Presentations from the BELISSIMA conference (Part I: oral presentations)

IT: invited talk

 

S. Samurović (AOB): The Belissima project

A.N. Ramaprakash (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, India): Can small beat the big? (IT)

M. Weber (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam, AIP, Germany):  The STELLA robotic observatory on Tenerife

L. Leedjärv (Tartu Observatory, Estonia):  Small is beautiful - experience and plans of the Tartu Observatory

V. Perdelwitz (Hamburger Sternwarte, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany): Astronomical Fourier Transform Spectroscopy at the Hamburg Observatory

M. Bogosavljević (AOB): Vidojevica status report 2012

F. Grundahl (Aarhus University, Denmark): SONG is starting to sing (IT)

I. Vince (AOB): An Echelle Spectrograph for the Milanković Telescope

G. Szabo (MTA Konkoly Observatory, Hungary): Follow-up lucky imaging observations of Kepler targets

T. Bonev (Institute of Astronomy and NAO - Bulg. Acad. Sci, Bulgaria): New modes of observation at the 2-m telescope of Rozhen observatory: parameters of the instruments and first results (IT)

P. Pravec (Astronomical Institute AS CR, Ondrejov, Czech Republic):  Asteroid properties from photometric observations: Constraining non-gravitational processes in asteroids (IT)

T. Pribulla (Astronomical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia): Eclipsing binaries - precise clocks to discover exoplanets

O. Vince (AOB): The DWARF project: Vidojevica

A. Milani (Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy):    Surveys with innovative one-meter telescopes: asteroids,debris... (IT)

A. Zakharov (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics,  Russia):    Exoplanet searches with gravitational microlensing

L. Eyer (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland) :    GAIA follow-up (via Skype)

L. Kiss  (Konkoly Observatory, Hungary)    Affordable Doppler velocities to 50 m/s with sub-meter telescopes (IT)

R. Pavlović (AOB)    From the first CCD measurements of double stars at Vidojevica towards speckleinterferometry

D. Urošević (Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, Univ. of Belgrade):   Optical detection of the emission nebulae in nearby galaxies

T. Petrushevska (Stockholm University/Oscar Klein Centre, Sweden):    Search for lensed supernovae by massive galaxy clusters with the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope

P. Heinzel (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic):    Observations and modeling of stellar flares (IT)

T. Brown (LCOGT, USA):    LCOGT: A World-wide Network of Robotic Telescopes (IT)

D. Denisenko (SAI MSU, Russia):    Results and Perspectives of the MASTER Robotic Telescopes Network -- movie -- additional information

Z. Ioannou (SQU, Oman):    The 2012 AE Aqr Multiwavelegth Campaign

G. Djorgovski  (Caltech, USA):   Exploration of the Time Domain (IT)

N. Giakoumidis (New York University at Abu Dhabi, UAE):    Simulating a Global Robotic Telescope Network

O. Atanacković (Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, Univ. of Belgrade):    Astronomy education and popularization in Serbia (IT)

P. Battinelli  (INAF-OAR, Italy):   Asymptotic Giant Branch stars (IT)

D. Ilić  (Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, Univ. of Belgrade):    Long term optical monitoring of AGN

E. Bon  (AOB):   First Spectroscopically resolved orbit of a supermassive black hole binary

O. Latković   (AOB):  Modeling of Interacting Binary Systems

J. Kubat   (Astronomical Institute AS CR, Ondrejov, Czech Republic):  Mass-loss rates of hot stars (IT)

G. Djorgovski  (Caltech, USA):  Concluding remarks

The poster presentations will be posted separately.

The participants of the international BELISSIMA conference (19/09/2012). Photo:  Miodrag Dačić

Original news: 12/10/2012

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:56
 

The pdf version is available here.

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

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:04
 

 

The BELISSIMA conference -- Belgrade, 18-21 September 2012

The Management board of the BELISSIMA project is pleased to announce the BELISSIMA conference to be held in Belgrade from 18 to 21 September 2012 in Belgrade. The conference “Future Science With Metre-Class Telescopes” will gather experts who will explore present day and future opportunities and most promising science questions that can be addressed using metre-class telescopes.

The conference is announced at the International Astronomy Meetings list here.

(Original news: 04/05/2012)

Update (23/06/2012): The BELISSIMA conference is now also announced at the site of one of the leading European journals for astronomy, Astronomy & Astrophysics: the link is here.

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 June 2012 17:09
 

BELISSIMA and the "Milanković" telescope in "Danica 2012"

 

Vuk Karadžić Foundation from Belgrade published the Serbian illustrated almanac “Danica“ for the year 2012. This is the 19th year of the new series of this publication: the original “Danica” (“The Day Star”) was initiated by Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language Vuk Karadžić in Vienna in 1825.  This almanac is widely distributed in Serbia (among others, all school libraries receive a copy of it) and abroad.

In the section “Astronomy” of the almanac, the article “The Rambling Planets” by the coordinator of the BELISSIMA project, Dr. Srdjan Samurović was published. In this contribution the research of the exoplanets which are very distant from their stars, “lonely” planets, was described. One possible way of their detection are the so called “microlensing” observations: this type of observations will be possible with the 1.5 meter “Milanković” telescope to be mounted at the Vidojevica mountain.

 

Last Updated on Monday, 12 March 2012 12:21
 

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)

 

 

 

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