ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY AFTER GAMOW - THEORY AND OBSERVATIONS

PRELIMINARY  PROGRAM 

LIST OF SESSIONS:

1. Memorial meeting (Convener: A. Chernin)
2. Cosmology and Grnavitation (Convener: A. Zhuk)
3. Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (Convener: B. Novosyadlyj)
4. Gravitational Lenses in the Universe (Convener: M. Sazhin)
5. Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Convener: M. Prokhorov)
6. Nucleosynthesis in Stars, Starbursts and Interstellar Medium (Convener: N. Bochkarev)
7. High Energy Astrophysics (Convener: B. Hnatyk)
8. Small bodies in Solar system, Astronomy in Odessa (Convener: K.I. Churymov)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

10.00 - 11.00   Opening of the conference:

• Rector of  ONU V.A. Smyntyna “Gamow’s year in I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University”

Greeting talks:

• President of Ukrainian Astronomical Association Ya.S. Yatskiv 

• Vice-president of European Astronomical Society A.M Cherepashchuk 

• General Council of Russia F.K. Dovzhenok 

• Rector of L’viv National University I.A. Vakarchuk 

• Euro-Asian Astronomical Society N.G. Bochkarev  

• Opening talk of Chairman of the SOC G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan 

11.00 - 13.00   Memorial plenary session:

• A.D. Chernin “The Big Bang Man” (30 min.) 

• I. Pustil'nik “Reflections on George Gamow's Unique Scientific Legacy and Personality” (30 min.) 

• Yu. Ranyuk, O. Shevchenko, P. Josephson “George Gamov and nuclear physics in Ukraine” (20 min.) 

• M. Demianski “G. Gamow and the genetic code” (30 min.)

13.00 - 13.15   Photographing of participants

13.15 - 14.30   Lunch

14.30 - 15.30   Memorial plenary session:

• I.L. Gamow “Gamow’s family” 

• I.R. Gamow “On my father George Gamow” 

• I.M. Khalatnikov, S.P. Kapitsa “About Gamow” (video film) 

• M.I. Ryabov “Gamow’s days in Odessa”

15.30 - 16.00   Open lecture by S.P. Kapitsa “Population blowup and cosmology”

16.00 - 16.20   Coffee break

16.20 - 18.20   Plenary session:

• I.D. Novikov "George Gamow and discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (40 min.)

• M. Shapiro  "The Curious History of Cosmic-ray Science" (40 min.)

• E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich “Gamow legacy and the primordial abundance of light elements” (40 min.)

19.00 - 20.00   Concert

20.00 - 22.00   Welcome Party.  

9.00 - 11.00   Plenary session:

• V. N. Rudenko "Gravitational wave experiments in the World and Russian national project OGRAN (in Baksan   Neutrino Observatory)" (40 min.)

• G.S.Bisnovatyi-Kogan “Gamma ray bursts: theory versus observations”; (40 min.)

• F.Aharonian  “Sources of very high energy gamma rays”  (40 min.)

11.00 - 11.20   Coffee break

11.20 - 13.05   Plenary session:

• A.M. Cherepashchuk  "Supercritical Microquasar SS 433: Results of INTEGRAL Observations and Coordinated Campaign" (35 min.)

• S. Silich  “The impact of super-star clusters on the ISM: winds, bubbles and the X-ray emission” (35 min.)

• D. Yakovlev "Nuclear burning in dense stellar matter" (35 min.)

13.05 - 14.30   Lunch

14.30 - 14.40   Poster announcements 

14.40 - 16.00   Section sessions: 

Cosmology and Gravitation 

• D. Singleton “6D brane with gravitational trapping potential” (25 min.) 

• S. Kanno “On the thick higher co-dimension braneworld” (25 min.) 

• U. Gunther “Multidimensional cosmological models: stabilization of extra dimensions in theories with nonlinear curvature terms R⁴, 1/R” (25 min.)

Gravitational Lenses in the Universe 

• Sazhin M,  Khovanskaya н. "Possible observation of cosmic string" (25 min.)

• Ekaterina A. Koptelova, Elena V. Shimanovskaya, Boris P. Artamonov, Mikhail V. Sazhin, Anatoly G. Yagola “Monitoring of the qso2237+0305 from Maidanak observatory” (20 min.)

• Victoria S. Tsvetkova, Victor G. Vakulik, Rudolph E. Schild, Vladimir N. Dudinov, Gleb V. Smirnov “Interpreting the color changes observed in gravitationally lensed quasar Q2237+0305}” (20 min.)

Nucleosynthesis in Stars, Starbursts and Interstellar Medium  

• V.D.Rusov, V.A.Tarasov, D.A.Litvinov, V.N. Bolshakov, D.N. Saranyuk  “R-process of heavy elements formation in the neutron stream created by the slow wave of nuclear burning on border of liquid and solid phases of a planet core” (20 min.) 

• S.V. Adamenko, V.I. Vysotskii  “Mechanism of nucleosynthesis of superheavy and by-passed nuclei upon the sequential tandem of gravitational and coulomb collapses of heavy stars” (20 min.) 

• Uvarov Y.A., Bykov A.M. “A model of nonthermal radiation of a shell-type supernova remnants” (20 min.) 

• Dorodnitsyn A.V. “Line-driven winds near black holes” (20 min.)

16.00 - 16.20   Coffee break

16.20 - 18.00   Section sessions: 

Cosmology and Gravitation 

• E.O. Babichev, V.I. Dokuchaev, Y.N. Eroshenko “Dissolution of black holes in phantom energy” (20 min.) 

•  M.G. Larionov “A possible quantum character of the dark energy” (20 min.)

•  E.M. Kopteva,