Meteor Workshops Meteor Workshops preceding the International Meteor Conference 2011.

Date
14-15 September 2011

Before the 2011 IMC (on September 14–15) there will be organized two meteor workshops sponsored by SARM:
Radio Meteor Workshop organized by Jean-Louis Rault and Cis Verbeeck (contact: radio (at) imo.net) and
Meteor Orbit Workshop organized by Juraj Toth (contact: dzuky (at) yahoo.com).

The workshops time schedule communicated by organizers:

Radio Meteor Workshop

The presentations of the Radio Meteor Workshop are available for download.

Wednesday, 14 September
16:00 - 16:20 Welcome and introduction of the participants
16:20 - 17:20Cis Verbeeck "Basic principles of radio meteor observations"
17:20 - 17:40Coffee break
17:40 - 18:20Stijn Calders & Hervé Lamy "The BRAMS radio meteor network: technical choices, problems and solutions"
18:20 - 19:00Stijn Calders & Hervé Lamy "Meteor detection software for the BRAMS network"
19:00 - 20:00Dinner in Restaurant Panoramic, near Lara Hotel
20:00 - 20:40Jean-Louis Rault "Demo Spectrumlab"
20:40 - 21:20Jean-Louis Rault "Hints and Tricks"
21:20 - 22:00Discussion: Observing the Draconids 2011

Thursday, 15 September
08:00 - 09:00Breakfast at Restaurant Panoramic – Lara Hotel
09:00 - 10:00Cis Verbeeck "Meteor science from radio observations: an overview"
10:00 – 10:30Jean-Louis Rault "Introduction to ELF/VLF observations"
10:30 - 10:50Coffee break
10:50 - 11:05Cezar Leșanu "SDR - radio meteor affordable aproach"
11:05 – 11:20Stijn Calders & Hervé Lamy "VLF observations in Belgium"
11:20 - 12:00Discussion

Meteor Orbit Workshop time schedule – first suggestion
Wednesday, 14 September
15:00 - 17:00Arrival of participants
17:00 - 19:00Workshop, Session 1, “Virtual Meteor Observatory”
17:00 - 17:40D. Koschny – summary from last workshops (30 min.+10 min. discussion)
17:40 - 18:20R. Arlt, VMO – remained tasks, what's next? (30 min.+10 min. discussion)
18:20 - 19:00B. Cook – NASA workshop Aug.2011 – conclusions + orbits from ASGARD all sky cameras (30 min.+10 min. discussion)
19:00 - 20:00Dinner in Restaurant Panoramic, near Lara Hotel
20:00 - 22:00Workshop, Session 2, “Existing and future meteor networks - intro”
20:00 - 20:15Paco Ocaña – news from Spain (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
20:15 - 20:30J. Vaubaillon – news from France (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
20:30 - 20:45S. Molau/B. Brinkmann – news from Germany (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
20:45 - 21:00J. Kac – news from Slovenia (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
21:00 - 21:15A. Igaz – news from Hungary (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
21:15 - 21:30J. Toth – news from Slovakia (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
21:30 - 21:45M. Wisniewsk/P. Zoladek – news from Poland (10 min.+5 min. discussion)
21:45 - 21:00Free space and time for volunteer speaker (10 min.+5 min. discussion)

Thursday, 15 September
08:00 - 09:00Breakfast at Restaurant Panoramic – Lara Hotel
09:00 - 12:00Workshop, Session 3, “Orbit determination – precision”
09:00 – 09:20J. Vaubaillon – orbits precision needed for orbital integration (20 min.)
09:20 - 09:40R. Rudawska – what need theoreticians from observers? errors determinations ? (20 min.)
09:40 - 10:00L. Kornos – Astrometric precision of all-sky digital video system in Slovakia (20min.)
10:00 - 10:20M. Wisniewski – precision and astrometry of video systems in Poland (20min.)
10:20 - 10:40Free space and time for volunteer speaker (20 min.)
10:40 - 11:00Coffee break
Networks interconnection and collaboration (discussion)
11:00 - 11:50Everybody or who wants to discuss
11:50 - 12:00Conclusions

Participants
Radio Meteor Workshop (RMW)
  1. Cis Verbceck – Belgium
  2. Jean-Louis Rault – France
  3. Sergei Schmalz – Germany
  4. Stijn Calders – Belgium
  5. Maxim Matvei – Republic of Moldova
  6. Alfredo Caronia – Italy
  7. Cezar Leșanu – Romania
  8. Gabriela Leșanu – Romania
  9. Helen Kharchenko – Ukraine
  10. Antonio Martínez Picar – Spain
  11. Pavel Zigo – Slovakia
  12. Barnabás Lőrincz – Romania
  13. Kiss Ádám – Romania
  14. Kambiz Khaleghi – Iran ?
  15. Naseer Iqbal – India ?

Meteor Orbit Workshop (MOW)
  1. Juraj Toth – Slovakia
  2. Rainer Arlt – Germany
  3. Stela Arlt – Germany
  4. Anna Kartashova – Russia
  5. Regina Rudawska – France
  6. Bernd Brinkmann – Germany
  7. Antal Igaz – Hungary
  8. Krisztian Sarneczky – Hungary
  9. Mariusz Wisniewski – Poland
  10. Przemyslaw Zoladek – Poland
  11. Leonard Kornos – Slovakia
  12. Matej Korec – Slovakia
  13. Teodor Pinter – Slovakia
  14. Frantisek Takacs – Slovakia
  15. Jeremie Vaubaillon – France
  16. Detlef Koschny – Netherlands
  17. Rhiannon Blaauw – USA
  18. Linda Parker – USA
  19. Paco Ocaña – Spain
  20. Anastasios Margonis – Germany
  21. William Cooke – USA
  22. Javor Kac – Slovenia
  23. Thilina Heenatigala – Sri Lanka
  24. Barnabás Attila Lőrincz – Romania