Announcement of the 12^th Xinglong Observational Astrophysics Training Workshop

The 12^th Xinglong Observational Astrophysics Training Workshop will be held in July 23^rd -- 29^th, 2019. The workshop is supported by Bureau of Personnel of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), hosted jointly by the Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories of CAS (NAOC), and the Xinglong Observatory, NAOC. The main topics of the workshop are time domain astronomical observations and photometric data reduction. The program will include lectures on the frontiers of time domain astronomy, introductions of telescopes and instruments, lectures on photometric data reduction, practice of observations and data reduction, discussions on scientific projects based on observational data, examination, and final presentation of the participants’ achievements. Certificates will be awarded to excellent participants. All are welcome.

Topic: Time domain astronomical observations and photometric data reduction

Time: July 23^rd -- 29^th, 2019

Venue: NAOC campus (Beijing) and Xinglong Observatory (Hebei)

Registration: 

The registration for the workshop is at

http://xinglong-workshop12.csp.escience.cn.

No registration fee is needed. The number of participants will be limited to 40. Registration is first-come first-served and will close when the maximum number of participants is reached or on June 25^th, 2019.

Contact:

Jie ZHENG (jiezheng@nao.cas.cn, +86 10-6488 8729)

Junbo ZHANG (jbzhang@nao.cas.cn, +86 10-6480 7963)