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		 "VARIABLE STARS"
International scientific conference, devoted to the
90-th Anniversary of the birth of V.P. Tsessevich (1907-1983)
September 1-5, 1997

Astronomical Observatory, Odessa State University
T.G. Shevchenko Park
Ukraine, 270014, Odessa
Tel./Fax:038+0482+228442
E-mail: root@meteor.odessa.ua
(only for the conference, please do NOT send messages >3 KILObytes)

		FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT.

                (Please post on the wall!)

		The conference is organized by:
	the Astronomical Observatory of the Odessa State University and
	the Odessa Astronomical Society
		with support from
	the International Astronomical Society (Moscow),
	the Ukrainian Astronomical Association,
	the International Science Foundation,
	the Odessa regional government,
	the Odessa city government


Vladimir Platonovich TSESSEVICH will remain in the memory of his pupils 
and colleagues as a tireless researcher of variable stars, having made
outstanding contributions to the study of binary, pulsating and eruptive
stars. He authored 653 scientific works, including 20 monographs. The 
popular scientific books and lectures of V.P. Tsessevich have motivated
many young people in astronomy and remain a valuable contribution to 
astronomical education and human culture. The book "What and how to 
observe on the sky", first appeared half century ago, has been published
in six editions and some hundreds of thousands of copies.

Having published his first scientific work in 1922, V.P. Tsessevich
investigated variable stars for more than half a century. He observed and
photometrically classified many hundreds of variable stars. At the end of 
1944 he went to Odessa, where has soon headed the Astronomical
Observatory of the University, and then the Astronomy chair. For 4 
years he was also the director of the Ukrainian Main Astronomical
Observatory in Golosiiv near Kiev. 

Under his management the OSU Astronomical Observatory was 
transformed into a large institution with a wide variety of astronomical
directions. There are 2 observational stations near Odessa and 3 in
other republics of the former Soviet Union (now Independent States).
The collection of the Sky Patrol plates contains ~100,000 negatives
making this collection the third largest in the world after Harvard and
Sonneberg.

Being a famous scientist, excellent teacher, and brilliant popularizer of
science, V.P. Tsessevich was stranger to superciliousness and was equally
close to colleagues as he was to beginners and amateurs. He was a cheerful,
fascinating, and witty man, who presented others with prominent ideas.
He was a Professor in the best meaning of this word.
Today V.P. Tsessevich lives in the hearts of the people who knew him 
personally and through his work.

Scientific topic of the conference:
	The theoretical modeling and observational results
	on variable stars of various types
with special attention to:
	Close binary systems,
	Pulsating stars,
	Stellar cataclysms,
	Variable Gamma, X-ray and radio sources,
	Solar and stellar activity,
	and International cooperation in variable star research.

Publications: "Odessa Astronomical Publications", 1997, vol. 10.
Volume: 4 journal pages for the reviews and 2 for the original reports.

Accommodation: Equivalent of 20-90 USD per night.
Registration fee: Equivalent of 150 USD.

Deadline for submission of the applications is April 16, 1997
Deadline for confirmation of arrival is August 26, 1997
Deadline for submission of materials for the publication is September 3, 1997
   (please do NOT send via e-mail!)

Scientific Organizing Committee:
V.G.Karetnikov - Director of the Astronomical Observatory of OSU,
	Vice-president of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association - chairman;
I.L.Andronov - Professor of Department of Astronomy of OSU - executive
	chairman;
N.G.Bochkarev - Chairman of the International Astronomical Society (Moscow);
A.A.Boyarchuk - Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of
	the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Director of the Inst. for Astronomy RAS;
R.E.Gershberg - Head of the Department of stellar astrophysics
	of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory;
Yu.N.Gnedin - Vice-director of the Main Astronomical Observatory of RAS
M.I.Ryabov - Chairman of the Odessa Astronomical Society;
N.N.Samus - Main editor of the "General Catalogue of Variable Stars"
	and journal "Variable Stars";
A.M.Cherepashchuk - Director of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute;
Ya.S.Yatskiv - President of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association,
	Director of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukrainian National
	Academy of Sciences.

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                        REGISTRATION CARD
of the participant of the International scientific conference "Variable Stars"
devoted to the 90-th Anniversary of the birth of V.P.Tsessevich (1907-1983)
September 1-5, 1996

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