Space Science Days 2018

On 4 October 1957 the launch of Sputnik-1 marked the beginning of the Space Age. To commemorate the event, to promote awareness of the history and current status of space exploration and research within scientific community and general public IKI — Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences — runs an annual meeting in the early October.

Space Science Days 2018

Scientific session Planets: Faraway, So Close
14:30–15:00	Arrival and visiting IKI’s museum Special display “Open Space” (in collaboration with partners)	Exhibition hall
15:00–16:30	Mars	Conference hall
	Acad. Lev Zelenyi (IKI) Road to Mars
	Dr. Oleg Korablev (IKI) ACS: first atmospheric observations at Mars
	Dr. Igor Mitrofanov (IKI) FREND: First results of Mars’s neutron mapping.
16:30-17:00	Pluto and beyond
	Dr. Adriana Ocampo (NASA) New Horizons: fly by of a new object in the Kuiper Belt
17:00-17:20	Coffee break
17:20–17:50	Mercury
	Dr. Leonid Ksanfomality (IKI) Mercury: an unusual planet
17:50–18:20	Exoplanets
	Dr. Valery Shematovich (INASAN) Exoplanets studies: current status
18:20–18:30	Closing speech

IKI’s Doors Open Day
12:00–15:00	Welcome and introduction	Conference hall
	Lectures
	Dr. Alina Volnova (IKI) Gravitational waves and space gamma-ray bursts
	Prof. Alexander Polnarev (Queen Mary University of London) Four windows of the Gravitational wave astronomy
	Visiting IKI’s museum and special display “Open Space”	Exhibition hall

my_location Address: Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Profsoyuznaya str., 84/32, entrance А-4. How to get to IKI.