Presentation a lecture and three posters in the Eight Moscow international Solar System Symposium (8M-S3)

Starting from 2010, the Russian Space Research Institute holds annual international symposium on Solar system exploration. Main topics of these symposium include wide range of problems related to formation and evolution of Solar system, planetary systems of other stars, exploration of Solar system planets, their moons, small bodies, interplanetary environment and astrobiology problems.
The Eight Moscow international Solar System Symposium (8M-S3) was held from October 9 till 13, 2017. A team of five people from IOTA/ME participated in this meeting. One oral and three posters were presented by this team.
The oral presentation was "The effect of unknown parameters of exoplanets on their habitability" by Seyed Javad Jafarzedeh with Majid Bahrami and Fatemeh Montazeri.
The first poster was "Pole of rotation and spin rate of different asteroids" by Atila Poro and Fatemeh Montazeri.
The second poster was "The study of the bacterial life on similar conditions of Europa, in the laboratory" by Mohammad Sadegh Gheibzadeh.
And the third poster was "A study on occultation and timing methods" by Zeinab Sadat Lesani.


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7th international workshop on Occultation and Eclipse was held (2017)

Seventh international workshop on occultation and eclipse, were held in Shahr-e kord city, Iran since 8 to 10 march. There were 55 participant from different cities of Iran, Turkey and Indonesia. 19 speeches and 7 posters were presented in this workshop. Eight invited professors were from Iran, France, Turkey, Spain and Japan.
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Starting registration for 7th International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse

Program Committee:
- Atila Poro (IOTA/ME, Iran)
- Hans J. Bode (IOTA/ES, Germany)
- Dr. Mitsuru Soma (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Prof. Luis Vázquez (Complutense Madrid University, Spain)
- Prof. Roger Ferlet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris CNRS, France)
- Wolfgang Beisker (IOTA/ES, Germany)
- Dr. Mehmet Ozel (Istanbul light university, Turkey)
- Kourosh Rokni (ISA, Iran)
- Dr. Narges Fathalian (Tehran Payam'Noor University, Iran)
- Mohammad Moradi (Shahr-e Kord University, Iran)
- Dr. Bahman Hosseinzadeh (Mahmudabad University, Iran)
- Prof. Osman Demircan (COMU, Turkey)

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7th International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse

The 7th annual workshop of IOTA/ME (International Occultation Timing Association in Middle East) will be held as an international workshop in Hafshejan & Shahr-e Kord Cities, Iran, on March 8-10, 2017. Haft Aseman Institute, International Astronomical Union (IAU), Shahr-e Kord University, Hamraz Aseman Shiraz Company, are the sponsors and support this workshop.

City: Hafshejan & Shahr-e Kord
Opening: March 8, 2017, 16:00 local time
End: March 10, 2017, 18:00 local time

The following sessions will be held during the workshop:
Session Moon and Occultation
Session Asteroid and Comet
Session Variable star, exoplanet and observation process
Session Astrobiology

Workshop web site: www.iota-me.com/oe.php
Email: iotamiddleeast@yahoo.com
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IOTA/ME And CUMO University Joint Workshop on Binary stars and Exoplanets

This workshop was held in the physics department of the CUMO university in 3 days Officially started in 21feb and finished at 23feb (2016). The first day of the binaries and exoplanets workshop was started with observation program on an Exoplanet using the University observatories 60cm Telescope. At the second day 12 papers (6 from Iranian participants and 6 from Turkish participants) Been Presented in-front of the President of the Physics Faculty, Students, Professors and The administrators of the National observatory of Turkey. And in the last day of the workshop Assigned to Data Analyzing of the Transit Noted from the Observed Exoplanet.



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Workshop on Binary Stars and exoplanets in Turkey

Workshop Program:
21st February 2016
15:00-19:00 Preparation for the joint observations
19:00-24:00 Joint observations in three telescopes
22nd February 2016
09:30 Opening
10:00-10:30 COMU Observatory and Astronomy in Turkey; Osman Demircan
10:30-10:50 About IOTA/ME and Scientific projects; Atila Poro
10:50-11:15 Astronomy in Iran; Kambiz Khaleghi
11:15- 11:45 Interplanetary shock waves; Hüseyin Çavuş
11:45-12:00 Joint discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 Exoplanetary Observations at COMU Observatory; Çağlar Püsküllü
13:50-14:10 Asteroid Observations at COMU Observatory; Afşar Kabaş
14:10-14:30 Spectroscopy of gamma Dor and delta Scuti variables; Filiz Kahraman
14:30-14:50 Period Study of V1095 Her and V1101 Her; Oğuz Öztürk
14:50-15:10 Joint discussion
15:10-15:40 Best pictures in observation; Atila Poro
15:40-16:20 Optimization of photometric data for detecting exoplanets; Javad Jafarzadeh
16:20-17:00 Intrinsic variable stars; Mohammed Javad Shhosseini
17:00-17:40 Introducing TTV Project; Mojdeh Dalir Sharami
17:40-18:00 The impact of cosmic rays on life; Maryam Mostafavi
18:00-19:00 Joint discussion
19:00-21:00 Dinner

Organizing Committee:
Osman Demircan
Atila Poro
Ahmet Erdem
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