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32nd
International School for Young Astronomers |
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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
09:30-10:30
Official opening of ISYA-2010
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Alain Sarkissian, Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres
12:00-13:00 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
20:00-24:00
Excursion to Yerevan (North
Avenue and Republic Square fountains)
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
19:00-22:00
School Banquet
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
22:00-24:00
Observations (depending on the
weather)
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
Farewell dinner
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