ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IAU FOCUS MEETING 8 "NEW INSIGHTS IN EXTRAGALCTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS"

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The focus meeting will be held on August 29-31, 2018 during the XXXth General Assembly of the IAU in Vienna, Austria.

Magnetic fields are a key ingredient of the extragalactic Universe on many different spatial scales, from individual galaxies and AGN to clusters of galaxies and large-scale structure. The coming years and decades will see a burst in our information and understanding of extragalactic magnetic fields due to the next generation of radio astronomy facilities, especially the SKA and its precursors, as well as major advances in MHD numerical simulations and algorithmic improvements to extract magnetism information from the databases.

The Focus Meeting will bring together the observational, theoretical and computational communities to discuss the challenges and opportunities for understanding the magnetized Universe from scales of galaxies to the cosmic web and connect information across the spectrum.

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Kandu Subramanian, Hiroshi Nagai, Tina Kahniashvili, Annalisa Bonafede, Marcus Brueggen, Robert Laing, Jeroen Stil, Valentina Vacca, Ann Mao

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Nabila Aghanim, Ruth Durrer, Torsten Enßlin, Federica Govoni (co-chair), George Heald (co-chair), Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (co-chair), Luigina Feretti (proposer), Hui Li, Hiroshi Nagai, Lawrence Rudnick

REGISTRATION AND ALL OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE STEPS are organised through the General Assembly website: http://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at

IMPORTANT DATES:

• January 31: Early-bird registration deadline. Register here: http://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/registration/ [2]
• February 28: Deadline for regular abstract submission for oral and poster contributions; deadline for IAU grant submission
• May 1: Announcement final program
• May 31: Deadline for poster-only submissions
• June 30: Deadline for regular registration
• August 20-31: IAU General Assembly
• August 29-31 : IAU Focus Meeting #8 on Extragalactic Magnetic Fields