The 6th annual BRICS Astronomy Workshop will be held on September 24, 2020, from 11:00-14:00 UTC. For convenience, this corresponds to the following regional time zones:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 08:00-11:00
Cape Town, South Africa 13:00-16:00
Moscow, Russia 14:00-17:00
Delhi, India 16:30-19:30
Beijing, China 19:00-22:00
Time, Moscow (UTC+3) |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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14:00-14:10 |
Workshop opening & welcoming comments |
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14:10-14:25 |
David Buckley |
SAAO, South Africa |
Towards a BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network |
14:25-14:40 |
Russ Taylor |
IDIA, South Africa |
Big Data in the Era of Survey Science |
14:40-14:55 |
Carolina Odman |
IDIA, South Africa |
Benefits to Society |
14:55-15:10 |
Boris Shustov |
INASAN, Russia |
Optical Transient Network: prospects for NEOs detection and monitoring |
15:10-15:25 |
Chenzhou Cui |
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS |
China VO and FAST |
15:25-15:40 |
Break |
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15:40-15:55 |
Ulisses Barres |
CBPF, Brazil |
BRICS Telescope Network: prospects for Brazilian contributions to the observation and study of transients |
15:55-16:10 |
Jifeng Liu |
NAOC, China |
Efforts toward the 2025 mega-project SITIAN |
16:10-16:25 |
Amitesh Omar |
ARIES, India |
Optical transients and Big Data in the context of Indian astronomy programs |
16:25-16:40 |
Luiz Nicolaci da Costa |
Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia |
Brazil and the LSST |
16:40-16:55 |
Yogesh Wadadekar |
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR), India |
Data challenges in radio astronomy toward the SKA |
Created / Updated: 15 September 2020 / 23 September 2020