The Mind of the Universe. A series of school/public lectures communicating the excitement of cosmic discovery(astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology)

宇宙的心灵将是一系列讲座，涵盖宇宙起源和演变的主要方面，旨在向年轻和成年观众传达宇宙发现的兴奋及其对21世纪世纪人类文化的影响。宇宙心灵的概念是基于卡尔·萨根的一个尖锐的概念，他说我们都是宇宙回顾自己的眼睛。这个想法被作为天文学、天体物理学和宇宙学入门课程的基本主题，我在皇家天文台格林威治和汉普斯特德花园郊区研究所写过几次。课程的结尾涉及生命和宇宙中意识的出现，因此它的标题。这个奖学金将使我能够重新包装和更新课程材料，作为一系列关于各种主题的个人讲座，从宇宙的起源，基本粒子的形成和化学元素的组装，到沿着历史使用的富有想象力的技术（望远镜，光谱仪，非光学探测器，机器人航天器等）以及我们在浩瀚的空间和时间海洋中的现代观点。更新的主要主题是太阳系机器人探索的惊人结果，目前关于恒星和行星形成的工作以及解开黑暗宇宙之谜的尖端研究。对于这些，我会得到伦敦大学学院的人的建议，像奥弗·拉哈夫，伊恩·克劳福德，塞雷娜·维蒂，大卫威廉姆斯和其他人。一个重要的挑战是将基本概念带给学童，在学校讲座和参观伦敦大学天文台的“课堂天文学”方案下，这一点已经在小规模上显示出有希望的结果，该方案由一系列PPARC/STFC小额奖资助10%FTE。宇宙的心灵讲座将有涉及空间和时间的线性尺度，基本光谱学和望远镜的使用进行互动演示。此外，我计划制作视听序列（声音和光的多普勒频移、波衍射、日食期间的闪光光谱、磁日冕沿着太阳活动周期的形态、宇宙的膨胀、引力透镜等）。在我与皇家学院的长期合作关系中，他们在学校课程中担任讲师，他们提供了语言，一般风格和实践演示方面的建议，并在翻新的法拉第演讲厅举办讲座（见附件）。这个奖学金的第二部分将使我能够促进和提供讲座，以大型学校团体和相关场地全国各地，如皇家因斯布鲁克，BA，切尔滕纳姆等科学节，博物馆，科学中心和天文馆在布里斯托，格拉斯哥，莱斯特，格林威治，爱丁堡，我也计划制作教师/讲师信息包和研讨会主要在科学教育协会的会议和活动中提供，物理研究所。在这一阶段，将有直接的联系，以教师讲习班计划由保罗罗氏博士，保持器持有人的STFC SinS奖学金。保罗和我希望互惠互利，我们计划在同一个网站上分享一些资源。我欢迎与另一位S&S研究员M.Aderin博士的合作，因为我觉得这可能是我们活动中的一些有用的重叠。"宇宙之心“项目的延期恰逢2009年国际天文年的活动，庆祝望远镜天文学400周年和第一次登月40周年。一个重要的跨学科机会是达尔文的物种起源（1859年）150周年，因为生命的起源和进化现在可以在天体生物学的新科学的宇宙学背景下框架，

The Mind of the Universe will be a series of lectures covering the main aspects of the origin and evolution of the Universe, aimed at communicating to young and adult audiences the excitement of cosmic discovery and its implications to the human culture of the 21st century. The Mind of the Universe concept is based on a poignant notion from Carl Sagan who said that we all are the eyes of the Universe looking back upon itself. The idea was taken as the underlying theme for an introductory course to astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology that I wrote and delivered several times at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and the Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute. The end of the course deals with life and the emergence of consciousness in the Universe, hence its title. This fellowship would allow me to re-pack and update the course material as a series of individual lectures on a variety of topics, from the origin of the Universe, the formation of elementary particles and the assembly of chemical elements, to the imaginative technology used along history (telescopes, spectrographs, non optical detectors, robotic spacecraft, etc) and the modern view of our place in a vast ocean of space and time. Major topics to update are the amazing results from the robotic exploration of the solar system, the current work on stellar and planetary formation and cutting-edge research to unravel the mystery of the dark Universe. For these, I will have the advice from UCL people like Ofer Lahav, Ian Crawford, Serena Viti, David Williams and others. An important challenge would be to bring fundamental concepts to school children, something that has already shown promising results on a small scale under the 'Astronomy in the Classroom' programme of school lectures and visits at the University of London Observatory, funded at 10%FTE by a series of PPARC/STFC small awards. The Mind of the Universe lectures will have engaging interactive demonstrations involving LINEAR scales of space and time, basic spectroscopy and the use of telescopes. In addition, I plan to produce audio visual sequences (doppler shift in sound and light, wave diffraction, the flash spectrum during solar eclipses, the morphology of the magnetic corona along the solar cycle of activity, the expansion of the Universe, gravitational lensing, etc). Following my long relationship with the Royal Institution as a lecturer within their school programmes, they have offered advice on language, general style and practical demonstrations and hosting the lectures at their refurbished Faraday Lecture Theatre (see attachments). The second part of this fellowship will allow me to promote and deliver the lectures to large school groups and relevant venues nationwide like the Royal Intitution, the BA, Cheltenham, etc. festivals of Science, museums, science centres and planetariums at Bristol, Glasgow, Leicester, Greenwich, Edinburgh, etc. I also plan to produce teacher/lecturer information packs and worskshops to be delivered mainly at the Association for Science Education conferences and events organised by the Institute of Physics. At this stage, there will be direct links to the teacher workshops planned by Dr Paul Roche, holder of a STFC SinS Fellowship. Paul and me expect mutual benefits and we plan to share some resources on the same website. I welcome a collaboration with the other S&S Fellow, Dr M.Aderin as I feel that may be some useful overlap in our activites. The extension of The Mind of the Universe project comes in good time to contribute to events for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, celebrating 400 years of telescope astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing. An important cross-curricular opportunity is the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species (1859), as the origin and evolution of life can now be framed in a cosmological context in the new science of Astrobiology,