Active B-stars
Prague, 2004 September 20–25
Thomas Rivinius
Landessternwarte Königstuhl
D-69117 Heidelberg
email:
T.Rivinius@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de
Received: May 14, 2004
Dear colleagues,
The Czech Astronomical Society (Ceská astronomická spolecnost) and the
Astronomische Gesellschaft will jointly arrange a Meeting in September, 20
to 25, in Prague. The annual meeting of the AG traditionally hosts
several subsessions, called splinter meetings. In Prague, one such
splinter meeting will be devoted to "Active B-stars".
The format of a splinter Meeting is that it takes about half a day, with
10 to 15 talks and time for discussion, together with an associated poster
session during the whole week of the AG-Meeting.
The planned topics for the oral session include spectrospopic and
photometric variability, physical processes in the disc and in the stellar
wind, and the opportunities offered by the VLT Interferometer. Somewhat
longer talks will introduce these topics. The scope is to bring together
experts on the field for discussion, as well as to enable students to
collect conference experience and make personal contacts.
The abstracts of the contributions will be published in Supplementary
Issue 1 of the Astronomischen Nachrichten 325 (2004). The maximum size of
an abstract is one page as defined by the macro, with the possibility to
have one figure in greyscale. In order to be published. abstracts must use
the LaTeX-Macro available from the AG at
http://www.astro.uni-jena.de/Astron_Ges/ansi_macro.tex
and submitted, as
LaTeX source file, by e-mail before June 18 to both the organizers of the
splinter meeting and the AG. Abstracts sent later will be considered for
the splinter meeting, but can not be published in the abstract booklet and
may be given space as posters only.
Please note that abstract submission does not include a registration to
attend the conference. This is required independently until June 30, or
with somewhat increased registration fees until August 15, 2004 (see the
Meeting homepage at
http://ag-cas.cuni.cz/
for further information).
Contributions to the splinter meeting will also be published as
proceedings in the publication series of the Astronomical Institute of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at Ondrejov. Details about this
will be made available later.
A webpage about the splinter Meeting can be found at
/http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/users/triviniu/AGPraha/,
where further informations will be made available as the meeting draws closer.
D. Baade, J. Kubat, Th. Rivinius, S. Stefl
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