Binary and Multiple Stars in the Era of Big Sky Surveys

(Programme of the conference)

Sunday, 8 September 2024

17:00 - 19:00   Registration
19:00 - 23:00   Welcome reception (Chateau cellars Litomyšl)

Monday, 9 September 2024

08:00 - 09:00   Registration
09:00 - 09:30   Opening ceremony

A. Importance of binaries

Chairman:       Miloslav Zejda
09:30 - 10:10   Boffin, H.: Importance of binary stars
10:10 - 10:30   Stevens, D.J.: Single-lined.Eclipsing Binaries as Probes of Stellar Physics
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Krzysztof Helminiak
11:00 - 11:35   Gallenne, A.: Accurate determination of binary star masses and distances using optical
                        long-baseline interferometry
11:35 - 12:10   Graczyk, D.: Precise extragalactic distances with eclipsing binary stars
12:10 - 12:30   Taormina, M.: Surface brightness-color relation from early-type eclipsing binaries in the LMC
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
Chairman:       Henry Boffin
13:30 - 14:05   Wielgórski, P. et al.: Binary stars from Rolf Chini Cerro Murphy Observatory

B. Interacting binary stars

14:05 - 14:40   Munari, U.: Symbiotic novae
14:40 - 15:00   Otulakowska Hypka, M. et al.: High angular resolution study of symbiotic novae
15:00 - 15:35   Skopal, A.: Symbiotic stars
15:35 - 16:05   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Ján Budaj
16:05 - 16:25   Rauw, G. et al.: X-raying the wind interactions of massive stars: what we have learned from
                        20 years of observations
16:25 - 16:45   Pejcha, O.: How to find soon-to-be merging contact binaries?
16:45 - 17:05   Pešta, M. et al.: Inferring the minimum mass ratio of contact binary stars with data from Kepler
17:05 - 17:25   Rosu, S.: Apsidal motion in massive binaries – or how to sound stellar interiors
Chairmen:       Miloslav Zejda & Theodor Pribulla
17:30 - 19:00   Poster session A (click for time schedule)

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Chairman:       Ondřej Pejcha
09:00 - 09:20   Schaffenroth, V. et al.: Constraining the stability of mass transfer

C. Pulsations in binaries and active binaries

09:20 - 09:55   Murphy, S.J.: Pulsations in binary systems
09:55 - 10:30   Pilecki, B.: Single and double Cepheids in binary systems
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Dariusz Graczyk
11:00 - 11:35   Kővári, Zs.: Magnetic activity in close binary systems
11:35 - 11:55   Semenko, E. et al.: A newborn multiple magnetic system of HD 34736
11:55 - 12:15   Espinoza-Arancibia, F. et al.: A novel q-PED method: precise physical properties of a merger-origin
                        binary Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP-1347
12:15 - 13:15   Lunch
Chairman:       Andrew Tkachenko
13:15 - 13:50   Guo, Z.: Tidally Excited Oscillations in Heartbeat Binary Stars
13:50 - 14:10   Liakos, A.: The catalogue of delta Sct pulsators in binary systems in 2024
14:10 - 14:30   Bókon, A. et al.: An eclipse mapping study of the eclipsing binary KIC 3858884 with hybrid δ Sct
                        component
14:30 - 14:50   Kahraman Alicavus, F. et al.: Investigation on possible mass transfer-pulsation relation
14:50 - 15:25   Karczmarek, P.: Cepheids: Insights from simulation-based approaches
15:25 - 15:45   Southworth, J.: Stars With Pulsations and Eclipses (SWIPE)
15:45 - 16:15   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Augustin Skopal

D. Binary star evolution

16:15 - 16:50   Rain, M.J.: Blue Stragglers and Beyond: Oddities in Open Clusters in the Age of large sky survery
16:50 - 17:10   Cehula, J.: A theory of mass transfer in binary stars
Chairmen:       Paulina Karczmarek & David Jones
17:10 - 19:00   Poster session B (click for time schedule)

Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Chairman:       Eugene Semenko
09:00 - 09:35   Jones, D.: Post-common-envelope Binaries
09:35 - 09:55   Li, Z.: A new route to massive hot subdwarfs
09:55 - 10:15   Moe, M.: Binary Star Statistics across Different Environments
10:15 - 10:45   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Michael Abdul-Masih
10:45 - 11:05   Kroupa, P.: The population of binary stars in star forming regions and in the Galactic field: why are
                        they different?
11:05 - 11:25   Green, M. et al.: An upper limit on the space density of dormant black hole binaries in the local
                        stellar population

E. Multiple systems

11:25 - 12:00   Tokovinin, A.: Populations of hierarchical stellar systems
12:00 - 12:20   Zasche, P.: Doubly Eclipsing Systems: Divide Et Impera
12:20 - 13:20   Lunch
Chairman:       Zhao Guo
13:20 - 13:40   Borkovits, T. et al.: Then and now: A new look on the eclipse timing variations of hierarchical triple
                        star candidates in the primordial Kepler-field, revisited by TESS
13:40 - 14:00   Kolář, J. et al.: Resonant statistics for doubly eclipsing quadruple candidates
14:00 - 14:20   Czavalinga, D.R. et al.: New compact hierarchical triple system candidates identified using
                        Gaia DR3
14:20 - 14:55   Sairam, L.: Overcoming the Challenges: Radial Velocity Detection of Circumbinary Exoplanets
14:55 – 15:15   Matson, R. et al.: Demographics of M Star Binary Exoplanet Hosts Discovered by TESS
15:15 - 15:45   Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00   Conference excursion
19:00 - 21:00   Tour and concert in the Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross
21:00 - 22:00   Tour and toast in the Paradise Court

Thursday, 12 September 2024

Chairman:       Jakub Kolář
09:00 - 09:20   Christopoulou, P.E. et al.: Examining a PCEB system's planetary neighbors
09:20 - 09:40   Basturk, O. et al.: Looking for Sub-stellar Companions in the Eclipse Timing Variations of PCEB
                        Systems
09:40 - 10:00   Kiran, E. et al.: Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of a Possible Multiple System: V684 Mon
10:00 - 10:20   Dodd, J.: Detecting unresolved Herbig star binaries at sub-arcsecond scales using changes
                        in Gaia proper motions
10:20 - 10:50   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Piotr Wielgórski
10:50 - 11:10   Moharana, A. et al.: Spectroscopy of Compact Hierarchical Triples: Evolution to Formation

F. Modelling

11:10 - 11:45   Prša, A.: The Present and the Future in Modeling Eclipsing Binary Stars
11:45 - 12:20   Brož, M.: Multi-technique observations vs. modelling of stellar systems
12:20 - 12:40   Serebriakova, N. et al.: A Self-contained Framework for Photometric and Spectroscopic Data
                        Analysis
12:40 - 13:40   Lunch
Chairman:       Zsolt Kövari
13:40 - 14:15   Budaj, J.: Shellspec - a tool for modeling the spectra and light curves of interacting binaries and
                        exoplanets
14:15 - 14:50   Hadrava, P.: Fourier disentangling of spectra in observational surveys
14:50 - 15:10   Nemeth, P.: Enhanced spectral disentangling techniques for long-period hot subdwarf binaries
15:10 - 15:30   Masuda, K. et al.: Weighing Single-lined Spectroscopic Binaries using Tidal RVs: The Case of
                        V723 Mon
15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Andrej Prša

G. Observations

16:00 - 16:35   Abdul-Masih, M.: Observations of high-mass contact binaries in the local Universe
16:35 - 16:55   Merle, T.: Spectroscopic binaries in Gaia-ESO Survey, Gaia, and 4MOST
16:55 - 17:15   Sebastian, D.: Accurate dynamical masses from binaries with extreme brightness ratios
17:15 - 17:35   Sztakovics, J. et al.: Apsidal motion analysis of eccentric eclipsing binaries in the Kepler and TESS
                        era
17:35 - 17:55   Li, J. et al.: Mass-ratio Distribution of Binaries from the LAMOST-MRS Survey
17:55 - 18:15   Guo, J. et al.: The statistical properties of early-type stars from LAMOST DR8

19:00 - 24:00   Conference dinner

Friday, 13 September 2024

Chairman:       Bogumil Pilecki
09:00 - 09:35   Werner, N.: QUVIK: Quick Ultra-VIolet Kilonova surveyor
09:35 - 09:55   Navarrete, C. et al.: Physical stellar properties of ellipsoidal binaries in Gaia DR3
09:55 - 10:15   Ratajczak, M.: Tracking ellipsoidal binaries
10:15 - 10:35   Rathour, S.R.: Non-evolutionary effects on Period change in Magellanic Cepheids I. New binary
                        systems revealed from Light Travel Time Effect
10:35 - 11:00   Coffee Break
Chairman:       Miroslav Brož
11:00 - 11:30   Tkachenko A.: PLATO Complementary Science: pulsations and binarity
11:30 - 11:50   Hełminiak K.G., et al.: Adding TESS to CREME - light curves and masses of 300+ detached
                        eclipsing binaries
11:50 - 12:10   Klement, R. et al.: Be stars as post-mass-transfer binaries: the first set of model-indepent
                         dynamical masses
12:10 - 12:30   Kalari, V. et al.: High-resolution imaging surveys of massive young stellar objects in the Magellanic
                        Clouds
12:30 - 12:50   Willems, H.: Determining the physical parameters of eclipsing binary systems in the B-Type
                        characterisation (BBC) programme with PHOEBE
12:50 - 13:15   Closing ceremony
13:15 - 14:15   Lunch

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