IAU Symposia
IAUS 298: Setting the scene for Gaia and LAMOST - the current and next generations of surveys and models
Start date/time
May 20, 2013
End date/time
May 24, 2013
Place
Lijiang (Yunnan Province),
China, Nanjing
Contact
Sofia Feltzing
sofia@astro.lu.se
Event website
http://iaus298.csp.escience.cn
Coordinating Division
Division IV Stars
SOC Co-chairs: Gang Zhao (China Nanjing), Sofia Feltzing (Sweden)
SOC Members: Emilio Alfarro (Spain), Timothy Beers (USA), Masashi Chiba (Japan), Gaynadhi de Silva (Australia), Eva Grebel (Germany), Amina Helmi (Netherlands), Jacques Lépine (Brazil), François Mignard (France), Julio Navarro (Canada), Timo Prusti (Netherlands), Sofia Randich (Italy), Becham Reddy (India), Nicolas Walton (UK), Patricia Whitelock (South Africa), Manuela Zoccali (Chile)
Editors of Proceedings: Sofia Feltzing (Sweden), Nicolas Walton (UK), Patricia Whitelock (South Africa), Gang Zhao (China Nanjing)
Topics:
- The Milky Way as we know it
- Updates on on-going and upcoming Galactic surveys
- The state of the art of Milky Way modeling and how ongoing surveys and Gaia will inform these studies
- The role of Interstellar medium, variable stars, astrometry in large scale surveys of the Galaxy