Presentations from the BELISSIMA Workshop
The first BELISSIMA workshop "Science with 1.5 m telescopes" was held in Belgrade from 13 to 14 October 2011 and approximately 50 participants took part in it. The final program is here, and the presentations are given below.
S. Samurović (srdjan @ aob.rs): The BELISSIMA project
J. Nuspl (nuspl @ konkoly.hu): What are those astrophysical questions we should/can answer by these telescopes?
F.V. Hessman (Hessman @ Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE): The Search for the Planet Tatooine with a 1.2m Telescope
R. Poleski (rpoleski @ astrouw.edu.pl): The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment - large-scale survey with 1.3 m telescope
M. Weber (mweber @ aip.de): High-resolution spectroscopy using 1.5m class robotic telescopes
W.W. Zeilinger ( werner.zeilinger @ univie.ac.at): Remote Control Observations at the FOA 1.5m Telescope
I. Steele (iainsteele @ mac.com): Robotic Science with the Liverpool Telescope
A. Cellino (cellino @ to.astro.it): Photometric and polarimetric projects for small telescopes
R. Bachev (bachevr @ astro.bas.bg): Multicolor photometric monitoring of AGN's with small telescopes
P. Kubanek (pet r @ kubanek.net): RTS2 - brief history, modules, philosophy
M. Bogosavljević, O. Vince (mbogosavljevic @ aob.rs, ovince @ aob.rs): Vidojevica Progress Report
A. Mahabal (aam @ astro.caltech.edu): Optimal transient classification with 1-2 m class telescopes
T. Borkovits (borko @ electra.bajaobs.hu): Speckle astrometry with the 1.5m telescope. A key for determination of the spatial configuration of close hierarchical triple systems
O. Demircan (demircan @ comu.edu.tr): Photometric observations and future projects with Çanakkale 1.5 m Telescope
L. Morelli (lorenzo.morelli @ unipd.it): Science with the telescopes of the Asiago observatory
J. Danziger (danziger @ oats.inaf.it): SN1987A and its impact on supernova research
S. Guziy (gss @ iaa.es): The BOOTES world-wide Network of Robotic Telescopes
Lj. Skuljan (ljiljana.s @ clear.net.nz): Photometry in crowded fields & using PyRAF in data reduction
Photo: M. Dačić
The CD-ROM with the presentations from the BELISSIMA Workshop was printed in 2013 by the Astronomical observatory of Belgrade using the funds of the BELISSIMA project (ISBN: 978-86-80019-59-8) and is available from the coordinator of BELISSIMA.
The editors are: Srdjan Samurović, Nemanja Martinović and Branislav Vukotić.
(Original news: 04/11/2011)
