PROGRAM

Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – 1944 and beyond. Impact of international cooperation

 

International scientific conference

"Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – 1944 and beyond. Impact of international cooperation"

dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Observatory.

July 15-17, 2024, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

 

July 15, 2024

Kyiv time
1400–1700
Arrival of participants and hosting. Informal meetings, Excursions
Kyiv time
1700–1900
Informal reception for guest participants
 

July 16, 2024

Kyiv time
900
Registration

Kyiv time
930–1030

OPENING CEREMONY
Moderator – Yaroslav Yatskiv

930–940

Yaroslav Yatskiv.

Introducing words from the  SOC Chairman

940–1010

Welcome words of the Distinguished guests,
i.e. the SOC members, the Representatives
of Institutions related by MoU with MAO NAS of Ukraine:



Prof. Massimo Capaccioli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Napoli, Italy)
Prof. Nicole Capitaine (Paris Observatory, France; MAO NAS of Ukraine)
The Journées “Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels"
Dr. Ilgmars Eglitis (Institute of Astronomy, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)
and others guests (presentations in online and offline mode)

1010–1020

Coffee-break

Kyiv time
1020–1300

July 16, 2024

THE FIRST SESSION
“Astronomy in Ukraine: today and beyond.
View from the side of Ukraine”

Moderator – Iryna Vavilova

1020-1040

Nikolai Koshkin, Tamara Mishenina, Alina Dragunova
(Astronomical Observatory, I.I. Mechnikov National University of Odesa. Odesa, Ukraine)

80 years together: MAO - OAO

1040–1100

Volodymyr Efimenko, Vasyl Ivchenko
(Astronomical Observatory, Department for Astronomy and Space Physics,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine)

The Collaboration of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the Development of Scientific Research and Training of Astronomical Personnel

1100–1120

Vadym Kaidash
(Institute of Astronomy, V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

International cooperation and today's challenges: a view from Kharkiv

1120–1140

Oleksandr Shulga, Nadiya Maigurova, Mykola Kulichenko, Evgen Kozyryev, Mykola Kaliuzhniy, Yuri Protsyuk, Feliks Bushuev
(Mykolaiv Astronomical Observatory, Mykolaiv, Ukraine)

Research on Minor Bodies of the Solar System Based on Observational Data from Optical and Radio Networks of the Research Institute "MAO" and the Resources of the Ukrainian Virtual Observatory

1140–1200

Bohdan Novosyadlyj, Bohdan Melekh
(Astronomical Observatory and Department of Astrophysics,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine)

Astronomy and Astrophysics in Lviv University: today and beyond

1200–1220

Vyacheslav Zakharenko, Oleksandr Konovalenko, Oleh Ulyanov,  
Oleksandr Stanislavckyi
(Institute of Radio Astronomy of the NAS of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy in Ukraine: International Collaboration

1220–1240

Ivan Andronov, L.L. Chinarova, L.S. Kudashkina, H.M. Akopian, V.O. Borshchenko, V.V. Breus, S.I. Iovchev, S.V. Kolesnikov, N.I. Savchuk, V.I. Marsakova, M.Yu. Pyatnytskyy  (Odesa National Maritime University; Odesa Richelieu Science lyceum, Odesa, Ukraine; Private Observatory ”Osokorky”, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Variable Stars: "The Inter-Longitude Astronomy" (ILA) project

1240–1255

Volodymyr Reshetnyk, Asen Hrytsai, Vasyl’ Ivchenko, Ihor Koshmak,

Vladislava Marsakova, Bohdan Melekh, Olena Panko, Andrii Simon, Ivan Slyusarev, Vasyl’ Shevchenko  (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, I.I. Mechnikov National University of Odesa, V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine)

National Astronomical Olympiads

1255–1300

Awarding the astronomy teachers for training schoolchildren for astronomy olympiads

1300–1400

Lunch

Kyiv time
1400–1710

July 16, 2024

THE SECOND SESSION
Presentations of the foreign participants

 

Moderator – Iryna Belskaya
Vice-moderator – Olga Sergijenko

1400-1420

Jan Vondrák, Vladimír Böhm
(Astronomical Institute of the Czech AS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Old Maya and their astronomical observations as recorded in Dresden Codex

1420–1440

Veronique Dehant
(Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium)

Nutation, the Earth rotation and core dynamics

1440–1500

Jolanta Nastula, Justyna Śliwińska-Bronowicz, Malgorzata Wińska, Aleksander Partyka, Tomasz Kur  
(Center of Space Research of the Polish AS, Warsaw, Poland)

Prospects of predicting the polar motion based on the results of the 2nd Earth Orientation Parameters Prediction Comparison Campaign

1500–1520

Gennadi Milinevsky, Ivan Syniavskyi, Yu Shi, and Lidong Wang
(Jilin University, Changchun, China; MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Microwave radiometry for ground-based atmospheric research: equipment and applications

1520–1540

Valentina Zharkova, Sergey Zharkov
(MPEE, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)

Solar flares as electric circuits detected in multi-wavelength observations and sunquakes

1540–1550

Coffee-break

1550–1610

Carlo Baccigalupi
(International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy)

Probe Combination for Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure

1610–1630

Petr Kurfürst, Michal Zajaček
(Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

What is behind the mystery of missing red giants in the central Galactic region?

1630–1650

Jaime Andrés Rosales Guzmán,  A. Moranchel-Basurto, D. Koráková, D.R.G. Schleicher, R. E. Mennickent , and N.W.C. Leigh
(Universidad de Concepción, Chile)

Three-dimensional MHD simulations of the V4142 Sgr accretion disk: Exploring the magnetic properties of the accretion process

1650–1710

Hugh Jones
(University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)

A blue depression in M dwarfs - a tale of two M5 dwarfs

1710–1730

Arkadii Bondar, Jacek Krełowski
(ICAMER, Kyiv, Ukraine; Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)

Spectral monitoring of a runaway star AE Aur. The most recent results

Kyiv time
930–1300

July 17, 2024

THE THIRD SESSION
“The Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: from the Idea of Creation to the Recognition”

 

Moderator – Oleksandr Konovalenko
Vice-moderator – Olga Sergijenko

930-950

Iryna Vavilova, Tetyana Artemenko
(MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Academic Schools and Research Fields of the MAO NAS of Ukraine: since 1950ies to this day – Foundation, Transformation, and Prospectives

950–1010

Mykhailo Medvedskyi, Vitalii Zhaborovskyi, Viktor Pap, Vyacheslav Semenenko.
(Department for Astrometry and Space Geodynamics MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Updating of the laser station "1824 Golosiiv"

1010–1030

Ivan Syniavsky,  Sergiy Guziy, Alberto Castro-Tirado,  Yuriy Ivanov, Yevgen  Oberemok, Oleksandra Ivanova
(Department for Atmospheric Optics and Instrumentation, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain)

A Wide-angle Stokes Polarimeter for the BOOTES Global Telescope Network

1030–1050

Oleksandra Ivanova,  Irina Kulyk, Vera Rosenbush, Serhiy Borysenko, Olena Shubina, Maxim Andreev

(Laboratory for Physics of Minor Solar System Bodies, Department for Physics of Sub-stellar and Planetary Systems, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Minor bodies in the Solar system and beyond: Scientific investigations within the MAO NASU and international collaboration

1050-1110

Yakiv Pavlenko (Department for Physics of Sub-stellar and Planetary Systems, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Jonathan Tennyson (UK), Sergei N. Yurchenko (UK), Mirek R. Schmidt (PL), Hugh R.A. Jones (UK), Yuri Lyubchik, and A. Suárez Mascareno (ES)

Observed Phenomena of Predissociation of High Levels of the  ALH Molecule in Spectrum of Proxima Cen

1110–1120

Coffee-break

1120–1140

Sergiy Osipov, Mykola Pishkalo, Roman Kostik, Nataliia Shchukina
(Department for Solar Physics, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

vVariations of the quiet photosphere during 24 and 25 cycles of solar activity

1140–1200

Peter Berczik, Margarita Sobolenko, Maryna Ishchenko, Rainer Spurzem (GER), Andreas Just (GER), Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (USA)
(Department for Physics of Stars & Galaxies, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

The impact of post-Newtonian effects on the evolution of massive black hole binaries

1200–1220

Leonid Pilyugin, Gražina Tautvaišienė
(Laboratory for Physics of Galaxies with Active Star Formation, Department for Physics of Stars & Galaxies, MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy at Vilnius University, Lithuania)

Milky Way twins

1220–1240

Daria Dobrycheva, Iryna Vavilova, Maksym Vasylenko, Andrii Elyiv, Olga Melnyk, Oleksandr Hetmantsev
(Department for Extragalactic Astronomy and Astroinformatics MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

The AI-methods for discovering  properties of the large-scale structures of the Universe

1240–1300

Olena Kompaniiets, Anatolii Vasylenko
(Council of Young Scientists of the MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Young Astronomical Generation of Observatory – Inspiration, Statistics, and Achievements

1300–1400

Lunch

Kyiv time
1400– 1630

July 17, 2024

THE SOLEMN SESSION
80 years of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine

Moderator – Yaroslav Yatskiv

1400– 1410

Opening of the Solemn session

1410– 1430

Yaroslav Yatskiv
(MAO NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

The Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: from the Idea of Creation to the Recognition

1430– 1630

Welcome words of the Distinguished guests
of the Jubilar Conference

Prof. Anatolii Zagorodnii, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Prof. Vasyl Kremen, President of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Prof. Vadym Loktev (Department for Physics & Astronomy, NAS of Ukraine)
Prof. Arunas Kucinskas (“Astronomy & Astrophysics” ESO journal, Lithuania)
Prof. Ihor Huk (Vienna, Austria)
Dr. Leonid Gurvits (Joint Institute for VLBI, Dwingeloo, Netherlands)
Prof. Piotr Orleański (Space Research Centre of the Polish AS, Warsaw, Poland)
Dr. Theodor Kostiuk (Baltimore, USA)
Prof. Sergiy Silich (INAOE, Tonantzintla, Mexico)
Dr. Gerson Sher (Washington, USA)
Prof. Roald Sagdeev (Maryland University, Maryland, USA)
Prof. Mykhailo Zghurovskyi (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Dr. Oleksandr Konovalenko (Institute of Radio Astronomy, NAS of Ukraine)
and other guests (in online and offline mode)

1630– 1700

Music break

1700-2030

Closing reception