The Discover the Cosmos summer school and conference is taking place this week in Volos, Greece. Nearly 200 attendees are converging on the site from all corners of the world. While this is awesome, we know that financial limitations and visa difficulties meant that some people who wished to attend just couldn’t. To help these folks out, and to help everyone in the world who wants to learn more about astronomy education, we’ll be streaming this conference live via Google Hangouts on Air. This is something of an experiment – we’re going to be relying on hotel internet and… that may not work. In hopes of capturing every moment for you, we will be recording everything with a video camera as well as trying to stream it live.

For now, here are links to every session! All Times are Pacific. The conference, however, is in Eastern Europe (GMT +3), so sessions may not be conveniently timed for all viewers. 

Day 1 : Friday 02 August 2013

• 900 – 950 Pacific Inquiry Learning with Online Labs by Prof Ton De Jong
  
• 950 – 1030 Pacific Designing Effective Outreach Programmes for Teachers by Dr. Mick Storr

Day 2: Saturday 03 August 2013 (starts late Friday in US)

• 2300 – 2400 Pacific Keynote: A Universe of Discoveries, Learning, and Inspiration by Dr Carl Pennypacker
• 000 – 130 Pacific Oral Session: Online Tools & Applets, Scientific Repositories, And Data Archives for School Use
• 140 – 300 Pacific Oral Session: Developing Effective Collaboration between Schools and Research Centers
• 400 – 540 Pacific Oral Session: Remote and Virtual Labs for Inquiry Learning
• 600 – 730 Pacific Oral Session: Education and eScience Practice

Day 3: Sunday 04 August 2013 (starts late Saturday in the US)

• 2300 – 2400 Pacific Keynote: Quarknet, a research-based teacher professional development program by Dan Karmgard
  
• 000 – 120 Pacific Oral Session: Education and eScience Practice 2
• 140 – 340 Pacific Oral Session: The Galileo Teachers Training Programme
• 400 – 600 Pacific Oral Session: Remote and Virtual Labs for Inquiry Learning 2
• 600 – 800 Pacific Oral Session: Advanced Research Infrastructures

Day 4: Monday 05 August 2013 (starts late Sunday in the US)

• 2340 – 120 Pacific Oral Session: GHOU Members: Presentation of 2012 – 2013 Activities
• 140 – 340 Pacific Oral Session: GHOU Member Presentations (continued)

This Discovering the Cosmos conference is financed by the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7.

It took many different partners to make this conference possible, including the Galileo Teacher Training Program, The World at Night, and CosmoQuest.