International Meteor Conference

2007 June 7-10 , Barèges - France

Venue

Program

People

PROGRAM

Thursday, June 7th

15:00 - 18:00 Arrival of participants

18:00 - 19:00 Francois's welcoming speach, Mayor of Barèges welcoming speach, Opening of IMC 2007, L'Hospitalet welcoming drink
19:00 - 20:00 DINNER
20:00 - 24:00 Arrival of late participants (there will be some thing to eat for them) and opening of IMC 2007 bar !!

Friday, June 8th

08:30 - 09:30 BREAKFAST

09:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Method of observation: single and multiple station
09:30 - 10:00 P. Brown (invited), "An Overview of the Meteor Research Program at the University of Western Ontario"
10:00 - 11:00 D. Koschny, "Data analysis of double-station meteors"
11:00 - 11:15 E. Bettonvil, "Precision of a meteor's impact position on the Earth"
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 11:45 J. Mc Auliffe, "Canary Islands Double Station Meteor Project - First Light!"
11:45 - 12:00 F. Bettonvil, "Velocity determination of meteors based on frequency analysis"
12:00 - 12:30Session 2: Dynamics of meteoroids (1)
12:00 - 12:15 M. Grisevich, "New method for entry dynamics determination upon observations"
12:15 - 12:30 P. Jenniskens, J. Vaubaillon, "The 2007 Aurigid meteor outburst"

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 15:00 General Assembly of the International Meteor Organization
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 15:45Session 2: Dynamics of meteoroids (2)
15:15 - 15:25 D. Asher, "Meteor stream resonances - the basic idea"
15:25 - 15:45 G. Ryabova "On the weighting method in modelling of meteoroid stream formation"
15:45 - 17:00Session 3: Video observations
15:45 - 16:15 S. Abe, "Japanese TV Meteor Observation Network and Future Plans from Space"
16:15 - 16:30 J. Toth, "All-sky TV meteor observation from Modra"
16:30 - 17:00 J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M. Madiedo (invited), "Continuous all-sky CCD and video monitoring by the Spanish Fireball Network"

17:00 - 19:00 Poster session

19:00 - 20:00 DINNER

20.00 - 22.00 Evening session



Saturday, june 9th

07:30 - 08:30 BREAKFAST

8:00 - 14:00Visit of Pic du Midi observatory
08:00 - 09:00 Travel from Barèges to La Mongie
09:15 - 09:30 Cable car to Pic du Midi
09:30 - 11:00 Visit of the observatory
11:00 - 12:00 Break + group photo
12:00 - 12:15 return to La Mongie
12:15 - 12:30 Stop at the Tourmalet
12:30 - 14:00 Picnic if the weather is good, and return to l'Hopspitalet if it is not..

14:30 - 16:00Session 3: Meteor shower analysis
14:30 - 14:45 Pavel Koten, "Video observations of 2006 Leonids"
14:45 - 14:55 G. Barentsen, "Online analysis of visual meteor data"
14:55 - 15:25 P. Zoladek, "The 2004 Perseid Meteor Shower - Polish Fireball Network double station results"
15:25 - 16:00 J. Rendtel, "Details of the strong 2006 Orionids outburst"
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:05Session 4: Radio observations
16:30 - 16:45 K. Noguchi, "Development of an automatic echo-counting program for HROFFT spectrograms"
16:45 - 17:05 V. Grigore, "Geminids 2006 - visual and photographical results in Romania"
17:05 - 18:00Session 5: Special observations
17:05 - 17:25 M.Y. YamaMoto, "Introduction of "WIND" project -- A Lithium release experiment by Japanese sounding rocket"
17:25 - 17:45 J. Borovicka, "Spectroscopy of Geminid meteors"
17:45 -18:00 J. Vaubaillon, W. Reach, "The hard task of observing the meteoroids"
18:00 - 18:10 V. Grigore, "The European Near Earth Asteroid Research Project"

19:00 - 21h00 Special closing dinner

21h00 : 24:00 International Meteor show, at the cinema
A.D. Gheorghe, "History the First Ten Astroshows at the IMC"



Sunday, September 10th

07:00 - 08:00 BREAKFAST

For people going to Meteoroids 2007 but also for people who want to go to Lourdes or Carcassonne :
08:30 Bus departure
12:30 Arrival at Carcassonne
12:30-16:00 Free lunch and tour of the old city lunch
16:00 Departure to Bacelona
19:30 Arrival at Barcelona

For other people: you can relax and have lunch at 12:30 (just let us know if you intent to)

14:00 - Departure of participants

Suggestions are welcome!


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