Cologne-Prague-Brno meeting 2022

Black-hole activity feedback from Bondi-radius to galaxy-cluster scales

2022 June 1-3 * Brno, Czechia

Location

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the South Moravian Region with a population of almost 400.000 people. It is a modern city with a focus on high-technology industry, trade, science, information technology, research and innovation with business incubators and centres of excellence in science. Brno is a city of universities with more than 86,000 students and 3 university campuses. Most of the Czech space industrial companies are located in the Brno technological park. It is a dynamic lively city with plenty of restaurants, shops and cultural centres. While it only has a small international airport, there are train/bus connections to larger airports in Vienna and Prague. More information on logistics will be communicated at a later date.


The host institute is the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, which is currently one of the most productive and progressive astronomical institutes in the Czech Republic.

Venue

The CPB2022 meeting will take place at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. This modern and architecturally beautiful venue in a hilltop park, with great views, in the middle of Brno, is ideal for medium size conferences. It provides modern audiovisual equipment, excellent Wi-Fi connection and additional rooms for side meetings and discussions. The venue provides much needed flexibility, including the possibility of organising a hybrid event, with part of the participants connected remotely.

Travel

Brno Main Railway Station (Brno Hlavní nádraží) is reachable by direct train connections from Prague and Vienna. The Main Railway station (Brno Hlavní nádraží) is located essentially in the city center close to Náměstí Svobody. When you travel from Brno Hlavní nádraží to the meeting venue - Observatory and Planetarium Brno (Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno) - the easiest is to take tram number 4 to the square at the top of Kraví hora (305 meters above the sea level; German: Kuhberg or Urnberg; hantec: Monte Bú, folk: Kravák; English: Cow Mountain) - Náměstí Míru. The Brno Planetarium and Observatory is then within 5 minutes of walking distance across the nearby park (see the map below).

For planning the travel itinerary and buying the train tickets to Brno from Prague or Vienna, the best option is to use the portal of Czech railways or Austrian railways. For Polish participants, the best connection to Brno is via Ostrava-Svinov. To Ostrava-Svinov, you can find connections from Warsaw or Kraków via the PKP webportal .

Accommodation

You can search for convenient hotels in Brno at booking.com or airbnb. A convenient option - also for students - is B&B Hotel University Brno. Then we can also recommend Hotel Kozák, Hotel Continental, and Hotel International. In case you are currently having a nuclear-war anxiety, you can consider booking accommodation in the nuclear shelter 10-Z.

Program

1.6. - Wednesday

2.6. - Thursday

3.6. - Friday

Participants

  1. Martin Kološ, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava
  2. Michal Zajaček, Masaryk University, Brno
  3. Florian Peissker, University of Cologne
  4. Munawwar Khanduwala, University of Cologne
  5. Vladimír Karas, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
  6. S. Elaheh Hosseini, University of Cologne
  7. Persis Misquitta, University of Cologne
  8. Harshitha Bhat, University of Cologne
  9. Bozena Czerny, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw
  10. Rainer Schödel, IAA-CSIC, Granada
  11. Álvaro Martínez, IAA-CSIC, Granada
  12. Kristýna Janoušková, Masaryk University, Brno
  13. Dan Hu, Masaryk University, Brno
  14. Andreas Eckart, University of Cologne
  15. Tomáš Plšek, Masaryk University, Brno
  16. Lukas Steiniger, University of Cologne
  17. Petr Kurfürst, Masaryk University, Brno
  18. Jean-Paul Breuer, Masaryk University, Brno
  19. Romana Grossová, Masaryk University, Brno & Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  20. Mikołaj Korzyński, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw
  21. Norbert Werner, Masaryk University, Brno
  22. Jiří Horák, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  23. Ladislav Šubr, Astronomical Institute, Charles University
  24. Silke Britzen, Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn
  25. Michal Bursa, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  26. Giorgio Matt, Roma Tre University
  27. Marcel Štolc, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  28. Arman Tursunov, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava
  29. Maria Melamed, University of Cologne
  30. Lena Großekathöfer, University of Cologne
  31. Anna Wójtowicz, Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University
  32. Agnieszka Janiuk, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw
  33. Vikram Kumar Jaiswal, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw
  34. Kristína Kallová, Masaryk University, Brno
  35. Peter Boorman, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  36. Petra Suková, Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  37. Bestin James, Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw
  38. Diego Calderón , Charles University
  39. Ana Laura Müller , ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  40. Matej Kosiba , Masaryk University, Brno & University of Turin
  41. Nadeen B. Sabha , Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck
  42. Abhijeet Borkar , Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
  43. Orsolya Kovács , Masaryk University, Brno
  44. Carter Rhea, University of Montreal
  45. Berenika Čermáková , Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava
  46. Anabella Araudo , ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Organizing Committees

The meeting programme is coordinated by the Scientific Organizing Committe:
  • Vladimír Karas (chair; Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Prague; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)
  • Andreas Eckart (University of Cologne)
  • Norbert Werner (Masaryk University, Brno)
The meeting management and practical organization is supported by the Local Organizing Committee:
  • Norbert Werner (Masaryk University, Brno)
  • Petr Kurfürst (Masaryk University, Brno)
  • Jean-Paul Breuer (Masaryk University, Brno)
  • Zuzana Kuljovská (Brno Observatory and Planetarium)
  • Jiří Dušek (Brno Observatory and Planetarium & Czech Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic)
  • Marko Mesarč (Masaryk University, Brno & Brno Observatory and Planetarium)
  • Václav Glos (Masaryk University, Brno)
  • Pavel Suchan (Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

The local organisation is supported by the High Energy Astrophysics Group at Masaryk University.

Meeting poster

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Location

Brno Observatory and Planetarium

Kraví hora 522/2, 616 00 Brno-střed
Czech Republic

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