[institut] REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR DATA

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INFORMATION

REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR DATA

Belgrade, Serbia, June 14-16, 2012.

Organized by Serbian Society of Astronomers
and Group for Astrophysical Spectroscopy, Astronomical Observatory, 
Belgrade


Scientific Organising Committee SOC
Milan S. Dimitrijevic,Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia,
- Chair (mdimitrijevic at aob.bg.ac.rs)
Andjelka Kovacevic, Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, Serbia,
- Vice-Chair (andjelka at matf.bg.ac.rs)

Iztok Cadez, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ratko Janev, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Macedonia
Darko Jevremovic, Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia
Kutasi Kinga,Institute for solid state physics Hungarian academy of
sciences<kutasi at mail.kfki.hu>
Friedrich Kupka, Faculty of Mathematics, Vienna, Austria
Bratislav Marinkovic, Institute of Physics, Zemun, Serbia
Nigel Mason, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Zoran Petrovic, Institute of Physics, Zemun, Serbia
Luka Popovic, Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia
Branko Predojevic, Faculty of Sciences, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, 
Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Sylvie Sahal-Brechot, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
Dejan Vinkovic, Physics Department, University of Split, Split, Croatia

Local Organising Committee LOC

Andjelka Kovacevic, Chair

Miodrag Dacic, Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Dragana Ilic, Facutly of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
Jelena Kovacevic,Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Zoran Simic,Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Marko Stalevski,Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Jovan Aleksic,Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Veljko Vujicic,Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia


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The official conference website 
(http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~andjelka/VAMDC/) will be
used for all conference activities including registration, 
accommodation, etc.

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SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE
Atomic and molecular data play an essential role in astrophysics, 
fusion, laboratory and industrial
plasmas, lighting sciences and technologies, biomedicine and 
biophysics, combustion and environmental
sciences as well  underpinning many technologies, surface physics, 
optics and spectroscopy
optoelectronics, etc. In this meeting the need for and applications of 
such data in these fields will
be reviewed, as well as discussion and presentation of some of the 
databases and data centres that
collate and disseminate such data.  The objective is both to show the 
state of the art in this field
and provide information on the need for atomic and molecular data and 
the current status of atomic and
molecular databases. It is targets both at data producers and users and 
will be of  interest to all
scientists involved in fundamental research and/or technological 
applications.

A key part of the meeting will be the presentation of the Virtual 
Atomic and Molecular Data Centre
(VAMDC), an EU funded collaboration between groups involved in the 
generation,
evaluation, and use of atomic and molecular data. VAMDC is building a 
reliable, open, flexible and
interoperable e-science interface to existing atomic and molecular 
data. During the workshop there
will be a VAMDC tutorial in order to explain and demonstrate to 
participants  how to use services
of VAMDC.



The meeting is particularly targeted at researchers based in the 
Balkans and south eastern Europe
and some support for such researchers will be available.
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REGISTRATION

The deadline for registration of the participants is April 15, 2012.
  In order to register please fill in the form given at the end of this 
document (also available  at website of
the conference).
The conference fees are 150 Eur, the reduced registration fees (payed 
until April 15, 2012) are 100 Euros.
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ABSTRACTS

The BOOK OF ABSTRACTS will be published before the Workshop. The 
template for abstracts (one page per abstract)
is given at the end of this document.
The deadline for
sending an abstract is April 15, 2012.
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The Organizing Committees is seeking sources for financial support of a 
limited number of participants
(mainly PhD and MSc students). Participants who are interested in 
obtaining such financial support should
send their request to the LOC by March 31, 2012 (see the registration 
form).

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration: April 15, 2012
Deadline for reduced-registration fees: April 15, 2012
Abstracts (one page):  April 15, 2012
Second Announcement: May 1, 2012
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The registration form and abstract template should be filled in and 
sent both of the following emails:


angelkovacevic at gmail.com
mdimitrijevic at aob.bg.ac.rs

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REGISTRATION FORM

First Name:
Family Name:
Degree:
Institution:
Address:
E-mail:
Phone:
Fax:

Title of contribution:
Authors:

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts (one page) of contributions should be sent by April 15, 2012.
The template for preparation of abstracts is available on the web site
of the conference (http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~andjelka/VAMDC/).

It can also be found at the end of this document.


I propose the contribution as:
(put one of this options: IL - invited lecture; ST - Short talk; OP -
poster)

Hotel reservation (Yes/No):
Double/Single room:
Need financial support (Yes/No):
Need invitation letter (Yes/No):

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The template for preparation of abstracts

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\centerline{\bf CENTRAL ENGINES OF ACTIVE GALAXIES AS THE MOST}

\centerline{\bf POWERFUL SOURCES OF X-RAY RADIATION IN UNIVERSE}

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\centerline{\bf P. Jovanovi\' c and L. \v C. Popovi{\'c}}

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\centerline{\it Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060
Belgrade 38, Serbia}

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\centerline{\it E-mail\/: pjovanovic at aob.bg.ac.yu,
lpopovic at aob.bg.ac.yu}

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Active galaxies are galaxies hosting a small, highly variable and
very bright core (Active Galactic Nucleus), embedded in an
otherwise typical galaxy. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are
powerful sources of radiation in a wide spectral range: from
$\gamma$ rays to radio waves. They derive their extraordinary
luminosities (sometimes more than $10^4$ times higher than
luminosities of "ordinary" galaxies) from energy release by matter
accreting towards, and falling into, a central supermassive black
hole (BH). According to the unification model of AGN, their
central engine consists of a supermassive BH ($10^7 - 10^9
M_\odot$) which is surrounded by an accretion disk that radiates
in the X-ray band. Accretion disks could have different forms,
dimensions, and emission, depending on the type of central BH,
whether it is rotating (Kerr metric) or nonrotating (Schwarzschild
metric). They represent an efficient mechanism for extracting
gravitational potential energy and converting it into radiation,
giving us the most probable explanation for the main
characteristics of AGN (high luminosity, compactness, jet
formation, rapid time variations in radiation and the profile of
the Fe K$\alpha$ spectral line). A broad emission line Fe
K$\alpha$ at 6.4 keV with asymmetric profile (narrow bright blue
peak and a wide faint red wing) has been observed in a number of
type 1 AGN. In some cases the line width corresponds to one third
of speed of light, indicating that its emitters rotate with
relativistic velocities. Therefore, the line is probably produced
in a very compact region near the central BH of AGN and can
provide us some essential information about the plasma conditions
and the space-time geometry in vicinity of the BH. The X-ray
radiation of AGN, in the line, as well as in the continuum, has
rapid and irregular variability. This variability could be due to
disk instability, resulting in perturbations of disk emissivity,
or it could be caused by some external effects, such as
gravitational microlensing (especially in the case of
gravitationally lensed quasars) and absorption. Here we present a
short overview and main results of our recent investigations of
the Fe K$\alpha$ spectral line and X-ray continuum variability.

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