Winters School: Press Room 2010

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CANARY ISLANDS WINTER SCHOOLS OF ASTROPHYSICS

Press Release

12/11/2010 XXII Canary Islands Winter School: Asteroseismology

18/11/2010 The Songs of the Stars: The Real Music of the Spheres

Interviews

15/11/2010

Bill Chaplin: “Science would be very boring if all our theories proved correct right from the start, in fact that would be a very unrealistic world”

16/11/2010

Steve Kawaler: “Some of the Asteroseismology early successes came through the work on pulsating white dwarfs in the 1970s through today”

17/11/2010

Sarbani Basu: “Asteroseismology is the only means available with which we can probe the interior of stars”

18/11/2010

Tim Bedding: “The space missions only have access to a limited fraction of the sky and cannot observe very bright stars”

19/11/2010

Donald Wayne Kurtz: “Whereas before Kepler and CoRoT we knew of a handful of stars that pulsate like the Sun, we now know of thousands!”

22/11/2010

Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard: “Data from the GONG and the SoHO projects have revolutionized our knowledge about - if not always our understanding of! - the Sun”

23/11/2010

Thierry Appourchaux: “We always use outdated technology to go to space”

24/11/2010

Mario Joao Monteiro: “Europe has established itself as the leader in many aspects of Asteroseismology”

VOICES (audiovisual interviews in English with Spanish subtitles)

Press Office: Annia Domenech. (annia [at] iac.es (annia[at]iac[dot]es))

Tel.: (+34) 617131448

Press Room Collaborators:

  • Text: Annia Domenech, Pere L. Pallé, Terry Mahoney, Nigel Moore
  • Images: Jorge Andrés Péres (SIE-Inv), Ramón Castro, Gabriel Pérez y Miguel Briganti (SMM/IAC)

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