La conférence Helen Sawyer Hogg a été créée en 1985 par la Société canadienne d’astronomie avec la participation de la Société royale d’astronomie du Canada (SRAC), l’Association des planétariums du Canada et l’Institut royal canadien. Depuis, cette conférence publique, supportée conjointement par le fonds de la CASCA et par la SRAC, se tient annuellement au congrès de l’une ou de l’autre des sociétés, en alternance. Elle se veut une reconnaissance des contributions soutenues et diverses de Helen Sawyer Hogg à la prise de conscience du public de l’Univers qui nous entoure. Le choix du conférencier est arrêté par un comité composé des présidents de la CASCA et de la SRAC, ainsi que du président du comité organisateur local, hôte de la rencontre (la CASCA ou la SRAC).
La conférence Helen Sawyer Hogg 2018
Emily Lakdawalla is an internationally admired science communicator and educator, passionate about advancing public understanding of space and sharing the wonder of scientific discovery.
Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from Amherst College and a Master of Science degree in planetary geology from Brown University. She came to The Planetary Society in 2001. She has been writing and editing the Planetary Society Blog since 2005, reporting on space news, explaining planetary science, and sharing beautiful space photos. Emily has been an active supporter of the international community of space image processing enthusiasts as Administrator of the forum UnmannedSpaceflight.com since 2005. She is also a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope magazine.
Her first book, titled The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job, is due out from Springer-Praxis in March, 2018. The book explains the development, design, and function of Curiosity with the same level of technical detail that she delivers in the Planetary Society Blog. A second book, Curiosity and Its Science Mission: A Mars Rover Goes to Work will follow in 2019.
She was awarded the 2011 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for her blog entry about the Phoebe ring of Saturn. Asteroid 274860 was formally named “Emilylakdawalla” by the International Astronomical Union on July 12, 2014. She received an honorary doctorate from The Open University in 2017 in recognition of her contributions in communicating space science to the public.
The title of her lecture is « The Golden Age of Solar System Exploration. »
| 2016 | Ann Hornschemeier | All the X-ray binaries in the Universe |
| 2015 | Roberto Abraham | First Results from Dragonfly |
| 2014 | Laura Ferrarese | The Hidden Lives of Galaxies |
| 2013 | Malcolm Longair | Cosmology – its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future |
| 2012 | Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Will the World End in 2012? The astronomical Evidence. |
| 2011 | Dimitar Sasselov | The Search for a Sister Earth |
| 2010 | René Doyon | First Images of Exoplanets |
| 2009 | Lawrence Krauss | Life, the Universe and Nothing |
| 2008 | Phil Plait | Bad Astronomy |
| 2007 | Steven Squyres | Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission |
| 2006 | Alan Hildebrand | Hunting for Doomsday asteroids from Earth and Space |
| 2005 | Michel Mayor | Des planètes gazeuses aux planètes rocheuses: Dix ans de découvertes de planètes extrasolaires |
| 2004 | Sara Schechner | Politics and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop’s Observations of the Transits of Venus Expedition to St. John’s, June 1761 |
| 2003 | Michael Shara | Stellar Promiscuity and Destruction |
| 2002 | Paul Hodge | Barnard’s Galaxy: Its Mysteries Revealed |
| 2001 | Jill Tarter | Pulling Signals out of Noise |
| 2000 | Wendy Freedman | The Age and Size of the Universe |
| 1999 | Paul Chodas | The Impact Threat and Public Perception |
| 1998 | David Crampton | Exploring the Frontier of the Universe with New Eyes |
| 1997 | Vera Rubin | What Hubble Didn’t Know About Our Galaxy |
| 1996 | Werner Israel | Black Holes |
| 1995 | David H. Levy | Springtime on Jupiter – a personal perspective on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
| 1994 | George Efstathiou | The Origin of Galaxies |
| 1993 | Margaret Geller | Mapping the Universe: So Many Galaxies, So Little Time |
| 1992 | Alan R. Hildebrand | The Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary Impact (or the Dinosaurs Didn’t Have A Chance) |
| 1991 | Kimmo A. Innanen | The Prediction and Discovery of a New Solar System Object: The Planetary Trojan Asteroids |
| 1990 | Joseph Veverka | Exploration of the Solar System: Voyager and Beyond |
| 1989 | Roger Cayrel | La construction du téléscope CFH |
| 1988 | Hubert Reeves | Early Moments of the Universe |
| 1987 | René Racine | Small is Beautiful: The Quest for High Resolution Imaging in Astronomy |
| 1986 | Barry Madore | The Hubble Space Telescope |
| 1985 | Owen Gingerich | The Mysterious Nebulae, 1610-1924 |
