIRATION
Career in science and technology
ANTHRO-POLOGY
Ancient civilizations Our roots
HISTORYEvolution
of Universe Our roots PERSPECTIV
E IMMENSITY OF UNIVERSE Tolerance and
global citizenship
TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
CULTURE AND SOCIETY
WHY ASTRONOMY?
• 1996 DACST white paper on role of pure science within the new democracy:
– “It is important to maintain a basic competence in ‘flagship’ sciences such as physics and astronomy for cultural reasons. Not to offer them would be to take a negative view of our future – the view that we are a second-class nation, chained forever to the treadmill of feeding and clothing ourselves”
RATIONALE OF SOUTH AFRICA FOR ASTRONOMY
Science
Culture
Technology
INSPIRATION
“Exploring the Universe
for the benefit of humankind”