Detailed program
Sunday, 18 October | |
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| 15:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception |
Monday, 19 October | |
| 8:00 | Registration |
| Chair: László Kiss (MTA CSFK, Hungary) | |
| 9:00 | Opening ceremony – Róbert Szabó (MTA CSFK, Hungary) |
| 9:15 | Lajos Balázs, (MTA CSFK, Hungary) László Detre and the Hungarian Variable star research – invited |
Session I – Classical variables from space | |
| 9:45 | Gisella Clementini (INAF, Bologna Observatory, Italy) RR Lyrae stars in the Gaia era – invited |
| 10:25 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 | László Molnár (MTA CSFK, Hungary) Tales from the unblinking eyes – The first decade of RR Lyrae space photometric observations – invited |
| 11:30 | Evgeny Kanev (Institute of Astronomy of the RAS, Russia) Long term light curve variations of the Kepler Cepheid V1154 Cyg: Is V1154 Cyg yet another Blazhko effect Cepheid? |
| 11:55 | Emese Plachy (MTA CSFK, Hungary) Space-based photometry for classical variables in the near future |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
Session II – Dynamical phenomena | |
| Chair: Pawel Moskalik (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) | |
| 13:50 | Wojciech Dziembowski (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) Nonradial oscillations in classical pulsating stars. Predictions and Discoveries – invited |
| 14:30 | Henryka Netzel (Warwaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland) Nonradial modes in RR Lyrae stars from the OGLE Catalogue |
| 14:55 | Zoltán Kolláth (MTA CSFK, Hungary) The unique dynamical system underlying RR Lyrae pulsations |
Session III – Period-Color-Luminosity relations | |
| 15:20 | Jan Lub (Sterrewacht Leiden, The Netherlands) K logP is that all? |
| 15:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 | Camilla Navarrete (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) RR Lyrae stars in ω Centauri: Near-IR properties and Period-Luminosity relations |
| 16:40 | Jillian Neeley (Iowa State University, United States) Determining a Mind-infrared Period-Luminosity relation for galactic globular cluster RR Lyrae stars |
| 17:05 | Clara E. Martínez-Vázquez (IAC, Spain) A revised φ31-period-metallicity relation for RR Lyrae stars |
| 17:30 | Shashi Kanbur (SUNY Oswego, United States) Period-color and amplitude-color relations for RR Lyrae stars |
| 19:00 | A walk in the Royal Palace & Dinner at the Palotaház |
Tuesday, 20 October | |
| 8:00 | Registration |
Session IV – The Blazhko enigma | |
| Chair: Chow-Choong Ngeow (National Central University, Taiwan) | |
| 9:00 | Géza Kovács, MTA CSFK, Hungary The Blazhko effect – invited |
| 9:40 | Radoslaw Smolec (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland) Blazhko effect in double-mode RR Lyrae stars of the OGLE survey |
| 10:05 | Ennio Poretti (INAF Brera Observatory, Italy) Observational insigths into the Blazhko effect |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
Session V – Pan-STARRS and other surveys | |
| 11:00 | Heather Flewelling (University of Hawaii, United States) Periodic variable star searches in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Fields – invited |
| 11:40 | Nina Hernitschek (Max Planck Institute für Astronomie, Germany) Finding, characterizing and classifying variable sources in multi-epoch sky surveys: QSOs and RR Lyrae in PS1 3π data – invited |
| 12:05 | Gustavo Medina (Universidad de Chile) Searching for distant RR Lyrae using High cadence Transit Survey |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Session VI – Methods | |
| Chair: Ádám Sódor (MTA CSFK, Hungary) | |
| 14:15 | Željko Ivezić (University of Washington, United States) Periodograms for Mulitband Astronomical Time Series |
| 14:40 | Earl Bellinger (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) Resolving combination frequency amplitudes of multi-mode pulsators |
| 15:05 | Mikola Britavskiy (IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Greece) Method of LSD profile asymmetry for estimating the center of mass velocities of pulsating stars |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
Session VII – Advancement in numerical methods | |
| 16:00 | Robert Deupree (Saint Mary’s University, United States) Multidimensional Hydrodynamic Convection in Full Amplitude RR Lyrae models – invited |
| 16:40 | Herbert Muthsam (University of Vienna, Austria) Stellar pulsation modelling: The numerical issue – invited |
| 17:20 | Marcella Marconi (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy) Helium abundance effects on RR Lyrae pulsation properties |
Wednesday, 21 October | |
| 8:00 | Registration |
Session VIII – OGLE and binarity | |
| Chair: Michael Feast (University of Cape Town, South Africa) | |
| 9:00 | Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw University, Poland) OGLE and the RR Lyrae stars – invited |
| 9:40 | Pawel Pietrukowicz (Warsaw University, Poland) Deciphering the structure of the old Galactic component from OGLE RR Lyrae stars |
| 10:05 | Gergely Hajdu (Pontificia Universidad Católica the Chile) RR Lyrae binary systems in the Galactic bulge microlensing surveys |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Marek Skarka, (DPTU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Review of candidates of binary systems with RR Lyrae component |
| 11:25 | Elisabeth Guggenberger (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) New accurate systemic radial velocities of suspected RR Lyrae binary stars |
Session IX – Pulsation and evolution | |
| 11:50 | Giuseppe Bono (Department of Physics University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Pulsation and evolution of RR Lyrae stars– invited |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Chair: Christine Clement (University of Toronto, Canada) | |
| 14:00 | Sohee Jang (Yonsei University, South Korea) Multiple populations in globular clusters and the origin of the Oosterhoff dichotomy |
| 14:25 | Felice Cusano (INAF, Bologna Observatory, Italy) RR Lyrae stars in the Andromeda satellite galaxies |
| 14:50 | Johanna Jurcsik (MTA CSFK, Hungary) A comprehensive photometric study of the RR Lyrae stars in M3 |
| 15:15 | Vittorio Francesco Braga (University of Tor Vergata, Italy) On the pulsation properties of RR Lyrae stars in ω Centauri |
| 15:40 | Monika Jurkovic (Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Serbia) Galactic membership of BL Her type variable stars |
| 16:10 | Coffee break |
| 19:00 | Knights’ Tournament & Conference dinner |
Thursday, 22 October | |
Session X – RR Lyrae stars as galactic structure tracers | |
| Chair: Katrien Kolenberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, United States) | |
| 9:00 | Poster session>> |
| 10:00 | Branimir Sesar (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) Lighthouses in the fog: Uncovering the faintest halo structures with RR Lyrae stars – invited |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 | Sonia Duffau (Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Chile) Detailed chemical abundances of distant RR Lyrae stars in the Virgo Stellar Stream |
| 11:35 | Matteo Monelli (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain) RR Lyrae stars as tracers of the halo formation |
| 12:00 | Jan Lub (Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands) Conference summary |
| 12:40 | Róbert Szabó (MTA CSFK, Hungary) Closing remarks, Farewell |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
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