International Meteor Conference 2006

Preliminary Program

Thursday, September 14

15:00 - 18:00 Arrival of participants

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

Informal evening session Chair: Joost Hartman

20:30 - 20:40 Andrei Gheorghe et al. - Other Comet-Meteor Meteorite connections in Romanian Poetry

20:40 - 21:00 Valentin Grigore - Perseide 2006 (video)

21:00 - 21:25 Arnold Tukkers - Total Eclipse in Turkey (video)

Friday, September 15

08:30 - 09:30 BREAKFAST

Morning session, 'Software and data reduction' Chair: Marc de Lignie

09:30 - 10:00 Detlef Koschny - Summary of the Meteor Orbit Workshop
10:00 - 10:45 Eduard Bettonvil - Least squares estimation of the velocity of a meteor
10:45 - 11:00 Prakash Atreya - Software for single/double meteors

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:40 General Assembly of the International Meteor Organization

Afternoon session, 'Meteor stream analysis' Chair: Jeremie Vaubaillon

14:40 - 15:10 Peter Jenniskens - Comet fragmentation as the dominant source of meteoroid streams
15:10 - 15:30 Galina Ryabova - Model Geminid stream: radiants and orbits
15:30 - 15:40 Geert Barentsen - 3D visualization of meteoroid streams

15:40 - 16:00 BREAK

16:00 - 18:00 Poster session

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

Evening session 'Observations and Results I' Chair: Rainer Arlt

20.00 - 20.10 Vladimir Slusarenko - New method visual observations meteors
20:10 - 20:50 Sirko Molau - How good is the IMO Working List of Meteor Showers?: I Theory

20:50 - 21:00 BREAK

21:00 - 21:40 Sirko Molau - How good is the IMO Working List of Meteor Showers?: II Results

Saturday, September 16

08:30 - 09:30 BREAKFAST

Morning session, 'Observations and Results II' Chair: Detlef Koschny

09:30 - 09:40 Jeremie Vaubaillon, W. Reach - Direct detection of meteoroids with the Spitzer Space telescope
09:40 - 10:00 Valentin Grigore - Perseids 2006 results in Romania
10:00 - 10:20 Rainer Arlt - The new working list of meteor showers
10:20 - 10:50 Peter Jenniskens - Meteor showers and their parent comets
10:50 - 11:10 Juergen Rendtel - topic TBD

11:10 - 11:30 BREAK

Morning session, 'Radio meteor observations' Chair: Cis Verbeeck

11:30 - 11:45 Opening and announcements
11:45 - 12:00 Jean Marc Wislez? - Summary of the Radio school
12:00 - 12:45 Svetlana Suleymanova - Calculation of the meteoroid flux density from radar and radio forward scatter observations
12:45 - 13:10 Masa-yuki Yamamoto - Recent ongoing works on the HRO-IF at KUT and the auto-echocounting software on the HROFFT spectrogram.

13:10 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 18:00 Excursion to the Westerbork Radio Telescope and LOFAR

18:30 - 20:30 MUSICAL BBQ

20:30 - 20:45 Guest lecture by Prof. H. van Woerden (Kapteyn Institute, Groningen) - topic TBD
20:45 - 21:45 Andrei Dorian Gheorghe et al. - International Astro-show
21:45 - 22:30 Paul Roggemans, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Casper ter Kuile - IMC history from 1992 to 2005
22:30 - ? Outdoor fire

Sunday, September 17

08:30 - 09:30 BREAKFAST

Morning session, 'Instrumentation' Chair: Chris Trayner

09:45 - 10:15 Detlef Koschny - The video observatory in Noordwijkerhout
10:15 - 10:30 Felix Bettonvil - A Digital All Sky Camera (II): noise and shutters
10:30 - 10:50 Apostolos Christou - The Armagh Observatory Meteor Camera System: Overview and Status

Morning session, 'Historical surveys' Chair: Marc Gyssens

10:50 - 11:05 Antonio Martinez - Historical Survey of the National Astronomical Observatory in Llano del Hato

11:05 - 11:20 BREAK

11:20 - 11:25 Announcement of the Next IMC Location
11:25 - 11:30 Proposals for Future IMCs
11:30 - 12.15 Guest lecture by Maria Lugaro (Sterrekundig Instituut, Utrecht) - Presolar SiC Grains
12:15 - 12:20 Closing of the IMC

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - ? Departure of participants

Suggustions are welcome!

Contributions to the program

People who wish to present a lecture themselves, facilitate a workshop or prepare a poster can indicate this on their registration form or discuss with the organisation.

You help us a lot if you can already write a (preliminary) Proceedings text of your lecture or poster. If you provide us the text in this format before the IMC, we will distribute a paper version of your talk already at the start of the conference. Please see the "Instructions for preparing a paper for IMC Proceedings 2006" page for more information.