The IAU Executive Committee, during its meeting last April in Canberra, Australia, approved the IAU Symposia and Focus Meetings (FM) for the General Assembly year 2015. There will be one Symposium (IAUS 314 Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun) which will take place outside the General Assembly, in May at the Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. Six Symposia and 22 Focus Meetings will take place during the General Assembly in Honolulu: the exact dates and duration of the Symposia and Focus Meetings will be published later, together with the preliminary Programme of the General Assembly.

The titles on the selected Symposia and Focus Meetings are:

• Symposia

  • IAUS 314 – Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun (outside the General Assembly)
  • IAUS 315 – From Interstellar Clouds to Star-forming Galaxies: Universal Processes?
  • IAUS 316 – Formation, Evolution, and Survival of Massive Star Clusters
  • IAUS 317 – The General Assembly of Galactic Halos: Structure, Origin and Evolution
  • IAUS 318 – Asteroids: New Observations, New Models
  • IAUS 319 – Galaxies at High Redshift and Their Evolution Over Cosmic Time
  • IAUS 320 – Solar and Stellar Flares and Their Effects on Planets
    
    
• Focus Meetings
  
  
  • FM 1 – Dynamical Problems in Extrasolar Planets Science
  • FM 2 – Astronomical Heritage: Progressing the UNESCO–IAU Initiative
  • FM 3 – Scholarly Publication in Astronomy: Evolution or Revolution?
  • FM 4 – Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Galactic Structure and Evolution
  • FM 5 – The Legacy of Planck
  • FM 6 – X-ray Surveys of the Hot and Energetic Cosmos
  • FM 7 – Stellar Physics in Galaxies Throughout the Universe
  • FM 8 – Statistics and Exoplanets
  • FM 9 – Highlights in the Exploration of Small Worlds
  • FM 10 – Stellar Explosions in an Ever-changing Environment
  • FM 11 – Global Coordination of Ground and Space Astrophysics and Heliophysics
  • FM 12 – Bridging Laboratory Astrophysics and Astronomy
  • FM 13 – Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars
  • FM 14 – The Gravitational Wave Symphony of Structure Formation
  • FM 15 – Search for Water and Life's Building Blocks in the Universe
  • FM 16 – Stellar Behemoths - Red Supergiants Across the Local Universe
  • FM 17 – Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology
  • FM 18 – Scale-free Processes in the Universe
  • FM 19 – Communicating Astronomy with the Public in the Big Data Era
  • FM 20 – Astronomy for Development
  • FM 21 – Mitigating Threats of Light Pollution & Radio Frequency Interference
  • FM 22 – The Frontier Fields: Transforming our Understanding of Cluster and Galaxy Evolution

Contacts

Piero Benvenuti
IAU Assistant General Secretary
Tel: +33 1 43 25 83 58
Email: piero.benvenuti@unipd.it

Raquel Yumi Shida
IAU Press Officer Deputy
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 89 320 06 177
Email: rshida@eso.org