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NAS RA V. Ambartsumian Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
Press release 18.09.2020

CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS AND BIG DATA 2 (ASBD-2)

Today, 18 September, was the last day and the closing ceremony of the International Symposium “Astronomical Surveys and Big Data 2” (ASBD-2) (https://www.bao.am//meetings/meetings/ASBD2/).

It was the 2nd meeting of this type organized by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, to which 91 astronomers and computer scientists from 24 countries took part.

During the meeting talks were presented by Areg Mickaelian (director of BAO), Oleg Malkov (Russia), co-founder of Astroinformatics Ashish Mahabal (USA), Chair of International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) Chenzhou Cui (China), Alain Sarkissian (France) and others.

Topics discussed during the Symposium are listed below:

• Historical surveys; Byurakan surveys for active galaxies (Markarian, Arakelian, Kazarian) and others
• Surveys for exoplanets
• Surveys for stars and nebulae
• Extragalactic and cosmological surveys
• Digitization of astronomical data
• Astronomical Catalogues, Archives and Databases
• Cross-identifications between surveys and discovery of new objects
• Future large-area surveys
• Big Data in Astronomy
• Data Science
• Computational Astrophysics, Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics
• Virtual Observatories

All the presentations are available online: https://www.bao.am/meetings/meetings/ASBD2/programme.html.

Meline Asryan