News
IAU e-Newsletter 2010 n°1 online
1 February 2010
Contents:
1. Deadline for Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellowship 2010 extended to 15 February 2010.
2. IB105 is on-line.
3. The Post Meeting Reports of 2009 Symposia are on-line.
4. Closing date for proposals to host the Office for Astronomy Development (OAD) is 28 February 2010.
5. The 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly will be held 18 – 25 July 2010.
Deadline for applications for 2010 Gruber Fellowship extended to 15 February
26 January 2010
Deadline for applications for 2010 Gruber Fellowship extended to 15 February 2010. Read more on http://www.iau.org/grants_prizes/gruber_foundation/fellowships/
Vacancy announcement: Director of ICSU Regional Office for Africa
22 January 2010
The International Council for Science (ICSU) invites applications for the post of Director of its Regional Office for Africa (Sub-Saharan Africa), which was established at the National Research Foundation (NRF), Pretoria, South Africa in 2005.
Deadline: 20 February 2010.
Read more on: http://www.icsu.org/9_latestnews/files/ICSU_RO_Africa_director-ad2010.pdf
New SOFA software release includes geodetic/geocentric transformations
20 January 2010
SOFA (Standards of Fundamental Astronomy) is an IAU Service that operates under Division 1 (Fundamental Astronomy). It has developed a set of software routines that implement official IAU algorithms for fundamental-astronomy computations. A new release of the software was made on 2009 December 31. The total number of routines is 165, comprising 113 astronomy routines supported by 52 vector/matrix routines. The release incorporates the new IAU precession model
that came into force at the start of 2009. There is a "cookbook" that introduces the SOFA routines associated with precession-nutation and Earth rotation.
The most significant change since the previous release is the introduction of five new routines (available in both Fortran and C) to support transformations between geodetic and geocentric coordinates.
The Web address of the SOFA home page has changed, and is now: http://www.iausofa.org/
Further information on the new release is available at: http://www.iausofa.org/2009_1231.html
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 266 online
19 January 2010
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 266
Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space
Eds. Richard de Grijs and Jacques R. D. Lépine.
Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780-521-76484-1
Read more
Information about the solar eclipse on 15 January 2009
14 January 2010
The IAU Working Group on Solar Eclipses provides several links with eclipse reference materials. Visit www.eclipses.info or contact Jay M. Pasachoff (chair of the IAU Working Group on Solar Eclipses) for more information.
IB 105 is online
13 January 2010
The Information Bulletin 105 (13 January 2010) is online. Download the PDF file (8 MB) on this link.
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 261 online
12 January 2010
Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 261
Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis
Eds. Sergei Klioner, P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Michael Soffel
Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780-521-76481-0
Announcement of Opportunity to host the Office for Astronomy Development. Deadline: 28 Feb. 2010
18 November 2009
An Announcement of Opportunity to host the Office for Astronomy Development foreseen in the IAU Strategic Plan 2010-2020 "Astronomy for the Developing World" has been sent out to all members and National Members. The AO can be seen here on this link (PDF file).
Closing date for Proposals: 28th February 2010
Letters of Intent for Meetings in 2011
22 September 2009
A list is available online at
http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/loi_2011/
