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Kai Uwe Schrogl - President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) – European Space Agency (ESA) affiliate
  Professor Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl is since 2016 the President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), the global association of space lawyers from more than 50 countries. He served from 2014 to 2016 as Chair of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Kai-Uwe Schrogl works for the European Space Agency ESA as Special Advisor for Political Affairs. He has written or co-edited 20 books and more than 140 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space policy and law.
  « How can we preserve the night sky ? Legal and policy considerations »

            Date :  Tuesday, June 25th

Professor Schrogl's talk  “How can we preserve the night sky? Legal and policy considerations” will deal with the threats to the night sky through light pollution, which laws and regulations are already in place and what additional new rules we should establish to further be able to conduct ground-based astronomy and to maintain the night sky for humans and animals.
 

Guilherme Frederico Marranghello has a PhD in Theoretical Physics, is a Physics and Astronomy Professor at Universidade Federal do Pampa (Brazil) since 2006 and works with science communication since the International Year of Astronomy. He worked as Director of the Planetário da Unipampa from 2016 to 2023 and is an active member of the International Planetarium Society, where he serves as vice-coordinator for the Centennial of the Planetarium celebrations.

« Planetariums: 100 Years Communicating Astronomy with the Public»

            Date : Wednesday, June 26^th

Professor Marranghello will present the the Planetário da Unipampa, its history and the upcoming celebrations for the centennial while focusing on the perspectives of this scenario for Communicating Astronomy with the Public.

Syste ms engineer and astronomer, Commander of the National Order of the Lion (The Order of the Lion is the highest distinction in Senegal), Maram KAIRE has become, since May 14, 2021, the first Senegalese to have his name attributed to an object of the Solar System with the naming of the asteroid (35462) Maramkaire by the International Astronomical Union. Ranked in December 2022 by JEUNE AFRIQUE Magazine among “THE 30 WHO MAKE THE AFRICA OF TOMORROW”, He also entered, in 2021, the prestigious ranking of “500 most influential Africans in the world”. Maram KAIRE is the first African to receive, in 2023, the Marcel MOYE Prize from the Société Astronomique de France.

Between 2018 and 2021, he coordinated three (3) important NASA missions carried out in Senegal for stellar occultations by asteroids. This, as part of the NEW HORIZONS and LUCY space missions, which will visit, between 2025 and 2033, a group of 8 Trojan asteroids. He is a former Technical Advisor to the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, launched the project for the first Senegalese satellite in 2016 and is behind the creation of the Senegalese Agency for Space Studies (ASES) in 2023, of which he was appointed Director General by the President of the Republic of Senegal.

« Maram KAIRE, from popularization to the creation of the Senegal Space Agency »

            Date : Thursday, June 27th

For several years, the statistics of the baccalaureate examination in Senegal have shown a strong downward trend in the number of students in scientific fields in favor of other disciplines. However, Senegal, and Africa in general, has a crucial need for scientists to be able to support innovation and creativity, sources of economic growth and development.

However, thanks to the efforts of Maram KAIRE, Senegalese astronomer whose name has been attributed to asteroid 35462 since 2021, various popularization and training activities in planetary sciences, carried out in the field since 2006 by the Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Astronomy (ASPA) and demonstrated a real interest among young people for space sciences in general but more specifically for astronomy and planetary sciences. These creative scientific activities, ranging from conferences, workshops, training, observation of the sky with a telescope and radio and television interventions, have created an indescribable enthusiasm for each event. Populations have shown their interest in this science which makes it possible to harmonize positions on certain social issues. The academic community expresses its attachment to astronomy, which, although it is not taught in Senegal, offers career prospects to resources who have opted for scientific fields. NASA will end up entrusting him with important missions carried out on Senegalese soil as part of the exploration of the solar system.
Work which led to the establishment, in March 2023, of the Senegalese Space Studies Agency, which has, among other missions, the responsibility of strengthening awareness and the introduction of planetary sciences to populations and make Senegal a space nation.

Olivier Berné
Olivier Berné is a CNRS senior scientist at the Institute of Research in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse. Since 2017, he is one of the leading scientists of one of the thirteen international teams selected for the first scientific observations with the James Webb Space Telescope as part of the Early Release Science programs. The image of the Orion Nebula produced by Berné’s team with the support of S. Fuenmayor was featured on the cover of Science magazine’s issue presenting some of the results of this observing program.



  Salomé Fuenmayor
Salomé Fuenmayor is a Venezuelan graphic designer. After completing her graphic design studies at the Universidad de los Andes, she founded Híbrido Estudio de Diseño, a company dedicated to visual communication, where her passion for conception and innovation led her to collaborate on graphic and identity projects for national and international companies. In 2022, she collaborated with the CNRS through the IRAP laboratory in Toulouse. Her work involved processing images taken by NASA's James Webb Telescope, assembling and coloring the first images of the Orion Nebula.


« The power of images: the case of the James Webb Space Telescope »

            Date : Friday, June 28th

The James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing our physical understanding of the universe. But it also has profound implications on how the general public perceives the cosmos. Every week, new images from the space telescope are produced and distributed by astronomers, communicators and space agencies. This communication effort contributes to producing a new cosmogony, but it is also very formatted and highly controlled by space agencies. In this presentation, we will describe the fabric, the politics, and the impact of JWST images on the scientific community and on the general public. We will rely on our own experience as a scientist and graphic designer, both members of one of the first observing programs executed on the JWST dedicated to the Orion Nebula.