XX Serbian Astronomical Conference
XX КОНФЕРЕНЦИЈА АСТРОНОМА СРБИЈЕ

16-20 October 2023, SASA, Belgrade
16-20. октобар 2023, САНУ, Београд

About The Conference

We are pleased to invite you to participate at the XX Serbian Astronomical Conference (20th SAC) to be held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, from 16th to 20th October 2023.
The conference is organized by the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and the Faculty of Mathematics (Department of Astronomy). There is no registration fee for registered participants. The official languages of the Conference are English and Serbian.
The objective of the Conference is to cover wide range of topics, such as stellar physics, physics of interstellar matter, stellar and galactic systems, astrometry, dynamical astronomy, planetology, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, as well as interdisciplinary studies such as astrobiology, astrochemistry, geophysics, atmospheric physics, astronautics, space science, history, philosophy and teaching of astronomy, amateur astronomy, sociology of astronomy, astronomy in arts and culture.
Conference sessions will include: invited talks presented by local and international lecturers, presentations of doctoral and master degree theses that have been completed since the last conference, contributed talks and posters. Contributions presented at the Conference will be published in the Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade.
We welcome scientists from all over the world to join us, to present newest studies, to participate in active discussions, and to build future collaborative relationships. A preliminary conference program will be given in the Second Announcement.

Where

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Knez Mihajlova 35
Belgrade, Republic of Serbia



When

Monday to Friday
16-20 October 2023

Poster

Book of Abstract

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 20 SAC will be published in the Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade

The maximum number of pages allowed in the Proceedings of the 20th SAC for particular contribution is:

  • Invited Review: 10
  • Invited Lecture: 8
  • Progress Report: 6
  • Poster: 4

Proceedings of XX Serbian Astronomical Conference

Deadline for paper submission is November 30, 2023. (midnight!) Manuscripts should be sent to ana@aob.rs
All contributions will be reviewed before publication.
The template is available and can be downloaded here.

Invited Speakers

Dmitry Naumov
JINR, Dubna, Russia

Maxim Gonchar
JINR, Dubna, Russia

Liudmila Kolupaeva
JINR, Dubna, Russia

Evgeny Yakushev
JINR, Dubna, Russia

Sergey Rozov
JINR, Dubna, Russia

Michal Bilek
Paris Observatory, Czech Republic

Alok Chandra Gupta
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), India

Claudia Raiteri
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy

Miroslav Filipović
Western Sydney University, Australia

Surjit Wadhwa
Western Sydney University, Australia

Petr Kurfürst
Ph.D. Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Darryl Seligman
Cornell University, USA

Wolfram Kollatschny
Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics, Germany

Nataša Todorović
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Marcel S. Pawlowski
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam (AIP), Germany

Damiano Caprioli
University of Chicago, USA

Vladimir Srećković
Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia

Aleksandra Nina
Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia

Dragana Ilić
Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, Serbia

Mauricio Cabezas
Astronomical Institute AS CR, Czech Republic

Juan Garces Letelier
Universidad de Conception, Chile

Andjelka Kovačević
Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, Serbia

SOC & LOC

SOC

CO-CHAIR: Jelena Petrović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

CO-CHAIR: Dušan Marčeta ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Jelena Kovačević Dojčinović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Srdjan Samurović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Oliver Vince ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Dušan Onić ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Milica Vučetić ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Vladimir Zeković ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia and Princeton University, USA

Miroslav Filipović ()
Western Sydney University, Australia

Samir Salim ()
Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, USA

Milan Bogosavljević ()
New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Ivana Damjanov ()
Saint Mary's University, Canada

Mirjana Povic ()
ESSTI, EORC, Ethiopia, CSIC, Spain, MUST, Uganda

Brankica Kubatova ()
Astronomical Institute AS CR, Czech Republic

Maja Vučković ()
Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

LOC

CHAIR: Ana Lalović ( ana@aob.rs )
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Rade Pavlović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Milan Stojanović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Majda Smole ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Ana Mitrašinović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Miljana D. Jovanović ()
Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Jasmina Horvat ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Nataša Pavlov ()
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Event Schedule

Preliminary programme

Monday 16th October – Main Hall

Registration

Opening of the conference

Opening ceremony (co-chairs Dr. Jelena Petrović and Dr. Dušan Marčeta, representatives from the Ministry of Science, Republic of Serbia, SANU, Mathematical Faculty and Astronomical Observatory Belgrade)

Plenary Talks - Chair Dušan Marčeta

Wolfram Kollatchny - Variability of AGN
Petr Kurfürst - Supernovae as a tracers of the structure and evolution of the surrounding universe
Coffee break
Miroslav Filipović – Per Aspera Ad Astra
Claudia Raiteri – Monitoring blazar variability to understand extragalactic jets
Lunch break

Special Session – Neutrino astrophysics – Chair: Jelena Petrović

Dmitry Naumov – Baikal-GVD Neutrino Telescope: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe's Catastrophic Events
Liudmila Kolupaeva – Current status and future prospects of three-flavor oscillations' measurements with accelerator neutrino beams
Evgeny Yakushev – Nuclear spectroscopy, Neutrino physics and Astrophysics
Coffee break
Sergey Rozov – Direct search for Dark Matter in underground experiments
Maxim Gonchar – Long and medium baseline experiments with reactor antineutrinos
Jelena Petrović (moderator) – Discussion about the future collaboration of Serbia with the Baikal experiment
Welcome cocktail

Tuesday 17th October – Hall 2

Extragalactic astronomy (I) – chair: Srdjan Samurović

Michal Bilek - Origin of the diversity of rotational support of early-type galaxies
Marcel S. Pawlowski - How Phase-Space Correlations of Systems of Satellite Galaxies Challenge λ-CDM Cosmology
Ana Lalović - Specific angular momentum correlation with the number of satellites
Milena Jovanović – Baryonic mass in nearby galaxies
Ana Mitrašinović - The importance of interaction strength for non-merger galaxy encounters
Coffee break

Stellar physics and physics of the interstellar medium (I) – chair: Jelena Petrović

Surjit Wadhwa - Identification of Potential Red Nova Progenitors
Mauricio Cabezas - Satellite Lines in the Interacting Binary V356 Sgr
Juan Garces Letelier - Magnetic activity effects in orbital light curves of binary systems
Brankica Kubatova - X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at low metallicity
Anastasiya Yarovova - Massive stars and diffuse emission sources in the galaxy IC 1613
Lunch break

Interdisciplinary studies – chair: Vladimir Zeković

Vladimir Srećković - Research of the Impact of Strong Solar Flares: Multi- instrumental investigation
Aleksandra Nina - Reduction of the VLF signal noise as potential earthquake precursor: pilot studies
Saša Dujko - Electron transport and streamer discharges in the atmosphere of Primordial Earth
Dragan Lukić - We can spread our genetic material
Nikola Veselinović - Results from solar weather research at Low-background Laboratory for Nuclear Physics
Coffee break

Astrophysical spectroscopy and interferometry (I) – chair: Miroslav Mićić

Marko Stalevski - Dissecting the active galactic nucleus in Circinus galaxy
Majda Smole - Accelerating MCRT simulations using dimensionality reduction techniques and INLA
Jasmina Blečić - A New Era of Exoplanetary Modelling Commenced by First JWST Observations

Wednesday 18th October – Hall 2

Extragalactic astronomy (II) – chair: Jelena Kovačević - Dojčinović

Alok Chandra Gupta - Multi-wavelength Variability and Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in Blazars
Ivana Damjanov – Histories of Galaxies in the Middle-Aged Universe
Stanislav Milošević - Properties of the tidal substructures in the Andromeda galaxy
Milan Milošević – Fast numerical test of inflationary models
Ivana Ebrova - Deep imaging with Milankovic telescope: Linking merger history to kinematics of elliptical galaxies
Coffee break

Astrophysical spectroscopy and interferometry (II) – chair: Nataša Bon

Ivan Milić - Spectropolarimetric Inversions using Convolutional Neural Networks
Slobodan Jankov - Largest astronomical optical telescopes
Oliver Vince - Development Of A Multifunctional Instrument For The 1.4m Milankovic Telescope
Lunch break
Excursion

Thursday 19th October – Hall 2

Stellar and galactic systems – chair: Vladimir Zeković

Milan Stojanović – Kinematics of Type II Cepheid pulstaing stars
Miroslava Vukčević - Dynamics of spiral galaxies in nonlinear regime
Milan S. Dimitrijević - On the Stark broadening of spectral lines of highly ionized iron for the investigation of neutron stars
Coffee break

Extragalactic astronomy (III) – chair: Edi Bon

Dragana Ilić, Andjelka Kovačević - Investigation of active galactic nuclei in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
Mirjana Pović - Evidence of positive AGN feedback in the green valley
Sladjana Knežević - MUSE-NFM observations of the Circinus active galactic nucleus
Marina Pavlović - The influence of interactions of distant galaxies on their non-thermal radio emission
Aleksandra Božilović - Dusty winds in active galactic nuclei
Lunch break

Astrometry, dynamical astronomy and planetology – chair: Nataša Todorović

Darryl Seligman - Interstellar Interlopers and Dark Comets
Dušan Marčeta - Orbital Structure of Interstellar Objects in the Solar System
Kristina Klopić - Analysis of the 77899 (2001 TS117) asteroid family
Rade Pavlović - Confidence Region for Orbital Elements of Visual Binaries
Marija Janković - Vertical structure of debris discs and collisional damping
Coffee break
Poster session
Conference dinner

Friday 20th October – Hall 2

Stellar physics and physics of the interstellar medium (II) – chair: Bojan Arbutina

Damiano Caprioli - New Developments in Shock Acceleration
Vladimir Zeković - Non-linear evolution of SLAMS turbulence and its role in particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks
Kristina Racković Babić - Interstellar dust flux variation near 1 AU: insights from STEREO/WAVES and Wind/WAVES instruments
Coffee break

Astrometry, dynamical astronomy and planetology - chair Dušan Marčeta

Nataša Todorović - About some near-Earth orbits
Evgeny Smirnov - A machine-learning approach to the problem of identification asteroids in mean-motion resonances and asteroid families
Miljana D. Jovanović, Goran Damljanović - Ten years of monitoring of 1722+119 at ASV
Ivana Milić Žitnik - The equation between 3-body mean motion resonances and Yarkovsky drift speeds on eccentricities higher than 0.1
Lunch break

History, philosophy and teaching of astronomy (I) – chair: Dušan Onić

Milica Vučetić – Astronomy education in Serbia 2020-2023
Bojan Arbutina - The life and work of Elia Millosevich (1848-1919)
Nedeljko Todorovic, Natalija Janc, Milivoj Gavrilov – Scientific work of Wencelas S. Jardetzky and collaboration with Milutin Milankovic
Marina Pavlović - Astronomy education through digital media
Coffee break

History, philosophy and teaching of astronomy (II) – chair: Milica Vučetić

Branislav Rovčanin - New events in the Astronomical society „Ruđer Bošković“
Sonja Vidojević – Serbia in astronomical contests between 2020 and 2023
Damnjan Milić – Department of Astronomy at Petnica Science Center 2021 - 2023
Zoran Tomić – Project of the first urban astronomical observatory in Kruševac
Assembly of the Society of Astronomers of Serbia

Posters

M. Dechev, K. Kozarev – LOFAR-BG - Development and Current State
K. Koleva, N. Gopalswamy, S. Yashiro, M. Dechev – Non-radial motions of CMEs during Solar Cycle 24 and rising phase of Solar Cycle 25
M. Dechev, Z. Simic, R. Miteva, K. Koleva, N. Sakan – Active Events On The Sun. Catalogs Of Proton Events And Electron Signatures In X-Ray, Uv And Radio diapason. Influence of Collisions on Optical Properties of Dense Hydrogen Plasma
Milena Jovanović, Bojan Arbutina, Dejan Urošević – Serbian Astronomical Journal in the 2014 – 2023 period
Dušan Marčeta, Bojan Novaković, Marco Fenucci, Debora Pavela – Demystifying Near-Earth Asteroids
Filip Arnaut, Aleksandra Kolarski – Machine Learning Approach for Distinguishing Daytime and Nighttime Ionospheric Conditions on VLF Signals related to Solar Flares During 2011
Srdjan Samurović, Zorica Cvetković, Rade Pavlović – Astronomical Station Vidojevica: Observations from 2011 to 2023
S. Knežević, S. Schulze, J. Mendez-Abreu, G. van de Ven, G. Morlino – Optical observations of shock filaments in Tycho's supernova remnant
Dragan Lukić – Can we target extrasolar systems?
Sara Savić - Dynamics of dual massive black hole systems formation in cosmological simulations
Zoran Simić – The estimate of the influence of the close vicinity ions as well as ionic temperature onto the mean form of cut-off potential for complex atoms, argon case
Sanja Lazarević – A Bow Shock Pulsar Wind Nebula: The Curious Case of Potoroo
Nikola Knežević - Platform for dynamical mapping of the Solar system
Milan Stojanovic, Slobodan Ninković – Local kinematics of a Gaia sample of stars
Sladjana Marčeta Mandić – TBA
Jelena Kovačević Dojčinović – The complex shape of the outflow emission in spectra of active galactic nuclei type 2
Miljana D. Jovanović, Goran Damljanović – Spectral index variability of 12 blazars
Michal Bilek – Imprint of the galactic acceleration scale on globular cluster systems
Peter Macgregor - Odd Radio Circles
Sanja Tošić, Vladimir Srećković – New dataset for electron impact processes involving molecular ions of astrophysical importance
Željka Nikitović – Cross Sections and Swarm Coefficients for H+, H2+ and H3+ in H2
Aleksandra Kolarski – Response of the Earth’s Lower Ionosphere to High Class X-Ray Solar Flare Events by Analysis of VLF Signals
Ana Lalović, Sladjana Knežević – Study of NGC4473: double-sigma galaxy
Nicolás Guerra Varas – SiO Outflows in the Most Luminous and Massive Protostellar Sources of the Southern Sky

Event Venue

Event venue location info and gallery

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade

The conference will take place in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, in the building of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which is located in the very center of the city.

The exact address of the venue is:
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Knez Mihajlova 3 5, Belgrade


Virtual tour through SANU


Astronomical Observatory

You can visit Astronomical Observatory on Saturday at 11h. Guided tour will last approximately 1 hour.

If you are comming by taxi, the exact address is:
Volgina 7, Zvezdara.

If you are comming by bus, you should take bus 65, direction to "Zvezdara 2" and get off on last bus stop.
Closest bus stop to the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts is "Zeleni venac". You can buy bus ticket at the driver, but be aware that you should prepare exact amount of money for the ticket, since there can be a problem if they don't have the change. Bus ticket (in one direction) is 50 dinars.

Registration

is now closed!

Registered participants

Nataša Todorović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Milan Dimitrijević, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Jasmina Blečić, New York University Abu Dhabi
Aleksandra Kolarski, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Marcel S. Pawlowski, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam (AIP), Germany
Ivana Milić Žitnik, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Željka Nikitović, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
Sanja Tošić, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Sanja Milošević Govedarević, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
Miroslav Mićić. AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Ana Lalović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Dejan Urošević, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Luka Č. Popović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Miroslav Filipović, Western Sidney University, Australia
Peter Macgregor, Western Sidney University, Australia
Claudia Raiteri, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy
Alok Chandra Gupta, ARIES, India
Jelena Petrović, AOB, Belgrade Serbia
Michal Bilek, Paris Observatory, France
Ana Mitrašinović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Dragana Ilić, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Andjelka Kovačević, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Brankica Kubatova, Astronomical Institute AS CR, Czech Republic
Miroslava Vukčević, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Liudmila Kolupaeva, JINR, Russia
Saša Dujko, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Nina, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Surjit Wadhwa, Western Sidney University, Australia
Miljana D. Jovanović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Goran Damljanović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Marija Janković, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Kovačević Dojčinović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Atila Čeki, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Olivera Latković, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Maxim Gonchar, JINR, Russia
Sladjana Marčeta Mandić, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Majda Smole, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Slobodan Ninković, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Milan Stojanović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Srdjan Samurović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Sladjana Knežević, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Nikola Knežević, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Sanja Lazarevic, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Dmitry Naumov, JINR, Russia
Stanislav Milošević, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Monika Jurković, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Darryl Seligman, Cornell University, USA
Rozov Sergey, JINR, Russia
Evgeny Yakushev, JINR, Russia
Bojan Arbutina, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Božilović, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Sonja Vidojević, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Zoran Simić, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Rade Pavlović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Oliver Vince, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Damnjan Milić, Petnica Science Center, Serbia
Sara Savić, MATF, Belgrade Serbia
Dragan Lukic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
Nikola Veselinović, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
Kristina Racković Babić, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Slobodan Jankov, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Ivan Milić, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Vladimir Zeković, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Vera Prokić, Gimnazija “Svetozar Marković” Niš, Serbia
Marko Stalevski, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Kristina Klopić, MATF; Belgrade, Serbia
Damiano Caprioli, University of Chicago, USA
Zorica Cvetković, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Filip Arnaut, Institute of Physics, Belgrade Serbia
Dušan Marčeta, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Milena Jovanović, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Milan Milošević, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia
Anastasia Yavorova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Ivana Damjanov, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Evgeny Smirnov, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Nedeljko Todorović, Serbia
Natalija Janc, Serbia
Milivoj Gavrilov, Serbia
Momchil Dechev, BAN, Bulgaria
Vladimir Srećković, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
Nataša Bon, AOB, Belgrade Serbia
Edi Bon, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Branislav Rovčanin, Public Astronomical Observatory Kalemegdan, Belgrade
Petr Kurfürst, Ph.D. Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Wolfram Kollatschny, Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics, Germany
Mauricio Cabezas, Astronomical Institute AS CR, Czech Republic
Dajana Bjelajac, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Milica Vučetić, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Milan Bogosavljević, New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Mirjana Pović, ESSTI, EORC, Ethiopia, CSIC, Spain, MUST, Uganda
Maja Vučković, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Dušan Onić, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Samir Salim, Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, USA
Branislav Vukotić, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Juan Garces Letelier, Universidad de Conception, Chile
Zoran Tomić, Astronomsko udruženje Eureka, Kruševac, Serbia
Olga Atanacković, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Jovan Aleksić, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Petar Kostić, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Marina Pavlović, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
Ivana Ebrova, FZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Jasmina Horvat, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Nataša Pavlov, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia
Maša Lakićević, AOB, Belgrade, Serbia
Nada Pejović, MATF, Belgrade, Serbia