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    Friday
    18h00 : welcome
    21 h : general public conference by Sylvestre Maurice

    Saturday
    9h00-12h00 : Session "Astrometric double and multiple stars" (first part)
    13h30-15h00 : Session "Astrometric double and multiple stars" (second part)
    15h00-17h30 : Session "Pulsating stars"
    17h45-19h15 : Session "Exoplanets, beginning and end of star life ..." (first part)
    21h : general public conference by Roger Ferlet

    Sunday
    9h00-10h15 : Session "Exoplanets, beginning and end of star life ..." (second part)
    10h15-12h15 : Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (first part)
    14h00-15h30 : Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (second part)
    15h30 : Visit to Fenaille museum, Rodez

    Monday
    9h00-11h00 : Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (third part)
    11h00 : concluding remarks and end of the congress

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    Friday September 28, 2012

    18h00 : welcome and registration

    General public conference:

    21 h : Last news from planet MARS , Sylvestre Maurice and collaborators (IRAP, Toulouse, France) (in French)

    Saturday September 29, 2012

    8h00 : welcome and registration

    Session "Astrometric double and multiple stars" (first part)

    • 9h00: Un survol de l’histoire de l’observation des étoiles doubles, Paul Couteau et Edgar Soulié (SAF)  (download slides)
    • 9h30: Baron Ercole Dembowski,, Bob Argyle  (download slides)
    • 10h00: Pause

    Session Posters

    • The BAA VSS On-line database, Andy Wilson and Roger Pickard (BAA VSS)  (download slides)
    • T.O.M.M.I.G.O., Laurent Corp (4A, GEOS, AAVSO)

    Session "Astrometric double and multiple stars" (followed)

    • 10h30: Binary star database: state of affairs and prospects, Oleg Malkov (Institute of Astronomy, Moscow)  (download slides)
    • 11h00: Accuracy of visual double star catalog of Pulkovo observatory., Olga Vasilkova (Pulkovo observatory , St Petersbourg Russia)
    • 11h30: Dynamic investigations of visual double and multiple stars on the basis of Pulkovo 26-inch refractor observations for 50 years., Olga Kiyaeva (Pulkovo observatory , St Petersbourg Russia)  (download slides)
    • 12h00 :: Determining the orientation of the orbital poles of double stars in the solar neighborhood., Daniel Bonneau (OCA)  (download slides)

    Lunch

    Session "Astrometric double and multiple stars" (second part)

    • 13h30: interférométrie des tavelures sur étoiles doubles avec des moyens amateurs, Bernard Trégon (SAF)  (download slides)
    • 14h00: GWP Catalog Part I. Equatorial Zone : 1725 new common proper motion systems found in the Garraf survey, T. Tobal, X. Miret, I. Novalbos, (Observatori Astronomic del Garraf, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain)

    Session "Pulsating stars"

    • 14h30: Pulsating stars, Mike Simonsen (AAVSO), in video-conference  (download slides)
    • 15h00: Pulsating stars in the space missions context, Philippe Mathias (IRAP)  (download slides)
    • 15h30: Photometric study of pulsating star BL Cam, Stéphane Fauvaud (GEOS, Association T60)  (download slides)
    • 16h00: The GEOS RR Lyr Survey, Jean-François Le Borgne (IRAP, GEOS)  (download slides)
    • 16h30: NP Cam a new RV Tauri star, Roland Boninsegna (GEOS)  (download slides)
    • 17h00: Pause

    Session "Exoplanets, beginning and end of star life ..." (first part)

    • 17h15: Les exoplanètes, Roger Ferlet
    • 18h00: Mesure des vitesses radiales par les amateurs : applications à la caractérisation des couples stellaires et la détection des exoplanètes, Christian Buil (T60)  (download slides)
    • 18h30: Searching for Low Amplitude Variable Stars and Transiting Exoplanets, Stan Waterman (BAA, VSS)  (download slides)

    19h00: Congress photograph

    dinner

    General public conference:

    21h: Extra-solar planets , Roger Ferlet (IAP, Paris, France) (in French)

    Sunday September 30, 2012

    8h00 : welcome and registration

    Session "Exoplanets, beginning and end of star life ..." (second part)

    • 9h00: Vie et mort des étoiles, James Lequeux (Paris Observatory)  (download slides)
    • 9h45: Supernovae, explosive death of the stars, Remi Cabanac (IRAP)  (download slides)
    • 10h15: Pause

    Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (first part)

    • 10h40: Role of binary and variable stars in cosmic distance scale, David Valls-Gabaud (Observatoire de Paris)
    • 11h10: The state eclipsing binary observations by amateurs, Laurent Corp (4A, GEOS, AAVSO)
    • 11h40: Classification of eclipsing binaries: extreme and unusual systems, Oleg Malkov (Institute of Astronomy, Moscow)  (download slides)

    Lunch

    Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (second part)

    • 14h00: Spectrographes pour “petits” télescopes, Olivier THIZY (Shelyak Instruments)  (download slides)
    • 14h30: Amateur spectrometric study of Albireo, David antao  (download slides)
    • 15h00: Be star spectrographic monitoring by amateurs : a ProAm collaboration example, François Cochard (Shelyak Instruments)  (download slides)

    15h30 : Visit to Fenaille museum, Rodez

    Monday October 1st, 2012

    8h00 : welcome and registration

    Session "Eclipsing and spectroscopic binaries" (third part)

    • 9h00: The rare eclipse stars ε Aur and ζ Aur: a report on 2011 eclipses, Jeff Hopkins, in video-conference  (download slides)
    • 9h30: The use of DSLR photometry in measuring the magnitude of variable stars, Des Louhgney (BAA, VSS)  (download slides)
    • 10h00: Pause
    • 10h30: A Study of 200 Eclipsing Stars recently discovered in Cygnus and Auriga, Stan Waterman (BAA, VSS)  (download slides)

    11h00: Round table and concluding remarks

    12h00: Lunch