Proposed Meetings for 2009
Symposia outside the General Assembly
| IAUS 260 | The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture |
| 19 - 23 January 2009, UNESCO, Paris, France SOC Chair: David Valls-Gabaud (Obs. de Paris) LOC Chair: Dominique Proust (Obs. de Paris) Editors: David Valls-Gabaud (Paris) & Alec Boksenberg (Cambridge) Contact: david.valls-gabaud@obspm.fr URL: http://iaus260.obspm.fr |
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| IAUS 261 | Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy |
| 27 April – 1 May 2009, Virginia Beach, VA, USA SOC Chairs: Sergei Klioner (Dresden) & Ken Seidelmann (Virginia, USA) LOC Chair: Michael Efroimsky (US Naval Observatory) Editors: Sergei Klioner, Ken Seidelmann, & Michael Soffel (Dresden) Contact: sergei.klioner@tu-dresden.de URL: http://www.aas.org/divisions/meetings/iau/ |
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| IAUS 268 | Light Elements in the Universe |
| 9 – 13 November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland SOC Chairs: Corinne Charbonnel (Geneva) & Monica Tosi (Bologna) LOC Chair: Corinne Charbonnel Editors: Corinne Charbonnel, Monica Tosi, Francesca Primas (ESO), Cristina Chiappini (Geneva) Contact: corinne.charbonnel@obs.unige.ch |
General Assembly 3 – 14 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Symposia
| IAUS 262 | Stellar Populations: Planning for the next Decade |
| SOC Chairs: Gustavo Bruzual (Venezuela) & Stephane Charlot (IAP, France) Editors: Gustavo Bruzual & Stephane Charlot Contact: bruzual@cida.ve |
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| IAUS 263 | Icy Bodies of the Solar System |
| SOC Chairs: Julio Fernandez (Montevideo), Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (USP, Brazil), Rita Schulz (ESA) Editors: Julio Fernandez, Daniela Lázaro (ON, Brazil), Dina Prialnik (Tel Aviv), Rita Schulz Contact: julio@fisica.edu.uy |
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| IAUS 264 | Solar and Stellar Variability and Impact on Earth and Planets |
| SOC Chairs: Alexandre Andrei (ON, Brazil), Alexander Kosovichev (Stanford), & Jean-Pierre Rozelot (Obs. Côte d’Azur, France) Editors : Alexandre Andrei, Alexander Kosovichev, Jean-Pierre Rozelot Contact : sasha@sun.stanford.edu |
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| IAUS 265 | Chemical Abundances in the Universe : connecting first stars to planets |
| SOC Chairs: Katia Cunha (NOAO/ON, Brazil), Monique Spite (Obs. de Paris), & Beatriz Burbuy (USP, Brazil) Editors: Katia Cunha, Monique Spite, & Beatriz Burbuy Contact: kcunha@noao.edu |
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| IAUS 266 | Star Clusters – basic Galactic building blocks throughout time and space |
| SOC Chairs: Richard de Grijs (Sheffield) & Jacques Lepine (USP) Editors: Richard de Grijs & Jacques Lepine Contact : R.deGrijs@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| IAUS 267 | Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies |
| SOC Chair: Bradley Peterson (Ohio State) Editors: Bradley Peterson, Rachel Somerville (STScI), Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (Porto Alegre, Brazil) Contact: peterson@astronomy.ohio-state.edu |
Special Sessions
| SS1 | Astronomy in Antartica |
| SOC Chair: Michael Burton (UNSW, Australia) Editor: Michael Burton Contact: m.burton@unsw.edu.au |
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| SS2 | Planetary Systems as Potential Sites for Life |
| SOC Chair: Régis Courtin (Obs. de Paris) Editors: Régis Courtin, Alan Boss (Carnegie), Michel Mayor (Geneva) Contact: regis.courtin@obspm.fr |
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| SS3 | Integrating Teaching and the Role of History |
| SOC Chairs: Rajesh Kochhar (India), Jean-Pierre de Greve (Belgium), Ed Guinan (USA) Editors : Rajesh Kochhar, Jean-Pierre de Greve, Magda Stavinschi, Ed Guinan Contact: rkochhar2000@yahoo.com, jpdgreve@vub.ac.be |
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| SS4 | Marking the 400th Anniversary of Kepler’s “Astronomia Nova” |
| SOC Chair: Terence Mahoney (IAC, Tenerife) Editor:Terence Mahoney Contact: tjm@iac.es |
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| SS5 | Accelerating the rate of Astronomical Discovery |
| SOC Chairs: Ray Norris (CSIRO, Australia) & Clive Ruggles (Leicester) Editors: Ray Norris, Clive Ruggles Contact: ray.norris@csiro.au |
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| SS6 | IR and sub-mm. spectroscopy – a new tool for studying stellar evolution |
| SOC Chairs: Glenn Wahlgren (CUA/NASA-GSFC), Hans Ulrich Käufl (ESO), Florian Kerber (ESO) Editors: Glenn Wahlgren, Hans Ulrich Käufl, Florian Kerber Contact: Glenn.M.Wahlgren@nasa.gov |
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| SS7 | The Galactic Plane – in depth and across the spectrum |
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SOC Chairs : Nic Walton (Cambridge), Augusto Damineli (USP, Brazil) |
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| SS8 | Young Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Protoplanetary Disks |
| SOC Chairs: Jane Gregorio-Hetem (USP, Brazil), Silvia Alencar (UFMG, Brazil) Editors: Jane Gregorio-Hetem, Silvia Alencar Contact: jane@astro.iag.usp.br |
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| SS9 | International Year of Astronomy |
| SOC: Catherine Cesarsky (CEA, Saclay) Editors: Catherine Cesarsky, Pedro Russo (ESO), Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESA/Hubble and IAU) Contact: prusso@eso.org |
Joint Discussions
| JD1 | Diffuse light in Galaxy Clusters |
| SOC Chairs: Magda Arnaboldi (ESO & INAF), Ortwin Gerhard (MPE) Editors: Magda Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard Contact: marnabol@eso.org |
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| JD2 | Neutron Stars – timing in extreme environments |
| SOC Chairs: Tomaso Belloni (INAF), Mariano Méndez (Groningen), Chengmin Zhang (BAO, China) Editors: Tomaso Belloni, Mariano Méndez, Chengmin Zhang Contact: tomaso.belloni@brera.inaf.it |
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| JD3 | Modelling the Milky Way in the era of Gaia |
| SOC Chair: James Binney (Oxford) Editor: James Binney Contact: binney@thphys.ox.ac.uk |
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| JD4 | Progress in Understanding the Physics of Ap and related Stars |
| SOC Chair: Margarida Cunha (Porto) Editors: Margarida Cunha, Mike Dworetsky (UCL), Barry Smalley (Keele) Contact: mcunha@astro.up.pt |
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| JD5 | Astrophysical Outflows and associated Accretion Phenomena |
| SOC Chairs: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (USP, Brazil), Alejandro Raga (Mexico) Editors: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino, Alejandro Raga Contact: dalpino@astro.iag.usp.br |
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| JD6 | Time and Astronomy |
| SOC Chairs: Pascale Defraigne (Belgium), Aleksander Brzezinski (Polish Academy) Editors: Pascale Defraigne, Aleksander Brzezinski Contact: p.defraigne@oma.be |
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| JD7 | Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies |
| SOC Chairs: Dong-Woo Kim (CFA), Silvia Pelligrini (Bologna) Editors: Dong-Woo Kim, Silvia Pelligrini Contact: kim@cfa.harvard.edu |
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| JD8 | Dark Matter in Early-type Galaxies |
| SOC Chairs: Leon Koopmans (Groningen), Tommaso Treu (Santa Barbara) Editors: Leon Koopmans, Tommaso Treu Contact: koopmans@astro.rug.nl |
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| JD9 | 3D Views on cool Stellar Atmospheres – theory meets observation |
| SOC Chair: Hans-G Ludwig (Obs. de Paris) Editors: Hans-G Ludwig, P Bonifacio (Obs. de Paris), K Nagendra (Bangalore, India) Contact: Hans.Ludwig@obspm.fr |
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| JD10 | Are the Fundamental Constants varying with Time |
| SOC Chair: Paolo Molaro (Trieste) Editors: Paolo Molaro, Elisabeth Flam (IAP, Paris) Contact: molaro@ts.inaf.it |
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| JD11 | The First Galaxies – theoretical predictions and observational clues |
| SOC Chairs: Tommy Wiklind (ESA/STSCI), Volker Bromm (Texas), Bahram Mobasher (Riverside) Editors: Tommy Wiklind, Volker Bromm, Bahram Mobasher Contact: wiklind@stsci.edu |
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| JD12 | New Advances in Helio- and Astero-seismology |
| SOC Chairs: Junwei Zhao (Stanford), Hiromoto Shibahashi (Tokyo), Guenter Houdek (Cambridge) Editors: Junwei Zhao, Hiromoto Shibahashi, Guenter Houdek Contact: junwei@sun.stanford.edu |
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| JD13 | FIR2009: The ISM of galaxies in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre |
| SOC Chair: Maria Cunningham (UNSW, Australia) Editors: Maria Cunningham, Carsten Kramer (Köln), Vincent Minier (CEA< France) Contact: maria.cunningham@unsw.edu.au |
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| JD14 | Eta Carinae in the context of the most massive stars |
| SOC Chairs: Augusto Damineli (USP, Brazil), Ted Gull (NASA) Editors: Augusto Damineli, Ted Gull, Nielsen Krister (NASA) Contact: damineli@astro.iag.usp.br |
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| JD15 | IHY Global Campaign – whole Heliosphere internval |
| SOC Chair: Barbara Thompson (NASA) Editors: Sarah Gibson (Boulder), David Webb (Hanscom) Contact: Barbara.J.Thompson@nasa.gov |
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| JD16 | Magnetic Fields in Diffuse Media |
| SOC Chairs: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (USP, Brazil), A Lazarian (Wisconsin) Editors: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino, A Lazarian (Wisconsin) Contact: dalpino@astro.iag.usp.br |
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