SAASST’s international scientific participations in summer 2022

Ammar Eissa Mohammed Abdulla, Emirati Research Assistant at SAASST and Master’s student in Space Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Sharjah, have participated in the activities of the Sixth edition of the Oukaimeden International School for Astrophysics (OISA2022) in Marrakech, Morocco, organised by the Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Astrophysics (LPHEA) of Cadi Ayyad University and the Oukaimeden Observatory, under the theme “Spectroscopy in Astrophysics” with the support of VIRL-UOS project, a cooperation program between Antrewp University (Belgium) and Cadi Ayyad University (Morocco), in which OISA delivered a wide range of lectures and workshops covering various fields including spectroscopy of variable stars, Near Earth objects spectroscopy, radial Velocity for exoplanets, spectroscopy instrumentation, workshops of data processing, in the presence of a number of PhD, Master students, and astronomers from Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, Tunisia and Lebanon. 

Ammar have also delivered an in-person scientific lecture titled “Lunar Impact Events by Sharjah Lunar Impact Observatory in 2020”, as part of his contribution in the “Astronomical Hazards for Life on Earth” symposium within the International Astronomical Union General Assembly “IAUGA2022”, at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO), South Korea.

In addition, Ammar has had a virtual participation in the activities of the “Multifaceted Universe: Theory and Observations” conference, which was held recently in Russia and was organised by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), where he presented a summary of his research entitled “Spotting Black Holes as Lens Masses in Astrometric Microlensing Events ”, in the presence of a large number of scholars and specialists in the field of Astronomy and Space Sciences from Russia and other countries from across the globe.