Wednesday, August 31
07:15-11:40 bus from Helsinki to Kasnäs
10:00-11:30 group bus from Turku to Kasnäs
11:30-12:30 registration, check-in
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-13:40 Jari Kotilainen (Turku):
Opening words (pdf)
Session I: Galaxies and Cosmology I (Chair: Mauri Valtonen, Turku)
13:40-14:00 Sarah Bird (Turku): Distribution of Globular Clusters After
a Merger
14:00-14:20 Jari Kotilainen (Turku):
The link between
supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at low redshift (pdf)
14:20-14:40 Laura Portinari (Turku):
Cosmological evolution of
the black hole - host galaxy relation (pdf)
14:40-15:00 Peter Johansson (Helsinki):
How to make elliptical
galaxies red and dead (pdf)
15:00-15:20 Pasi Nurmi (Turku):
Galaxy groups in simulations and observations (pdf)
15:20-15:50 Pekka Heinämäki (Turku): LSS and WHIM absorption
measurements with ATHENA/XMS
15:50-16:20 coffee break
Session II: Solar physics (Chair: Hannu Koskinen, Helsinki)
16:20-16:40 Alexander Afanasiev (Helsinki): Solar flare proton transport
through self-generated turbulence
16:40-17:00 Jens Pomoell (Helsinki): Modeling of large-amplitude waves
in the solar corona
17:00-17:20 Urs Ganse (Wurzburg):
Wave coupling Processes leading
to Type II Radio Burst Emission (pdf)
17:20-17:40 Felix Spanier (Wurzburg):
Charged particle diffusion in
turbulent magnetic fields (pdf)
17:40-18:00 Petri Käpylä (Helsinki): From CPU cycles to solar
cycles
18:00-18:20 Alexey Isavnin (Helsinki):
Reconstruction of magnetic
clouds close to the Sun (5-20Rs) and at 1AU (pdf)
18:20-18:30 Seppo Katajainen (Turku): Finnish Astronomical
Society
Forum: Finland and ESO (Chair: Heidi Korhonen, Turku)
18:30-19:10 Bruno Leibundgut (ESO):
The European Southern
Observatory (pdf)
19:10-19:40 Discussion
20:00- conference dinner
Thursday, September 1
Session III: Stars and star formation I (Chair: Pasi Hakala,
Turku)
09:00-09:20 Maarit Mantere (Helsinki):
16 years of starspot evolution
on II Peg (pdf)
09:20-09:40 Seppo Katajainen (Turku): A Polarization Survey for Magnetic
Fields in AM CVn systems
09:40-10:00 Vitaly Neustroev (Oulu): Short and long-term optical and
X-ray variability of the peculiar cataclysmic variable FS Aurigae
10:00-10:20 Auni Somero (Turku):
Nature of accretion in RS Ophiuchi (pdf)
10:20-10:40 Alexandra Veledina (Oulu): Revealing the origin of the optical
emission in low-mass X-ray binaries
10:40-11:00 Aleksei Medvedev (Oulu): X-ray luminosity function of
rotation-powered pulsars
11:00-11:20 Heidi Korhonen (Turku):
Detailed multi-wavelength look
at FK Comae Berenices (pdf)
11:20-11:50 coffee break
Session IV: Geophysics and Earth's magneto- and ionosphere (Chair: Tero
Siili, Helsinki)
11:50-12:10 Lauri Pesonen (Helsinki):
Petrophysical properties of
impact rocks - key to understanding of geophysical anomalies of meteorite
impact structures (pdf)
12:10-12:30 Tomas Kohout (Helsinki):
X-ray microtomography
investigations of the cosmic dust - internal structure and physical
properties (ppt)
12:30-12:50 Johanna Tamminen (Helsinki): Recent highlights of atmospheric
remote sensing in Finland
12:50-13:10 Katerina Andreeova (Helsinki):
Suprathermal electron depletion
at 90 degree pitch angle within magnetic cloud (ppt)
13:10-13:30 Heli Hietala (Helsinki): In situ observations of particle
acceleration in shock-shock interaction
13:30-14:30 lunch
Session V: Galaxies and Cosmology II (Chair: Leo Takalo, Turku)
14:30-14:50 Joni Tammi (Aalto):
Bottom-up modelling of gamma-ray blazars (pdf)
14:50-15:10 Elina Nieppola (Aalto):
Connection of radio and
gamma-ray radiation in quasars (pdf)
15:10-15:30 Elina Lindfors (Turku):
MAGIC observations of flat
spectrum radio quasars: Challenging the high energy emission zone (pdf)
15:30-15:50 Juri Poutanen (Oulu):
Fermi observations of blazars:
implications for gamma-ray production (pdf)
15:50-16:10 Stephan Richter (Wurzburg):
A spatially resolved SSC
Shock-in-Jet model (pdf)
16:10-16:20 Short poster presentations
16:20-19:30 coffee break and free time
19:30- dinner (sauna menu) and beach sauna
Friday, September 2
Session VI: Solar system (Chair: Karri Muinonen, Helsinki)
09:30-09:50 Henrik Kahanpää (Helsinki):
The Mars Phoenix MET
Pressure Sensor - Data Quality and Science Results (ppt)
09:50-10:10 Olli Wilkman (Helsinki):
Lunar mare regolith properties
with SMART-1/AMIE (pdf)
10:10-10:30 Mikael Granvik (Helsinki):
Detecting natural Earth
satellites (pdf)
10:30-10:50 Sini Merikallio (Helsinki):
Electric Solar Wind Sail:
Discovering solar system further and faster (pdf)
10:50-11:10 Esko Gardner (Besancon): The Oort cloud and the motion of the
Sun around the Galaxy
11:10-11:40 coffee break
Session VII: Stars and star formation II (Chair: Seppo Mattila, Turku)
11:40-12:00 Juliet Datson (Turku):
Solar twins from the Geneva
Copenhagen Survey and their impact on the true solar colours (pdf)
12:00-12:20 Erkki Kankare (Turku):
Studies of Rare Core-collapse
Supernovae with ESO Telescopes (pdf)
12:20-12:40 Alex Ivascenko (Wurzburg):
Identifying CR lepton sources
with a numerical transport model (pdf)
12:40-13:00 Mika Juvela (Helsinki):
Herschel Studies of Galactic Star
Formation (pdf)
13:00-13:20 Oskari Miettinen (Helsinki):
(Sub)millimetre studies of
massive infrared dark clouds: probing the early stages of high-mass star
formation (pdf)
13:20-13:30 End of the meeting
13:30-14:30 lunch
14:30-18:25 bus from Kasnäs to Helsinki
14:30-16:00 group bus from Kasnäs to Turku
POSTERS
Antti Kestilä (Aalto): Aalto-1: Multi-Payload, Remote Sensing
Nanosatellite Mission
Jyri Lehtinen (Helsinki): The continuous period search method
Johanna Malinen (Helsinki): Accuracy of core mass estimates in simulated
observations of dust emission
Karri Muinonen (Helsinki): A review on planetary-system research
Alexander Mushtukov (Oulu): Relativistic kinetic equation for Compton
scattering of polarized radiation in a strong magnetic field
Veli-Matti Pelkonen (Helsinki): Bolocam observations of Archeops detected
cold clumps
Tero Siili (Helsinki): On Mars and
Moon mission activities at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (pdf)