Astrophysics with the NOT

Turku, Finland, 12-15 August 1998

Final programme


Tuesday, August 11

16:00- Registration
19:00 Informal gathering and welcome cocktail in the hall of the meeting place (Chemistry building, University of Turku).

Wednesday, 12 August

8:30- Registration
9:00 Opening remarks
Review of current NOT capabilities
Morning session. Chairman Vilppu Piirola
9:15 Michael Andersen: High resolution imaging at the NOT.
10:00 Wide field imaging: The CCD mosaic camera and the focal reducer.
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Colin Aspin: Near IR imaging, spectroscopy, polarimetry, NOTCam.
11:45 Göran Olofsson: Thermal IR observations.
12:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session. Chairman Johannes Andersen
14:00 Hugo E. Schwarz: Multi-mode focal reducer type instruments at the NOT.
14:45 Ilkka Tuominen: High resolution spectroscopy, SOFIN.
15:30 Romano Corradi et al.: The echelle spectrograph IACUB
16:00 Vilppu Piirola: Polarimetry, TurPol, ALFOSC.
Posters
Søren Frandsen: The FIES spectrograph.
Remy Avila et al.: Whole-atmosphere turbulence profiling at the NOT with Generalized Scidar.
Evening program
19:00 City reception.

Thursday, 13 August

Morning session: Cosmology, high-z universe. Chairman Per Lilje
9:00 Palle Møller: High-z universe.
9:45 Jens Hjorth: Gravitational lensing.
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Håkon Dahle: Weak gravitational lensing by X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies.
11:30 Andreas Jaunsen: Weak galaxy-galaxy lensing
12:00 Poster session
12:30 Lunch break
Afternoon sessions. Chairman Göran Olofsson
Session I: Blazars, Seyfert galaxies
14:00 Aimo Sillanpää: The NOT imaging of BL Lac objects
14:30 Leo Takalo: Blazar monitoring at the NOT.
15:00 Tapio Pursimo: CCD polarization observations of RGB BL Lac objects
15:15 Jari Kotilainen: Optical studies of Seyfert host galaxies.
15:30 Coffee
Session II: Nearby galaxies, Milky way, local group
16:00 Nils Bergvall: Galaxy evolution - the local population.
16:45 Frank Grundahl: Strömgren uvbyß observations of open and globular clusters.
Posters
Ian Brown et al.: Core activity in the interacting radio galaxy Mrk348.
Ingunn Burud: Image deconvolution of lensed QSOs at the NOT, competing with the HST.
Johan Fynbo et al.: On the nature of damped Ly-alpha absorbers at high redshifts
Leslie Hunt: Seyfert galaxies in the Near-Infrared.
Kari Nilsson et al.: High resolution imaging of Rosat BL Lac objects
Tapio Pursimo et al.: Deep images of the 1 Jy BL Lac objects
Evening program
18:30 Evening on the beach with sauna.

Friday, 14 August

Morning sessions. Chariman Colin Aspin
Session I: Interstellar matter, star formation
9:00 Göran Sandell: Star formation.
9:45 Gösta Gahm et al.: Molecular filamentary clouds, structures and polarization.
10:00 Leif Festin: The NOT Pleiades survey for brown dwarfs.
10:15 Coffee
Session II: Interacting binary stars
10:45 Pasi Hakala: Cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries.
11:30 Seppo Katajainen: UBVRI-photopolarimetry observations of polars (AM Her stars).
11:45 Timothy Abbott: A search for post-common envelope and pre-cataclysmic variables.
12:00 Jan Erik Solheim: Discoseismology - a new method to discover shape and structure of accretion disks.
12:15 Romano Corradi: Extended nebulae around symbiotic stars.
12:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session: Stellar surface structure, late stages of evolution. Chairman Bjarne Thomsen
14:00 Nikolai Piskunov: Stellar activity and magnetism.
14:45 Svetlana Berdyugina: Stellar surface structure.
15:30 Grazina Tautvaisiene, Ilkka Tuominen, Ilya Ilyin: Evolutionary effects in atmospheres of metal abundant red horizontal branch stars
15:45 Linus Dolk, Glenn M. Wahlgren, Ulf Litzén: High Resolution Observations of Isotope Shifts in the HgMn star HR7775.
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Bengt Gustafsson: Late stages of stellar evolution.
Posters
Vidar Aarum: Doppler imaging of UX Ari.
Vladimir Grinin: Spectral variability of the UX Ori stars.
Thomas Hackman, Lauri Jetsu, Ilkka Tuominen: Surface imaging of V1794 Cyg (HD199178).
Ilya Ilyin, Rudolf Duemmler: Precise radial velocities from a Cassegrain spectrograph. I. Wavelength calibrations.
Rudolf Duemmler, Ilya Ilyin: Precise radial velocities from a Cassegrain spectrograph. II. Radial velocity determination and applications.
Anlaug Amanda Kaas: Star formation in the Serpens cloud core.
Seppo Katajainen, Franco Scaltriti, Harry Lehto, Vilppu Piirola: UBVRI polarimetry of the long period AM Her type variable RXJ0515.7+0105.
Heidi Korhonen: Surface imaging of FK Comae Berenices.
Josefa Masegosa: New Results from the follow up spectroscopy of the HSS/SAO survey
Josefa Masegosa: ALFOSC results on the Planetary Nebulae Sa 2-237
Krister Nielsen: Observations in the near-UV with the NOT/SOFIN.
Krister Nielsen: An investigation of the magnetic star HR1094.
Vilppu Piirola: Imaging polarimetry of star forming regions.
Kristian Strid: Emission line spectrum in upsilon Sagittarii.
Leonardo Testi et al.: A search for clustering around Herbig Ae/Be stars.
Roy Østensen: High-speed CCD photometry with windowing and real-time lightcurve generation.
Evening program
19:00 Conference dinner.

Saturday, 15 August

Morning sessions. Chairman Hugo E. Schwartz
Session I: Gamma-ray bursters, solar system
9:00 Holger Pedersen: Gamma-ray bursters.
9:45 Richard M. West: Solar system, Comet Hale-Bopp.
10:30 Coffee
Session II: Future of the NOT
11:00 Johannes Andersen: NOT in the 2000's.
Discussion
Concluding remarks
Posters
Karri Muinonen: Prospects of near-Earth-asteroid astrometry and photopolarimetry at the NOT
Gian Paolo Tozzi: Activity of Comet C/1995 01 Hale-Bopp.
Evening program
20:00 Evening trip to the Archipelago, on S/S Ukkopekka; dinner served on board, return by about midnight.