Press Release

NAS RA V. Ambartsumian Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
Press release 11.09.2020

CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE 7TH BYURAKAN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (7BISS)

Today, 11 September, the 7th Byurakan International Summer School (7BISS) for Young Astronomers came to its end (https://www.bao.am//meetings/meetings/SS2020/index.html). Because of the pandemic, this year summer school was held online.

50 young astronomers and 12 lecturers from 21 countries participated in 7BISS. Moreover, an opportunity was created for the public sector to take part in the school as listeners.

In the framework of the school, participants had lectures and practical tutorial sessions on Astronomical Surveys, Digitization of astronomical data, Astronomical Catalogues, Databases and Archives, Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics, Big Data in Astronomy and Virtual Observatory tools. Among the famous lecturers were IAU Vice-President Ajit Kembhavi (India), cofounder of Astroinformatics Ashish Mahabal (USA), Chair of International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) Chenzhou Cui and others.

At closing, 3 participants who stood out with their presentations were nominated. They are Marta Obolentseva from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia), Maria Babakhanyan Stone from University of Turku (Finland) and Vanesa Ramírez from Leiden University (The Netherlands). It should be noted, that the winners were chosen as a result of the votes given by the lecturers and the participants.

All the presentations, including the 3 ones mentioned above are available online: https://www.bao.am//meetings/meetings/SS2020/programme.html.

The Byurakan Summer School once again proved the importance of Astronomy in the development of Data science and e-Science.

Meline Asryan