Computer Science – Learning
Scientific paper
Aug 2006
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Innovation in Teaching/Learning Astronomy Methods, 26th meeting of the IAU, Special Session 2, 17-18 August, 2006 in Prague, Cze
Computer Science
Learning
Scientific paper
Astronomical education in Armenia enters a new stage of organization and development. Though the economic difficulties restricted the former interest in astronomy for a decade or so, the present young generation gradually finds more and more attraction in space sciences. Knowledge of computers and Internet is their typical difference from the previous students. Thus, astronomy education requires heavy use of computer facilities and Internet, as it is in the case of the modern astronomical research. The students need powerful computers for computing methods, Internet (including Grid technologies), usage of large astronomical databases, virtual observatories (VOs), etc. The Armenian astronomers have a unique database of the famous Markarian survey (Digitized First Byurakan Survey, DFBS), as well as the newly created Armenian Virtual Observatory (ArVO). Since 2005, we have introduced a new (for the first time in the world!) subject for the Yerevan State University graduate students called "Astronomical Surveys, Databases and Virtual Observatories," which is connected directly with the modern understanding and treatment of large multiwavelength data volumes. The new requirements also suggest the training of a new type of (so-called) astronomy-computing specialists, who could heavily push the modern research and make it much more efficient.
Harutyunian Haik A.
Mickaelian Areg M.
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