Division B: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
August 24 and 27, 2018
President:
Pietro Ubertini - IASP-INAF, Rome (Italy)
SOC:
- Pietro Ubertini (President)
- Michael G. Burton (Vice-President)
- Saul J. Adelman (Commission B6 President)
- Eric D. Feigelson (Commission B3 President)
- Gabriele Giovannini (Commission B4 President)
- Richard F. Green (Commission B7 President)
- Simon F. Portegies Zwart (Commission B1 President)
- Farid Salama (Commission B5 President)
- David Richard Silva (Advisor - Past President)
- Michael W. Wise (Commission B2 President)
- Ana I. Gómez de Castro
- Peter Joseph Quinn
- Lisa Storrie-Lombardi
- Wenwu TIAN
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) |
Monday, 27. Aug.
| 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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