The 12th Xinglong Observational Astrophysics Training Workshop will be held on July 23rd – 29th, 2019. The workshop is supported by Bureau of Personnel of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), jointly hosted by the Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories of CAS (NAOC), and the Xinglong Observatory of NAOC. The main topics of the workshop are time domain astronomical observations and photometric data reduction. The program will include lectures on the frontiersof 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.

Topics:Time domain astronomical observations and photometric data reduction

Date: July23rd – 29th, 2019

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

Registration: 

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 25th, 2019.

Contact:

Jie ZHENG(jiezheng@nao.cas.cn, +86 10-64888729)

JunboZhang(jbzhang@nao.cas.cn, +86 10-64807963)