Draft Global HOU Agenda

I. Day 1: HOU Around the World
Roger Ferlet, Chairperson

9:00 - 10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 Welcomes and Overview -- Local Hosts and Organizers
10:30 - 10:45 Overview of Global HOU - Carl Pennypacker
10:45 - 11:00 Roger Ferlet -- EU-HOU
11:00 - 11:15 UK HOU -- Robert Hill
11:30 - 11:45 Africa HOU -- Suzanne Faye
11:45 - 12:00 German HOU -- Andreas Kratzer
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 Australian Plans and Progress -- Graeme White
1:15 - 1:30 US HOU -- Alan Gould
1:30 - 1:45 Sweden HOU -- Jan Engstedt
1:45 - 2:00 Japan Hou --
2:00 - 2:15 Morocco HOU -- Hassane
2:15 - 2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:30 Growing HOU in South America - Dara Norman
3:30 - 4:00 Plans and Progress for HOU in China -- Hongfeng Guo
4:00 - 4:30 Africa HOU -- Suzanne Faye
4:30 - 5:00 Plans and Progress for Pakistan HOU
5:30 Cocktails and Reception

II. Day 2: HOU and Curriculum and Activities for the Classroom Robert Hill and HsingChi Wang, Chairpersons

9:00 - 10:00 The World-Wide Relationship of Curriculum to Science Understanding and Achievement
10:00 - 10:30 Chinese Science Education -- Physics First and hopes for Astronomy in Chinese Educational system -- Speaker To be decided
10:30 - 11:00 Getting Astronomy into the Norhern Ireland Schools -- Robert Hill
11:00 - 11:30 Pakistan and Astronomy in Schools -- Umair Asim
11:30 - 12:00 HOU in French Schools: Michel Faye
12:00 - 12:30 PISA and TIMSS in Sweden -- Jan Engstedt
1:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Breakout Sessions:
Breakout 1:
1:30 - 3:30 Kinesthetic Astronomy, Cheri Morrow

III. Day 3: Science With Small Telescopes

9:00 - 9:30 Details of Science with Small Telescopes: Data and results and what do we learn
9:30 - 10:00 HOU Telescopes and System Architectures and Plans to grow it slowly but deliberately -- the Telescope Broker -- Carl Pennypacker and Mehri Fadavi
10:00 - 10:30 Results from Faulkes -- Robert Hill
10:30 - 11:00 Chinese Schmidt Telescopes and contribution to the Global HOU Network -- Speaker to be announced
11:00 - 11:30 Japanese HOU Telescopes -- Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
12:00 - 1;00 Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Breakout Sessions:Practice Session with ACP Telescopes (Hawaii, Jackson, and Faulkes）

IV. Day 4: Using Virtual Observatories and the Collaboratory
Bonnie Thurber and Jordan Raddick, Chairs

9:00 - 9:30 Chinese Science Education -- Physics First and hopes for Astronomy in Chinese Educational system -- To be decided
9:30 - 10:00 Getting Astronomy into the Norhern Ireland Schools -- Robert Hill
10:00 - 10:30 Pakistan and Astronomy in Schools -- Umair Asim
10:30 - 11:00 Roger Ferlet -- EU-HOU
11:15 - 12:00 UK HOU -- Robert Hill
12:00 - 1;00 Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Visit to Beijing Sites

Conference Dinner

V. Day 5: HOU and After School and Activities for the Classroom

9:00 - 9:30 ACES
9:30 - 10:00 TBD
10:00 - 10:30 TBD
10:30 - 11:00 TBD
11:15 - 12:00 TBD
12:00 - 1:00 TBD
1:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Breakout Sessions:

Scientific Research Topics:

1) Global Networks of Telescopes
2) Science with Networks of Telescope
3) Common Observation Request Exchange (CORE)
4) Variable and Transient Object Observations
5) Mediating and understanding the appropriate science and the role of 2 meter telescopes, the IVO, and small? telescopes.
6) Tools for parsing and understanding data from the IVO, such as the cone search tool.
7) Survey of the variable sky and new VO-Variable object tools
8) AGN Research, Cataclysmic Variables, Planets outside our solar system, etc.
Educational/Global Collaboration Topics:
0) Reports from HOU's Nations from five continents
1) New pedagogy
2) WebCam astronomy
3) Journal of Student Astrophysical Research and Explorations
4) Global Network of Telescopes
5) Work with the IVO
6) Collaboratories
7) Outreach with Science Centers
8) How to run teacher workshops
9) Better Portals to the IVO for students, teachers, and the public
10) Establishing self-sustaining HOU programs in your nations.

The Conference Web is http://www.astronomy.csdb.cn/ghou/. Please develop your ideas for presentations and post them and mail them to us, and also file the abstracts on the conference web site. Posters are encouraged. We welcome hearing from you about topics for break-out sessions and work.

Deadline for Abstracts: June 15th (online submit at http://www.astronomy.csdb.cn/ghou/abstracts.htm)
Deadline for registration: June 15th (online submit at http://www.astronomy.csdb.cn/ghou/regiform1.htm)

We are exploring the feasibility of precursor HOU Institute for Chinese Teachers right before the Global Workshop -- Global HOU'ers are welcome to come early and help. Wheelchair ramps will be made available for those with disabilities.

Logistics Information:
The meeting will be held at National Optical Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC)(see http://www.bao.ac.cn/english/home.asp ) .
A map and directions from the airport are at: http://www.bao.ac.cn/english/position.htm

A hotel either at or near the observatory will be made available to participants. Teachers have first claim on the least expensive accommodations:
Hotel information please see appendix Registration Form

from the International Organizing Committee

Hongfeng Guo
NAOC, Beijing
Carl Pennypacker
UC Berkeley, Berkeley
Roger Ferlet
IAP, Paris
Irina Guseva
Pulkovo Obs., St. Petersburg
Andreas Kratzer
TUM, Munich
Lech Mankiewicz
CFT, Warsaw
Toshihiro Handa
Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo
Graeme White
James Cook University, Townsville
Dara Norman
CTIO, Chile
Hassane Darhmaoui
Alakhawayn Univ. Ifrane
Umair Asim
Farooqi Girls High School, Lahore.