ann11009 — Announcement
List of Special Sessions and Joint Discussions selected for 2012
14 June 2011
The list is as follows:
1) Special Sessions at the General Assembly:
- SpS1 — Origin and complexity of massive star clusters
Contact: Giampaolo Piotto, Italy
giampaolo.piotto@unipd.it
- SpS2 — Cosmic evolution of groups and clusters of galaxies
Contact: Jan Vrtilek, USA
jvrtilek@cfa.harvard.edu
- SpS3 — Galaxy evolution through secular processes
Contact: Ron Buta, USA
rbuta@bama.ua.edu
- SpS4 — New era for studying interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields
Contact: Han JinLin, China
hjl@nao.cas.cn
- SpS5 — The IR view of massive stars: the main sequence and beyond
Contact: Margaret Hanson, USA
hansonmm@ucmail.uc.edu
- SpS6 — Science with large solar telescopes
Contact: Gianna Cauzzi, Italy
gcauzzi@arcetri.astro.it
- SpS7 — The impact hazard: current activities and future plans
Contact: Alan Harris, USA
harrisaw@att.net
- SpS8 — Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum
Contact: Andreas Zezas, Greece
azezas@physics.uoc.gr
- SpS9 — Future Large Facilities
Contact: Roger Davies, UK
rld@astro.ox.ac.uk
- SpS10 — Dynamics of the star-planet relations
Contact: Jean-Louis Bougeret, France
jean-louis.bougeret@obspm.fr
- SpS11 — IAU Strategic Plan and the Global Office of Astronomy for Development
Contact: George Miley, Netherlands and Kevin Govender, South Africa
miley@strw.LeidenUniv.nl and kg@astro4dev.org
- SpS12 — Modern views of the interstellar medium
Contact: You-Hua Chu, USA
yhchu@illinois.edu
- SpS13 — High-precision tests of stellar physics from high-precision photometry
Contact: Dave Soderblom, USA
drs@stsci.edu
- SpS14 — Communicating astronomy with the public for scientists
Contact: Dennis Crabtree, Canada
Dennis.Crabtree@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
- SpS15 — Data intensive astronomy
Contact: Masatoshi Ohishi, Japan
masatoshi.ohishi@nao.ac.jp
- SpS16 — Unexplained spectral phenomena in the interstellar medium
Contact: Sun Kwok, China
sunkwok@hku.hk
- SpS17 — Light Pollution: Protecting Astronomical Sites and Increasing Global
Awareness through Education
Contacts: Beatriz García, Argentina
beatrigarciautn@gmail.com
and
Richard Green, USA
rgreen@lbto.org
- SpS18 — "Hot Topics" for each week
(by invitation only)
Contact: Thierry Montmerle, France
montmerle@iap.fr
2) Joint Discussions at the General Assembly:
- JD1 — The highest-energy gamma-ray universe observed with Cherenkov telescope arrays
Contact: Diego Torres, Spain
dtorres@ieec.uab.es
- JD2 —Very massive stars in the local universe
Contact: Jorick Vink, UK
jsv@arm.ac.uk
- JD3 — 3-D views of the cycling Sun in stellar context
Contact: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi, France
Lidia.vanDriel@obspm.fr
- JD4 — Ultraviolet emission in early-type galaxies
Contact: Sugata Kaviraj, UK
s.kaviraj@imperial.ac.uk
- JD5 — From meteors and meteorites to their parent bodies: Current status and future developments
Contact: Junichi Watanabe, Japan
jun.watanabe@nao.ac.jp
- JD6 — The connection between radio properties and high-energy emission in AGNs
Contact: Gabriele Giovannini, Italy
ggiovann@ira.inaf.it
- JD7 — Space-time reference systems for future research
Contact: Dennis McCarthy, USA
dennis.mccarthy@usno.navy.mil
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