CfP: 2012 Convention of the Antique Telescope Society
Call for Papers: 2012 Convention of the Antique Telescope
Society
The 2012 Convention of the Antique Telescope Society <http://webari.com/oldscope/> will be
held September 28-29 in Hamburg, Germany.
Several sessions of papers are scheduled and we invite
you to submit an abstract of a proposed paper.
We welcome papers on subjects including historic
telescopes and accessories, early observatories and astronomers, astronomical
instrument makers, the history of optics, and especially the history,
construction, and preservation of telescopes.
Submit your abstracts to the Papers Coordinator:
Peter Abrahams
10040 NW Thompson Road
Portland, OR 97229-3822, USA
or send it via e-mail (preferred) to:
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: September 4, 2012.
Early applications would be helpful. Your abstract should be brief, preferably
no more than 200 words. Please indicate the time you need for your
presentation. A digital projector will be provided; please communicate your
software needs. Other projectors will be provided based on availability in
Germany.
We hope for participation from interested persons of all
nationalities, but the language of the oral presentation sessions will be
English.
In the event that there are more papers proposed than
time permits, a papers committee will be used to schedule the sessions. In
general, our presentations are limited to 20 minutes. We can allow more time
when needed, after communication with the papers coordinator.
We would like to encourage speakers to prepare their
presentations for publication in the ATS Journal. Speakers may submit their
presentations to the Papers Coordinator at the time of the meeting to be
forwarded to the Journal Editor. It is understood that some papers cannot be
submitted due to copyright or other considerations.