News
Letters of Intent for Meetings in 2009
26 September 2007
A list of proposed meetings for 2009 is online and available on this link. The deadline for the submission of proposals is December 1st, 2007.
Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
10 September 2007
Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy
IAU software implementing fundamental-astronomy algorithms
http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/
IAU Division I
2007
NEW SOFA SOFTWARE RELEASE
SOFA (Standards of Fundamental Astronomy) is an IAU Service which operates under Division 1 (Fundamental Astronomy) and reports through Commission 19 (Rotation of the Earth). It has developed a library of Fortran sub-programs which implement official IAU algorithms for fundamental-astronomy computations. A new release of the software was made on 2007 August 13, bringing the total number of routines to 161, comprising 109 astronomy routines supported by 52 vector/matrix routines. The new release incorporates the new precession model that was adopted at the Prague IAU General Assembly in 2006, and includes a "cookbook" that introduces the SOFA routines associated with precession-nutation and Earth rotation. The SOFA home page is:
http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/
Further information on the new release can be obtained by following the links to "SOFA Product Index" then "2007-08-10"
Note added on 20 January 2010: The web address of the SOFA home page has changed, and is now: http://www.iausofa.org/
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 241 online
4 September 2007
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 241
Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies
10-14 December 2006, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Eds. Alexandre Vazdekis & Reynier F. Peletier
(Cambridge: CUP) ISBN: 0-521-86350-3, 31 August 2007
PPFG Cosmology Prize 2007 and Fellowship 2007 awarded
18 July 2007
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize and Fellowship for 2007 was awarded.
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 240 online
12 July 2007
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 240
Binary Stars as Critical Tools and Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics
22-25 August 2006, Praha, Czech Republic
Eds. William I. Hartkopf, Edward F. Guinan & Petr Harmanec
(Cambridge: CUP) ISBN: 0-521-86348-1, July 2007
External link
IAU Newsletter Vol. 2007 No.2 online: Call for Proposals for 2009 IAU Scientific Meetings
4 July 2007
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 238 online
31 May 2007
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 238
Black Holes: from Stars to Galaxies - across the Range of Masses
21-25 August 2006, Praha, Czech Republic
Eds. Vladimir Karas & Giorgio Matt
(Cambridge: CUP) ISBN: 0-521-86347-3, May 2007
External link
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 239 online
21 May 2007
Convection in Astrophysics
21-25 August 2006, Praha, Czech Republic
Eds. Friedrich Kupka, Ian W. Roxburgh, Kwing Lam Chan
(Cambridge: CUP) ISBN: 0-521-86349-X, May 2007
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 236 online
6 May 2007
Near Earth Objects, our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk
14-18 August 2006, Praha, Czech Republic
Eds. Andrea Milani, Giovanni B. Valsecchi & David Vokrouhlicky
(Cambridge: CUP) ISBN: 0-521-86345-7, May 2007
