6th Maidanak Users Meeting	
Start Date: Nov 1, 2021	Start Time: 10:00 am (UT+5)	
Last Day: Nov 3, 2021	Next MUM-7: to be decided	

Agenda Item	Schedule	Time	Speaker	
Nov 1. Opening session	
Wake up participants, connection check, registration, greetings	9:00 am	60		
Opening of the meeting	10:00 am	15	Sh. Ehgamberdiev,
director of UBAI	
Welcome address from Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences	10:15 am	15	B. Yuldashev, 
President of UzAS	
Session 1: Current status of the Maidanak observatory and logistics	
Chairman: Sh. Ehgamberdiev (UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Astronomy in Uzbekistan: general overview	10:30 am	30	Sh. Ehgamberdiev
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Maidanak observatory: telescopes, equipment and their condition	11:00 am	30	O. Burkhanov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Status of the Internet and LAN 
at Maidanak observatory	11:30 am	30	Y. Tillayev
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Coffee break	12:00 pm	30		

Session 2: Current projects and scientific output	
Chairman: D. Bisikalo (INASAN, Russia)	
				
Lunch	1:00 pm	60		
Observations of gravitational lenses at high quality conditions 
of the Maidanak observatory	2:00 pm	20	I. Asfandiyarov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Preliminary light curves of double GLQ SDSSJ2124+1632 and SDSSJ0806+2006	2:20 pm	20	T. Akhunov
(National University of Uzbekistan)	
Chairman: A. Serebryanskiy (FAI, Kazakhstan)	
Astrophysical Observable Properties of Black Holes and Neutron Stars	2:40 pm	20	B. Ahmedov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Monitoring of SN explosions 
at Maidanak observatory	3:00 pm	20	D. Mirzaqulov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Observation with Astrotel – telescope	3:20 pm	20	R. Karimov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Coffee break	3:40 pm	20		
Chairman: Y. Tillayev (UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Application of wavelet analysis 
for long-term variation search	4:00 pm	20	Y. Minenko
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Machine Learning Techniques 
for Light Curves Analysis. Variable stars	4:20 pm	20	A. Halikova
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Uzbek−Chinese cooperation 
on UBAI photographic archive digitization	4:40 pm	20	Q. Yuldoshev
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	

Nov 2. Second day	
Session 2: Current projects and scientific output (Cont.)	
Chairman: Myungshin Im (SNU, South Korea)	
15 years of SNUCAM at Maidanak	10:00 am	30	Myungshin Im
(Seoul National University, South Korea)	
Observational studies 
of SN 2017ein and a peculiar transient AT2018cow	10:30 am	20	Danfeng Xiang 
(Tsing Hua university, China)	
Constraints on the Progenitor System of a Type Ia SN 2019ein from the Early Light Curve 	10:50 am	20	Gu Lim 
(Seoul National University, South Korea)	
Maidanak observatory for observations of astrophysical transients	11:10 am	30	Alexei Pozanenko
(Space Research Institute (IKI), Russia)	
Coffee break	11:40 am	20		
Chairman: A. Pozanenko (IKI, Russia)	
GRB 201015A: from seconds to months optical monitoring and supernova discovery	12:00 pm	20	Sergey Belkin 
(IKI, Russia)	
Recent peculiar GRB-related counterparts observed with 
AZT-22 at Maidanak	12:20 pm	20	Alina Volnova
(IKI, Russia)	
Site testing at MAO: recent results	12:40 pm	20	Y. Tillayev
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Lunch	1:00 pm	60		

Chairman: O. Serhyeyev (Nice Observatory, France)	
Comparison between the Maidanak Observatory observations and the reference azimuthal offsets in “star cluster - H II region” pairs in NGC 628 from the Hubble Space Telescope observations	2:00 pm	30	F. Sakhibov / A.Gusev
(University of Applied Sciences of Mittelhessen, Friedberg, Germany / SAI, Russia)	
GRANDMA and Maidanak: towards O4 LIGO/Virgo observing run	2:30 pm	20	Sarah Antier
(Artemis, France)	
Cosmography with time delays 
in lensed quasars	2:50 pm	20	Frédéric Courbin
(EPFL, Switzerland)	
Energy spectra of atmospheric turbulence for Maidanak observatory	3:10 pm	30	A. Shikhovtsev
(INASAN, Russia)	
Coffee break	3:40 pm	20		
Chairman: A. Hojaev (UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Variables in Clusters and Beyond	4:00 pm	20	A. Hojaev
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Solar cycle variation of coronal mass ejections and their impact 
on space weather	4:20 pm	20	Z. Mirtoshev
(Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan)	
Orbital inclination changes of eclipsing binaries (Nodal motion)	4:40 pm	20	A. Matekov
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	

Nov 3. Third day	
Session 3: Future prospects	
Chairman: Takashi Ito (NAOJ, Japan)	
On collaboration between UBAI and FAI: instrumentation development, installation and upgrade in Maidanak	10:00 am	20	A.Serebryanskiy
(Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Kazakhstan)	
Practical use and capabilities of the AZT-20 telescope of Assy-Turgen observatory	10:20 am	20	Vitaliy Kim 
(HSE, FAI, Russia)	
Building an Affordable 4m Class Optical Telescope	10:40 am	30	Padmakar Parihar
(Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India)	
Coffee break	11:10 am	20		
Chairman: Zhou Fan (NAOC, China)	
Exoasteroid impact flares: 
past and future optical observations at Maidanak	11:30 pm	30	M. Ibragimov
(INASAN, Russia)	
INASAN's experience to build1 m wide field telescopes. A proposal to build 1 m telescope with field of view of 12 square degrees and 9×9 k CMOS detector for Maidanak observatory	12:00 pm	30	Andrey Shugarov (INASAN, Russia)	
A new plate digitizer with air bearing platform	12:30 pm	30	TANG Zheng-Hong
(Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China)	
Lunch	1:00 pm	60		

Chairman: Sh. Kholikov (NSO, USA)	
The Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT)	2:00 pm	30	C.M. Raiteri
(INAF-OsservatorioAstrofisico di Torino, Italy)	
Asteroids study with Maidanak observatory	2:30 pm	30	P. Pravec
(Ondrejov, Czech Republic)	
Maidanak participation to SVOM project	2:50 pm	20	Bertrand Cordier
(IAP, France)	
Observation of Space Debris 
at Kitab observatory	3:20 pm	20	V. Agapov
(Astronomical Research Center, Russia)	
A potential tool for stellar activity analysis	3:40 pm	20	N. Berdalieva
(UBAI, Uzbekistan)	
Closing the meeting, general discussion