It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

COSPAR . CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS . FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM . ... This program is open to young scientists who have been participants at one of the COSPAR Capacity-Building workshops to enable them to build on skills gained at the workshop. ... The areas of research will be broadly restricted to topics that have been covered at a COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop and applicants must have been a participant in one of these workshops. ... The performance of the applicant in the workshop project. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Professor Yurij Shokin, born 1943, has been many years with the Computer Center and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (during the directorship of Academician N N Yanenko ) in Novosibirsk's scientific campus Akademgorodok and was director of the computer centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, in Krasnoyarsk. ... He is an affiliate member of IFIP WG 2.5 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Russian Academy of Sciences . Siberian Division . ...

... We selected 11 PC's at the Institute and try to provide them with the access to resources earlier reachable only from Mercury , Ursa . ... Some access to A and A as well as other Springer and IOP journals is now available via the Sci.Dig.Lib. of the RFBR. ... During 2001 we lost access to recent issues of Astron. ... An information about our access to electronic journals is now available in Russian as a ( TeX file ). ... Access to more issues of the journals of Kluwer , Elsevier , etc appeared. ...

SRI was organized in 1991. ... SRI consists of 12 laboratories which conduct investigations in two major directions: space-based monitoring of the state of atmosphere and Earth; space-based material science. There are 122 employes in the staff of the institute, 71 of them are scientific workers, 7 are professors and 30 PhD. SRI participated in the development of the program of the flight of Kazakhstan cosmonauts including the orbital complex "Mir". ... Tel: (007)-(327-2)-61-58-53 . ...

... International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos , 1998, vol. ... Impulsive synchronization of chaotic dynamic systems has some important applications to chaotic secure communication and chaotic spread-spectrum communication systems. In this paper we present some experimental results on impulsive synchronization between two Chua's circuits. ... The robustness of impulsive synchronization with respect to variations in the frequency and the width of impulses is studied. ...

... ARC 3.5-m Telescope ARC 3.5-m control room . ARC 3.5-m work area . ... SDSS 2.5-m Telescope SDSS 2.5-m control room . ... Operations building Library . ... Monitors and controls operations of the 3.5m telescope and is located off the main hallway of the Operations building. 3.5-m work area . ... Located between the 2.5-m work area and the kitchen , the area houses a washer/dryer, cleaning and paper supplies, emergency generator panel, shipping supplies and building electrical panels. ...

... Keywords: Proper Motions, Schmidt Plates, Astrometry, Guide Star Catalog, Palomar Sky Survey . In this paper we describe a program of determining proper motions from digitized scans of 1950's-era Palomar Sky Survey (POSS) Schmidt Plates and 1980's-era Palomar Oschin Schmidt `Quick V' plates that were taken for the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Guide Star Catalogue. ... Arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the proper motion for the stars. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

... LILO . ... You can pass LILO arguments at boot time, the most damaging (from a security point of view) being "image-name single" which boots Linux into single user mode, and by default in most distributions dumps you to a root prompt in a command shell with no prompting for passwords or other pesky security mechanisms. ... requires user to input a password, used in conjunction with restricted, also make sure lilo.conf is no longer world readable, or any user will be able to read the password. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

... VAK Russian Federation . Keldysh institute of applied mathematics . ... Unitied Institute of Physics of the Earth named for O.Yu. Schmidt see also another site of this Institute . ... Moscow Meriya . Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences . MSU, Physics Department . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of MSU , see also another site . P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences . ... M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University . ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 88, 2004 (A4 format) GAMMA RAYS FROM MAJOR ELEMENTS BY THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS: EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION FOR PLANETARY GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY. ... Then the calculation can be restarted by producing gamma rays and let them trans- GAMMA RAYS FROM MAJOR ELEMENTS BY THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS: N. Yamashita et al. port and react, with initial energies determined the outside multiplication and initial locations wh neutron capture reaction took place. ...

Astronomy . ... Institutions, Observatories . ... International Astronomical Union . ... Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory . Australian Astronomical Observatory . ... Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory . Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory . Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ... Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... AGU journals . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics Springer . ... Astronomy Letters (ПАЖ) . ... Astrophysical Journal Letters . ...