Manev Conference 2004       
 

"CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF ASTRONOMY, THEORETICAL
AND GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS"

20-22 May, Sofia, Bulgaria

House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Shipchenski Porhod Blvd. # 50
(In front of "Elektornica" OOD, Tram #20, Bus #11)

May 20, Thursday

08.30 – 08.55 – Registration
(House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Shipchenski Porhod Blvd. # 50)

08.55 – 09.00 - Opening

Chairman: Magda Stavinschi

09.00 – 09.20. Lajos G. Balazs, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary
The First 100 Years (1899-1999) of the Konkoly Observatory

09.20 – 09.40. Milan Dimitrijevic, Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Serbs and Astronomy in XVIII and XIX Century

9.40 – 10.00. Nikolina Sretenova, Institute for Philosophical Research, BAS:
a) About some Bulgarian archive documents related with G. Maneff’s scientific career
up to 1935.
b) The Bulgarian scientific community from 1931 as has been seen by the Rockefeller Foundation Archives;

10.00 – 10.20. Milcho Tsvetkov, Institute of Astronomy, BAS, Bulgaria
Manev's Correspondence with Einstein

10.20 – 10.40 – Coffee break

Chairman: Florin Diacu

10.40 – 11.00. Plamen Fiziev, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria
The Gravitational Field of Massive Point Particle in General Relativity

11.00 – 11.20. Stoil Donev, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgaria
Extended Objects in MInkowski Space-Time

11.20 – 11.40. Stoytcho Yazadjiev, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University,
Cosmic Strings Coupled to Dilaton and Axion Waves
 
 

Chairman: Milcho Tsvetkov

13.30-13.50. Speech on behalf of the Rector of the Sofia University (Porf. Dr. Stefan Stoianov)
          Speech on behalf of the President of BAS  (Acad. Nikola Sabotinov, Dr. Sc.)
          Speech on behalf of Romanian Ambasador in Sofia (Minister Consellor Dr. Teodor Tsolea)
          Speech on behalf of Professor Manev’s relatives (Manev's grand-granddaughter Miss Mina Stoeva)

13.50 – 14.20. Florin Diacu, University of Victoria, Canada
On the Classical and Anisotropic Manev Problems

14.20 – 15.15. Ivan  Todorov, INRNE, BAS, Bulgaria
Theoretical Physics and Politics

15.15 – 15.30  Coffe break

Chairman: Vladimir Gerdjikov

15.30 – 16.00. Magda Stavinschi and Vasile Mioc, Astronomical Institute, Romania
Manev's Study, Part of the Bulgarian-Romanian Cooperation

16.00 – 16.30. Vasile Mioc and  Magda Stavinschi, Astronomical Institute, Romania
Why the Manev-Type Model Has to be Studied?

16.30 – 17.00  Teodor Tsolea   Minister Consellor of the Romanian Embassy in Sofia
The theory of energy accumulation and transfer at the  interface: Possible applications
in Astronomy and Gravitational Physics.

Conference dinner in the Sofia University Restaurant "Yaitseto" 19:00

May 21, Friday: Morning session

Chairman: Valery Golev

09.00 – 09.20. Vladimir Gerdjikov, INRNE, BAS, Bulgaria
Selected Aspects of Soliton Theory.

09.20 – 09.40. Sawa Manoff, INRNE, Bulgaria
Radial and Tangential Velocity and Acceleration of an Emitter in Space-Time from a
Proper Frame of Reference of an Observer

09.40 – 10.00.  Stoil Donev, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgaria
Extended Objects in MInkowski Space-Time

10.00 – 10.20.  Daniela Kirilova, Institute of Astronomy, BAS, Bulgaria
Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Oscillations

10.20 – 10.40 – Coffee break

Chairman: Emil Nissimov

10.40 – 11.00. Georgi Grahovski, INRNE, BAS, Bulgaria.
On the multi-component NLS type models and their gauge equivalent.

11.00 – 11.20. Nikolay Kostov, Institute of Electronics, BAS, Bulgaria
Nonlinear waves and related completely integrable systems.

11.20 – 11.40. Petko Nikolov, Tihomir Valchev, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University,
Description of all conformaly invariant differential operators acting on scalar functions.

11.40 – 12.00. Vasil Tzanov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University,
Integrable quaternionic structures.
 

May 21, Friday.  Afternoon session

Chairman: Milan Dimitrievich

15.00 – 15.20. Cristina Blaga, University Babes-Bolyai, Romania
Precessing Orbits, Central Motion and Manev Potential

15.20 – 15.40.  Katya Tsvetkova (1) and Damyan Kalaglarsky (2)
(1) Institute of Astronomy, BAS, Bulgaria
(2) Institute of Space Research, BAS, Bulgaria
Manev's Field Bibliography

15.40 – 16.00.  Cristina Stoica, Surrey University, United Kingdom
Dynamical features of a solar sail model

16.00 – 16.20 – Coffee break

Chairman: Lajos Balasz

16.20 – 16.40. Rodica Roman and Vasile Mioc, Astronomical Institute, Romania
The Influence of the Radiation Pressure on the Geometry  of the Roche Model in Manev Gravitational Field

16.40 – 17.00. Slobodan Ninkovic, Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia
Manev’s terms used in Galactic Astronomy

17.20 – 17.40. Vladimir Gerdjikov(1), Assen Kyuldjiev(2) , Giuseppe Marmo(2), and Gaetano Vilasi(3)
(1) INRNE BAS, Bulgaria; (2) University of Naples, Italy; (3) University of Salerno, Italy.
Real Form Dynamics of the Manev Problem
 

17:40 – 18:20 – Poster session

May 22, Saturday. Morning session

Chairman: Plamen Fiziev

9.00 – 9.20. Eva-Maria Pauli, Institute of Astronomy, University of Nuernberg-Erlangen and
                      Dr. Remeis Observatory, Bamberg,  Germany
The role of white dwarfs in the dark matter problem of the Galaxy.

9.20 – 9.40. Petar Pessev, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Valentin Ivanov (ESO, Chili)
Virtual Infrared Astronomy in Bulgaria.

9.40 – 10.00 Valeri Golev and Ivanka Yankulova. Faculty of Physics, Sofia University,
Composite Starburst/AGN Galaxies - Deviations from the Unified Scheme for
Seyferts.

10.00 – 10.20. Valeri Golev and Denitsa Kirilova, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University,
The Mg2 index and the Fundamental Plane of the Early-type Galaxies.

10.20 – 10.40 – Coffee break

Conference picture

Chairman: Katya Tsvetkova

10.40 – 11.00. Todor Todorov, South-West University-Blagoevgrad and INRNE, BAS,  Bulgaria
On Some Factorization Statements and Applications

11.00 – 11.20. Ivailo Mladenov, Institute of Biophysics, BAS, Bulgaria
(To be announced).

11.20 – 11.40. Radoslav Rashkov, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University,
(To be announced).

Meeting closure

May 22, Saturday afternoon – excursion.

POSTERS

Ganka Kamisheva, Institute of Solid State Physics, BAS, Bulgaria
Lectures in Theoretical Physics by Professor Georges Maneff (1921-1944)

Ganka Kamisheva, Institute of Solid State Physics, BAS, Bulgaria
Predicament of Theoretical Physics Chair at the Sofia University (1925-1935)

Rossen Ivanov (1,2) and Emil Prodanov (1)
(1) Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
(2) INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria
Manev Potential and General Relativity
 

Created: February 2004,                                                                            Íà÷àëî
Updated: May 22, 2004