DRAFT AGENDA -- COLLATERAL BENEFITS WORKSHOP

Weds Oct 9th, Adelphi Conference Room, UCLan, Preston.

10:00 Welcome and introductions -- Chair

10:10 The SALT Collateral Benefits Plan,
overview and current status -- Khotso Mokhele

10:30 SA National Astronomy and Space Science Programme (NASSP)
and other developments in the SALT CBP -- Patricia Whitelock

11:10 break

11:30 Public outreach and direct educational benefits -- Clifford Nxomani
Science education visitor centres -- Patricia Whitelock

12:00 Public outreach programme from Armagh Observatory -- Mark Bailey

12:20 Public outreach programmes offered by other SALT partners -- t.b.d.
CONtinuous CAMera webcam -- David Buckley

12:40 Educational empowerment: Distance Learning courses in
astronomy from UCLan -- Barbara Hassall

13:00 Lunch (outside Adelphi Conference Room)

14:00 Research student bursary programmes and other related links with SA
-- Ted Williams (Rutgers)
-- Malcolm Coe (Southampton)
-- Nye Evans (Keele)
-- Matt Bershady (Wiscomsin)
-- other contributions

15:00 break

15:20 SALT industrial empowerment -- Kobus Meiring
-- SALT Foundation engineering bursaries

15:35 SALT as an African facility: update -- Khotso Mokhele

15:45 Sabbaticals and other contributions from SALT partners whilst
visiting SA in the future: development of action plan -- Chair

16:15 close of workshop