Program

BAASP 2019

WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2019

TIME OPENING EVENT
14:00 – 15:30 Arrival
15:30 – 16:00 Gathering at the venue, registration
16:00 – 16:05 Opening the event Rector of the Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Kārlis Krēsliņš
16:05 – 16:15 Welcome words from the Ventspils City Council 1st Deputy Chairman of the Council on Infrastructure Jānis Vītoliņš
16:15 – 16:35 Development plans of the JIV-ERIC Director of the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) Francisco Colomer
16:35 – 16:55 Development of science and research in Latvia Senior Expert in Science Policy Planning of the Ministry of Education and Science Lana Frančeska Dreimane
16:55 – 17:10 The most significant achievements of VIRAC in recent years (RT-16, RT-32 and LOFAR) Researcher of Ventspils International Radioastronomy Centre Vladislavs Bezrukovs
17:10 – 17:55 Science talk “Space science frontier of radio interferometry: A view for and from Irbene” Head of Space Science and Innovative Applications Group of the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE) Leonid Gurvits
17:55 – 18:05 Speeches of the invited guests
18:05 – 18:15 Brief information about the BAASP 2019 programme Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee Romass Pauliks
18:15 – 20:00 Refreshments and informal part of the event

THURSDAY, 22 AUGUST 2019

SESSION 1 PLENARY (Michail Ryabov, Anton Vasyunin)
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:45 Astrochemistry during protostellar and protoplanetary evolution Dmitri Wiebe
09:45 – 10:30 Radio Pulsars Vasily S. Beskin
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
SESSION 2 GALACTIC ASTRONOMY (Michail Ryabov, Anton Vasyunin) REMOTE SENSING (Juris Žagars)
11:00 – 11:20 150 years of the periodic system: nucleosynthesis and chemical elements in the galaxy S. Andrievsky Different approaches on tree cover classification using remote sensing data L. Gulbe
11:20 – 11:40 Studies of flaring methanol masers K. Bērziņš, I. Shmeld, A. Aberfelds Land cover classification using convolutional neural networks and countrywide remote sensing data R. Ķēniņš
11:40 – 12:00 First ex-OX masers detections in Galactic maser project O. Patoka, O. Antyufeyev, M. Bleiders, V. Bezrukovs, A. Aberfelds, I. Shmeld, I. Shmeld, A. Orbidans, J. Steinbergs, V. Shulga, Yu. Karelin Automatic building 3D model reconstruction using countrywide remote sensing data E. Visockis, L. Gulbe
12:00 – 12:20 The small-scale spatial distribution in the diffuse ISM: properties and impact of dust particles on the chemical evolution V.A. Sokolova, A.I. Vasyunin, A.B. Ostrovskii, S. Yu. Parfenov GNSS RTK performance improvements using Galileo satellite signal J. Zvirgzds, A. Celms
12:20 – 12:40 Monte Carlo code and modelling of polarized radiative transfer in the envelopes of post-AGB objects J. Freimanis, R. Peženkovs
12:40 – 13:00 Measuring molecular cloud parameters with Irbene radio telescopes A. Aberfelds, A. Vasyunin
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 3 PLENARY (Vladislavs Bezrukovs)
14:00 – 14:45 Fast processing of low-frequency radio astronomy data using GPUs Oleg Ulyanov
14:45 – 15:30 Antarr – Etna low-frequency antenna array G. Tuccari
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
SESSION 4 RESEARCH OF SUN STUDIES (Boris Ryanov) DATA PROCESSING METHODS (Manfred Sneps-Sneppe)
16:00 – 16:20 Observations of solar active regions at the frequencies of 7.36 and 37 GHz J. Kallunki, M. Tornikoski, D. Bezrukov On information transmission using orthogonal sine waves E. Tikhonov, M. Sneps-Sneppe
16:20 – 16:40 Observations and analyses of a dark coronal lane between the ARs 12089, 12090, and 12091 D. Bezrukovs, B. I. Ryabov, A. Vrublevskis The LOFAR long-baseline calibrator survey classification statistical estimation A. Nikolajevs, K. Prusis
16:40 – 17:00 Reduced Microwave Brightness Temperature in a Sunspot Atmosphere due to Open Magnetic Fields A. Vrublevskis, B. I. Ryabov Development of LOFAR automate data retrieval and processing tool J. Steinbergs, K. Veitners, Vl. Bezrukovs, M. Iacobelli
17:00 – 17:20 Space weather – main indexes and physical process, perspectives complex investigation on the radio telescopes M. I. Ryabov On Critical Infrastructure cyber threats: what to teach telecommunication engineers? M. Sneps-Sneppe, D. Namiot, R. Pauliks
17:20 – 17:40 Methodical issues of microwave observations of the Sun with VIRAC RT-32 radio telescope D. Bezrukovs Observations of astronomical objects using radio (Irbene RT32 telescope) and optical (Baldone Schmidt telescope) methods K. Skirmante, N. Jekabsons, I. Eglitis, Vl. Bezrukovs, M. Bleiders
17:40 – 18:00 Study of flux variability of radio source Taurus A (3C 144) when observing passage through solar supercorona in decimeter wave range and comparison with observations at URAN-4 phasing array in the decameter radio range A. Sukharev, M. Ryabov, V. Bezrukovs, L. Sobitniak, O. Litvinenko, S. Panishko, M. Bleiders, A. Orbidans Analysis of context prediction models for context mixing based satellite on-board image compression J. Šate
18:00 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner (with invitations only)

FRIDAY, 23 AUGUST 2019

SESSION 5 EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY (Vladislavs Bezrukovs) INSTRUMENTATION FOR SPACE TECHNOLOGY (Andris Slavinskis)
08:30 – 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 – 09:20 Internal structure of relativistic jets V. Beskin Coulomb Drag Propulsion experiments of ESTCube-2 and FORESAIL-1 A. Slavinskis, ESTCube-2 and FORESAIL-1 teams
09:20 – 09:40 Comparison rapid variability properties of BL-Lac object OJ 287 in radio and optical bands A. Sukharev, M. Ryabov, V. Bezrukovs, M. Bleiders, A. Orbidans, S. Udovichenko, L. Keir RT-16 ground station service M. Donerblics, M. Bleiders, A Orbidāns, D. Egle
9:40 – 10:00 Survey of Active Galactic Nuclei with RadioAstron P.A. Voytsik for the RadioAstron AGN survey team Study of feed horn solutions for Irbene RT-32 radio telescope M. Bleiders
10:00 – 10:20 Modelling of SiPM Performance for Detection of Cherenkov Radiation from Extensive Air Showers in UV- and Visible Ranges for Application at the TAIGA-IACT Telescope A. Bogdanov, E. Kholupenko, Yu. Tuboltsev Calibration of spectral data of Irbene RT-32 and RT-16 radio telescopes O. Antyufeyev, M. Bleiders, O. Patoka, Vl. Bezrukovs, A. Aberfelds, I. Smelds, A. Orbidans, J. Steinbergs, V. Shulga
10:20 – 10:40 Small-sized, low-cost mm-wave local oscillators for the radio astronomy superheterodynes O. Patoka, V. Myshenko, V. Shulga, A. Korolev, Yu. Karelin, D. Chechotkin, O. Antyufeyev
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
SESSION 6 VLBI METHODS (Vladislavs Bezrukovs)
11:00 – 11:20 3-Way Lunar Radio Ranging Experiment on RT-32 Radio Telescopes D. Marshalov, J. Ping, W. Li, M. Wang, J. Sun, Y. Bondarenko, E. Yagudina, M. Vasilyev
11:20 – 11:40 The joint SLR (optical range) and radar-VLBI (radio range) satellite observations using VIRAC radio telescopes RT32 and RT16 and SLR station Riga K. Skirmante, N. Jekabsons, K. Salmins
11:40 – 12:00 Overview of VLBI observations in Irbene – Torun baseline J. Steinbergs, Vl. Bezrukovs, I. Shmeld, K. Skirmante, M. Bleiders, A. Orbidans, M. Gawroński, R. Feiler
12:00 – 12:20 Data reduction and imaging of gravitational lens system class K. Prusis, A. Nikolajevs
12:20 – 12:40 VLBI network for monitoring of geostationary satelites M. Kaliuzhnyi, Z. Zhang, F. Bushuev, O. Shulga, Vl. Bezrukovs, O. Reznichenko, S. Melnychuk, Y. Malynovskyi
12:40 – 13:00 Closing Remarks
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Side Meetings
15:00 – 18:00 Excursion (with previous registration only)

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