Lecturers

Vardan ADIBEKYAN (CAUP, Portugal): Exoplanet detection, characterization and statistical properties
Noreta ANDREASYAN-THOMAS (UVI, USA): Chemical composition of extragalactic objects
Richard DE GRIJS (PKU-KIAA, China): 1. Stellar populations and the initial mass function,
2. Not-so-simple stellar populations in massive star clusters

Serguei DODONOV (SAO, Russia): TBA
Valery HAMBARYAN (Jena, Germany): 1. X-ray astronomy: X-ray methods,
2. X-ray astronomy: X-ray Research Topics

Haik HARUTYUNIAN (BAO, Armenia): Viktor Ambartsumian and Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
Alisher HOJAEV (UBAI, Uzbekistan): Molecular Clouds and Star Formation: Where and how stars form?
Nino KOCHIASHVILI (AAO, Georgia): Evolutionary Ties between WR and LBV Stars
Tigran MAGAKIAN (BAO, Armenia): Astrophysics with Space Telescopes
Areg MICKAELIAN (BAO, Armenia): 1. Telescopes and Modern Observational Techniques,
2. Astronomical Surveys, Catalogues, Databases, Archives, and Virtual Observatories

Tigran MOVSESSIAN (BAO, Armenia): Telescopes and Observations
Elena NIKOGHOSYAN (BAO, Armenia): 1. The main methods for determining the basic parameters of PMS stellar objects,
2. Aperture Photometry

Artur NIKOGOSSIAN (BAO, Armenia): Theoretical Astrophysics Methods and Solutions (TBC)
Martin TOPINKA (DIAS, Ireland): 1. Introduction to machine learning (regression, classification, principal component decomposition,
dimensionality reduction),
2. State of art algorithms (Neural network, Random forests, Support Vector Machines, Gaussian
processes, K nearest neighbours, K-mean clustering, spectral clustering),
3. Hands on Scikit-learn Python package,
4. Crash course of statistical testing for hackers (cross validation, bootstrapping, distribution p-values,
model comparison, Monte Carlo methods, (Bayesian) Monte Carlo Markov Chain fitting)
Ararat YEGHIKIAN (BAO, Armenia): The irreplaceable role of ubiquitous cosmic rays in the space chemistry: from the origin of complex
species in interstellar molecular clouds to the ozone depletion in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets