| Time (Moscow, UTC+03:00) | Content |
|---|---|
| Thursday September 24 | BRICS Astronomy Workshop |
| 14:00-14:10 | Meeting Opening – Representative of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation – Representative of the Ural Federal University |
| 14:10-15:25 | Session 1: – Towards a BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network David Buckley (SAAO, South Africa) – Big Data in the Era of Survey Science Russ Taylor (IDIA, South Africa) – Benefits to Society Carolina Odman (IDIA, South Africa) – Optical Transient Network: prospects for NEOs detection and monitoring Boris Shustov (INASAN, Russia) – China VO and FAST Chenzhou Cui (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS) |
| 15:25-15:40 | Break (15 min) |
| 15:40-16:55 | Session 2: – BRICS Telescope Network: prospects for Brazilian contributions to the observation and study of transients Ulisses Barres (CBPF, Brazil) – Efforts toward the 2025 mega-project SITIAN Jifeng Liu (NAOC, China) – Optical transients and Big Data in the context of Indian astronomy programs Amitesh Omar (ARIES, India) – Brazil and the LSST Luiz Nicolaci da Costa (Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia) – Data challenges in radio astronomy toward the SKA Yogesh Wadadekar (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR), India) |
| 16:55-17:00 | Closing discussion and ways forward |
| Time (Moscow, UTC+03:00) | Content |
|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | BRICS Astronomy Working Group Meeting |
| 14:00-14:05 | Opening remarks by the Chair of the Secretariat |
| 14:05-14:15 | Welcoming remarks by the Host |
| 14:15-14:20 | Apologies and approval of the agenda |
| 14:20-14:30 | 2019 BAWG resolutions by the Secretariat |
| 14:30-14:55 | Feedback on Workshop – Brazil (5 min) – Russia (5 min) – India (5 min) – China (5 min) – South Africa (5 min) |
| 14:55-15:05 | Official adoption of the Flagship project with signing by representatives from each country |
| 15:05-15:30 | Discussion on the creation of a legal entity for managing the Flagship project |
| 15:30-15:45 | Break (15 min) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Venue, date and topic of next Workshop and Working Group meeting |
| 16:00-17:00 | Adoption of Resolutions and closure of the meeting – Final remarks by Russia – Final remarks by Brazil – Final remarks by India – Final remarks by China – Final remarks by South Africa |