Omer Blaes: Outreach Activities
SOME OF THE RECENT OUTREACH ACTIVITIES OF OMER
BLAES
Popular Talks and Presentations
- ``Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts''
for the Santa Barbara Astronomy Club, November 1994
- ``Do Black Holes Really Exist?''
for the Santa Barbara Astronomy Club, April 1995
- ``Fast Neutron Stars''
for the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, December 1996
- ``Discovery of Planets Outside the Solar System''
KCSB Radio interview, January 1997
- ``Planets Beyond the Solar System''
for a group of gifted 4th and 5th graders (a GATE class) at Hope School,
Santa Barbara, April 1998
- ``Black Holes and Quasars''
for 4th and 5th grade students at Marymount School, Santa Barbara,
December 1998
- ``Black Holes''
for the Santa Ynez Valley Men's Forum, Solvang, January 2000
- ``Black Holes''
for 2nd and 6th grade students at El Rancho School, Goleta, February 2000
Other Activities
- Participated in evenings of stargazing with new K-12
teachers as part of their science teacher training, October 1996, January 1999
- Participated in the annual Health and Science Career Fair
at San Marcos High School, Santa Barbara, February 1997
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Participated and helped organize a science fair ``family day'' in November
1997 at UCSB. We set up a number of physics demonstrations for children
and adults, and also had the Sojourner rover replica from the Mars Pathfinder
mission up from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The event was co-hosted by
the University Art Museum and the Department of Physics.
- Participated in a number of
Physics
Circus shows at
local area schools, 1997-2000
-
Coordinator of the Institute for Theoretical Physics Secondary Teachers
Conference on
Black Holes: Fact and Fiction, February 6, 1999
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