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"The 2nd Maidanak users meeting"
Photo ProgramSOC/LOC Maidanak users meetings June 21 — 25, 2010, Tashkent
The 2nd annual International meeting of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Russian, Ukrainian and Uzbek astronomers to discuss the current situation, renovation, and future vision of the Maidanak Astronomical Observatory.
Meeting is sponsored by Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, AA Science Platform Program Funding of JSPS (Japan) and the Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe at Seoul National University (Korea).
http://dora.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~fumi/AA-AsianNet/index.php?MaidanakUM2
Scientific Program
June 21, Monday

09:00 - 09:05   Opening (LOC)

Uzbekistan session
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Chair: Takashi Ito (Japan)

09:05 - 09:30   General overview on astronomy in Uzbekistan: professional, educational and amateur astronomy
Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev, Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI, Uzbekistan)

09:30 - 09:55   Summary on Maidanak Users activity: one year after
Mansur Ibrahimov, Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev, Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI, Uzbekistan)

Russian & Ukraine session
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Chair: Myungshin Im (Korea)

09:55 - 10:15   Project on modification of AZT-22 and Zeiss-600
Boris Artamonov, A. Magnitskii, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University (SAI MSU, Russia)

10:15 - 10:40   Internet communication and prospects on automated observations at Maidanak Observatory
Boris Satovski (AstroTel Ltd)

10:40 - 11:00   coffee break

Korean session
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Chair: Wen-Ping Chen (Taiwan)

11:00 - 11:25   Overview of Korean Activities at Maidanak
Myungshin Im, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

11:25 - 11:50   Exoplanet Transit Study with Maidanak 1.5m Telescope
Sanggak Lee, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

11:50 - 12:15   Optical Identification of Infrared Sources in the AKARI NEP Survey Field
Hyung Mok Lee, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

12:15 - 14:00   lunch break

Taiwanese session
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Chair: Hyung Mok Lee (Korea)

14:00 - 14:25   Small-Telescope Networking including Maidanak Observatory
Wen-Ping Chen, Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University (NCU, Taiwan)

14:25 - 14:50   The plan for transient follow-up observations with the Maidanak 1.5m telescope
Kuiyun Huang (ASIAA)

Japanese session
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Chair: Mansur Ibrahimov (Uzbekistan)

14:50 - 15:10   Japanese activities concerning Maidanak
Fumi Yoshida, Takashi Ito, Shigeru Takahashi, Kiichi Okita, Hiroshi Karoji, Shinobu Ozaki, (NAOJ), Toshifumi Yanagisawa, Hirohisa Kurosaki, Makoto Yoshikawa, Tomohiro Yamaguchi (JAXA), Noritsugu Takahashi, Seitaro Urakawa (JSGA), Hiroshi Ohtani (Kyoto Univ), Yui Nozawa (JWU)

15:10 - 15:30   Re-aluminizing the Maidanak mirrors at Okayama observatory
Kiichi Okita, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ, Japan)

15:30 - 15:50   Comparison of Observational Condition at Maidanak and Nyukasa
Toshifumi Yanagisawa (JAXA), Hirohisa Kurosaki (JAXA), Takashi Ito (NAOJ)

15:50 - 16:10   coffee break

16:10 - 16:30   A Concept Design of the Optics of a Prime Focus Camera for a 60cm Telescope
of the Midanak Observatory

Hiroshi Ohtani (Kyoto Univ), Fumi Yoshida (NAOJ), Toshifumi Yanagisawa (JAXA), Shinobu Ozaki (NAOJ)

16:30 - 16:50   Data archive of asteroid observations at Maidanak
Shigeru Takahashi, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ, Japan)

16:50 - 17:10   Taiwan Automatic Telescope at Maidanak
Li-Han Wang, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)

General Discussion
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Chair: Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev (Uzbekistan)

17:10 - 18:20   Renovation plan of Maidanak with international collaborations

18:30 - 20:30   Banquet

June 22, Tuesday

Chair: Mansur Ibrahimov (Uzbekistan)

09:00 - 09:20   Seven years of Gamma-Ray Burst observations at Maidanak Observatory
Aleksey Pozanenko, Space Research Institute (IKI, Russia)

09:20 - 09:40   Dark Matter with gravitational lensing
Aleksandr Zheleznyak et al., Institute of Radio Astronomy (IRA NASU)

09:40 - 10:00   Long-term multiband optical monitoring of bright lensed quasars
Ekaterina Koptelova, Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University (NCU, Taiwan)

10:00 - 10:20   Optical Imaging Observation of the AKARI NEP Survey Area
Yiseul Jeon & Myungshin Im, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

10:20 - 10:40   Y-band Study of Extragalactic Fields
Changsu Choi & Myungshin Im, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

10:40 - 11:00   coffee break

Chair: Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev (Uzbekistan)

11:00 - 11:20   Good, Bad, and Ugly
Bumdoo Lim & Hwankyung Sung, Sejong University (Korea)

11:20 - 11:40   An analysis of color change with a space weathering of young family asteroids
Yui Nozawa (JWU), Fumi Yoshida (NAOJ), Mansur Ibrahimov (UBAI)

11:40 - 12:00   Photometric Observations of 107P/(4015) Wilson-Harrington
Seitaro Urakawa (JSGA)

12:00 - 12:20   BOOTES: A world wide network of robotic telescopes
Sergey Guziy et. al. (IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain)

12:20 - 13:00   Next Maidanak Users Meeting (TBD), Final remark
Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev, Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI, Uzbekistan)

13:00 - 14:00   lunch break

Event A
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Excursion over Tashkent

14:30 - 17:30    For the guests and those locals who wish to see Tashkent. Excursion over some historic and cultural places in Tashkent. Bus + English-speaking guide provided

Event B: 3 public lectures in UBAI
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Chair: Mansur Ibrahimov (Uzbekistan)

14:30 - 15:20   Asteroids in Our Solar System
Prof. Takashi Ito, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NOAO, Japan)

15:30 - 16:20   Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Prof. Hyung Mok Lee, Seoul National University (SNU, Korea)

16:30 - 17:20   Cosmic Variability - the Next Frontier in Astrophysics
Prof. Wen-Ping Chen, Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University (NCU, Taiwan)

17:30 - 18:00   Waiting and combining with the participants from excursion

18:30 - 20:00   Dinner

July 23, 24, 25

A visit to Samarkand

A trip to the Maidanak

SOC/LOC
Scientific organizing committee Local organizing committee

Chen, Wen-Ping (NCU, Taiwan)

Ehgamberdiev, Shuhrat (UBAI, Uzbekistan)

Ibrahimov, Mansur (UBAI, Uzbekistan)

Im, Myungshin (SNU, Korea)

Ito, Takashi (NAOJ, Japan)

Yoshida, Fumi (NAOJ, Japan)

Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev

Mansur Ibrahimov

Rivkat Karimov

Anastasia Marshalkina

Mutal Bayjumanov

Abbas Aliev

List of сonfirmed participants

Dr. Fumi Yoshida (Japan)

Dr. Takashi Ito (Japan)

Dr. Kiichi Okita (Japan)

Prof. Hiroshi Ohtani (Japan)

Dr. Seitaro Urakawa (Japan)

Dr. Shigeru Takahashi (Japan)

CDr. Yui Nozawa (Japan)

Dr. Beomdu Lim (Korea)

Dr. Changsu Choi ((Korea)

Dr. Duho Kim (Korea)

Prof. Hwankyung Sung (Korea)

Prof. Hyung Mok Lee (Korea)

Dr. Jueun Hong (Korea)

Prof. Myungshin Im (Korea)

Prof. Sang Gak Lee (Korea)

Dr. Wonseok Kang (Korea)

Dr. Yeong-Ho Shin (Korea)

Dr. Yiseul Jeon (Korea)

Dr. YoungBeom Jeon (Korea)

Dr. Yuna Yang (Korea)

Dr. Ekaterina Koptelova (Taiwan)

Dr. Li-Han Wang (Taiwan)

Dr. Lijin Huang (Taiwan)

Prof. Rwei-Ju Chuang (Taiwan)

Prof. Wen-Ping Chen (Taiwan)

Dr. Aleksandr Zheleznyak (Russia, Ukraine)

Dr. Alexei Pozanenko (Russia, Ukraine)

Dr. Boris Artamonov (Russia, Ukraine)

Dr. Boris Satovsky ((Russia, Ukraine)

Dr. Sergey Guziy (Russia, Ukraine)

Prof. Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev (Uzbekistan)

Dr. Mansur Ibrahimov (Uzbekistan)

Dr. Sabit Ilyasov (Uzbekistan)

Rivkat Karimov (Uzbekistan)

Ruslan Salyamov (Uzbekistan)

Anastasiya Marshalkina (Uzbekistan)

Dr. Aleksandr Serebryanskiy (Uzbekistan)

Dr. Stanislav Melnikov (Uzbekistan)

Prof. Isroil Sattarov (Uzbekistan)

Prof. Bobomurad Ahmedov (Uzbekistan)

Prof. Zafar Tursunkulov (Uzbekistan)

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http://astro1.snu.ac.kr/maidanak_meeting

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http://sites.google.com/site/maidanakum4/home

http://www.maidanak.uz/news/main/mum4_01072013.php

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