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Thursday, 27 August, 2015

14:00 - 19:00
Arrival and registration IMC participants.at the Fachschule in Mistelbach, (for the residents of hotel Klaus the registration desk is at the hotel in Wolkersdorf).
19:00 – 19:30
Opening and welcome speeches.
  • Opening of the 34th IMC by Cis Verbeeck;
  • Welcome speech by Thomas Weiland, Chairman of the IMC-LOC;
  • Welcome speech by Alexander Pikhard, President of the Wiener Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Astronomie;
  • Practical announcements by Anneliese Haika.
20:00 – 21:00
Dinner (MAMUZ Museum - M-Zone).
21:00 – 22:00
Galina Ryabova. "MetLib Workshop" (Fachschule Mistelbach).
21:00 – …
Informal socializing (IMC bar – Fachschule Mistelbach).
A shuttle service is available for residents of hotel Klaus, departure see at the entrance IMC-bar.

Friday, 28 August 2015

07:30 – 08:30
Breakfast

Session 1 Observing and analyzing techniques (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Megan Argo.

09:00 – 09:25
Sirko Molau. "Population index reloaded".
09:25 – 09:45
Pete Gural. "The American Meteor Society's filter bank spectroscopy project".
09:45 – 10:00
Denis Vida. "Video meteor detection filtering using soft computing methods".
10:00 – 10:15
Kristina Veljković. "Improvement of software for analysis of visual meteor data ".
10:15 – 10:30
Richard Fleet. "Correlating video meteors with GRAVES radio detections from the UK".
10:30 – 10:45
Debora Pavela & Miroslav Živanović. "The effective number of shower meteors in a reduced field of view".
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break & Poster Session.

Session 2 Status of meteor camera networks.s (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Felix Bettonvil.

11:15 – 11:30
François Colas. "Installation and extension of the FRIPON project".
11:30 – 11:45
Paul Roggemans. "Status of the Benelux CAMS network".
11:45 – 12:05
Damir Šegon. "Croatian Meteor Network: ongoing work 2014-2015".
12:05 – 12:25
Przemysław Żołądek. "Recent fireballs registered by the Polish Fireball Network".
12:25 – 12:40
Mariusz Wiśniewski. "Latest developments in the Polish Fireball Network".
12:40 – 12:55
Juraj Toth. "1/2 year of AMOS at Canary Islands".
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch – (MAMUZ Museum - M-Zone).

Session 3 Meteor streams (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Ana Georgescu.

14:00 – 14:15
Rachel Halina Soja. "Meteor showers with the IMEX model".
14:15 – 14:35
Jürgen Rendtel. "Daytime meteor shower project".
14:35 – 14:50
Christian Steyaert. "The 2015 February 5 event".
14:50 – 15:10
Felix Bettonvil. "CHIPOlaTA high precision orbits of Geminids and Perseids".
15:10 – 15:25
Galina Ryabova. "Could the Geminid meteoroid stream be the result of long-term thermal fracture?"
15:25 – 15:40
Sang-Hyeon Ahn. "Precession of parent bodies from historical meteor outbursts".
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break & Poster Session.

Session 4 Meteor cameras (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Kristina Veljković.

16:15 – 16:30
Matej Korec. "QHY CCD camera for video meteor observation".
16:30 – 16:45
Jakub Koukal & Jiri Srba. "NFC - Narrow Field Camera".
16:45 – 17:00
Dario Zubovic. "Advances in the development of a low-cost video meteor station".
17:00 – 17:15
Ana Georgescu. "A calibration unit for meteor camera".
17:15 – 17:30
Leonard Kornos. "Astrometric precision of all-sky observations with AMOS and meteor orbit determination"
17:30 – 17:45
Pavol Matlovič. "Meteor spectra from AMOS video system".
17:45 – 18:00
Roman Piffl. "3.000.000 meteor light curves in EDMOND database".
18:00 – 19:00
Poster session and introduction of all poster authors
  • 01. Eduard Pittich & Nina Solovaya. "On the structure of hyperbolic and near-parabolic dust streams".
  • 02. Bill Ward. "Video meteor spectroscopy".
  • 03. Abderrahmane Ibhi. "The meteorite falls in Africa".
  • 04. Stanislav Kaniansky. "A new analysis of Monturaqui meteorites".
  • 05. Peter Dolinsky. "Radio observation of meteors at the Central Slovak Observatory in Hurbanovo".
  • 06. Song In-Ok, Kim Tae -gi, Kim Kyung mo, Hong Jin young & Cho Mingyu. "Meteor observations of forward-scattered FM-radio echo in Busan (Korea) in 2015".
  • 07. I-Ching Yang. "The beginning height of four meteor showers by TWEET's data".
  • 08. Tibor Hegedüs, Szilárd Csizmadia, Zoltán Zelkó, Zsolt Kereszty & Zsófia Bíró. "2015 Easter bolid over North Hungary".
  • 09. Juraj Toth. "Ursids 2014 by all-sky cameras AMOS and EDMOND".
  • 10. Roman Piffl. "A simple method to increase the efficiency of MetRec and UFO Capture".
  • 11. Felix Bettonvil. "Status report HHEBBES! / ASSN All sky camera".
  • 12. Dario Zubovic. "Advances in the development of a low-cost video meteor station".
  • 13. Zbigniew Tymiński. "Search campaigns of the Polish Fireball Network".
  • 14. Debora Pavela & Miroslav Živanović. "The effective number of shower meteors in a reduced field of view".
  • 15. Anna Kartashova. "Double-station observation at INASAN".
  • 16. Jakub Koukal, Sylvie Gorková, Jiří Srba & Carlos Augusto di Pietro. "Meteor spectra in the EDMOND database".
  • 17. Ana Georgescu. "ROAN 2015".
  • 18. Andrey Murtazov. "Assessing risk from dangerous meteoroids in main meteor showers".
  • 19. Jakub Kakona. "Czech Bolidozor radio meteor detection network".
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner (MAMUZ Museum - M-Zone).
20:00 – 20:45
27th IMO General Assembly (MAMUZ Museum – Kapelle).
Informal socializing (IMC bar – Fachschule Mistelbach).

Saturday, 29 August 2015

07:30 – 08:30
Breakfast

Session 5 Radio techniques (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Ferat Özeren.

09:00 – 09:15
Giancarlo Tomezzoli. "No sign of the 2014 Daytime Sextantids and mass indexes determination from radio observations".
09:15 – 09:30
Hervé Lamy. "Recent advances in the BRAMS network".
09:30 – 09:45
Stijn Calders. "The BRAMS Zoo, a citizen science project".
09:45 – 10:00
Antonio Martinez Picar. "Directional pattern measurement of the BRAMS beacon antenna system".

Session 6 Ongoing meteor work (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Galina Ryabova.

10:00 – 10:15
Denis Vida. "Low-cost meteor radiometer".
10:15 – 10:30
Regina Rudawska. "Independent identification method applied to EDMOND and SonotaCo databases".
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break & Poster Session.
11:00 – 11:15
Auriane Egal. "Analysis and development of meteor's trajectories reconstruction methods".
11:15 – 11:35
Francisco Ocaña. "On the frequency of the superfireballs: 250 years of reports".
11:35 – 11:50
Mike Hankey and Vincent Perlerin. "IMO Fireball report form: results and prospects".
11:50 – 12:00
Nedim Mujic. "Bosnian Meteor Network, first results".
12:00 – 12:15
Jérémie Vaubaillon. "Phenomenologic approach of the meteor phenomenon".
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch (MAMUZ Museum - M-Zone).

Excursion to Vienna

13:45
Departure for excursion to Vienna by bus at MAMUZ Museum.
15:00 – 17:30
Guided tour at Naturhistorisches Museum (NHM), Wien.
17:45 – 18:45
By bus to the Heurigen Winzerhof Rieder "Eisenhuthaus", Oberer Markt 10, Poysdorf.
19:00 – 22:30
Closing dinner, cold and warm buffet with local wine ("Heurigen" is a typical wine restaurant).
23:00 – ...
Last night of the IMC, free entertainment and informal chat. (IMC bar – Fachschule Mistelbach).

Sunday, 30 August 2015

09:00 – 10:00
Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break & Poster Session.

Session 7 Ongoing meteor projects (MAMUZ Museum - Kapelle). Chair: Jürgen Rendtel.

10:30 – 10:45
Detlef Koschny. "Current activities at the ESA/ESTEC Meteor Research Group".
10:45 – 11:05
Jana Kretschmer. "De-biasing CILBO meteor observational data to mass fluxes".
11:05 – 11:20
Thomas Albin. "De-biasing of the velocity determination for double station meteor observations from CILBO".
11:20 – 11:35
Sandra Drolshagen. "Mass accumulation of Earth from interplanetary dust, meteoroids, asteroids and comets".
11:35 – 11:50
Thomas Abin. "Influence of the pointing direction and detector sensitivity variations on the detection rate of a double station meteor camera".
11:50 – 12:10
All session chairmen. "Conference summary".
12:10 – 12:15
Closing of the 34th IMC by Jürgen Rendtel.
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch (MAMUZ Museum - M-Zone).
Departure of participants.
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