Joint Scientific Seminary on Astronomy
Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Astronomical Observatory
Baja Astronomical Observatory
Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
Hungarian Academy of Science, Cluj-Napoca Committee
Baja Astronomical Observatory
Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch
Hungarian Academy of Science, Cluj-Napoca Committee
Program
Thursday, October 16
Arrival of participants – accommodation at the University Hotel Iuventutes, 7 Pandurilor Street, Phone: 0264-429786
Friday, October 17
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration, preliminary discussions (Astronomical Observatory) |
| 9:30 – 12:00 | Joint Scientific Seminary |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Ferenc Szenkovits The Cluj Astronomical Observatory On the elliptic restricted three-body problem |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | László Kiss Triggered star formation on low and small scales |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Imre Barna Bíró Eclipsing binary stars with pulsation components: photometric mode identification methods |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Tamás Borkovits The triple star systems – O-C ‘ and dynamical studies (a personal overview) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Tibor Hegedüs International Year of Astronomy 2009 – Hungarian plans, possible Transylvanian relations |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Vasile Ureche, Rodica Roman, Tiberiu Oproiu Neutron star models with Douchin-Haensel equation of state |
| 11:10 – 11:20 | Cristina Blaga Inverse problem, precessing orbits and autonomous orbits |
| 11:20 – 11:30 | Alexandru Pop On the analysis of low level variability phenomena |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Vlad Turcu, Alexandru Pop, Dan Moldovan Variable star detection |
| 11:40 – 11:50 | Liviu Mircea, Tiberiu Oproiu Determination of the Earth artificial satellite trajectories in Cluj Astronomical Observatory |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Ladislau Farkas Variable star studies in Timisoara Astronomical Observatory |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Visit at the Mineralogy Museum of the Babes-Bolyai University |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch at the Piramida Restaurant |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | City tour |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Technical presentations (Astronomical Observatory) Hegedüs-Kiss: The BART-1 telescope Beringer: The BAT telescope |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Visit and technical presentations at the Feleacu Station of the Cluj Astronomical Observatory (Vlad Turcu, Dan Moldovan) |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Discussions on possible future collaborations |









