XXVIII IAU GA

SCIENCE

EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING

GRANTS & PRIZES

ADMINISTRATION

ASTRONOMY FOR THE PUBLIC

PRESS & MEDIA

Affiliations with Division VIII Commission 47 Cosmology

President
Padmanabhan, Thanu
Vice-President
Schmidt, Brian
Organizing Committee
Bunker, Andrew Ciardi, Benedetta JING, Yipeng
Koekemoer, Anton Lahav, Ofer Le Fèvre, Olivier
Scott, Douglas
Commission Members
Abbas, Ummi Abu Kassim, Hasan Adami, Christophe
Adams, Jenni Alard, Christophe Alcaniz, Jailson
Alimi, Jean-Michel Allan, Peter Allington-Smith, Jeremy
Almaini, Omar Amendola, Luca Andersen, Michael
Andreani, Paola Aretxaga, Itziar Argüeso, Francisco
Atrio Barandela, Fernando Audouze, Jean Aussel, Herve
Avelino, Pedro AZUMA , Takahiro Babul, Arif
Baddiley, Christopher Bagla, Jasjeet Bahcall, Neta
Bajtlik, Stanislaw Baker, Andrew Balbi, Amedeo
Balland, Christophe Bamford, Steven Banday, Anthony
Banerji, Sriranjan Banhatti, Dilip Barberis, Bruno
Barbuy, Beatriz Bardeen, James Bardelli, Sandro
Barger, Amy Barkana, Rennan Barrow, John
Bartelmann, Matthias Barthel, Peter Barton, Elizabeth
Baryshev, Andrey Basa, Stephane Bassett, Bruce
Bechtold, Jill Beckman, John Beesham, Aroonkumar
Belinski, Vladimir Bennett, Charles Bennett, David
Bergeron, Jacqueline Bergvall, Nils Berman, Marcelo
Berta, Stefano Bertola, Francesco Bertschinger, Edmund
Betancor Rijo, Juan Bharadwaj, Somnath Bhavsar, Suketu
Bianchi, Simone Bicknell, Geoffrey Bignami, Giovanni
Binetruy, Pierre Birkinshaw, Mark Biviano, Andrea
Blakeslee, John Blanchard, Alain Bleyer, Ulrich
Bludman, Sidney Blundell, Katherine Böhringer, Hans
Boksenberg, Alec Bolzonella, Micol Bond, John
Bongiovanni, Angel Bonnor, W. Borgani, Stefano
Boschin, Walter Bouchet, François Bowen, David
Boyle, Brian Branchesi, Marca Brecher, Kenneth
Bridle, Sarah Brinchmann, Jarle Brown, Michael
Bryant, Julia Buote, David Burns Jr, Jack
Calvani, Massimo CAO, Li Cappi, Alberto
Cárdenas, Rolando Carr, Bernard Carretti, Ettore
Castagnino, Mario Cattaneo , Andrea Cavaliere, Alfonso
Cesarsky, Diego CHAE, Kyu Hyun CHANG, Kyongae
CHANG, Heon-Young CHEN, DaMing CHEN, Jiansheng
CHEN, Hsiao-Wen CHEN, Lin-wen CHEN, Pisin
CHEN, Xuelei CHENG, Fuzhen CHIBA , Takeshi
Chincarini, Guido Chitre, Dattakumar Chodorowski, Michał
Choudhury, Tirthankar Christensen, Lise CHU, Yaoquan
Ciliegi, Paolo Claeskens, Jean-François Claria, Juan
Clarke, Tracy Clowe, Douglas Clowes, Roger
Cocke, William Cohen, Ross Colafrancesco, Sergio
Cole, Shaun Coles, Peter Colless, Matthew
Colombi, Stephane Condon, James Cooray, Asantha
Cora, Sofia Corsini, Enrico Courbin, Frederic
Courteau, Stephane Covone, Giovanni Crane, Patrick
Crane, Philippe Crawford, Steven Cristiani, Stefano
Croom, Scott Croton, Darren Curran, Stephen
Cypriano, Eduardo D' Odorico, Valentina Da Costa, Gary
Da Rocha , Cristiano Dadhich, Naresh Dahle, Haakon
Daigne, Frederic DAISUKE , Iono Dalla Bontà, Elena
Danese, Luigi Das, P. Davidson, William
Davies, Paul Davies, Roger Davis, Michael
Davis, Marc Davis, Tamara De Bernardis, Paolo
de Lapparent, Valérie de Lima, José de Petris, Marco
de Ruiter, Hans de Silva, Lindamulage de Zotti, Gianfranco
Dekel, Avishai Dell'Antonio, Ian Demianski, Marek
Désert, François-Xavier Deustua, Susana Dhurandhar, Sanjeev
Diaferio, Antonaldo Diaz, Ruben Dietrich , Joerg
Dionysiou, Demetrios Djorgovski, Stanislav Dobbs, Matt
Dobrzycki, Adam Domínguez, Mariano Dong, Xiao-Bo
Dressler, Alan Drinkwater, Michael Dultzin-Hacyan, Deborah
Dunsby, Peter Dyer, Charles Eales, Stephen
Edsjö, Joakim Efstathiou, George Einasto, Jaan
Elgaroy, Oystein Elizalde, Emilio Ellis, George
Ellis, Richard Elvis, Martin Elyiv, Andrii
Enginol, Turan Ettori, Stefano Eungwanichayapant, Anant
Faber, Sandra Falk Jr, Sydney Fall, S.
FAN, Zuhui FANG, Li-Zhi Fassnacht, Christopher
Fatkhullin, Timur Fedeli, Cosimo Fedorova, Elena
Felten, James FENG, Long Long Field, George
Filippenko, Alexei Florides, Petros Focardi, Paola
Fomin, Piotr Fong, Richard Ford, Holland
Forman, William Fouque, Pascal Fox, Andrew
Franceschini, Alberto Frenk, Carlos Friaca, Amancio
FUKUGITA , Masataka FUKUI , Takao Furlanetto, Steven
Füzfa, Andre Fynbo, Johan Galletto, Dionigi
Gangui, Alejandro Ganguly, Rajib Garilli, Bianca
Garrison, Robert Gavignaud, Isabelle Geller, Margaret
GENG, Lihong Germany, Lisa Ghirlanda, Giancarlo
Giallongo, Emanuele Gioia, Isabella Gitti, Myriam
Glazebrook, Karl Glover , Simon Goldsmith, Donald
Gonzalez, Alejando Goobar, Ariel Goret, Philippe
Gosset, Eric Gottlöber, Stefan GOUDA , Naoteru
Govinder, Keshlan Goyal, Ashok Granato, Gian Luigi
Gray, Richard Gray, Meghan Green, Anne
Gregorio, Anna Gregory, Stephen Greve, Thomas
Greyber, Howard Griest, Kim Grishchuk, Leonid
Gudmundsson, Einar Gumjudpai, Burin Gunn, James
Gutiérrez, Carlos Guzzo, Luigi Haehnelt, Martin
Hagen, Hans-Juergen Hall, Patrick Hamilton, Andrew
Hannestad, Steen Hansen, Frode Hardy, Eduardo
Harms, Richard Hau, George Haugbølle, Troels
HE, XiangTao Heavens, Alan Heinamaki, Pekka
Hellaby, Charles Heller, Michael Hendry, Martin
Henriksen, Mark Hernández, Xavier Hewett, Paul
Hewitt, Adelaide Heyrovský, David Hicks, Amalia
HIDEKI , Asada Hnatyk, Bohdan Hoekstra, Hendrik
Holz, Daniel Hu, Esther HU, Hongbo
Huang, Jiasheng Hudson, Michael Hughes, David
Huynh, Minh HWANG , Jai chan HWANG , Chorng-Yuan
Icke, Vincent IKEUCHI , Satoru IM, Myungshin
Impey, Christopher INADA, Naohisa Iovino, Angela
ISHIHARA, Hideki IWATA , Ikuru Iyer, B.
Jahnke, Knud Jakobsson, Pall Jannuzi, Buell
Jaroszynski, Michal Jauncey, David Jaunsen, Andreas
Jedamzik, Karsten Jensen, Brian Jetzer, Philippe
Jones, Heath Jones, Christine Jordán, Andrés
Jovanović, Predrag Junkkarinen, Vesa KAJINO , Toshitaka
Kanekar, Nissim KANG , Hyesung Kapoor, Ramesh
Karachentsev, Igor KATO , Shoji Kauffmann, Guinevere
Kaul, Chaman KAWABATA, Kiyoshi KAWASAKI , Masahiro
Kellermann, Kenneth Kembhavi, Ajit Khare, Pushpa
Khmil, Sergiy KIM, Jik King, Lindsay
Kirilova, Daniela KIYOTOMO , Ichiki Kneib, Jean-Paul
KODAMA, Hideo Kokkotas, Konstantinos Kolb, Edward
Kompaneets, Dmitrij Koopmans, Leon Kormendy, John
Kovalev, Yuri Kovetz, Attay KOZAI, Yoshihide
Kozlovsky, Ben Krasinski, Andrzej Kriss, Gerard
Kudrya, Yury Kunth, Daniel Kunz, Martin
La Barbera, Francesco La Franca, Fabio Lacey, Cedric
Lachieze-Rey, Marc Lagache , Guilaine Lake, Kayll
Lanfranchi, Gustavo Larionov, Mikhail Lasota, Jean-Pierre
Layzer, David Leão, Joao Rodrigo LEE , Wo-Lung
Lehnert, Matthew Lequeux, James Leubner, Manfred
Levin, Yuri Levine, Robyn Lewis, Geraint
Li, Li-Xin LIAN, Luo LIANG, Yanchun
Liddle, Andrew Liebscher, Dierck-E Lilje, Per
Lilly, Simon LIN, Weipeng LIOU, Guo Chin
LIU, Yongzhen Lombardi, Marco Longair, Malcolm
Longo, Giuseppe Lonsdale, Carol López, Sebastian
López-Corredoira, Martin Loveday, Jon LU, Tan
Lubin, Lori Lukash, Vladimir Luminet, Jean-Pierre
Lynden-Bell, Donald MA, Jun Maartens, Roy
Maccagni, Dario MacCallum, Malcolm Maddox, Stephen
MAEDA, Kei-ichi Maharaj, Sunil Maia, Marcio
Mainieri, Vincenzo Majumdar, Subhabrata Malesani, Daniele
Mamon, Gary Mandolesi, Nazzareno Mangalam, Arun
Mann, Robert Manrique, Alberto Mansouri, Reza
Mao, Shude Maoz, Dan Marano, Bruno
Mardirossian, Fabio Marek, John Maris, Michele
Marranghello, Guilherme Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique Martinis, Mladen
Martins, Carlos Massardi, Marcella Mather, John
Mathez, Guy MATSUMOTO , Toshio Matzner, Richard
Mavrides, Stamatia Mellier, Yannick Melnyk, Olga
Melott, Adrian Meneghetti, Massimo Menéndez-Delmestre, Karin
Merighi, Roberto Meszaros, Peter Meszaros, Attila
Meyer, David Meyer, Martin Meylan, Georges
Meza, Andres Mezzetti, Marino Minakov , Anatoliy
Miralda-Escudé, Jordi Miralles, Joan-Marc Miranda, Oswaldo
Misner, Charles Miyazaki, Satoshi Miyoshi, Shigeru
Mo, Houjun Mohr, Joseph Mollá, Mercedes
Monaco, Pierluigi Moore, Ben Moreau, Olivier
Moscardini, Lauro Mota, David Motta, Veronica
Mourão, Ana Maria Muanwong, Orrarujee Mücket, Jan
Müller , Andreas Muller, Richard MURAKAMI , Izumi
Murphy, John NAKAMICHI , Akika NAMBU, Yasusada
Narasimha, Delampady Narlikar, Jayant Naselsky, Pavel
Nasr-Esfahani, Bahram Neves de Araujo, Jose Nicoll, Jeffrey
NISHIDA , Minoru Noerdlinger, Peter NOH , Hyerim
Noonan, Thomas Norman, Colin Norman, Dara
Nottale, Laurent Novello, Mario Novikov, Igor
Novosyadlyj, Bohdan Novotný, Jan Nozari, Kourosh
O'Connell, Robert Ocvirk, Pierre Oemler Jr, Augustus
Oliver, Sebastian Olowin, Ronald Omnes, Roland
Onuora, Lesley Oscoz, Alejandro Ostorero, Luisa
Ott, Heinz-Albert Ozsv\'{a}th, I. Page, Don
Paragi, Zsolt Parnovsky, Sergei Partridge, Robert
Pecker, Jean-Claude Pedersen, Kristian Pedrosa, Susana
Peebles, P. Pello, Roser Pen, Ue-Li
Penzias, Arno Péroux, Céline Perryman, Michael
Persides, Sotirios Persson, Carina Peterson, Bruce
Peterson, Bradley Petitjean, Patrick Petrosian, Vahe
Pimbblet, Kevin Plionis, Manolis Podolský, Jiri
Polletta, Maria del Carmen Pompei, Emanuela Popescu, Nedelia
Portinari, Laura Power, Chris Prandoni, Isabella
Premadi, Premana Press, William Puetzfeld, Dirk
Puget, Jean-Loup Puy, Denis QIN, Bo
QU, Qinyue Quirós, Israel Rahvar, Sohrab
Ramella, Massimo Ranalli, Piero Ravindranath, Swara
Rebolo, Rafael Reboul, Henri Rees, Martin
Reeves, Hubert Reiprich, Thomas Revnivtsev, Mikhail
Rey, Soo-Chang Riazi, Nematollah Riazuelo, Alain
Ribeiro, Marcelo Ribeiro, André Luis Richter, Philipp
Ricotti, Massimo Ridgway, Susan Rindler, Wolfgang
Rivolo, Arthur Roberts, David Robinson, I.
Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte Roeder, Robert Romano-Diaz, Emilio
Romeo, Alessandro Romer, Anita Rosa González, Daniel
Rosquist, Kjell Rothberg, Barry Röttgering, Huub
Rowan-Robinson, Michael Roxburgh, Ian Rubin, Vera
Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto Rudnick, Lawrence Rudnicki, Konrad
Ruffini, Remo Ruszkowski, Mateusz Růžička, Adam
Saar, Enn Sadat, Rachida Sahlén, Martin
Sahni, Varun Sáiz, Alejandro Salvador-Sole, Eduardo
Salzer, John Santos-Lleó, Maria Sanz, Jose
Sapar, Arved Saracco, Paolo Sargent, Wallace
SASAKI , Misao SASAKI , Shin SATO, Shinji
SATO, Katsuhiko SATO, Humitaka SATO , Jun'ichi
Savage, Ann Saviane, Ivo Sazhin, Mikhail
Scaramella, Roberto Schartel, Norbert Schaye, Joop
Schechter, Paul Schindler, Sabine Schmidt, Maarten
Schneider, Donald Schneider, Jean Schneider, Peter
Schneider, Raffaella Schuch, Nelson Schucking, Engelbert
Schumacher, Gerard Scodeggio, Marco Seielstad, George
Semerák, Oldrich Serjeant, Stephen Setti, Giancarlo
Severgnini, Paola Shandarin, Sergei Shanks, Thomas
SHAO, Zhengyi Sharp, Nigel Shaver, Peter
Shaviv, Giora Shaya, Edward SHIBATA, Masaru
Shivanandan, Kandiah Siebenmorgen, Ralf Signore, Monique
Silk, Joseph Silva, Laura Sironi, Giorgio
Sistero, Roberto Slosar, Anze Smail, Ian
Smette, Alain Smith, Rodney Smith, Nigel
Smoot III, George Sokolowski, Lech Sollerman, Jesper
SONG, Doo Souradeep, Tarun Souriau, Jean-Marie
Spinoglio, Luigi Spyrou, Nicolaos Squires, Gordon
Srianand, Raghunathan Stecker, Floyd Steigman, Gary
Stoehr, Felix Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa Straumann, Norbert
Strauss, Michael Stritzinger, Maximilian Struble, Mitchell
Strukov, Igor Stuchlík, Zdenek Stuik, Remko
Subrahmanya, C. SUGINOHARA , Tatsushi SUGIYAMA , Naoshi
Suhhonenko, Ivan Sunyaev, Rashid Surdej, Jean
Szalay, Alex Szydlowski, Marek TAGOSHI , Hideyuki
TAKAHARA, Fumio Tammann, Gustav TANABE, Kenji
Tarter, Jill TARUYA , Atsushi TATEKAWA , Takayuki
Temporin, Sonia Thuan, Trinh Tifft, William
Tipler, Frank Toffolatti, Luigi Toft, Sune
TOMIMATSU , Akira TOMITA, Kenji Tonry, John
Tormen, Giuseppe TOTANI , Tomonori Tozzi, Paolo
Tremaine, Scott Treu, Tommaso Trevese, Dario
Trimble, Virginia Trotta, Roberto Trujillo Cabrera, Ignacio
Tsamparlis, Michael Tugay, Anatoliy Tully, Richard
Turner, Edwin Turner, Michael Turnshek, David
Tyson, John Tytler, David Tyul'bashev, Sergei
Ugolnikov, Oleg UMEMURA , Masayuki Uson, Juan
Vagnetti, Fausto Väisänen, Petri Valls-Gabaud, David
Valtchanov, Ivan van der Laan, Harry van Haarlem, Michiel
Vedel, Henrik Verdoes Kleijn, Gijsbert Vestergaard, Marianne
Vettolani, Giampaolo Viana, Pedro Viel, Matteo
Vishniac, Ethan Vishveshwara, C. von Borzeszkowski, H.
Waddington, Ian Wagoner, Robert Wainwright, John
Wambsganss, Joachim Wanas, Mamdouh WANG, Huiyuan
Watson, Darach Webb, Tracy Webster, Adrian
Weilbacher, Peter Weinberg, Steven Wesson, Paul
West, Michael White, Simon Whiting, Alan
Widrow, Larry Will, Clifford Wilson, Albert
Windhorst, Rogier Wold, Margrethe Wolfe, Arthur
Woltjer, Lodewijk Woszczyna, Andrzej Wright, Edward
WU, Xiangping WU, Jiun-Huei WU, Wentao
WU, Jianghua Wucknitz, Olaf Wyithe, Stuart
XIANG, Shouping XU, Chongming XU, Dawei
YASUDA , Naoki Yeşilyurt, Ibrahim YI, Sukyoung
YOICHIRO , Suzuki YOKOYAMA, Jun'ichi YOSHIDA, Hiroshi
YOSHII , Yuzuru YOSHIKAWA, Kohji YOSHIOKA, Satoshi
Yushchenko, Alexander Zacchei, Andrea Zamorani, Giovanni
Zanichelli, Alessandra Zannoni, Mario Zaroubi, Saleem
ZHANG, Tong-Jie ZHANG, Jialu ZHAO, Donghai
ZHOU, Youyuan ZHOU, Hongyan ZHU, Xingfeng
Zieba, Stanislaw ZOU, Zhenlong Zucca, Elena
Commission Members with IAU associate status
Kaviraj, Sugata

IAU GA 2012

Office for Astronomy Development

International Year of Astronomy

Strategic Plan

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