As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

... Matrices and their invariants, such as order, rank, determinant, play an outstanding role in mathematics. ... To be a little more precise, nonzero square matrices of order $r+1$ (modulo multiplication by a nonzero constant) are represnted by points of the projective space $\Bbb P^{(r+1)^2-1}$. Geometrically, we consider the subvariety of matrices of rank one which is just the Segre variety $S=\Bbb P^r\times\Bbb P^r\subset\Bbb P^{(r+1)^2-1}$. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Investigation of stability of NEAs orbital resonance motions by numerical methods L. E. Bykova Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia The problem of orbital stability of resonance Near­Earth asteroids (NEAs) is considered. Most of NEAs have multiple close approaches to the inner ma­ jor planets. ... The technique of the investigation of NEAs orbital stability has been devel­ oped by author on the basis of the construction of possible motion domains (R) of asteroids. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... As sketched in Fig. 3, registered images are influenced by fractions of the original signal from outside the domain of measured data. ... Inner Region . ... A rigorous solution which completely avoids the boundary problem is the extension of the region of restoration by the extent of the point spread function. If the extent of the measured data is 512 512 and the extent of the point spread function is 256 256, the extent of the region of the restoration should be (512 + 256) (512 + 256) = 768 768. ...

... R.A. = 00h55m04s.86, Decl. = -37 41'43".7 . ... Variable star in NGC 1511 . ... Variable star near Pegasus 2001bn IAUC 8624 BV anon 2001bh 7622 K star ugc11635 2001dh 7482 M star ic5374 1999db 7227 QSO anon 1999dc 7227 AGN anon 1999cx 7210 AGN anon 1999cu 7210 AGN anon 1999bs 7141 cat var ugc11093 1998di 6982 dwarf nova anon 1993U 5818 QSO anon 1993V 5818 QSO anon 1992W 5517 M star mcg 8-23-96 1992X 5517 M star mcg 6-32-24 1991ap 5327 QSO anon 1989Z 5162 var ngc4013 1985J 4059 CV ugc6274 ? ...

... A well known problem with EOP prediction is that a prediction strategy proved to be the best for some testing period and prediction length may not remain as such for other period of time. In this paper we consider possible strategies to combine EOP predictions made using different analysis techniques to obtain a final prediction with the best accuracy corresponding to the least prediction error between input predictions. ... C2 ­ best previous prediction for given length. ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

... Likhachev, S., Ladygin, V., & Guirin, I. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... In VLBI, generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging (MFI) consists of multi-frequency synthesis (MFS) and multi-frequency analysis (MFA) of the VLBI data obtained from observations on various frequencies. ... 2003). ... Likhachev, S. F., Ladygin, V. A., & Guirin, I. A. 2003, Lebedev Phys. Institute Preprint, 31, 30p. Likhachev, S. F.,Multi-Frequency Imaging for VLBI, Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy, in print. ...

A problem, that can arise when moving from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, is dependent on a usual deviation from the standard, and has to do especially with user programs. ... With many Fortran 77 implementations we wrote PROGRAM TEST REAL X WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Give X = ',$) READ(*,*) X WRITE(*,*) X END In Fortran 90 we use "non-advancing I/O" instead. ... In some old Fortran dialects the statement TYPE was used to write on a typewriter terminal and PRINT was used to write on the line printer. ...

... Ionization Properties of the Dusty Mesosphere . Boris A. Klumov, Sergey I.Popel Institute for Dynamics of Geopsheres, Russia . ... The problem of influence of the dynamics and charging of dust particles on the ionization properties of the polar summer mesosphere is considered. ... We introduce the notion "dusty mesosphere" for the layer of the mesosphere at the altitudes of approximately 80-90 km, where the conditions for the nucleation and formation of macro (dust) particles are fulfilled. ...

... The only officially supported Mac OSX version is the 10.2. The reason is that the XMM-Newton SOC are so far short on Mac hardware. ... The SOC can offer also some support to users running SAS on this platform (we have a machine under OSX 10.3 used for testing purposes). The same Mac binaries have been tested on a Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) platform by our colleagues in the XMM-Newton Support Facility of NASA's Goddard Flight Center in the framework of the SAS 6.5 Scientific Validation. ...

... Events INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT OF THE PROPULSION ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT . ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT OF THE PROPULSION ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT . ... Development prospects and use of engines for aviation, space - rocket systems, motor transport mechanical engineering and stationary power supply installations . ... Propulsion engineering, power engineering and space vehicle ecology problems . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

... Re : Problem in doing RAW SOCKET Programming (anjali sharma) . ... But it doesn't bother about * checksum, unique sequence id, etc. */ # include sys/types.h # include sys/socket.h # include sys/time.h # include netdb.h # include netinet/in_systm.h # include netinet/in.h # include netinet/ip.h # include netinet/ip_ icmp .h /* My own ICMP structure */ struct myicmp { unsigned char icmp _type; unsigned char icmp _code; unsigned short ...

Next: The Newton--Raphson Method. Up: Fitting of Data Previous: Fitting of Data . ... In a linear problem, if the errors on the observations have a gaussian distribution, the ``Maximum Likelihood Principle'' gives you the ``best estimate'' of the parameters as the solution of the so-called ``Least Squares Minimization'' that follows: . ... A certain number of numerical methods have been developed to solve the non--linear least squares problem, four have so far been implemented in MIDAS. ...

... The RCB carbon abundance remains an enigma ([ Asplund et al. ... The strength of a stellar absorption line represents the ratio of line opacity to continuous opacity in the atmosphere; both are related to the number density of the absorbing atoms and so provide the number ratio of line absorbers to continuum absorbers. ... Since the predominant continuum absorber in RCB atmospheres is neutral carbon, it has not yet proved possible to measure the carbon abundance from carbon absorption lines. ...

... Russia . ... SPb University, Russia . ... The planned colloquium is a part of JENAM-2000 , so in this Information letter, a short description of this meeting is given. ... The Registration and accommodation are common both for main JENAM-2000 meeting and all Connected Colloquia. All potential participants should fill in some or all of the forms: . Registration form . ... A filling in the Registration form for the main JENAM-2000 meeting is mandatory for receiving the support. ...

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

DFS Trouble Shooting . ... According to symptoms usually observed by users, the most probable causes are described, and corresponding solutions proposed. First symptom as it can be observed by a user . Optional) Second symptom as it can be observed by a user First possible cause . Optional) Second possible cause First proposed solution: Describe step by step the procedure to fix the problem. ... Optional) Second proposed solution: Describe step by step the procedure to fix the problem. ...