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 |
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Proposed Title |
Contact |
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Stellar Populations: Planning for the Next Decade |
Gustavo Bruzual |
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Chemical abundances in the Universe - connecting first stars to planets |
Katia Cunha |
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The role of gas accretyion in galaxies: from black holes to the cosmic web |
Horacio Dottori |
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The Galactic Plane, across the spectrum |
Janet Drew |
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Icy bodies in the Solar System |
Julio Fernandez |
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Binary phenomena across class boundary: the effect of companionship on the evolution of low and intermediate mass stars |
Denise Rocha Goncalves |
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Young stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Protoplanetary disks |
Jane Gregorio-Hetem |
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Star Clusters: Basic Galactic building blocks throughout Time and Space |
Richard de Grijs |
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A multiwavelength census of the Universe beyond the Solar System |
Joseph Lazio |
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Solar and Stellar variability and impact on Earth and Planets |
Alexander Kosovichev |
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Physics of galaxy clusters from the X-ray, microwave, and numeric wavelenghts |
Maxim Markevitch |
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When galaxies collide: galaxy interaction in a cosmological context |
Duilia de Mello |
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Accelerating the rate of astronomical discovery |
Ray Norris |
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The evolution of galaxies and their central black holes – feeding and feedback |
Bradley Peterson |
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IR and sub-mm spectroscopy: A new tool for studying stellar evolution |
Glenn Wahlgren |
Joint Discussions |
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Proposed Title |
Title |
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Diffuse Light in Galaxy Clusters |
Magda Arnaboldi |
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Neutron stars - timing in extreme environments |
Tomaso Belloni |
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Modelling the Milky Way in the Era of Gaia |
James Binney |
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Progress in understanding the physics of Ap and related stars |
Margarida Salvador Cunha |
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Magnetic fields in diffuse media |
Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino |
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Astrophysical outflows and associated accretion Phenomena |
Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino |
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Time and Astronomy |
Pascale Defraigne |
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Early Science Results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on HST |
Cynthia Froning |
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Hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies |
Dong-Woo Kim |
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Dark Matter in early-type galaxies |
Léon Koopmans |
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Sunspots and Starspots |
Alexander Kosovichev |
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Origin, transport and geo-effective characteristics of Interplanetary CoronalMass Ejections |
Alejandro Lara |
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Chemically distinct stellar populations in Globular Clusters |
John Lattanzio |
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Galaxies in Isolation - Exploring Nature vs. Nurture |
Lourdes Verdes Montenegro |
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3D views on stellar atmospheres: theory meets observation |
Hans-Guenter Ludwig |
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Are The Fundamental Constants Varying In Spacetime? |
Paolo Molaro |
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Imaging the Inner Heliosphere and the surprises hidden within |
Angelos Vourlidas |
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The First Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues |
Tommy Wiklind |
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New advances in Helio- and asteroseismology |
Junwei Zhao |
Special Sessions |
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Proposed Title |
Contact |
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Astronomy in Antarctica |
Michael Burton |
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Planetary systems as potential life abodes |
Régis Courtin |
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FIR2009: The ISM of galaxies in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre |
Maria Cunningham |
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Eta Carinae and Interacting Massive Binaries |
Augusto Damineli |
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Next Generation Large Astronomical Facilities |
Gerry Gilmore |
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Integrating efforts in teaching and learning astronomy |
Jean-Pierre de Greve |
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The role of History in Teaching Astronomy |
Rajesh Kochhar |
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The meaning of Other Worlds |
Steve Kilston |
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Marking the 400th Anniversary of the Kepler's 'Astronomia Nova' |
Terence John Mahoney |
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Astrobiology |
Gustavo Porto de Mello |
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From dark cores to clusters: the last 10 Myr in the Magellanic Clouds |
Antonella Nota |
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IHY- Global Campaign: Whole Heliosphere Interval |
Barbara Thompson |
Symposia outside the General Assembly
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Proposed Title |
Proposed Date and Venue |
Contact |
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The role of Astronomy in society and culture |
23 - 26 January, UNESCO, Paris, France |
David Valls-Gabaud |
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Light elements in the Universe |
23 - 26 January, Geneva, Switzerland |
Corinne Charbonnel |
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Clockcandles: time and distance in the new cosmology era |
23 - 28 March, Athens, Greece |
Alberto Buzzoni |
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Millimeter and submillimeter astronomy at high angular resolution |
6 - 10 April, Taipei, China Taiwan |
Paul Ho |
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Relativity in fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames,and Data Analysis |
27 April - 1 May, Washington, USA |
Sergei Klioner |
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The Sun and Geospace: from helioseismology to space weather impacts |
26 April - 1 May, Baku, Azerbaijan |
Elchin Safaraly-oghlu Babayev |
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Dynamic Solar Corona and its impact on Space Weather |
25 - 29 July, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China |
Mingde Ding |
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New views of the Sun and Interplanetary Space |
16 - 20 November, Tokyo, Japan |
Takashi Sakurai |
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Mathematics and Astronomy, a joint long journey |
23 - 27 November, Madrid, Spain |
Rosa M. Ros |
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B.V. Kukarkin Symposium: Variable Stars and the Galactic Halo |
1 - 5 December, Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia |
Nikolai Samus |
Joint Symposia
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Proposed Title |
Proposed Date and Venue |
Contact |
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Astronomy and its instruments before and after Galileo |
28 September - 3 October, Venice, Italy |
Luisa Pigatto |





