22 March 2007
World Water Day is an international event that tackles all water-related issues and aims to create awareness of such potential threats. This yeas, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina participated in spreading this message by organizing a one-day festivity in association with the Arab Environment Association.
07 March 2007
On 7-8 March 2007, the third meeting of NAMES, and the second of the network's actual Board of Directors, was hosted by The Scientific Center of Kuwait, one of the four founding members of the network. Joining the five members of the Board of Directors were the representative, of the two new full members of the network, Dubai Children's City and Sharjah Museums Department.
28 December 2006
To celebrate the completion of the first phase of the "Zoom Earth" outreach program, the PSC organized a festivity on 28 December 2006 that included a lecture by Dr. Mohamed El Raey, Professor of Environmental Physics.
14 December 2006
The FIRST LEGO League (FLL) in Egypt 2006 was co-organized by the BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) and the IEEE GOLD Egypt (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), under the auspices of Egyptian Minister of Education, Dr. Yousry Elgamal.
03 December 2006
The lecture evolved around the necessity to go beyond the standard model of particle physics and to understand quantum gravity has led to String Theory. This ambitious attempt to unify all the forces of nature and all forms of matter's different vibrations of a string-like object is still in a pre-revolutionary stage. Although remarkable progress has been achieved in the last decade in understanding the perturbative and non-perturbative structure of String Theory, we still lack a fundamental understanding of the theory. Many string theorists suspect that a profound conceptual change in our concept of space and time will be required for the final formulation of string theory.
20 November 2006
The National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF) is organizing a seminar on “Red Tide and Human Health”, in cooperation with the Planetarium Science Center at the BA and the American Center Alexandria (ACA). The seminar seeks to identify areas of red tide occurrences and the types of toxins secreted across Egyptian waters, and discuss efforts to use remote sensing to create a biological map of Egyptian waters added to the marine database. Such a plan would be geared toward environmental detection of toxic red tides throughout the year.
09 November 2006
On 9-10 November 2006, the second meeting of NAMES, North Africa and Middle East Science centers network, was hosted by Tunis Science City, Tunis. During the meeting the network was officially launched and the first Board of Directors was formed.
06 November 2006
In order to help kids develop their intelligence, it is important that educators understand systems and develop a systems perspective themselves. This training, intended for educators, aimed to develop their systems thinking, as well as provide them with activities and discussion strategies that they can use to promote systems thinking in the children they work with.
01 November 2006
It is through success stories that generations are inspired; and inspiration is always followed by innovation and creativity; key tools for the 21st Century. “Women in Science”, a lecture by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, intends to shed a light on women’s achievements, and success stories in different fields, also to highlight, acknowledge, and address the impediments that may still exist on their path for freedom and equality.
01 October 2006
DarkStar Adventure is a groundbreaking half-dome Planetarium show that is now showing at the BA Planetarium. It is suitable for viewers of all ages and they will witness the awesome power of a supernova, explore the heart of a gaseous nebula, visit exotic pulsars and learn to keep a safe distance from a black hole!