The 8th BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop (BAWG 2022) will be held during October 18 – 20, 2022. This meeting is hosted by the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
The first BRICS Astronomy Working Group Workshop started in 2015, when the Astronomy Working Group was established. It is held every year by different BRICS countries since then. Following the success of the previous seven BAWG meetings, BAWG 2022 is a continuation of the efforts to promote scientific collaboration in the frontiers of astronomy among scientists in all the BRICS countries and beyond, and is open to all scientists who are
interested. The BAWG meeting will be held over 3 days with the BRICS Astronomy Workshop on the first two days and the last day reserved for the BRICS Astronomy Working Group meeting.
Based on the resolutions of the BAWG 2019 meeting, the BRICS Astronomy flagship project ‘The BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network (BITDN)’ was established, which plans to involve forefront observational facilities and the big data/compute infrastructure to conduct research in the area of time domain astronomy. This flagship astronomy project is a collaborative scientific enterprise, drawing on the strengths of all five BRICS partners, while at the same time seeking to address in-country socioeconomic development challenges. The development of the flagship project will therefore form the main theme of this meeting: *“The BITDN Flagship programme: Transients, Surveys and Time Domain Astronomy”.*
Agenda, Logistics and Registration: The BAC meeting will be held over 3 days with the BRICS Astronomy Workshop on the first two days and the last day reserved for the BRICS Astronomy Working Group meeting.
Due to Covid restrictions, the event will be held virtually.
Event Website:
Please register here https://bawg2022.casconf.cn/register by October 10, 2022.
https://bawg2022.casconf.cn/page/1559426381950095361
The meeting will be held on 18 – 20 October 2022 and is hosted by the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).
Time Zones: 19:00 (GMT+08:00) China = 08:00 (GMT-3:00) Brazil = 13:00 (GMT+2:00) South Africa = 14:00 (GMT+3:00) Russia = 16:30 (GMT+5:30) India
*Scientific Organizing Committee*: David Buckley (Chair, SAAO, South Africa); Ulisses Barres (CBPF, Brazil); Oleg Malkov (INASAN, Russia); Amitesh Omar (ARIES, India); Chenzhou Cui (NAOC, China)
For correspondence, please contact the following:
The BRICS Astronomy Project Coordinator, Duduzile Kubheka, Email: duduzile@saao.ac.za and DSI contact point, Audrey Dikgale, Email: Audrey.Dikgale@dst.gov.za.