Tues 20 Aug – public talk by Prof. John Hearnshaw in Room 701 West, UC

Adventures of a travelling astronomer in Central and Far East Asia: in the footsteps of Marco Polo and Ulugh Beg.

John will discuss his travels to observatories and universities in several Central and Far-East Asian countries in recent years, including Mongolia (2004), Uzbekistan (2008), Tajikistan (2010), North Korea (2012) and Iran (2016). Most of these trips were while serving as the chair of the IAU Program Group for the World-wide Development of Astronomy, 2003-12.

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