Programme-at-a-Glance
 

ID 1    "The Zoo of Galaxies" Karen Masters Monday, 20th August
ID 2    "Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy" Brian Schmidt Wednesday, 22nd August
ID 3    "The Herschel View of Star Formation" Philippe André Wednesday, 29th August
ID 4    "Past, Present and Future of Chinese Astronomy" Cheng Fang Thursday, 30th August

Special Lunchtime Lectures

"Chinese Ancient Astronomy" Xiaochun Sun. Tuesday, 21st and Thursday, 30th August

GA Symposia
IAUS 288 Astrophysics from Antarctica
Contact: Michael Burton (Australia)

IAUS 289 Advancing the physics of cosmic distances
Contact: Richard de Grijs (China)

IAUS 290 Feeding compact objects: Accretion on all scales
Contact: Zhang Chengmin (China)

IAUS 291 Neutron stars and pulsars: Challenges and opportunities after 80 Years
Contact: Richard Manchester (Australia)

IAUS 292 Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies
Contact: Martin Bureau (UK)

IAUS 293 Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets
Contact: Nader Haghighipour (USA)

IAUS 294 Solar and astrophysical dynamos and magnetic activity
Contact: Alexander Kosovichev (USA)

IAUS 295 The intriguing life of massive galaxies
Contact: Daniel Thomas (UK)

Special Sessions at the General Assembly
SpS1 Origin and complexity of massive star clusters
Contact: Giampaolo Piotto (Italy)

SpS2 Cosmic evolution of groups and clusters of galaxies
Contact: Jan Vrtilek (USA)

SpS3 Galaxy evolution through secular processes
Contact: Ron Buta (USA)

SpS4 New era for studying interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields
Contact: Han JinLin (China)

SpS5 The IR view of massive stars: the main sequence and beyond
Contact: Margaret Hanson (USA)

SpS6 Science with large solar telescopes
Contact: Gianna Cauzzi (Italy)

SpS7 The impact hazard: current activities and future plans
Contact: Giovanni B. Valsecchi (Italy)

SpS8 Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum
Contact: Andreas Zezas (Greece)

SpS9 Future Large Scale Facilities
Contact: Roger Davies (UK)

SpS10 Dynamics of the star-planet relations
Contact: Jean-Louis Bougeret (France)

SpS11 IAU Strategic Plan and the Global Office of Astronomy for Development
Contacts: George Miley (Netherlands), Kevin Govender (South Africa)

SpS12 Modern views of the interstellar medium
Contact: You-Hua Chu (USA)

SpS13 High-precision tests of stellar physics from high-precision photometry
Contact: Dave Soderblom (USA)

SpS14 Communicating astronomy with the public for scientists
Contact: Dennis Crabtree (Canada)

SpS15 Data intensive astronomy
Contact: Masatoshi Ohishi (Japan)

SpS16 Unexplained spectral phenomena in the interstellar medium
Contact: Sun Kwok (China)

SpS17 Light Pollution: Protecting Astronomical Sites and Increasing Global Awareness through Education
Contact: Beatriz García (Argentina) , Richard Green (USA)

SpS18 "Hot Topics" for each week 24 August & 31 August (by invitation only)
Contact: Thierry Montmerle (France)

Joint Discussions at the General Assembly
JD1 The highest-energy gamma-ray universe observed with Cherenkov telescope arrays
Contact: Diego Torres (Spain)

JD2 Very massive stars in the local universe
Contact: Jorick Vink (UK)

JD3 3-D views of the cycling Sun in stellar context
Contact: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (France)

JD4 Ultraviolet emission in early-type galaxies
Contact: Sugata Kaviraj (UK)

JD5 From meteors and meteorites to their parent bodies: Current status and future developments
Contact: Junichi Watanabe (Japan)

JD6 The connection between radio properties and high-energy emission in AGNs
Contact: Gabriele Giovannini (Italy)

JD7 Space-time reference systems for future research
Contact: Dennis McCarthy (USA)

IAU Working Group Special Sessions

Working Group Libraries