{"id":57113,"date":"2023-09-28T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/north-west-university-7s-teams-made-a-clean-sweep-in-kimberley-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:40:18","slug":"spu-to-host-the-2023-astrolab-training-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-to-host-the-2023-astrolab-training-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU to host the 2023 Astrolab Training Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sol Plaatje University (SPU)<\/span><\/a> will be hosting the 2023 Astrolab Training Workshop, which will take place from 4 \u2013 8 December 2023 at SPU\u2019s Central Campus. The workshop will be attended by experts, specialists, researchers, academics, and students who will engage to advance astronomy and astrophysics infrastructure and curriculum development.<\/p>

The Astrolab workshops have been running since 2016, with the Copperbelt University<\/span><\/a> in Zambia being the first host. Thereafter, the National University of Science and Technology<\/span><\/a> in Zimbabwe hosted the workshop in 2017, followed by the University of Zululand<\/span><\/a> in 2018, and University of Venda<\/span><\/a> in 2019. The regional office of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)<\/span><\/a> and the Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD)<\/a><\/span> recognised SPU as the host university for this year\u2019s workshop.<\/p>

The workshop aims to develop and implement a research tutorial at universities in need of astronomy infrastructure and curriculum, to enable undergraduate students in astronomical sciences to perform real-time observations on a remote telescope and to transform these observations into scientific results.<\/p>

The Astrolab Training Workshop will not only attract prospective science students to SPU but will also put SPU on the global map.<\/p>

To be part of this workshop, send an email to obed.shirinda@spu.ac.za<\/a> and musa.buthelezi@spu.ac.za<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sol Plaatje University (SPU) will be hosting the 2023 Astrolab Training Workshop, which will take place from 4 \u2013 8 December 2023 at SPU\u2019s Central Campus. The workshop will be attended by experts, specialists, researchers, academics, and students who will Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":57136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[252],"class_list":["post-57113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-nas-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57119,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57113\/revisions\/57119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57113"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=57113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}