IOTA/ME Departments

Members of board directors Eclipse, Occultation and TNOs departments have been appointed according to the IOTA/ME statute by board directors since 2014/11/10. According to statute, the board of directors of each department which have been appointed will manage it for a period of one year and then the board of directors of each department will be elected by the vote of the members of that department.
Mr. Hojatola Hekmatzade has been introduced as the president of the board of department, Mrs. Samaneh Gnji'Lisar and Mr. Amir Hussein Daghighi as other members of the board of department for Occultation and TNOs department.
Mr. Meysam Honari Jafarpour has been introduced as the president of the board of department, Miss. Fereshteh Tavakkoli and Miss. Shirin Zandian as other members of the board of department for Eclipse department.



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Second Summer School of Astronomy IOTA/ME was held

Tabriz city was host Second Summer School of Astronomy IOTA/ME (2014) entitled “Semi-professional Astronomy with Small Telescopes” in Tabriz, Iran from September 13 to 16.The first registration period, which lasted about a month, among 293 people, signed up and the forms provide preliminary information on personnel, were also required to fill in your section; Finally, due to the limited resources and the make appropriate scientific quality, 40 peoplewere accepted to attend this schoolfrom the cities of Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Khoy, Mianeh, Khorramshahr, ShahinShahr, Nishapur, Babol, Varamin, Shiraz, Rasht, Maragha, Omidieh, Qom, Tehran, Shahr-e-Kord, Delijan, Nurabad Mamasani, Ajabshir, Dezful, Bane, Banab, Izmir. According to the schedule announced, the first day is devoted to visiting some of the many scenic areas in Tabriz and participants become familiar with each other and a bit of rest to prepare for the summer school. However, on the first day, Mr. Atila Peru (President of IOTA / ME) presented is an hour and a half lecture on“Asteroid Survey, Model to Observation”.
The second morning, lectures attended by Amir Hassan Zadeh began about “Semi-professional projects in Astronomy with Small Telescopes”.The second lecture presented by Dr.Volkan Bakis (University of Antalya) about “Spectroscopy, Theory and Observation”. In the afternoon, Dr. Marjan Zakerin presented her content as “Basics of Research in Astrobiology”...



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Sign up Second Summer School of Astronomy IOTA/ME finished

Early registration Second Summer School of Astronomy IOTA/ME (2014), which lasted seventeen days, finished. Through 293 people who filled the Initial Registration Form, 48 numbers of them, after examining based on scientific level required summer school, selected as an admitted primary and admitted ultimate after finally registration process, will attend the summer school. It should be noted, as mentioned in the first announcement, because this program is workshop and to raise the scientific quality of the school, the school's capacity was 39 people. Most of admitted are physics graduate students in particular M.A level.
Second IOTA/ME Astronomy Summer School entitled "Semi-professional Astronomy with Small Telescopes" will be held in Tabriz, Iran from September 13 to 16, 2014 by IOTA/ME, Iranian Space Agency (ISA), Ayaz Astronomical Group and Tabriz University. With support from Iranian Young Scholar Club (IRYSC) and scientific help of Çanakkale University Observatory of Turkey and International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Educators course: Atila Poro, Dr. Marjan Zakerin, Amir Hassanzadeh, Dr. Mohammad Reza Norouzi, Haj Mohammad Hassani, Dr. Mohammad Javad Kalaie, Sara Khalafinejad, Dr. Volkan Bakis (University of Antalya in Turkey), Jens Hoeijmakers (University of Leiden in Netherlands).


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Time Schedule (Summer School 2014)

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Specific Workshop Associate Members of Eclipse Department of IOTA/ME was held

Specific Workshop Associate Members of Eclipse Department of IOTA/ME was held on Friday, August 24 of the year 2014 at Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. This workshop was held during 5 hour and taught by Dr. Bahman Hussein Zadeh about pulsating stars physics, observation and data phases of variable stars, using IRAF software and answer to questions from members about eclipse department projects.



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Discontinuous Members specific workshop of IOTA/ME was held

Discontinuous Members specific workshop of IOTA/ME was held on 14 and 23 August of the year 2014 in Geophysics Institute of University Tehran. This seasonal workshops was held for teach discontinuous Members. And during last workshop, members know with scientific and executive methods activities in IOTA/ME, and knowing about in the form of project includes transit observations of Exoplanets, types of variable stars and the observation and analysis them and astronomical occultation. At the end of the workshop, members choose their favorite department and then the projects will be implemented over the next year. Members at the end of a year of their projects in the form of a paper and type of seminar in front of members of the Scientific Committee will provide each department.



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