Exploring the Solar System

and the Universe

 
  Bucharest,  8 - 12 April 2008



  Monday  7 April 2008




Arrival
19:00 Welcome reception  - Casa Oamenilor de Stiinta






  Tuesday  8 April 2008
Symp.1 History of Romanian astronomy, and education by astronomy in the European framework



9:00

Registration
9:45

OFFICIAL OPENING


HISTORY

10:15

Magda Stavinschi, Vasile Mioc

100 Years and More of Romanian Astronomy

10:45

Laurence Bennaceur

The Family of Nicolae Coculescu, the First Director of the Bucharest Observatory (preliminary title)
11:00
 Coffee break
1130

Zadig Mouradian

Discovering Astronomy 50 Years Ago
12:00

Suzanne Debarbat

Astronomy at the Observatoire de Paris at the Time of Notara's Visit
12:15

Peter Rovithis

Educational Actions of Some Greek Scholars in Romania
12:30 Milcho Tsvetkov
European Virtual Observatory - Bulgarian and Romanian Cooperation: a Historical Overview
12:45

Milan Dimitrijevic

Romanian-Serbian Collaboration in Astronomy
13:00
Gennady Pinigin

Bucharest-Nikolaev Astronomical Observatories - Collaboration in Astronomy 

13:15


13:30 Lunch  



15:30
Harry Minti Beginnings of the Modern Astrophysics in Bucharest Observatory
15:45
Marian Doru Suran Cosmology in Bucharest Observatory
16:00
Georgeta Maris Romanian Solar Physics Research within the Framework of International Cooperation (1955-2005)
16:15

Ferenc Szenkovits

The First Astronomical Observatory in Cluj-Napoca
16:30
 Coffee break


EDUCATION
17:00

Chantal Balkowski

Astronomy Education in France 
17:30
Cristiana Dumitrache Romanian Contributions to the International Heliophysical Year
17:45
Magda Stavinschi Romania before the International Year of Astronomy
18:00

Magda Stavinschi

Moments from Romanian Astronomy Education



18:15

POSTERS


Ladislau Farkas Astronomy-Connected Scientific Works in Early Transylvania and Banat

Nicoleta Pazmany

Astronomy in Fortress of Oradea

Tiberiu Oproiu

Decorative Elements with Astronomical Subjects on Medieval Buildings in Transylvania


Elvira Botez

Remember on Some among Those who Passed/Crossed the Bucharest Astronomical Observatory


Stelian Cojocaru

Astronomy in the Romanian Naval Education


Octavian Badescu Astrometry knowledge in geodetic education

Klim Churyumov The Role of the Scientific Educational Center Kyiv Planetarium in Propagation of Astronomical Knowledge in Ukraine



19:30
French Institute  Evening dedicated to the Romanian-French relations at the Centenary of the Romanian modern astronomy (French Institute, Bd. Dacia 77)
20:00 Dinner  






  Wednesday  9 April 2008
Symp.2 Celestial mechanics and astrometry today



9:00

Registration
9.15
Donald Gene Saari
Reflections on my conjecture, and several new ones
9.45
Ernesto Perez
The Saari's conjecture in celestial mechanics
10.10
Cristina Stoica Constant inertia trajectories: Saari's conjecture and more
10.35
Daniel Pasca A double pitchfork bifurcation in the generalized Henon-Heiles problem
11:00
 Coffee break
11:30
Zhihong Jeff Xia Stability and chaos in N-body problems
11.55
Vladimir Gerdjikov
On the local equivalence between Manev and Kepler problems
12.20
Katya Tsvetkova
Manev's field problem in contemporary science
12.35
Tilemahos Kalvouridis Parametric influence on the 3-D motion of a charged particle in the electromagnetic field produced by two co-rotating magnetic oblate dipoles



13:15 Lunch  



15:30 J. Vondrak Combination of space- and ground-based astrometric observations to create astrometric catalogs
16:00 J.-E. Arlot Exploration of the Solar system: projection of the past into the future
16:10
Jean Souchay The LQAC compilation of the quasars catalogues
16:20 Mirel Birlan Astrometry in the Uranian system of satellites
16:30 Tanyu Bonev

Dust Particles of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 during its Return in 2006

16:40 Ivantsov A.V. Position Observations of NEAs at the RTT-150
16:50 Hudkova L.A. Error statistics for position observations of numbered asteroids in six observatories of the world
17:00
Dan Alin Nedelcu Ground based science of ESA's Rosetta mission targets: (21) Lutetia and (2867) Steins
17:10
 Coffee break
17:30 Petre Popescu A pilot astrometric survey of 59 northern ICRF radio-sources
17:40 Petre Paraschiv Narrow field astrometry with different quality CCD cameras
17:50 N. Maigurova Results of CCD-observations of ecliptic zone in Nikolaev Observatory 
18:00 Katya Tsvetkova Astrometric Plates in the Bucharest and Cluj Observatories Archives
18:10 Gheorghe Bocsa Qualitative study of the plates observed with the photographic equatorial of Bucharest Observatory since 1930
18:20 Yavor Chapanov Decadal oscillations of the Earth rotation
18:30



POSTERS

Mira-Cristiana
Anisiu
Spatial families of orbits in 2D conservative fields

Ferenc Szenkovits On the elliptic restricted three-body problem

Monica Ciobanu
Euler's cone aperture in the Euler-Poinsot case

Zoltan Mako Chaotic variation of the capture effect

Rodica Roman The dumb-bell restricted, photogravitational, circular three-body problem

Gheorghe Bocsa Measuring and scanning methods in astrometric processing of the photographic plates

Gheoghe Bocsa Geodetic astronomy and modern astrometric developments

Yavor Chapanov Earth rotation response to ENSO events

Yavor Chapanov Influence of AAM and OAM on the Universal time variations   

Liviu Serbănescu Reabilitation of plate information 

Adrian Dragusan Astronomical Principles Of Sattellite Positioning



20:00 Dinner  



  Thursday  10 April 2008


Free morning


Lunch


Excursion (20 euros)


Observatory visit with barbeque
  Friday  11 April 2008
Symp.3 Dynamics of solar atmosphere and heliosphere



09:00
Registration
09:15 Sergey Ustyugov Realistic three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar local supergranulation
09:30 Zadig Mouradian Solar Rotation
10:00 Petr Heinzel Physics of the Solar Chromosphere
10:30 Terry G. Forbes Predicting the Onset of Solar Eruptions
11:00    Coffee break
11:30 D.Besliu-Ionescu A comparison of the acoustic hardness of an acoustically  active and an acoustically non-active solar flare
11:40 Osokin A.R. Solar Flares of Different Types and their Influence on Formation of Interplanetary Medium Disturbances 
11:50 Liviu Mircea Effects of Large Solar Events on Atmospheric Drag of Earth Artificial  Satellites 
12:00 Brigitte Schmieder Role of small and large scale magnetic fields in filament eruption
12:30 Irina Bilenko Conditions for the formation of CMEs associated with filament eruptions
12:40 Diana Rodica Constantin Polar Filament Evolution
12:50 Iulia Chifu
Multiwavelengths study of active region 09778
13:00

13:15 Lunch  



15:00 Mauro Messerotti Observing, modelling and predicting the effects of solar radio bursts on radio communications
15:30 Jose Luis Ballester Recent progress in the study of oscillations in coronal structures
16:00 Stefaan Poedts Numerical simulations of the initiation and the IP evolution of coronal mass ejections
16:30 Cristiana Dumitrache Contributions to the Sun-Heliosphere Studies Using SOHO and Ulysses Data
17:00
 Coffee break
17:30 A.S.Popescu Mass estimates of the eruptive prominence event from 8th of January 2002 using EIT data
17:45 A. Marcu Linear incompressible MHD waves in a periodic magnetic solar structures 
18:00 M. Lazar
On the origin of turbulent fields in interplanetary plasmas 
18:15 Adrian Oncica
A CME-ICME Event Analysis
18:30 Emil Popescu Models for heavy tailed data and applications
18:45



POSTERS

Oana Chiricuta
Study of the Active Region 9767 and its neighbourhood
20:00 Dinner  






  Saturday  12 April 2008
Symp.4 Stellar astrophysics, extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology



8:30

Registration


STARS AND EXOPLANETS - THEORY
9:00 Hideyuki Saio Modelling pulsations of magnetic Ap stars
9:30 Umin Lee Pulsational Stability of Rotating Stars
10:00 Wojtek Dziembowski Looking into B star interiors by means of asteroseismology
10:30 Heleni Rovithis Exoplanets
11:00
 Coffee break


STARS AND EXOPLANETS - OBSERVATIONS: PRESENT AND FUTURE
OF THE SPACE MISSIONS WITH STELLAR AND EXOPLANETARY PROFILES
11:30 Annie Baglin Ultra high photometry form space - first results
12:00 Jamie Matthews Stellar and exoplanetary astrophysics
12:30 Eric Michel CoRot, a new insight on the field of stellar oscillations
13:00 Hans Kjeldsen Measurements of stellar structure through Asteroseismology



13:30 Lunch  





OUR GALAXY, THE LOCAL GROUP AND GALAXIES
15:00 Brigitta Nordstrom Our Galactic Neighbourhood - a Melting Pot of Migration
15:30 Lilia Bassino Extragalactic Globular Clusters: tracers of galaxy evolution
16:00 Chantal Balkowski Environmental effects on galaxies in clusters
16:30 Cristina Popescu Dust in galaxies
17:00
Coffee break


THE LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE AND COSMOLOGY
17:30 Jean Palous
Star formation and evolution of galaxies
18:00 Marian Doru Suran The seismology of the Universe – the inverse method in cosmology
18:30 Nedelia Popescu Galaxy pairs and groups in the AGNs' environments





POSTERS

R.  Konstantinova-Antova On the magnetic fields in active giants

Milan S. Dimitrijevic Electron-impact broadening of Ar I 737.212 nm spectral line for stellar atmospheres research

M. S. Dimitrijevic Stark broadening of O V 1371 A liner in stellar atmospheres

A. Dumitrescu Exo-Planets Transits: Orbit and Mass Estimations

A. Dumitrescu The first ground based observations of the eclipsing binary V449 Aur made at Bucharest Observatory

Ladislau Farkas The Beta Cephei Type Variable Star BW Vulpeculae

Dan Moldovan Phemu 2003 Campaign - CCD Observations Made at Cluj-Napoca Astronomical
Observatory

Alexandru Pop RT Andromedae: period variation revised

Alexandru Pop Detection and diagnosis of low level stellar variability in nonevenly spaced data

Alexandru Pop Y Leonis reloaded

Vasile Pop The Centenary of Blazhko Effect

Rodica Roman V477 Cygny - A theoretical approach of the apsidal motion

Marian Doru Suran About the star Epsilon Oph

V. Turcu GP Andromedae survey byproducts

V. S. Gerdjikov Constructing exact solutions for special cases of Einstein equations in vacuum

Zarko Mijajlovic Non-Archimedean Cosmology

A.S. Popescu Knot Based Large Scale Structure Code

L. C. Popovic Probing the Physics and Kinematics of AGN Emitting Regions using Line Shapes

Dana Ficut-Vicas LITTLE THINGS Survey - A quest to understand dwarf galaxies



20:00
 Closing Dinner (20 euros)






  Sunday  13 April 2008




Departure