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 |