Scientific Meetings

The program of scientific meetings is one of the most important means by which the IAU pursues its goal of promoting the science of astronomy through international collaboration.  A large fraction of the Union's budget is devoted to the support of the IAU scientific meetings.

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• Rules & Guidelines
• General Assemblies
• Future IAU Meetings
• Past IAU Meetings
• Meeting Proposals

Pictures taken during the IAU General Assemblies in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2009), Prague (Czech Republic, 2006) and in Rome (Italy, 1952). Credit: IAU and AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection