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Scientific program and key topics
Key topics and speakers
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Session A: OBSERVING TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES
- lucky imaging
- fast photometry (Luca Zampieri)
- spectrographs for metre-class telescopes
- interferometry (Rachael Roettenbacher)
- high-precision ground-based photometry (Monika Lendl)
- astronomical polarimetry
- near-infrared observations
- robotic telescopes (Avi Shporer)
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Session B: SCIENCE WITH SMALL TELESCOPES
- eruptive stars: cataclysmic variables, novae, supernovae, symbiotic stars (Keisuke Isogai, Ulisse Munari, François Teyssier)
- young and active stars (T Tauri, Herbig Ae/Be, BY Dra, RS CVn, Ap etc.)
- pulsating stars (László Szabados)
- eclipsing binary stars and circumbinary planets (Ronald Mennickent)
- exoplanets (Matthias Mallonn, Markus Mugrauer)
- solar system (e.g. asteroid properties from photometry, comets) (Rene Duffard, Petr Pravec)
- galactic astronomy (Tomaz Zwitter)
- space debris (Jiří Šilha)
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Session C: GROUND-BASED SUPPORT OF COSMIC MISSIONS AND TELESCOPE NETWORKS
- ground-based support of cosmic missions (Petr Kabáth, Ernst Paunzen, George Zhou)
- follow-up observations from big telescopes (Luca Zampieri)
- telescope networks, ground-based surveys (Daniel Holdsworth, Ulisse Munari, Juraj Tóth)
Conference schedule
| Sunday September 23, 2018 | ||
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| 17:00–20:00 | Registration (entrance hall of the Astronomical Institute) | |
| 19:00–21:00 | Welcome party (Hotel Academia) | |
| Monday September 24, 2018 | ||
| 08:00–08:45 | Registration (foyer of Academia) | |
| Welcome address | ||
| 08:45–09:00 | Martin Vaňko | Institute Director |
| Theodor Pribulla | SOC Chair | |
| Ľubomír Hambálek | LOC Chair | |
| Session A: OBSERVING TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR METRE-CLASS TELESCOPES | ||
| Chair: Drahomír Chochol | ||
| 09:00–09:15 | Martin Vaňko | 75 years of the Skalnaté Pleso observatory |
| 09:15–09:50 | Luca Zampieri | Fast astronomical photometry for meter-class telescopes (A01) |
| 09:50–10:25 | Rachael Roettenbacher | Interferometry with Meter-Class Telescopes (A02)  |
| 10:25–10:55 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Theodor Pribulla | ||
| 10:55–11:30 | Monika Lendl | High precision ground-based photometry (A03) |
| 11:30–11:50 | Andrey Shugarov | Synergy of ground and space based telescopes for mass detection of 10 m class NEOs (C06) |
| 11:50–12:10 | Robert Harris | Astrophotonics for small telescopes (A05) |
| 12:10–12:30 | Pawel Zielinski | The Cambridge Photometric Calibration Server 2.0 - new automatic tool for time-domain astronomy (A06) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Augustín Skopal | ||
| 14:00–14:20 | Miloslav Zejda | Photometric data around us (A07) |
| 14:20–14:40 | Marek Skarka | Synergy of professional and amateur astronomers (A08) |
| 14:40–15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| Session B: SCIENCE WITH SMALL TELESCOPES | ||
| Chair: Ernst Paunzen | ||
| 15:10–15:45 | Ulisse Munari | The study of novae with small telescopes (B01) |
| 15:45–16:05 | Drahomír Chochol | Optical photometry and spectroscopy of V612 Sct: slow classical nova with rebrightenings (B02) |
| 16:05–16:25 | Polina Golysheva | Multicolor Photometry of unusual Nova KT Eri (B03) |
| 16:25 | Poster session A+B | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday September 25, 2018 | ||
| Chair: Ulisse Munari | ||
| 09:00–09:35 | László Szabados | Selected new results on pulsating variable stars (B04) |
| 09:35–09:55 | Michal Pawlak | ASAS-SN as a stellar variability survey (B05) |
| 09:55–10:15 | Dmitry Tsvetkov | Optical observations of bright Supernovae (B06) |
| 10:15–10:35 | Augustín Skopal | Studying symbiotic stars and classical nova outbursts with small telescopes (B07) |
| 10:35–11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Petr Zasche | ||
| 11:05–11:35 | Rudolf Gális | The current active stage of the symbiotic system AG Draconis (B08) |
| 11:35–12:10 | Keisuke Isogai | Recent progress of research on evolution of dwarf novae by using time-series photometry (B09) |
| 12:10–12:30 | Natasha Katysheva | An evolution of superhumps of a WZ Sge-type system in Leonis OT J104411.4+211307 (B10) |
| 12:30–12:50 | Elena Pavlenko | ASASSN-18fk: a new WZ Sge-type dwarf nova with multiple rebrightenings and a new candidate for superhumping intermediate polars (B11) |
| 12:50–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chair: László Szabados | ||
| 14:00–14:35 | François Teyssier | Spectroscopic Monitoring of Eruptive Stars and the ARAS database (B12) |
| 14:35–14:55 | Jaroslav Merc | Study of long-term spectroscopic variability of symbiotic stars based on observations of the ARAS Group (B13) |
| 14:55–15:15 | Olga Barsunova | UX Ori type stars in the young cluster IC 348. Results of the 15-year photometric monitoring (B14) |
| 15:15–15:35 | Gökhan Yücel | Digging out twin-binary star systems from the ASAS Catalogue and determining their physical parameters (B15) |
| 15:35–16:05 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Luca Zampieri | ||
| 16:05–16:40 | Ronald Mennickent | Results of monitoring hot Algols showing long photometric cycles (B16) |
| 16:40–17:05 | Petr Zasche | Double eclipsing systems (B17) |
| 17:05–17:25 | Mauricio Cabezas | KOREL disentangling of the LMC eclipsing Algol (B18) |
| 17:25 | Poster session B | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday September 26, 2018 | ||
| Chair: Staszek Zoła | ||
| 09:00–09:20 | Milena Ratajczak | Tracking massive pairs (B19) |
| 09:20–09:40 | Elena Panko | Observations of Slightly Studied CBS with period variations (B20) |
| 09:40–10:00 | Bartłomiej Dębski | A relation between the brightness maxima separation and mass ratio in contact binaries (B21) |
| 10:00–10:20 | Joris Vos | Using wide sdB+MS binaries to constrain RLOF models (B22) |
| 10:20–10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Ronald Mennickent | ||
| 10:50–11:10 | Staszek Zola | Parameters of 2MASS J16211735+4412541 in the quiescent state (B23) |
| 11:10–11:30 | Ibrahim Özavcı | Surface Inhomogeneities of the Eclipsing Binary System ER Vulpeculae (B24) |
| 11:30–11:50 | Bálint Seli | Deriving photospheric parameters and elemental abundances for a sample of stars showing the FIP effect (B25) |
| 11:50–12:10 | Andrey Shugarov | INASAN NEO finder (INF) project (B26) |
| 12:10–12:30 | Igor Volkov | Spectral observations and photometry of near Earth object (NEO) 2001CP44-s1 (B27) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Ján Budaj | ||
| 14:00–14:35 | Jiří Šilha | Small telescopes and their application in space debris research and space surveillance tracking (B28) |
| 14:35–15:10 | Tomaž Zwitter | Galactic astronomy and small telescopes (B29) |
| 15:10–15:40 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Ján Budaj | ||
| 15:40–16:15 | George Zhou | Planets across the HR diagram (B30) |
| 16:15–16:35 | Daniel Bayliss | The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) (B31) |
| 16:35–17:10 | Markus Mugrauer | YETI - The Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (B32) |
| 17:10 | Poster session B+C | |
| 18:30 | Conference dinner | |
| Thursday September 27, 2018 | ||
| Chair: George Zhou | ||
| 09:20–09:55 | Matthias Mallonn | Exoplanet science with the robotic 1.2m STELLA observatory (B33) |
| 09:55–10:15 | Gracjan Maciejewski | Planet-star tidal interactions with precise transit timing (B35) |
| 10:15–10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Theodor Pribulla | ||
| 10:45–11:05 | Ján Budaj | Mysterious eclipses in the light curve of Boyajian star: a possible explanation (B36) |
| 11:05–11:25 | Yuliana Kuznyetsova | Researches of exoplanets influence on host star chromospheric activity (B37) |
| 11:25–13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00–17:30 | Conference trip to Kežmarok | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Friday September 28, 2018 | ||
| Chair: Augustín Skopal | ||
| 09:00–09:35 | Petr Kabáth | The role of small telescopes as a ground-based support for exoplanetary space missions (C01) |
| 09:35–10:10 | Rene Duffard | Stellar occultation by asteroids and Trans-Neptunian bodies (B39) <teleconference> |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| Session C: GROUND-BASED SUPPORT OF COSMIC MISSIONS AND TELESCOPE NETWORKS | ||
| Chair: Ján Budaj | ||
| 10:40–11:15 | Petr Pravec | Complex asteroid systems and their observations with meter-size telescopes (B38) |
| 11:15–11:50 | Ernst Paunzen | Ground-based observations for the BRITE-Constellation Satellites (C02) |
| 11:50–12:25 | Juraj Tóth | AMOS global meteor network (C03) |
| 12:25–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Theodor Pribulla | ||
| 14:00–14:35 | Avi Shporer | The Las Cumbres Observatory robotic telescope network (C04) <teleconference> |
| 14:35–15:10 | Daniel Holdsworth | WET stars and planets: telescope network observations of mCP stars and exoplanets (C05) |
| Chair: Drahomír Chochol | ||
| 15:10–15:40 | Conference closing | |
| Saturday September 29, 2018 | ||
| 09:00–12:00 | Optional trip to the Skalnaté Pleso observatory | |
Organizing committees
SOC: Scientific Organizing Committee
- Ján Budaj, co-chair (Slovakia)
- Theodor Pribulla, co-chair (Slovakia)
- Augustín Skopal, co-chair (Slovakia)SOCchairs75AI@ta3.sk
- Daniel Bayliss (U.K.)
- Petr Kabáth (Czech Republic)
- László Kiss (Hungary)
- Leonard Kornoš (Slovakia)
- Ulisse Munari (Italy)
- Ronald Mennickent (Chile)
- Štefan Parimucha (Slovakia)
- Ernst Paunzen (Czech Republic)
- John Southworth (U.K.)
LOC: Local Organizing Committee
- Ľubomír Hambálek, chairlhambalek@ta3.sk
- Richard Komžík
- Emil Kundra
- Matej Sekeráš
- Natalia Shagatova
- Alisa Shchurova
