Final Programme
Monday, June 8
08:45 Opening Remarks09:00 Guinan: Review of novel EB approaches/results
09:45 Maceroni: The CoRoT light curves : a goldmine for binary research
10:05 Matijevič: Binary Detection and Parameter Estimation in the Automated Spectroscopic Surveys
10:25 Pietrzynski: Precise distances to the Magellanic Clouds from the unique late-type long-period eclipsing binaries
10:45 coffee break
11:15 Tokovinin: Instrumentation and Missions in the 21st Century
12:00 Tsantilas: Introduction to VSAA - the method of Variable Sine Algorithmic Analysis and its applications to active binaries
12:20 Mennekens: The delay time distribution of type Ia supernovae: comparison between theory and observation
12:40 lunch
14:00 Wilson & Van Hamme: Eclipsing Binary Modeling in the 21st Century
14:45 Devinney: Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy
15:05 Budaj: Shellspec - a code for modelling the spectra and lightcurves of interacting binaries
15:25 Longhitano & Binggeli: The widest binary stars: A statistical approach
15:45 coffee break
16:15 Vanbeveren: Binaries and Stellar Population Synthesis
17:00 Borkovits: Interferometric observations of the hierarchical triple system Algol
17:20 Kawka: Common proper motion white dwarf companions to bright Hipparcos stars
17:40 poster review
19:30 conference reception
Tuesday, June 9
09:00 Eggleton: Formation and Evolution of Binaries and especially Triples09:45 Suda: Pan Binary Scenario for the Origin of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo
10:05 Kouwenhoven: The formation of very wide binaries
10:25 Kisseleva-Eggleton: Further Evidence for Evolution by Kozai Cycles and Tidal Friction
10:45 coffee break
11:15 Rucinski: David Dunlap Observatory program of short-period binary spectroscopic orbits
12:00 Nanouris: Probing evolutionary trends in close binaries from observed period changes
12:20 Mars: The intrinsic variations of bright stars in NGC 7160
12:40 lunch
14:00 Pavlovski & Hensberge: Spectroscopic analysis of binary stars
14:45 Škoda & Hadrava: Fourier Disentangling Using Technology of Virtual Observatory
15:05 Torres: The Hyades binary Theta 2 Tauri: a new spectroscopic orbit and orbital parallax
15:25 Richards: Applications of Doppler Tomography in 2D and 3D
15:45 coffee break
16:15 Piirola: Polarimetric analysis of binary stars
17:00 Katajainen: Polarization in Soft X-ray Intermediate Polars
17:20 de Mink: A new evolutionary scenario for the formation of close massive black hole binaries such as M33 X-7
17:40 poster review
20:00 concert in planetarium
Wednesday, June 10
09:00 van den Berg & Cherepashchuk: X-Ray Binaries09:45 Gális: Hard X-ray Emission of Intermediate polars
10:05 Samus: Eclipsing stars among variables discovered using scans of the Moscow plate stacks
10:25 coffee break
10:55 Bonanos: Extragalactic and High Mass Binaries
11:40 Vilardell: Properties and distances of eclipsing binaries in the Andromeda Galaxy
12:00 Drechsel & Nesslinger: Accurate fundamental parameters of five OB-type binaries in the SMC
12:20 Rauw & Pols: Evolution and Colliding Winds in Massive Binaries
13:05 lunch
conference excursion
18:00 Guinan: Our Sun - Effects on Climate and Life (public talk, planetarium)
Thursday, June 11
09:00 Hubrig: Chemically Peculiar Binaries09:45 Kraus: Catching the binaries amongst B
10:05 Skopal: Symbiotic stars from high to low energies
10:25 Friedjung: Shifts of ultraviolet lines of symbiotic binaries
10:45 coffee break
11:15 Mkrtichian: Intrinsically Variable Components in Binaries
12:00 Pazhouhesh: A CCD Photometric Search for Pulsations in RZ Dra and EG Cep}
12:20 Mennickent: Double Periodic Variables
12:40 lunch
14:00 Bisikalo: Hydrodynamics of Cataclysmic Variable Stars
14:45 Swierczynski: Nova V2467 Cyg as possible intermediate polar
15:05 Djurasević: Accretion disks in massive binary systems
15:25 Vennes: Properties and evolution of post-common envelope binaries
15:45 coffee break
16:20 Jurkić: Modelling of Circumstellar Dust around Symbiotic Miras in Infrared
16:40 Çiçek: Cool active binaries recently studied in the CAAM stellar programme
17:00 Selam: Precise Radial Velocity Measurements - Key to Discover Low-mass Companions and Exoplanets Around Stars
17:20 Röll: Search for sub-stellar companions in low-mass binaries via high precision relative astrometry
17:40 Bonneau: Spectro-interferometric observation of interacting massive stars with VEGA/CHARA
18:00 poster review
19:30 closing reception
Friday, June 12
09:00 Gałan: Multi-ring structure of the eclipsing disc in EE Cep - possible planets09:20 Petr-Gotzens: Protoplanetary disks of TTauri binaries in Orion: Prospects for planet formation
09:40 Ramm & Hearnshaw: nu Octantis: a close binary with a possible planet
10:00 Pritchet: The Nature of Type Ia Supernovae and Implications for the Properties of Binaries
10:20 Quinn: Probing Dark Matter with Very Wide Halo Binary Stars
10:40 coffee break
11:10 Volkov & Volkova: The Unique Triple System V577 Oph, 20 Years of Observations
11:30 Chadima: The mysterious eclipsing binary epsilon Aurigae
11:50 Mikulášek: HD 143 418 - an interacting binary with a subsynchronously rotating primary
12:10 Shugarov: The outburst activity of classical novae V2467 Cygni and V2468 Cygni
12:30 poster review
12:45 Closing remarks
lunch