Andrew Fraknoi is Professor of Astronomy at Foothill College and a Senior Educator with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He was the California Professor of the Year in 2007 and appears regularly on local and national radio explaining astronomical topics in everyday language. He is the coauthor of a leading college astronomy textbook, Voyages through the Universe, of several books for teachers (including the new "Solar Science") and wrote a children's book for Disney entitled "Wonderful World of Space." In the 1980's he was scientific editor of two collections of science fiction and science published by Bantam: "The Planets" and "The Universe". He has long had an interest in science fiction and keeps a webpage on SF with good science at: http://www.astrosociety.org/scifi Recently, he has started writing SF and his first story "The Cave in Arsia Mons" has just been published in "Building Red: Mission Mars," an anthology edited by Janet Cannon (Walrus Publ.) He has won the Faraday Award of the National Science Teachers Association (for the communication of science), the Gemant Prize of the American Institute of Physics, and the Education Award of the American Astronomical Society. The International Astronomical Union has named Asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi in recognition of his work on the public understanding of science, but he hastens to reassure everyone that it is a very boring asteroid in the main belt, and of no danger to the Earth.
Sessions auxquelles Andrew Fraknoi participe
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Black Holes, Space Warps and Time Machines: What the Movie “Interstellar” was Really About
1 heure 30 minutes,
13:00
- 14:30
San Mateo Marriott - Engage
Andrew Fraknoi, The Fromm Institute (Participant.e)
14:30
14:30
Saturday Reading
1 heure 30 minutes,
14:30
- 16:00
San Mateo Marriott - Strategy
Dario Ciriello (Participant.e)
Ms. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Book View Cafe (Participant.e)
Andrew Fraknoi, The Fromm Institute (Participant.e)
Laurel Anne Hill (Participant.e)
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Science Fiction From Scientists
1 heure 30 minutes,
13:00
- 14:30
San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant.e)
Andrew Fraknoi, The Fromm Institute (Modérateur.rice)
Paul Preuss (Participant.e)
14:30
14:30
The Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System
1 heure 30 minutes,
14:30
- 16:00
San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
Andrew Fraknoi, The Fromm Institute (Participant.e)
16:00
16:00
Autograph Session: Umurhan and Fraknoi
1 heure,
16:00
- 17:00
San Mateo Marriott - Convene Lobby
Dr Orkan Umurhan (Participant.e)
Andrew Fraknoi, The Fromm Institute (Participant.e)