Division Meeting at the XXXI General Assembly:

Busan, Korea, 5 and 8 August 2022

Programme:

Booklet is available there

Recorded sessions are available on the virtual platform (for registered participants, Session VOD 5&8 Aug. room #103)

https://www.iauga2022.org/
Times in KST local time = UTC+9h

 

Friday 5 (in presence, remote)

09.45 – 10.30   e-posters
10.30 – 12.00   Session 1 - Division B Plenary – Room 101+102
10.30 – 10.40   Welcome G. Giovannini
10.40 – 11.00   2021 Francisco J.B. Martinez: Spectropolarimetric and imaging properties of Fabry-Pérot etalons.
11.00 – 11.20   2020 Danna Qasim: Laboratory studies of interstellar methane ice in the era of JWST
11.20 – 11.40   2019 Luke Pratley: Exact wide-field interferometric imaging via distributed sparse image reconstruction
11.40 – 12.00   2018 Niels Ligterink: The astrochemical factory: Producing the first biomolecule building blocks
 

Session 2A: New Facilities and Growing Archives.
Chair: Chenzhou Cui & Gabriele Giovannini 13.30 – 15.00 Room 101

13.30 – 13.50   Commission B1 (Computational Astrophysics) present and future (Christian Boily)
13.50 – 14.05   Habib Khosroshahi: The Iranian National Observatory 3.4m optical telescope
14.05 – 14.20   Di Li: The Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) and its Discovery Potential
14.20 – 14.40   G. Matt: Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) first results
14.40 – 15.00   Rohini Joshi: SKAO and SRC Data Reduction
 

Session 2B: History of Radio astronomy in Eastern Asia.
Chair: Leonid Gurvits 13.30 – 15.00 Room 102

13.30 – 13.45   WGHRA business session
13.45 - 13.50   L. Gurvits: Introduction
13.50 – 14.10   Se-Hyung Cho: Radio astronomy developments in Republic of Korea
14.10 – 14.30   M. Ishiguro: History of Radio Interferometers in Japan
14.30 – 14.45   H. Kobayashi: Development of VLBI in Japan
14.45 – 15.00   H. Hirabayashi: History of Space-VLBI in Japan
 

Session 3A: New Facilities and Growing Archives.
Chair: B. Berriman & Gabriele Giovannini 15.15 – 16.45 Room 101

15.15 – 15.35   D. Bock: Transforming our knowledge of the radio sky with ASKAP
15.35 – 15.55   G. Bruce Berriman: Enabling Science with Virtual Observatory
15.55 – 16.15   T. Beasley: Satellite interference with radio interferometers – On-sky testing and new mitigation schemes
16.15 – 16.35   C. Walker: The Impact of Satellite Constellation on Optical Astronomy: the Issues and Mitigation Solutions
16.35 – 16.45   discussion
 

Session 3B: History of Radio astronomy in Eastern Asia.
Chair: Leonid Gurvits 15.15 – 16.45 Room 102

15.15 – 15.35   P. Ho: History of radio astronomy in Taiwan
15.35 – 15.55   B. Peng: History of radio astronomy in China: from early days to SKA and FAST
15.55 – 16.10   Z. Shen: History of VLBI in China
16.10 – 16.25   Ji Yang: History of mm and sub-mm astronomy in China
16.25 – 16.45   Discussion and Concluding remarks
 
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Monday 8

 
09.45 – 10.30   e-posters

Session 4A: Laboratory Astrophysics commission meeting.
Chair: P. Barklem & M-L. Dubernet Room 101

10.30 – 10.40   CB5 – Laboratory Astrophysics – present and future (Paul Barklem, Marie-Lise Dubernet )
10.40 – 10.50   Laboratory Astrophysics in Korea (Dongsu Ryu)
10.52 – 11.02   Laboratory Astrophysics in South America/Brazil (Beatriz Barbuy)
11.04 – 11.14   Quantum Sensing for Astronomy (Peng Kian Tan).
11.16 – 11.26   Activities of laboratory astrophysics in Japan (Naoki Watanabe)
11.28 – 11.38   Laboratory Astrophysics in the US (Farid Salama)
11.40 – 11.50   Laboratory Astrophysics in Europe (Paul Barklem, Marie-Lise Dubernet)
11.52 – 12.00   Conclusion and discussion (Paul Barklem)
 
 

Session 4B: The Global VLBI Alliance.
Chair: Francisco Colomer Room 102

10:30   Francisco Colomer: The Global VLBI Alliance
10:45   Walter Brisken: From the VLBA to the ngVLA
11:00   Hideyuki Kobayashi: The East Asia VLBI Network (EAVN)
11:15   Phil Edwards: The southern hemisphere Long Baseline Array
11:30   Cormac Reynolds: SKA-VLBI Capabilities and Science Cases
11:45   Discussion, forward actions by GVA WG

 

Session 5A: Laboratory Astrophysics Databases: from the provider to the user: encouraging FAIRness.
Chair: ML Dubernet and B. Berriman Room 101

13.30 – 13.40   WG Activities and Plans (ML Dubernet)
13.40 – 13.45   FAIR principles in VAMDC (ML Dubernet)
13.45 – 13.55   FAIR principles in IVOA (B. Berriman)
13.55 – 14.10   The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database (Christiaan Boersma)
14.10 – 14.25   Laboratory Astrophysics Databases on Grains and Ices: From the Laboratory to the Users (Cornelia Jäger)
14.25 – 14.40   About the atomic and molecular databases in the planetary community (Miriam Rengel)
14.40 – 14.55   Examples of astro analysis tools: ENIIGMA (Will Rocha)
14.55 – 15.00   General Discussion and concluding remarks

 

Session 5B: UV photometry planning for the future.
Chair: Ana I. Gomez De Castro & Noah Brosch Room 102

13:30   The IAU system for UV photometry. A. Gomez De Castro
13:15   The photometric calibration of Juno/UVS. Vicent Hue
13:30   The photometric calibration of Astrosat/UVIT. Annapurni Subramaniam
13:45   Calibration and archive strategies for cubesat missions. Paul Scowen
14:00   Swift/UVOT photometric standards. Siegel
14:15   General discussion

 

E-talks

Tony Travouillon – The Dynamic REd All-sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS)
Gajanan Kulkarni – Defining the Concept of Polishing Quality for Precision Optical Surfaces and Finding Out Various Control Factors Affecting its Material Removal Characteristics
Christopher Bresten – Topological features of sliding window embeddings for signal detection
Yash Gondhalekar – A Novel Method for Image Improvement and Restoration in Optical Time Series
Dominik Riechers – Science with the CCAT-prime Observatory: From Galactic Star Formation to the Edge of the Universe
Harsh Kumar – GROWTH-India Telescope: A Robotic Eye for Time Domain Astronomy
Vincent Robert – The NAROO program
Tiziana Venturi – The European VLBI Network Science Vision for 2020-2030
Young-Soo KIM – Advancement of Astronomical Instrumentation in Korea
Ahmed Magdy – A survey of geosynchronous debris within OSTS at NRIAG-Egypt
Abdelaziz Moursi

 

E-posters

Biruk Abrham – Construction of 8 inch Dobsonian telescope
Amelia Yu – Deep learning proves to be an effective tool for detecting previously undiscovered exoplanets in Kepler data