Scientific program

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Sunday, September 14

14:00 - 22:00 Registration
19:00 Dinner

Monday, September 15

8:00   Breakfast
9:00   Prof. Jσzef Maslowski (Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University) – Welcome address
9:15   Heiko Hafok – The new KOSMA 3m radio telescope
9:30   Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares – Radio sources in ELAIS areas
9:45   Yury Romanchev – Radiophysical complexes for cosmic investigations based on Ukrainian radio telescope URAN-3
10:00   Leszek Blaszkiewicz – The present status of spectral observations in Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory
10:15 Aznaur Botashev – Observations of the sample sources from PMN catalogue on RATAN-600 radio telescope
10:30 Svetlana Veselkova – VLBI S/X Cryoreceivers Research Results
10:45 Vladimir Frolov – S2 VLBI-correlator TISS-1M software
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Wendy Lane – Preliminary results of a Westerbork Survey for moderate redshift HI 21 cm absorption in MgII selected systems
11:45 Noelle Daly – Mapping solar wind structure with interplanetary scintillation
12:00 Vincent de Heij – On unravelling the kinematic structure of Galactic infrared cirrus
12:15 Csaba Kiss – Multiwavelength studies of Khavtassi 15
12:30 Vincent Minier – Methanol survey of the Northern Galactic plane
12:45 Karl Joulain - Chemistry in dissipative structures of interstellar turbulence
13:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:00 Visit to the Jagiellonian University, meeting with the university authorities, visit to the Jagiellonian University Museum (Collegium Maius)
17:00 - 19:30 Visit to the Astronomical Observatory
19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, September 16

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Prof. Richard Wielebinski - The development of radio astronomy from metre to sub-millimetre wavelengths (invited lecture)
9:45 Indra Bains - Continuum observations of young planetary nebulae
10:00 Sona Ehlerovα – Numerical simulations of expanding shells
10:15 Tomasz Kobak – Cosmic ray acceleration in a 3D magnetic field reconnection volume with turbulence
10:30 Ruslan Shalashov – To the question of solving reverse problems in multifrequent polarimetric studies of interstellar medium
10:45 Ramachandran Rajagopalan – Modelling scattering in the interstellar medium - distances to pulsars
11:00 Coffee
11:45 Kirill Semenkov – Simulation of interstellar scattering effects from compact radio sources
12:00 Tatyana Kaltman – 3-dimensional modelling of solar microwave radio sources of slowly varying component
12:15 Vera Medar – Radio observations of the Coronal Holes with the RATAN-600 radio telescope
12:30 Carla Buemi – Radio emission from closed binary systems
12:45 Sarah Watson – MERLIN observations of symbiotic novae
13:00 Lunch
14:20 Fabrice Herpin – On the origin of the high velocity SiO maser emission from late-type stars
14:35 Volodymyr Koshovy – The restoration of the large scale image of Cas A in decametre waveband
14:50 Bryan Jacoby, Wojciech Lewandowski and Malgorzata Redmerska – Timing and scintillation observations of pulsars with the TCfA 32-m radio telescope
15:15 Artem Dzura – The observations of methanol quasi-maser emission from star-forming regions at 95 GHz
15:30 Alexander Rodin – Astronomical time scale based on the orbital motion of pulsar in binary system
16:00 Bus departure for city centre
17:00 – 18:30 Prof. Aleksander Wolszczan – Planety wokσl innych slonc (Planets of other suns), public lecture in Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, ul. Slawkowska (in Polish)
19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, September 17

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Prof. Aleksander Wolszczan – Applications of pulsar timing (invited lecture)
9:45 Olaf Maron – Why is Geminga pulsar radio quiet at higher frequencies?
10:00 Oleg Malov – Observations of Geminga as a radio pulsar
10:15 Alastair McD. Stirling – Cygnus X-1, more interesting than we thought?
10:30 Jόrgen Zweigle – CO synthesis images of a dense torus in the Butterfly nebula M 2-9
10:45 Carmen Sαnchez Contreras – The asymmetric bipolar flow and the rich molecular content of the protoplanetary nebula OH231.8+4.2
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Linda Schmidtobreick – UV-Photometry of dark clouds in The Milky Way
11:45 Victoria Morozova – Statistical properties of interstellar HI clouds
12:00 Bόlent Uyaniker – The local magnetic field in the Milky Way based on 21 cm polarisation mapping
12:15 Thomas Fritz – HI synthesis observations of dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus Group
12:30 Fabian Walter – The violent interstellar medium of the dwarf galaxy IC 2574
12:45 Robert Rohde – Dynamo induced magnetic fields in spiral galaxies
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Stephen Curran – Confirmation of the molecular ring structure in the Circinus galaxy
14:45 Ilse van Bemmel – Nature of the Far-Infrared Emission in 3C47, 3C207 and 3C334
15:00 Julia Hutchison – The Magnetic Field Structure of the Jet in Quasar 4C71.07
15:15 Pekka Heinamaki – Black hole ejections from galaxy nuclei
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Bus departure for city centre
17:00 – 18:30 Prof. Richard Wielebinski – Niewidzialny Wszechswiat, czyli co i jak “widza” radioastronomowie (The invisible Universe - what does radio astronomy contribute to our knowledge of the Universe), public lecture in Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, ul. Slawkowska (in Polish)
19:00 Conference dinner (in the city centre)

Thursday, September 18

8:00   Breakfast
9:00 Prof. Marek Urbanik – Radio emission from normal galaxies – a key to understand the cosmic magnetism (invited lecture)
9:45 Jacek Niezgoda – What Are The Gigahertz Peaked-Spectrum Radio Sources?
10:00 Marco Pedani – Search for ultra steep spectrum radio sources from a new low-frequency survey
10:15 Izabela Owsianik – First detection of hotspot advance speed in a Compact Symmetric Objects
10:30 Michael Thierbach – X-ray properties of three clusters of galaxies and their implications for the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
10:45 Dmitry Krivitsky – Quasars in a merger model: comparison with the observed luminosity function
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Keith Baxter – A new model for galactic structure based upon Percolating Star Formation
11:45 Bong Won Sohn – Polarisation properties of radio galaxies: First sample - 5 low luminosity radio galaxies and 2 giant radio galaxies
12:00 Marek Jamrozy – Cosmological evolution of extragalactic radio sources
12:15 Youri Dabrowski – Invisible clusters and CMB decrements
12:30 Marek Gierlinski – Why X-rays are better than radio waves
13:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:30 Trip to Wieliczka Salt Mine Museum
19:00 Dinner
20:00 – 20:10   Krzysztof Chyzy – Closing remarks

Friday, September 19

8:00 Breakfast