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Joint Educational Program
with the Math Club from Chelghoum Laid

April 29, 2017

The program took some time to organize...
due to the ongoing electoral campaign for the legislative elections which everytime delayed the visit of the group. That was at least what the administration of the Malek Haddad Cultural Center put forth as the reason for delaying the authorization...


It consisted of the following set of topics:

1- The intricacies of the geocentric versus the heliocentric implementations of the retrograd motion of Mars from a geometric point of view.
2- Units used in astronomy and a scale model of the Solar system
3- The annual parrallax and the first measure of a stellar parallax by Bessel

4- Using HUDF picture to estimate the number of galaxies, stars, habitable planets in the observable Universe


Some Pictures....

Chelghoum Laid Mathematics Club Science Algeria
They came from the Mila Wilaya, a 25 strong group of bright High School students, and we had in store for them a rich program to awaken those young minds to science through mathematics. From computer simulations, to the secrets of the epicycle curve, to the art of estimating stellar distances, to number crunching, and more. It all ended with a Fermi like estimate of the number of habitable planets in the observable Universe: 10.000 galaxies in an area on the celestial sphere of 11 arc-second squared. The number found was staggering: 10 to the power of 20. Could you make your own estimate?

Chelghoum Laid Mathematics Club Science Algeria
The head of the Club, Mr.Elbahi Benziar, adressing the audience


Some gifts from Sirius to the Club...
Chelghoum Laid Mathematics Club Science Algeria
Chelghoum Laid Mathematics Club Science Algeria

 
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