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Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade

International BELISSIMA Conference

 

FUTURE SCIENCE WITH METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES

18-21 September 2012 -- Belgrade, Serbia

Tulip Inn Putnik Belgrade Hotel

http://futurescience.aob.rs

 

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE

 

(Invited talks are labeled in blue. The format of invited talks is 30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions. Contributed talks are 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. Posters will be on display throughout the duration of the conference).

Monday, 17th September 2012

 

16:30 – 19:30 Registration desk open at Tulip Inn Putnik Belgrade Hotel

 

Tuesday, 18th September 2012

09:00-09:30 Registration desk open at Tulip Inn Putnik Belgrade Hotel

09:30-10:00 Opening/Z. Knežević Welcome message

10:00-10:15 S. Samurović The Belissima project

MAIN THEME: METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTS

 

10:15-10:55 A.N. Ramaprakash Can small beat the big?

10:55-11:25 Coffee break

11:25-11:45 M. Weber The STELLA robotic observatory on Tenerife

11:45-12:05 L. Leedjärv Small is beautiful - experience and plans of the

Tartu Observatory

12:05-12:25 V. Perdelwitz Astronomical Fourier Transform Spectroscopy at the

Hamburg Observatory

12:25-12:45 M. Bogosavljević Vidojevica status report 2012

12:45-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:10 F. Grundahl SONG is starting to sing

15:10-15:30 I. Vince An Echelle Spectrograph for Milanković Telescope

15:30-15:50 G. Szabo Follow-up lucky imaging observations of Kepler targets

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:00 T. Bonev New modes of observation at the 2-m telescope of Rozhen

observatory: parameters of the instruments and first results

17:00-17:40 (N.N.) Panel Discussion: Telescopes and Instrumentation

Wednesday, 19th September 2012

 

MAIN THEME: SCIENCE WITH METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES (I)

09:00-09:15 Start of day 2

09:15-09:55 P. Pravec Asteroid properties from photometric observations:

Constraining non-gravitational processes in asteroids

09:55-10:15 F. Hessman The Search for Circumbinary Exoplanets

10:15-10:35 T. Pribulla Eclipsing binaries - precise clocks to discover exoplanets

10:35-11:05 Coffee break

11:05-11:45 A. Milani Surveys with innovative one-meter telescopes:

asteroids,debris...

11:45-12:05 A. Zakharov Exoplanet searches with gravitational microlensing

12:05-12:25 L. Eyer GAIA follow-up (via Skype)

12:25-13:00 (N.N.) Panel Discussion: Science (part I)

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

MAIN THEME: SCIENCE WITH METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES (II)

14:30-15:10 L. Kiss Affordable Doppler velocities to 50 m/s with

sub-meter telescopes

15:10-15:30 R. Pavlović From the first CCD measurements of double stars at

Vidojevica towards speckleinterferometry

15:30-15:50 D. Urošević Optical detection of the emission nebulae in

nearby galaxies

15:50-16:10 T. Petrushevska Search for lensed supernovae by massive galaxy clusters

with the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope

16:10-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-17:20 P. Heinzel Observations and modeling of stellar flares

17:20-18:00 (N.N.) Panel discussion: Science (part II)

 

 

20:00-22:00 Conference dinner at SOKOJ restaurant (fee 20 euros)

 

Thursday, 20th September 2012

 

 

MAIN THEME: NETWORKED TELESCOPES, NETWORKED SCIENCE

 

09:00-09:15 Start of day 3

09:15-09:55 T. Brown LCOGT: A World-wide Network of Robotic Telescopes

09:55-10:15 D. Denisenko Results and Perspectives of the MASTER Robotic

Telescopes Network

10:15-10:35 Z. Ioannou The 2012 AE Aqr Multiwavelegth Campaign

10:35-11:05 Coffee break

11:05-11:45 G. Djorgovski Exploration of the Time Domain

11:45-12:05 N. Giakoumidis Simulating a Global Robotic Telescope Network

12:05-12:40 (F. Hessman) Panel Discussion: Networked telescopes,

networked science

 

MAIN THEME: EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

 

12:40-13:00 P. Bendjoya Centre Pedagogique Planete Univers: C2PU

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:10 O. Atanacković Astronomy education and popularization in Serbia

15:10-15:50 (N.N.) Panel Discussion: Education, public outreach and

popularization of astronomy

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:00 G. Longo Astroinformatics, virtual observatory and web 2.0

17:00-17:40 (N.N.) Panel Discussion - Astroinformatics

 

 

 

 

Friday, 21st September 2012

MAIN THEME: CELEBRATING THE 125-YEARS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

09:15-09:55 P. Battinelli Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

09:55-10:10 D. Ilić Long term optical monitoring of AGN

10:10-10:25 E. Bon First Spectroscopically resolved orbit of a supermassive

black hole binary

10:25-10:40 O. Latković Modeling of Interacting Binary Systems

10:40-10:55 O. Vince The DWARF project: Vidojevica

10:55-11:25 Coffee break

11:25-12:05 J. Kubat Mass-loss rates of hot stars

12:05-12:45 (N.N.) Panel Discussion "Future Science"

12:45-13:15 (N.N.) Conference Summary and closing remarks

17:00 – 19:00 Reception at Astronomical Observatory Belgrade

(meeting time for transportation to AOB will be announced)

 

POSTERS (Tue – Fri)

J. Aleksić Popularization of astronomy through robotic telescopes and

virtual observatories

V. Čadež Peculiarities of ionospheric response to Solar eruptive events

G. Damljanović Possibilities of ICRF2 ERS Observations using ASV 60cm telescope

I. Di Varano Long time series observations from Antarctica with ICE-T

M. Gharamti Planets and Galxies from Monopole Clustors

F. Hessman The MONET Image Processing Curriculum for High Schools

M. Jovanović PARSES/FERRE pipeline for determining the stellar parameters

M. Jurković Cepheids with STELLA telescope

S. Kohl Lucky imaging at the Oskar-Luehning-Telescope in the near infrared wavelength range

P. Kostić Analysis of Galactic chemical evolution model compatible with

measurements of interstellar deuterium abundance

D. Lukić Astro climate: Astronomical Station Vidojevica

I. Milić Astronomy department in Petnica Science Center

S. Milisavljević Proximity calculation and changing of distance function

S. Ninković Astronomy Olympiads - A challenge for future scientists

T. Prodanović Communicating Astronomy With the Public:

Why and How Should We Do It

O. Suarez EduCosmos - secondary students in the focus

B. Surlan Modeling of resonance line in inhomogeneous hot star winds

S. Tomić Detection of a 1.59 h period in the B supergiant star HD 202850

V. Trajkovska Astronomy in the media in Serbia

PSC students MONECOM - A Collaborative Balkan School Project

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