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Proposed Meetings for 2009

Note : The decision of the Executive Committee should be announced in June 2008

General Assembly Symposia, Joint Discussions and Special Sessions

Symposia 

Proposed Title

Contact

Stellar Populations: Planning for the Next Decade

Gustavo Bruzual
<bruzual@cida.ve >

Chemical abundances in the Universe - connecting first stars to planets

Katia Cunha
<kcunha@noao.edu >

The role of gas accretyion in galaxies: from black holes to the cosmic web

Horacio Dottori
<dottori@if.ufrgs.br >

The Galactic Plane, across the spectrum

Janet Drew
<j.drew@imperial.ac.uk >

Icy bodies in the Solar System

 Julio Fernandez
<julio@fisica.edu.uy >

Binary phenomena across class boundary: the effect of companionship on the evolution of low and intermediate mass stars

Denise Rocha Goncalves
<denise@ov.ufrj.br >

Young stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Protoplanetary disks

Jane Gregorio-Hetem
<jane@astro.iag.usp.br >

Star Clusters: Basic Galactic building blocks throughout Time and Space

Richard de Grijs
<R.DeGrijs@sheffield.ac.uk >

A multiwavelength census of the Universe beyond the Solar System

Joseph Lazio
<lazio@nrl.navy.mil >

Solar and Stellar variability and impact on Earth and Planets

Alexander Kosovichev
<sasha@quake.Stanford.edu >

Physics of galaxy clusters from the X-ray, microwave, and numeric wavelenghts

Maxim Markevitch
<maxim@head.cfa.harvard.edu >

When galaxies collide: galaxy interaction in a cosmological context

Duilia de Mello
<Duilia.F.DeMello@nasa.gov >

Accelerating the rate of astronomical discovery

Ray Norris
<Ray.Norris@csiro.au >

The evolution of galaxies and their central black holes – feeding and feedback

Bradley Peterson
<peterson@astronomy.ohio-state.edu >

IR and sub-mm spectroscopy: A new tool for studying stellar evolution

Glenn Wahlgren
<wahlgren@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov >

   


Joint Discussions

Proposed Title

Title

Diffuse Light in Galaxy Clusters

Magda Arnaboldi
<marnabol@eso.org >

Neutron stars - timing in extreme environments

Tomaso Belloni
<tomaso.belloni@brera.inaf.it >

Modelling the Milky Way in the Era of Gaia

James Binney
<binney@thphys.ox.ac.uk >

Progress in understanding the physics of Ap and related stars

Margarida Salvador Cunha
<mcunha@astro.up.pt >

Magnetic fields in diffuse media

Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino
<dalpino@astro.iag.usp.br >

Astrophysical outflows and associated accretion Phenomena

Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino
<dalpino@astro.iag.usp.br >

Time and Astronomy

Pascale Defraigne
<Pascale.Defraigne@oma.be >

Early Science Results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on HST

Cynthia Froning
<cfroning@origins.colorado.edu >

Hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies

Dong-Woo Kim
<kim@head.cfa.harvard.edu >

Dark Matter in early-type galaxies

Léon Koopmans
<koopmans@astro.rug.nl >

Sunspots and Starspots

Alexander Kosovichev
<sasha@quake.Stanford.EDU >

Origin, transport and geo-effective characteristics of Interplanetary CoronalMass Ejections

Alejandro Lara
<alara@geofisica.unam.mx >

Chemically distinct stellar populations in Globular Clusters

John Lattanzio
<John.Lattanzio@sci.monash.edu.au >

Galaxies in Isolation - Exploring Nature vs. Nurture

Lourdes Verdes Montenegro
<lourdes@iaa.es >

3D views on stellar atmospheres: theory meets observation

Hans-Guenter Ludwig
<Hans.Ludwig@obspm.fr >

Are The Fundamental Constants Varying In Spacetime?

Paolo Molaro
<molaro@oats.inaf.it >

Imaging the Inner Heliosphere and the surprises hidden within

Angelos Vourlidas
<vourlidas@nrl.navy.mil >

The First Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues

Tommy Wiklind
<wiklind@stsci.edu >

New advances in Helio- and asteroseismology

Junwei Zhao
<junwei@solar2.Stanford.edu >

   


Special Sessions

Proposed Title

Contact

Astronomy in Antarctica

Michael Burton
<mgb@phys.unsw.edu.au >

Planetary systems as potential life abodes

Régis Courtin
<Regis.Courtin@obspm.fr >

FIR2009: The ISM of galaxies in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre

Maria Cunningham
<mariac@phys.unsw.edu.au >

Eta Carinae and Interacting Massive Binaries

Augusto Damineli
<damineli@astro.iag.usp.br >

Next Generation Large Astronomical Facilities

Gerry Gilmore
<gil@ast.cam.ac.uk >

Integrating efforts in teaching and learning astronomy

Jean-Pierre de Greve
<jpdgreve@vub.ac.be >

The role of History in Teaching Astronomy

Rajesh Kochhar
<rkochhar2000@yahoo.com >

The meaning of Other Worlds

Steve Kilston
<skilston@ball.com >

Marking the 400th Anniversary of the Kepler's 'Astronomia Nova'

Terence John Mahoney
<tjm@iac.es >

Astrobiology

Gustavo Porto de Mello
<gfpmello@hotmail.com >

From dark cores to clusters: the last 10 Myr in the Magellanic Clouds

Antonella Nota
<nota@stsci.edu >

IHY- Global Campaign: Whole Heliosphere Interval

Barbara Thompson
<barbara.j.thompson@nasa.gov >

   


Symposia outside the General Assembly

Proposed Title

Proposed Date and Venue

Contact

The role of Astronomy in society and culture

23 - 26 January, UNESCO, Paris, France

David Valls-Gabaud
<david.valls-gabaud@obspm.fr >

Light elements in the Universe

23 - 26 January, Geneva, Switzerland

Corinne Charbonnel
<Corinne.Charbonnel@obs.unige.ch >

Clockcandles: time and distance in the new cosmology era

23 - 28 March, Athens, Greece

Alberto Buzzoni
<buzzoni@bo.astro.it >

Millimeter and submillimeter astronomy at high angular resolution

6 - 10 April, Taipei, China Taiwan

Paul Ho
<pho@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw >

Relativity in fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames,and Data Analysis

27 April - 1 May, Washington, USA

Sergei Klioner
<Sergei.Klioner@tu-dresden.de >

The Sun and Geospace: from helioseismology to space weather impacts

26 April - 1 May, Baku, Azerbaijan

Elchin Safaraly-oghlu Babayev
<ebabayev@yahoo.com >

Dynamic Solar Corona and its impact on Space Weather

25 - 29 July, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

Mingde Ding
<dmd@nju.edu.cn >

New views of the Sun and Interplanetary Space

16 - 20 November, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Sakurai
<sakurai@solar.mtk.nao.ac.jp >

Mathematics and Astronomy, a joint long journey

23 - 27 November, Madrid, Spain

Rosa M. Ros
<ros@mat.upc.edu >

B.V. Kukarkin Symposium: Variable Stars and the Galactic Halo

1 - 5 December, Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia

Nikolai Samus
<samus@sai.msu.ru >

     


Joint Symposia

Proposed Title

Proposed Date and Venue

Contact

Astronomy and its instruments before and after Galileo

28 September - 3 October, Venice, Italy

Luisa Pigatto
<luisa.pigatto@oapd.inaf.it >