LECTURERS ABSTRACTS  the times and dates to be discussed.

YOU REALY DON'T NEEAD THE TELESCOPE!
Steno Ferluga (Italia), ferluga@ts.astro.it

ABSTRACT: Provocative as ever, Steno Ferluga, (research astronomer, Uni.prof, socially involved if fight against pseudo science) want to demonstrate that to do, a cutting edge, astronomical research you really don't need the telescope.  This lecture would be the eleventh of his series,  during the VSA-s, on creative approach to science.
    Various astronomical databases are public domain now, and in some cases only 10% of data in are analyzed (NASA and ESA satellites and orbiting observatories data, various images databases of ground based observatories). ).  These databases are a "golden mine" for computer skilled young scientists that have new ideas.

EXPLODING STARS: SOME RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Giovanni Sostero (Italia), Giovanni.Sostero@elettra.trieste.it

ABSTRACT: The final stages for the evolution of a solar-sized star, could be rather boring. Our Sun is believed to burn gently its nuclear fuel for some more billion years now, as a white dwarf, ending its life as a dark and cold stellar relic. In some other cases, the stellar evolution lead to a more intriguing and spectacular end, whit the star exploding as a Supernova (SN), either for core collapse or thermonuclear runaway. The author will discuss how the SN scenario has changed during the last decade, as few well observed SNe explosions has changed the mind of astronomers.

THE ASTROPHYSICAL PEDIATRICS: WHAT WE  (D'ONT) KNOW ABOUT THE STELLAR CHILDHOOD
Dejan Vinkovic (USA), dejan@ccs.uky.edu

ABSTRACT: Our knowledge about the star formation is based on observations of a light coming from protostellar systems. Advances of the observational techniques in astronomy have given us opportunity to learn more than ever
before, but the observations can not help us if we do not know how to interpret them. Theoretical problems are so complex that many fundamental questions about the protostellar evolution are still not answered. I'll give a brief introduction to this evolution and demonstrate the theoretical difficulties by the recent explanation of the contradictory observations of massive protostellar objects.
  The lecture slides on web: http://www.ccs.uky.edu/~dejan/Public/VSA2000/
 

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