THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE BELISSIMA PROJECT IN NIŠ AND PETNICA
On the 12th of May 2011, in the amphitheater of the department of Natural Science and Mathematics, Niš University, an award ceremony was held for the primary and secondary school students and their achievements in physics competitions. Dr. Milan Bogosavljevic and Dr. Miroslav Mićić were invited as special guests and on that occasion have presented the latest astronomical events in Serbia as well as plans for the future of astronomy in Serbia. Dr. Milan Bogosavljević presented BELISSIMA project and the plans for building of a 1.5 meter telescope at the top of mountain Vidojevica, while Dr. Miroslav Mićić presented opportunities for the future research on supercomputers in Serbia with the talk “Supermassive Black Holes”. On this occasion, they have established cooperation with the Society of Physicists of Niš and contracted future projects related to astrophysical simulations and visualization for the purposes of public outreach (Work Package 3, WP3).
In a similar capacity, on 16th of May 2011, Dr. Milan Bogosavljević and Dr. Miroslav Mićić featured as guests at the astronomy seminar in the Research Center in Petnica where Dr. Bogosavljević trained the participants to operate the 1.5 meter telescope in Texas with the aim of observing a very special class of objects, comets in the asteroid belt. This is just one of many projects that are already planned for the future research performed on the 1.5-meter telescope at Vidojevica to be built within the project BELISSIMA.
Dr. Miroslav Mićić presents the talk “Supermassive Black Holes” in Niš on May 12th, 2011.
The audience follows the talk of Dr. Miroslav Mićić.
