Programme
The Hot Topics conference takes place during the second week of the 2019 NEON Observing School. The programme is still preliminary and will be updated as more lectures and teachers are confirmed.
Programme for the Hot Topics Conference
Sunday September 22
Arrival in Sofia
20:00 - 20:30 Welcome drink together with the NEON School participants
20:30 -> Dinner
Monday September 23
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to the Hot Topics conference and people (Korhonen)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Writing observing time proposals (Korhonen + Heidt)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to the group work (Korhonen)
15:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work
19:00 -> Dinner
Tuesday September 24
09:30 - 11:00 Hot Topics in stellar astrophysics (Korhonen)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Multi-wavelength astronomy with MAGIC (Lindfors)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work
19:00 -> Dinner
~21:30-> Remote connection MAGIC
Wednesday September 25
10:00 - 11:30 Transient Sky (Ivanov)
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Career discussion (Korhonen)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 19:00 Free afternoon
19:00 -> Dinner
Thursday September 26
09:30 - 11:00 The art of scientific publishing I (Kiss)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 The first galaxies (Bunker)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 What is OPTICON? (Pebody)
14:30 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work
19:00 -> Dinner
Friday September 27
09:30 - 11:00 The art of scientific publishing II (Kiss)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 JWST and other future space missions (Ward)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work
19:00 -> Dinner
Saturday September 28
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion on proposal exercise
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 NEON School group presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 NEON School group presentations
15:00 - 15:15 Concluding remarks (Korhonen)
19:00 -> Closing dinner
Sunday September 29
Leaving Sofia
Teachers
- Andrew Bunker, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
- Jochen Heidt, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Germany
- Valentin Ivanov, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- Laszlo Kiss, Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- Heidi Korhonen, DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Elina Lindfors, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, Finland
- Gudrun Pebody, OPTICON project manager, IoA, University of Cambridge, UK
- Martin Ward, Durham University, UK