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32nd International School for Young
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ISYA-2010 |
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September 12, – October 2, 2010, Byurakan, Armenia |
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PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
September 12, Sunday
Arrival and registration day
September 13, Monday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-10:00 Official opening of ISYA-2010
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Alain Sarkissian, Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Garik Israelian, Extrasolar
Planets. I
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Students’ self-presentation and
acquaintance
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:30
Acquaintance to the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
19:00-21:00 Welcome
dinner
September 14, Tuesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Garik Israelian, Extrasolar Planets. II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Alain Sarkissian, Space
Experiments related to Planetary Atmospheres
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Practical exercises: Mustapha
Meftah, Space experiment for astronomy
and planetology
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Preparation for observations with Hawaii 2m Faulkes telescope
19:00-20:00
Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 15, Wednesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Jean-Pierre de Greve, Stellar Evolution
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Jean-Pierre de Greve, Close
Binaries
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Tutorials: Alain Sarkissian, Workflow to Harvest Massive Spectrometric
Databases. I
16:00-16:30 Coffee
break
16:30-18:00
Tutorials: Alain Sarkissian, Workflow to
Harvest Massive Spectrometric Databases. I
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 16, Thursday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Michel Dennefeld, Astronomical Instrumentation and Observing Techniques. I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Michel Dennefeld, Astronomical Instrumentation
and Observing Techniques. II
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Lecture: Leslie
Sage, How to publish in Nature
15:15-16:00 Practical exercises
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Preparation for observations with Hawaii
2m Faulkes telescope
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 17, Friday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Robert Williams, HST: History, Servicing Missions, and
Science
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Michel Dennefeld, Astronomical Instrumentation
and Observing Techniques. III
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Igor Chilingarian, Evolution of early-type galaxies from observations, simulations and
Virtual Observatory
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Remote observations with Hawaii 2m Faulkes telescope
19:00-20:00
Dinner
September 18, Saturday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
11:00-13:00 Award of Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize 2010
13:00-14:30 Lunch (in
Yerevan)
14:30-18:00
Excursion in Yerevan (Matenadaran,
Republic Square, Vernisage, Opera House, etc.)
19:00-20:00
Dinner
September 19, Sunday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-18:00 Excursion
to Lake Sevan (with lunch)
19:00-20:00 Dinner
September 20, Monday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Robert Williams, HST: Distant Universe Science
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Georges Alecian, The chemically peculiar stars: the signature of the diffusion
process. I
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Georges Alecian, The chemically peculiar stars: the signature of the diffusion
process. II
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Remote observations with Hawaii 2m Faulkes telescope
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 21, Tuesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Daniel Kunth, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Robert Williams, Novae Outbursts
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Elena Nikogossian, Observational evidences of PMS stellar
objects
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Remote observations with Hawaii 2m Faulkes telescope
19:00-20:00
Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 22, Wednesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Daniel Kunth, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Gary Mamon, Galaxy Formation
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Scientific writing and
publishing
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Practical exercises
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 23, Thursday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Gary Mamon, Mass modeling by internal motions
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Daniel Kunth, Active Galactic
Nuclei (AGN). III
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Applying for scientific
projects
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Practical exercises
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 24, Friday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Areg Mickaelian, Large Astronomical Surveys, Databases, and
Archives
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Areg Mickaelian, Virtual
Observatories
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Remote observations with Hawaii 2m
Faulkes telescope
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Practical exercises
19:00-20:00
Dinner
20:00-24:00 Excursion to Yerevan (North Avenue and Republic Square fountains)
September 25, Saturday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-18:00 Excursion
to Garni, Geghard and Echmiatzin (with lunch)
19:00-20:00 Dinner
September 26, Sunday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-13:00 Excursion
Amberd fortress and Tegher monastery
13:00-14:30 Lunch
15:00-18:00 Sports
games and competitions
19:00-20:00 Dinner
September 27, Monday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Dieter Engels, Radio Astronomy. I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Lusine Sargsyan, IR astronomy with the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Practical exercises on
Radioastronomy and IR astronomy: Astrophysical
Masers (Group I), Starburst galaxies
(Group II)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Practical exercises continued
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 28, Tuesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Tigran Arshakian, Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetic Fields:
Radio View. I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Dieter Engels, Radio Astronomy.
II
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Practical exercises on
Radioastronomy and IR astronomy: Astrophysical
Masers (Group II), Starburst galaxies
(Group I)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Practical exercises continued
19:00-20:00 Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 29, Wednesday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Kam-Ching Leung, Astrophysics of Emission-Line Stars. I
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Kam-Ching Leung, Astrophysics of
Emission-Line Stars. II
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Lecture: Tigran Arshakian, Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetic Fields:
Radio View. II
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Practical exercises on Radioastronomy and
IR astronomy
19:00-20:00
Dinner
22:00-24:00 Observations (depending on the weather)
September 30, Thursday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Lutz Wisotzki, Extragalactic Surveys
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Lecture: Lusine Sargsyan, IR astronomy
with Herschel
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Students’ presentations
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Competition among
students
19:00-22:00 School
Banquet
October 1, Friday
08:30-09:30 Breakfast
09:30-11:00 Lecture: Lutz Wisotzki, Integral Field Spectroscopy
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Students’ presentations
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Summary
and discussions
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Official closing of ISYA-2010
19:00-20:00 Dinner
October 2, Saturday
Departure day