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The cycle of seminars 'Astrodebate' and the network project 'The Galaxy Zoo

- Astrodebate is a cycle of (nearly) weekly seminars of the astrophysical group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. There were 85 seminars in the last 5 years, from these there were 34 lectures of foreign guests and 17 seminars led by our students. - The Galaxy Zoo, with A. Slosar as one of its main organizers, is a network initiative where 100.000 volunteers (i.e. non-astronomers) visually classified 40 million galaxies. The results matches well with expectations. The project already spawned also the first scientific results, with 2 papers published in the IF)5 journals

F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)

COBISS.SI-ID: 281473

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The programe leader serves as a project scientist of the RAVE collaboration.

The collaboration joins some 60 scientists from 10 countries (European ones, plus Australia, USA and Canada). He was selected for this assignement during the RAVE collaboration annual meeting in Coonabarabran in Australia in July 2005. As a project scientist he is responsible for the scientific quality of the collaboration's scientific results. The collaboration published the largest spectroscopically determined set of physical stellar parameter values so far.

D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects

COBISS.SI-ID: 309377

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„RAVE collaboration meeting“, Hotel Union, Ljubljana, April 2006

The annual meeting was kindly opened by dr. Franci Demšar, the director of the Slovenian Research Agency and welcomed by the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics prof. Slobodan Žumer. The participants from 10 countries discussed the first scientific results of the collaboration, established a plan for the public data releases, and assigned the scientists responsible for their publication. The meeting participants were also some other teaching personnel from the Faculty and notably a significant number of pre-diploma and PhD students.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 268161

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Arrhenius stupendium 2004, World Meteorological Organisation award, Project of the Year of The Times, 3 prestigious post-doc stipends

- N. Žagar was awarded the Arrhenius Stipendium 2004, the award of the International Meteorological Organisation, and a post-doc stipend at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder - A. Gomboc won (as a RoboNet member) the award for the best Research Project of the Year by the high education supplement of The Times newspaper . - A. Slosar was invited to join the Nobel Prize laureate G. Smoot at his cosmological institute at Berkeley as a fellow - S. Vidrihu won a Humboldt fellowship at ARI in Heidelberg and an ESA followship at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.

E.02 International awards

COBISS.SI-ID: 280193

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Prof. Jože Rakovec has served 3 terms as the president of the Technical Committee of COST for the field of meteorology (EU RTD FP)

A description of COST meteorological activities is in www.cost.esf.org/index.php. Similar projects: COST 719 – participation (http://www.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=219&action_number=719), FORALPS – active participation and membership in the supervisory board of the project (www.unitn.it/foralps/), EUMETSAT - ”Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Sampling Scenarios” (leadership). Also coolaboration with EUMETSAT (European Organization for Meteorological Satellites), KNMI (Royal Duch Meteorological Institute) and MISU (Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University).