************************************************************************** BOLETIM ELETRÔNICO DA SAB N. 505 - 27/01/2010 ************************************************************************** Responsável: Helio J. Rocha-Pinto (helio@astro.ufrj.br) ************************************************************************** NESTA EDIÇÃO: INFORMES ------------ 1. Comunicado da Comissão Especial de Astronomia/MCT EVENTOS ----------- 2. Binary Star Evolution: Mass Loss, Accretion and Mergers 3. 30 Years of Synthetic Photometry -- Conference in honour of Prof. Dr. Roland Buser ************************************************************* INFORMES ************************************************************* 1. Comunicado da Comissão Especial de Astronomia/MCT Os "White Papers" recebidos e outros documentos relativos ao funcionamento da Comissao podem ser encontrados na pagina da CEA: http://www.sab- astro.org.br/cea/Welcome.html Eduardo Janot Pacheco, em 27/01/2010 ************************************************************* EVENTOS ************************************************************* 2. Binary Star Evolution: Mass Loss, Accretion and Mergers (Comunicado por Raymundo Batista em 25/01/10) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BINARY STAR EVOLUTION: MASS LOSS, ACCRETION, and MERGERS (in Celebration of Ron Webbink's 65th Birthday) Mykonos, Greece -- June 22 - 25, 2010 Following an enthusiastic response to our preliminary announcement of the conference on binary evolution, we are even more looking forward to our gathering honoring Ron Webbink and further celebrating Peter Eggleton's and Ed van den Heuvel's birthdays! We have now compiled our Scientific Organizing Committee and organization plans are advancing rapidly. Please check out the conference web site: http://ciera.northwestern.edu/Ron-fest2010/. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: February 15, 2010 - submission of presentation titles and abstracts March 1, 2010 - early registration; announcement of tentative scientific program March 15, 2010 - announcement of final scientific program April 19, 2010 - room reservations at conference hotel & late registration SCIENCE TOPICS & REQUEST FOR TALK PROPOSALS We invite all interested, potential participants to send us brief suggestion(s) (a couple of sentences) for presentations they would like to give on results that generally connect to any of the prospective topics from the following list: * Mass and Angular Momentum Transfer & Loss * Physics of Common Envelope Evolution * Contact Binaries * Collisions/Mergers * Binaries in Clusters * Cataclysmic Variables & Symbiotic Stars * X-ray Binaries * Binary and Millisecond Pulsars * Binary Supernova Progenitors * Gravitational Wave Sources. We particularly invite presentations of recent, exciting results or suggestions for reviews of specific (sub-)areas of interest. The scientific program will comprise 10 sessions (two morning and one late afternoon) over 4 days with a half day free for excursions. Please send your suggestions to: w-finney@northwestern.edu by January 4, 2010. CONFERENCE HOTEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS Mykonos is one of the most beautiful islands in Greece. It has preserved its unique architectural character, crystal clear waters, iconic bays and sandy beaches, despite its popularity. The end of June is one of the best times to visit Greece, before the high traffic of mid-July to August. Our conference will be held at one of the best resort hotels on Mykonos, Greece: Saint John hotel, http://www.saintjohn.gr/. It is located in the bay of Agios Ioannis, one of the best beaches on the island, and just across from the island of Delos. A set of rooms has been reserved at the hotel (see http://www.saintjohn.gr/mykonos-accommodation-rooms.php) for conference participants at rates much lower than their regular prices for the time of the conference. Rates are per room (2 occupants) per night and include breakfast and all taxes: Garden View: 160 euros, Executive Sea View: 195 euros. You will be able to submit your room reservations directly to the hotel by faxing a reservation form. Well before the deadline for the room reservations we will set up a system through which participants interested in finding room-mates can pair up. In the coming months we will also provide a list of nearby hotels with lower room rates. More information on all these issues will appear on the conference web site and will be circulated in our next circular some time in the middle of January. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION The deadline for early registration is March 1, 2010. The early-registration fee is equal to 250 euros (300 euros for late registration). This fee will cover the conference room, all coffee breaks, the registration reception on the evening of June 21, the conference dinner, and the proceedings book to be published in the AIP Conference Series. Information about how to register will appear on the conference web site and in our next circular. SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Matthew Bailes - Swinburne University of Technology Luciano Burderi - University of Cagliari Tiziana di Salvo - University of Palermo Peter Eggleton - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Zhanwen Han - Chinese Academy of Sciences Vicky Kalogera - Northwestern University Andrew King - University of Leicester Gijs Nelemans - Radboud University Fred Rasio - Northwestern University Hans Ritter - MPA Garching Mike Shara - American Museum of Natural History Chris Tout - University of Cambridge Ed van den Heuvel - University of Amsterdam Ron Webbink - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dayal Wickramasinghe - Australian National University ================================================================ 3. 30 Years of Synthetic Photometry -- Conference in honour of Prof. Dr. Roland Buser (comunicado por Pieter Westera em 26/01/10) This workshop is to honour the career of Prof. Dr. Roland Buser, who dedicated most of his work to synthetic photometry. Synthetic photometry was first designed as a powerful tool to interpret star counts and star colours in the Milky Way galaxy and assess its structure into different stellar populations of different chemical history. Later, synthetic photometry turned out to be a fundamental ingredient of population synthesis, that is, the interpretation of colours or spectral energy distribution of galaxies that cannot be resolved into individual stars. Population synthesis is now widely used to derive parameters describing the stellar content of galaxies in the most varied environments, local and distant. The purpose of this workshop is to assess the achievements of synthetic photometry – and population synthesis – as well as its actual shortcomings; and in which directions synthetic photometry should be developed at the beginning of the 21st century. Prof. Roland Buser's intellectual curiosity has been of course much wider than just for synthetic photometry and the conference reflects this, e.g. the content of the contributions is relatively free, representing his most diverse activities and interests. Date and Location: Thursday, January the 28th, 2010 Beginning at 09:00 AM Lecture room 2 (Klingelbergstr. 82) for the first session, from 09:00 to 10:30 Lecture room 1 (St. Johanns-Ring 25) for the three other sessions, from 11:00 Department of Physics Basel University Klingelbergstrasse 82 CH-4056 Basel Switzerland Invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Roland Buser, Basel University, Switzerland Prof. Dr. François Cuisinier, Observatório do Valongo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mr. Didier Curty, Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Pieter Westera, Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Prof. Dr. Salih Karaali, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey Dr. Serap Ak, Istanbul University, Turkey Mr. Ba?ar Co?kuno?lu, Istanbul University, Turkey Prof. Dr. Gustav Andreas Tammann, Basel, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Bruno Binggeli, Basel University, Switzerland Dr. Erich Wenger, Gymnasium Neufeld, Bern, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Gustavo Bruzual A., Centre de Investigaciones de Astronomía, Mérida, Venezuela Dr. Thibault Lejeune, Geneva, Switzerland Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC): Pieter Westera, pieter.westera@yahoo.com.br François Cuisinier, francois@astro.ufrj.br Didier Curty, curty@on.br Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Bruno Binggeli, bruno.binggeli@unibas.ch Marco Longhitano, marco.longhitano@unibas.ch ************************************************************************** Participe da lista de discusssão FÓRUM-DA-SAB Para associar-se vá a http://groups.google.com/group/sabforum ************************************************************************** Blog da SAB : http://astronomiabrasileira.blogspot.com/ ************************************************************************** Agenda Eletrônica da SAB -- acesse-a pelos endereços abaixo: XML http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com/public/basic iCal http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics HTML http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Sao_Paulo **************************************************************************