Dec.13-17: | Visit of Timo Prusti (Herschel Science Centre, ESTEC, ESA)
at Konkoly Observatory.
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Dec.9: | Seminar at Konkoly Observatory given by Attila Moór on
"Dusty disks around main-sequence stars - the Vega phenomenon"
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Dec.8: | Competition for students at the Dept. of Astronomy of the Eötvös
Loránd University. A. Juhász won 1st prize, P. Veres won 4th prize.
Both student will participate in a similar competition on national
level, scheduled for spring 2005.
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Dec.1-3: | Herschel calibration workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden
(Péter Ábrahám, Csaba Kiss). Oral presentations:
Cs. Kiss : "The impact of cirrus confusion noise for Herschel/PACS"
P. Ábrahám: "Secondary standards for ISOPHOT"
P. Ábrahám: "ISOPHOT-related calibration work at Konkoly Observatory"
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Nov.30-Dec.1: | Internal calibration meeting at ISOPHOT Data Centre
(Heidelberg) on absolute surface brightness calibration. KISAG
representatives: Péter Ábrahám and Csaba Kiss. Main topic: the
evaluation of the performance of the new dedicated PIA 11.2 data
processing software.
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Nov.: | Visit of Cs. Kiss at ISOPHOT Data Centre (Heidelberg), in order to
collaborate on the checking and refinement of the FCS calibration
of ISOPHOT.
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Nov.: | A Spanish-Hungarian bilateral intergovermental agreement is officially
approved. The agreement will fund every year several travels between
Konkoly Observatory and the Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias (IAC,
J. Acosta).
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Nov.8-12: | Visit of René Laureijs (Planck, ESTEC, ESA) at Konkoly Observatory.
The purpose of the visit was to analyse and publish ISOPHOT
far-infrared maps of Galactic cirrus. Rene gave a seminar at the
Observatory on the Planck-mission.
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Sep.-Nov.: | The former Photolab of the Observatory is transformed into two
offices including 4 new workplaces. In addition to serving as the
permanent office of Á. Kóspál and Cs. Kiss, the renewed Photolab
provides better environment for our students and visitors, too.
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Oct.27-29: | P. Ábrahám participates in the conference
"The Dusty and Molecular Universe - A prelude to HERSCHEL
and ALMA", in Paris, presenting a poster entitled "Analyses
of the ISO/ISOPHOT database in preparation to the Herschel
mission".
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Oct.9: | Talk of Á. Kóspál at BANACAT-18
(meeting for amateur astronomers) on the optical and infrare variability during young
stellar evolution.
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Oct.: | Visit of Cs. Kiss at MPIA, Heidelberg.
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Sept.27-Oct.1: | P. Veres visited Heidelberg, in order to learn basic reduction
steps of MAX data (contact person at MPIA: S. Ligori).
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Sept.1: | Péter Veres, a student of astronomy in his 7th semester,
started a a voluntary practikum work in the group. His topic is to
create and publish a mid-infrared photometric catalogues composed from
all young stellar object observations obtained with the UKIRT/MAX
camera. The project is a collaboration with the Max-Planck-Institut
für Astronomie (Heidelberg).
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Sept.1: | Attila Juhász, a student of astronomy in his 7th semester,
started a a voluntary practikum work. He analyses
infrared light variations of UX Ori-type young stars on the basis of
ISOPHOT observations.
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Aug 26: | Talk given by Péter Ábrahám at the annual meeting of the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society (in Hungarian) on "A korai csillagfejlődés viharos időszakai"
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From Sep 1: | Ágnes Kóspál started a 3-years PhD fellowship at Konkoly Observatory. Topic of thesis: studying young eruptive stars at optical and infrared wavelengths.
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From Sep 1: | Csaba Kiss moves back from Heidelberg and joins KISAG again. His main work is contribution to the preparation of the Herschel satellite.
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June: | Successful final exam of Ágnes Kóspál, a graduate student who prepared her MSc thesis at KISAG.
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June 29 - July 8: | Visit of Jose Acosta-Pulido (IAC) at Konkoly Observatory. Topic: preparation of a joint paper on the eruption of V1647 Ori.
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June 14-16: | Travel of Péter Ábrahám, Szilárd Csizmadia and Attila Moór to VilSpa, in order to participate in the Mid-Term Review of the ISO Active Archive Phase project.
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May 24-28: | Internal calibration meeting at ISOPHOT Data Centre (Heidelberg) on absolute surface brightness calibration. KISAG representatives: Péter Ábrahám and Csaba Kiss.
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May: | Acceptance of two observing time proposals for the Spitzer Space Telescope ("Study of an ISO-based sample of Vega stars: towards a better understanding of the evolutionary sequence" by Ábrahám, Moór et al.; "Far Infrared Study of SN Ia host galaxies" by Balázs et al.)
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Apr. 21: | Seminar given by Sz. Csizmadia (in Hungarian) on "Fedési kettőscsillagok periódus- és fénygörbeváltozásai" (Országos Csillagászati Szeminárium)
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Febr. 16-20 : | Visit of A. Moor and Sz. Csizmadia at ISO Data Centre. Progress
meeting on the preparation of Highly Processed Data Products.
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Febr. 14 : | We were involved in the submission of 6 General Observing proposals
for the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Febr. 5-7 : | Talk of Cs. Kiss at British-Hungarian N+N Workshop
on "Sky structure and the ISO Data Archive"
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Febr. 5-7 : | Talk of Sz. Csizmadia at British-Hungarian N+N Workshop
on "The Highly Processed Data Products of ISOPHOT - Hungarian Contribution"
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Febr. 5-7 : | Talk of E. Forgács-Dajka at British-Hungarian N+N Workshop
on "Structure of the solar tachocline: confrontation of theoretical models with SOHO MDI helioseismic constraints"
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Febr. 3-4 : | Talk of Á. Kóspál at 3rd Workshop of Young Researchers in Astronomy & Astrophysics
on "Long-term evolution of FU Orionis objects at infrared wavelenghts"
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