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FIRST SUMMER SCHOOL ON SPACE RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS

for young scientists and PhD students

5-11 July 2021

National Astronomical Observatory, Rozhen, Bulgaria
Organized by the Branch “Cosmos” of the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria
under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Bulgaria
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PROGRAMME

The programme is organised in morning and afternoon sessions. In the morning sessions the lecturers will cover topics from astrophysics and cosmology to payload instrumentation, computational physics and Earth observation. In the afternoon, the young scientists will join several teams working on different projects. At the end of the school they will present their results in a dedicated session.

Sunday, 04.07.                                       Arrival, registration, orientation

Monday, 05.07

I. Fundamental research
09:00 – 10:30 Online lecture: Astrophysics and Cosmology
Lecturer: Stoytcho Yazadjiev (Sofia University)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30  Online lecture: Astrophysics and Cosmology
Lecturer: Daniela Doneva (University of Tübingen)

14:00 – 18:00 Guided tour around NAO & break-up groups
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Tuesday, 06.07

I. Fundamental research
I. Fundamental research
09:00 – 12:30 Online lecture: Sun and space weather
Lecturer: Manuela Temmer (University of Graz, Austria)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
14:00-18:00 Parallel practical sessions (on site)
Practical session: CME propagation  
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Wednesday, 07.07

II. Aerospace technologies
09:00 – 12:30 Parallel practical sessions (on site)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

14:00 – 15:00 Six years of Bulgaria participation in the ESA cooperating
states – results and achievements
Lecturer: Petya Piperkova (Ministry of Economics, Bulgaria)
15:00 – 16:00 Examples and Good practices in Space entrepreneurship: IBM (BG), EnduroSat (BG)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 19:30 Online lecture: Focusing in on the High Energy Universe
Part 1 – The High-energy Astronomical Sky
Part 2 – Introduction to X-ray Optics
Part 3 – High-energy Astrophysics Instrumentation
Lecturer: Oliver Roberts (USRA / NASA)
20:00 Social event organized by the host

Thursday, 08.07

II. Aerospace technologies
09:00 – 09:30 Examples and Good practices in Space entrepreneurship: TERRASIGNA (RO)

09:30 – 10:30 Online lecture: Space Communications & ‘Essential Equipment’
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Online lecture: How to build a satellite payload?
Lecturer: Christopher Bridges (Surrey Space Center, UK)

12:00 – 12:30 Examples and Good practices in Space entrepreneurship:          Uni PECS/DateLite (HU)ICEYE (FI)

14:00 – 18:00 Parallel practical sessions (on site)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Friday, 09.07

III. Space-related methods and applications
09:00 – 10:00 Online lecture: Earth Observations
Lecturer: Francesco Sarti (ESA)

10:00 – 10:30 Examples and Good practices in Space entrepreneurship: SINERGISE EOMap

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Online lecture: EUMETSAT current and future missions-
-supporting weather analysis and forecast
Lecturer: Natasa Strelec Mahovic (EUMETSAT)

14:00 – 18:00 Parallel practical sessions (on site)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Saturday, 10.07

III. Space-related methods and applications
09:00 – 12:30 On-site lecture: Machine learning methods in physics and astronomy
Lecturer: Peter Hristov (CERN)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

14:00 – 18:00 PhD student presentations
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break 
Parallel practical sessions:

Meteo & Drone
Astrophotography
EPICS
Sun & space weather
Machine learning

 

18:00   Closing of the summer school

Summary :  enjoy the video

Sunday, 11.07

09:00   Departure

Programme schedule (pdf)

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Stefan Lalkovski (SU, Faculty of Physics)
Stoyan Mishev (NBU and IAPS)
Rositsa Miteva (IANAO-BAS)
Elisaveta Peneva (SU, Faculty of Physics)
Christomir Yordanov (TU, Sofia) 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Marusya Buchvarova (SRTI-BAS)
Lyuba Dimova (SU, Faculty of Physics)
Irina Gancheva (SU, Faculty of Physics)
Galin Gyulchev (SU, Faculty of Physics)
Yuliya Mutafchieva (INRNE-BAS)

COVID-19

The event will be held on place in compliance with all anti-epidemic measures recommended by the health authorities. We will monitor the situation and in case of changes in the place or the way the school is held, we will inform you in due time via e-mail and on the webpage of the event.

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Организация

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Контакти

  • Бул. Джеймс Баучър №5, София 1164
  • cosmos [at] phys.uni-sofia.bg
  • +359 2 8161 289