Binary stars in Brno – the BinKey conference
During the second week of June, I travelled from Prague to the Czech Republic’s second city of Brno, some 200 km to the south-east of Prague in the province of Moravia. The purpose was to participate in a conference named BinKey – on binary stars as a key to the comprehension of the universe. The meeting attracted over 150 participants from many parts of the world, but predominantly from eastern and central Europe, countries which 20 years ago were behind the Iron Curtain, but now transformed into thriving free economies. I met no-one from these eastern European countries who didn’t agree that life, and especially scientific life, was not now much better than it was two decades earlier, in spite of the many current economic problems that we all face.
In Zelny Trh, a square in central Brno
