1st ESAN Solstice Conference June 20 2020

Coordinators: Abebe Kebede, Kassahun Betre, Dejenie Zewdie Date & Time:June 20, 2020 , 2020 8:00 AM EST-Contact: abkebede@gmail.com

Time	Topic	Presenter
	Astrophysics with Sound	Wanda Diaz
	Th Future of Space Travel	Dereje Seifu
	Ethiopia Scaling New Height Using Space Based Information: ETRSS-1	Tsegaye Demsis, Ghoin Ashenafi
	Aerospace Technology and it’s Impacts on Socio-economics and Geo-politics	Joseph Shiferaw
	From the Book of Enoch to ETRSS-1- Traditions and languages of Ethiopian Astronomy	Abebe Kebede
Postgraduate students presentations
	Teleparallel gravity as an alternative to standard model of cosmology	Shambel Sahlu Akalu (PhD Research)
		Tilahun Getachew Woreta, (PhD Research)
	Properties of Inside-Out Assembly of Galaxies at Low Redshift	Dejene Zewdie Woldeyes (PhD Research)
	Closing

Abstracts

Astrophysics with Sound (Wanda Diaz)

Any sound, whether produced by a musical instrument or not can be described as a variation of air pressure traveling to the ear. The duration of each vibrational period determines the pitch of the sound, whereas waveform characteristics determine its timbre. The ear is able to process sounds in such a way that both pitch and timbre of each individual sound are traced.  This may imply that the ear may discriminate these sounds in terms of their period duration as well as their waveform. We sonified the time series of times series  data from a concert of satellites: ACE, WIND, GOES, UlISES to  analyze the frequency content of the data for Cosmic Ray Intensity (CRI), Sunspot number, Solar and Galactic Cosmic rays, and geomagnetic activity.  to listen to  spectral indexes to physical processes in the plasma (e.g., turbulent energy cascade).”    Our work promises to provide a way to enrich current data analysis techniques and reach a complete, consistent picture of possible wave turbulence dynamics in the solar wind  both short (pre–steady-state) and long (steady-state) times. In the future it would be interesting to engineer other ways to approach the data multi sensorially so for example in a time efficient manner study and identify other phenomena like,  for example studies of anisotropic turbulence, perhaps by paying attention to the dissipation scale or the driving force, to identify quenches between different turbulent states. This work begun thanks to,  Abebe and Ethiopia trusting that I could do a presentation at the University of Gonder.  Hopefully it will humbly contribute to create a productivity model that is away from biases, preventing for funding agencies and research institutions to take seriously different ways to produce the science.  One example of a moving forward is the work in Argentina.

The Future of Space Travel- From a physicist perspective Dereje Seifu Morgan State University

Humans are born explorers, and the three main reasons for that are survival, in search of a better life, and out of curiosity. The number of stars in the universe is ten times more than the number of grains of sand on Earth. Our current civilization, which started when the concept of the atomic theory, was postulated by Democritus some 2400 (twenty-four hundred) years ago. We believe in about 100 years from now by the 21^st century, our civilization will be interplanetary, which is level zero civilization. The human race, for its survival, needs to develop space travel technology beyond interplanetary fully. It needs to move to interstellar and then to intergalactic, stages 1 and 2 civilizations, respectively. The dire need for the development of space travel technology includes the following dangerous situation that could wipe out the human race. It consists of an asteroid impact, virus pandemic, climate change, pollution, AI revolution, nuclear war, etc. To get to stage zero civilization that is interplanetary space travel, we need to develop smart materials to build more robust space vehicles. To get to the next stages 1 and 2, interstellar and intergalactic space travel technologies, we need extraordinary technology. It is a belief held by many scientists that this extraordinary technology will only come from extraordinary progress in the sciences, such as branches of science as quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics explains phenomenons believed to be forbidden processes in classical physics. These phenomenons include quantum entanglement, tunneling, causality, locality, nature of reality, duality, superposition, and quantum scattering. Out of this phenomenon, quantum entanglement will lead us to a new space travel technology of quantum teleportation. This space travel technology will, I hope, transit us to stages 1 and 2 space technologies, interstellar and intergalactic, respectively. -Dr. Dereje Seifu is a Professor of Physics and President of EPSNA.

Ethiopian Astronomy from Book of Enoch to ETRSS-1 (Abebe Kebede)

Key Proposals: Ethiopianization/Africanization of STEM-The case of Astronomy Indigenous knowledge- Developing conventions for translations and transliterations Astronomy and Space Science Vocabulary Conventions. In this presentation we will show a piece of the larger Ethiopian astronomy tradition that I call Ethioipc astronomy, and propose approaches to develop the language of STEM.  The Ethiopians have a tradition of star lore s and legends. In the distant past the knowledge of astronomy and mathematics was abundant. Books such as the mysteries of heaven and earth, the book of Enoch and Abu shaker are devoted to this knowledge. There is a large body of indigenous knowledge of astronomy that people use to keep time. In this talk we will discuss possible conventions for translations and align STEM words, expressions, natural and empirical laws in indigenous languages.