Vienna, Austria, 24 and 27 August 2018

President:

Pietro Ubertini - IASP-INAF, Rome (Italy)

Programme:

Abstract list for Div.B
Poster list for Div.B

Friday, 24. Aug.

Session 1a
room: N2
10:30 - Pietro Ubertini (Welcome)
10:40 - Pietro Ubertini and Michael Burton (Report from Division President-VP)
11:00 - Prajval Shastri (Report from B3 CP: Astroinformatics & Astrostatistics)
11:30 - Mc Bride, Vanessa (Report Office of Astronomy for Development, OAD)
11:40 - Barak Zackay (Presentation of the IAU PhD Prize Winner)
Session 1b
room: N2
13:30 - AoM (Div.B discussion/presentations)
Session 2a
room: N1
parallel sessions: 13:30 - 15:00
Reports from Commission B4: Business meeting & New Results in Radio Astronomy – 1
13:30 - Welcome (G. Giovannini)
13:35 - Perez, Laura (Star and Planet Formation)
14:00 - Chatterjee, Shami (Fast Radio Bursts and Transients)
14:25 - Koopmans, Leon (Epoch of Reionization)
14:50 - Li, Di (A Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) for Galaxies, ISM, Pulsars, and FRBs)
Session 2b
room: Kuffner Observatory
parallel sessions: 13:30 - 15:00
2b - Richard Green (Reports from Commission B7: Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites – 1)
Session 3a
room: N1
parallel sessions: 15:30 - 18:00
Reports from Commission B4: Business meeting & New Results in Radio Astronomy – 2
15:30 - Bucher, Martin (Cosmic Microwave Background)
15:55 - Prandoni, Isabella (Radio Surveys – Continuum)
16:20 - Haynes, Martha (Radio Surveys – HI)
16:45 - Murphy, Eric (ngVLA Project – Status and News)
17:10 - Diamond, Phil (SKA Project – Status and News)
17:35 - T. Beasley, G. Giovannini (Commission B4 – Present and Future)
Session 3b
room: Kuffner Observatory
parallel sessions: 15:30 - 18:00
3b - Richard Green (Reports from Commission B7: Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites – 2)
Session 4a
room: N2
parallel sessions: 10:30 - 12:00
Reports WG UV Astronomy: UV Astronomy after Hubble - 1
10:30 - Gomez de Castro, Ana I. & Noah Brosch (Road map, WG activities past and future)
10:50 - Walt Harris (The LUVOIR project. Facilities, Technologies and Data Science. A review on the technological requirements and the associated facilities.)
11:30 - Shustov, Boris (The current status of the WSO-UV project. Facilities for testing and verification.)
Session 4b
room: N1
parallel sessions: 10:30 - 12:00
Reports Commission B5: Laboratory Astrophysics: from Observations to Interpretation - 1
10:30 - Farid Salama (Commission B5 Business Meeting)
11:00 - Federman, Steven (Progress report of the Working Group Spectroscopic and Radiative Data for Molecules)
11:20 - Cami, Jan (The ESO Diffuse Interstellar Band Large Exploration Survey: First Results)
11:40 - Dubernet, Marie Lise (The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) A Resource for Atomic and Molecular Data)
Session 7
room: N1
Reports Commission B6: Photometry and Polarimetry
12:00 - Saul Adelman and Antonio Mario Magalhaes (Welcome)
12:05 - J. Allyn Smith and Carme Jordi (Report on Photometry developments: past and future)
12:15 - Antonio Mario Magalhaes (Report on Polarimetry developments: past and future)
12:30 - Antonio Mario Magalhaes (Commission B6 - Present and Future)
12:45 - Discussion and comments from the audience
Session 5a
room: N1
parallel sessions: 13:30 - 15:00
Reports Commission B5: Laboratory Astrophysics: from Observations to Interpretation - 2
13:30 - Ryabchikova, Tatiana (A progress report of the Working Group High-Accuracy Stellar Spectroscopy)
13:50 - Jenniskens, Peter (Searching for the sources of meteorites in the asteroid belt)
14:10 - Milam, Stefanie (Laboratory Astrophysics in the era of JWST)
14:30 - Gavilan, Lisseth (Optical Properties of Organic Analogs to Cosmic Dust)
14:50 - Open Discussion: Summary and Conclusions
Session 5b
room: N2
parallel sessions: 13:30 - 15:00
Reports WG Historic Radio Astronomy: The history of large single dish projects and lessons learned - 1
13:30 - Baars, Jacob (Review of The Evolution of Large Single Dishes)
14:00 - Garrington, Simon (The Jodrell Bank Telescopes)
14:20 - Bock, Douglas (The Parkes Telescope)
14:40 - Kraus, Alex (The Effelsberg Telescope)
Session 6a
room: N2
parallel sessions: 15:30 - 17:00
Reports WG Historic Radio Astronomy: The history of large single dish projects and lessons learned - 2
15:30 - Kellermann, Kenneth (The Largest Feasible Steerable Telescope)
16:00 - Kramer, Carsten (The Pico Veleta Telescope)
16:20 - Hughes, David (The Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico)
16:40 - Peng, Bo (The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST))
Session 6b
room: N1
parallel sessions: 15:30 - 17:00
Reports WG UV Astronomy: UV Astronomy after Hubble - 2
15:30 - Brosch, Noah & Ana I Gomez de Castro (Ultraviolet Surveys: the needs and the means)
15:45 - Valls-Galbaud, David (The MESSIER project, unveiling galaxy formation.)
16:05 - Pigulski, Andrzej (UVSat - a concept of UV/visual double-telescope photometric microsatellite)
16:25 - Beitia, Leire & Ana I Gomez de Castro (The gNUVA interface for collaborative project on small UV projects)
16:40 - General discussion and Summary

Contact:

Pietro Ubertini
pietro.ubertini@iaps.inaf.it 

 

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