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Division Meetings
Steering Committee
- Gabriele Giovannini (President)
- Constance Elaine Walker (Commission B7 President)
- Ana I. Gomez de Castro (Vice-President)
- Elizabeth Marie George
- Christian M. Boily (Commission B1 President)
- Jan Mathijs van der Hulst
- Chenzhou CUI (Commission B2 President)
- Yongtian ZHU
- Ashish Mahabal (Commission B3 President)
- Michael G. Burton (Advisor - Past President)
- Carole A. Jackson (Commission B4 President)
- Anthony James Beasley (Advisor)
- Paul S. Barklem (Commission B5 President)
- Young-Soo KIM (Advisor)
- J. Allyn Smith (Commission B6 President)
- Thomas Henning (Advisor)
Draft Program
May. 25 2022 version
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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- 16.30 – 17.30
- e-posters
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Monday 8
09.45 – 10.30
e-posters
10.30 - 12.00 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)
10.30 -12.00 Session 4B: The Global VLBI Alliance.
Chair: Francisco Colomer Room 102
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
13.30 – 15.00 Session 5A: Laboratory Astrophysics Databases: from the provider to the user: encouraging FAIRness.
Chair: ML Dubernet and B. Berriman Room 101
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
13.30 – 15.00 Session 5B: UV photometry planning for the future.
Chair: Ana I. Gomez De Castro & Noah Brosch Room 102
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 Abdelaziz Moursi
A survey of geosynchronous debris within OSTS at NRIAG-Egypt
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