Hello everyone, You are invited to join the inaugural World Sundial Day Online Conference on 20 March 2025.
Date, time and format: Thursday, 20 March 2025, Online 16:00 GMT (London) 17:00 CET (Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Rome) 12:00 EDT (New York) 11:00 CDT (Chicago) 09:00 PDT (San Francisco, Seattle) Conference programme: All times GMT(!) – 16:00 – Martins Gills. Welcome to the conference 16:10 – Frank King. Welcome from the British Sundial Society 16:20 – Esteban Martínez Almirón. Why a World Sundial Day? 16:35 – Roger Torrenti. Why a MOOC and a magazine on sundials? 16:50 – David Harber. A fleeting encounter with an old Armillary Sphere, and the rest is history’ 30 years of sundial making 17:05 – Monika Lübker. Experience from creating new sundials in Birkenau 17:20 – Robert Adzema. Today’s sundial: the need for and design of 17:40 – François Blateyron. Latest features of Shadows Pro, for designing sundials 17:55 – Giuseppe De Donà. The evolution of astronomy with Camera Obscura sundials 18:10 – Kurt Niel. A huge sundial supporting a worldwide online project 18:30 – Evan Boxer-Cook. Take Time to Nodus Sundials 18:45 – Jeffrey Kaiser. A path to sundials 19:05 – Niklas Hietala. Lauri Anttila’s unconventional sun dials in Helsinki 19:20 – Woody Sullivan. The world’s first working sundial tattoo 19:35 – Closing How to join? Use your favourite web browser to join the conference in Google Meet platform. Open this link - https://meet.google.com/mqz-ooun-stf Conference web page - https://tempus-sol.eu/wsd-online-conference/ See you at the conference, Martins --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
