Programme



Tuesday, 13 Oct 2015


16:00-18:00   BAO tour: Viktor Ambartsumian museum, 2.6m and 1m Schmidt telescopes
18:00-19:00   Official Inauguration of IAU South West Asia Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (SWA ROAD)
(IAU representatives, Ambassadors of Iran and Georgia in Armenia, other officials)
19:00-20:00   Welcome Reception

Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015


09:00-10:00   Breakfast
10:00-10:15   Opening of the Workshop

Session 1. Chair: Arthur Nikoghossian

10:15-10:40   Haik Harutyunian (Armenia) – Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory and Viktor Ambartsumian (Invited Talk)
10:40-11:05   Habib Khosroshahi (Iran) – Iranian National Observatory (INO) (Invited Talk)
11:05-11:30   Areg Mickaelian (Armenia) – Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS) activities (Invited Talk)

11:30-12:00
   
Coffee/tea break

Session 2. Chair: Habib Khosroshahi

12:00-12:30   Maya Todua (Georgia) – Astronomy in Georgia – Present Status and Perspectives (Invited Talk)
12:30-13:00   Tigran Movsessian (Armenia) – Observational Possibilities in BAO (Invited Talk)
13:00-13:30   Arthur Nikoghossian (Armenia) – Theoretical astrophysics in the Byurakan Observatory (Invited Talk)

13:30-14:30
   
Lunch

Session 3. Chair: Maya Todua

14:30-15:00   Ali Adjabshirizadeh (Iran) – Heliophysics and Space Weather (Invited Talk)
15:00-15:15   Haik Harutyunian (Armenia) – “Pioneers’ Anomaly” and the Acceleration of the Universe
15:15-15:30   Ehsan Tavabi (Iran) – Limb Event Brightenings and Fast Jets
15:30-15:45   Hasmik Andreasyan (Armenia) – On the distribution of pulsars in the Galaxy
15:45-16:00   Gayane Kostandyan (Armenia) – Investigation of Faint Galactic Carbon Stars from the First Byurakan Spectral Sky Survey

16:00-16:30
   
Coffee/tea break

Session 4. Chair: Ali Adjabshirizadeh

16:30-17:00   Sohrab Rahvar (Iran) – Extra-solar planet detection with gravitational Microlensing (Invited Talk)
17:00-17:30   Grigor Broutian (Armenia) – The relation of 300-day and 360-day years in the oldest Armenian calendars (Invited Talk)
17:30-17:45   Mkrtich Gevorgyan (Armenia) – Integral field spectroscopy of HH161
17:45-18:00   Zahra Bagheri (Iran) – Evaluation the effect of energetic particles in solar flares on satellite electronic computer's life time

18:30-19:30
   
Dinner
19:30-22:30   Yerevan city tour

Thursday, 15 Oct 2015


09:00-10:00   Breakfast

Session 5. Chair: Tigran Magakian

10:00-10:30   Norayr Melikian (Armenia) – The Study of Flare Stars in Byurakan Observatory (Invited Talk)
10:30-11:00   Amin Farhang (Iran) – EDIBLESS large survey: searching for DIB origin with VLT (Invited Talk)
11:00-11:30   Armen Gyulbudaghian (Armenia) – Radial Systems of Dark Globules (Invited Talk)

11:30-12:00
   
Coffee/tea break

Session 6. Chair: Sohrab Rahvar

12:00-12:15   Elena Nikoghosyan (Armenia) – The Multiple Systems in the Young Stellar Cluster IRAS 05137+3919
12:15-12:30   Ani Vardanyan (Armenia) – The Statistical Analysis of stars with Hα emission in IC 348 Cluster
12:30-12:45   Naira Azatyan (Armenia) – The search of the stellar clusters in vicinity of YSOs with high and middle masses
12:45-13:00   Maya Todua (Georgia) – Annual and semi-annual variability of cloud covering in Abastumani and coupling with cosmic factors
13:00-13:30   Habib Khosroshahi (Iran) – Multi-wavelengths studies of fossil galaxy groups (Invited Talk)

13:30-14:30
   
Lunch

Session 7. Chair: Haik Harutyunian

14:30-15:00   Ararat Yeghikyan (Armenia) – Irradiation of ices inside molecular clouds in cosmic ray dominated regions of galaxies (Invited Talk)
15:00-15:15   Mohammad Hossein Talezade Lari (Iran) – The interrelationship between interactions/merging, starburst and AGN phenomena based on IR sample
15:15-15:30   Areg Mickaelian (Armenia) – AGN content of X-ray, IR and radio sources
15:30-15:45   Hayk Abrahamyan (Armenia) – Blazars properties
15:45-16:00   Moein Mosleh (Iran) – The Growth of Galaxies over the last 12 Billion Years

16:00-16:30
   
Coffee/tea break

Session 8. Chair: Aram Saharian

16:30-16:45   Halime Miraghaei Jafari (Iran) – Radio properties of fossil galaxy groups
16:45-17:00   Anahit Samsonyan (Armenia) – Mid-Infrared [NeII] and [NeIII] Emission Line Profiles in Starbursts and AGN
17:00-17:15   Mahmood Roshan (Iran) – On the local and global stability of spiral galaxies in modified gravity
17:15-17:30   Norayr Asatrian (Armenia) – Simultaneous hour-timescale variations in the profiles of the broad Balmer lines of the Seyfert galaxy Markarian 6
17:30-17:45   Shahram Abbassi (Iran) – Black Hole Accretion disk: Toward a New Paradigm
17:45-18:00   Alireza Aghaee (Iran) – Observational Cosmology Using Absorption Lines in Quasar Spectra
18:00-18:15   Shant Baghram (Iran) – CMB Lensing as a Probe of Early Universe

19:00-22:00
   
Workshop Dinner

Friday, 16 Oct 2015


09:00-10:00   Breakfast

Session 9. Chair: Elma Parsamian

10:00-10:25   Aram Saharian (Armenia) – Quantum Effects in Cosmology
10:25-10:50   Narek Sahakyan (Armenia) – Exploring the Universe with gamma-rays and neutrinos (Invited Talk)
10:50-11:15   Tigran Magakian (Armenia) – Search for Young Stars in Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (Invited Talk)
11:15-11:30   Sona Farmanyan (Armenia) – Cosmic Tree in Armenia and Iran

11:30-11:50
   
Coffee/tea break

11:50-12:15
   
Areg Mickaelian (Armenia) – BAO Plate Archive and Armenian Virtual Observatory (ArVO) (Invited Talk)
12:15-12:45   General discussion and Closing of the Workshop (Conveners: Areg Mickaelian and Habib Khosroshahi)

12:45-13:30
   
Lunch
13:30   Departure

Posters

  • Marietta Gyulzadian – The Spectral Study of SBS Galaxies from SDSS
  • Vajihe Sabzali; Pantea Davoudifar; Areg Mickaelian – The Study of Relativistic AGN Jets and Experimental Survey of AGN Properties
  • Anahit Yeghiazaryan – On Galaxies with UV excess from Kazarian lists