AstroWeb: Conferences and Meetings: Announcements and Proceedings

75th Anniversary Astronomical Debate Home Page

In April 1920, Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis debated " The Scale of the Universe" in Washington, DC. 75 years later, in April 1995, in commemoration of the `Great Debate', Donald Q. Lamb and Bohdan Paczynski debated " The Distance Scale to Gamma-Ray Bursts" in the same auditorium. Martin Rees moderated. Introductory lectures were gien by Virginia Trimble and Gerald Fishman. The home page makes available a great deal of background information about the 1920 Curtis - Shapley debate suitable for undergraduate lectures wishing to mention the 75th anniversary of this historic astronomical event.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html

7th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the IAU (Pusan, KOREA. Aug.19-23, 1996)

The meeting was held at Pusan National University (Pusan, Korea), from Aug 19 to 23, 1996. The meeting covered almost all areas in Astronomy including Sun and Solar System, Stellar Astronomy, Interstellar Medium & Galactic Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy & Active Galactic Nuclei, Large Scale Structure & Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysics, Instruments, and Astronomical History & Education.

http://mercury.es.pusan.ac.kr/IAUap/IAUap.html

AAS Meetings

http://www.aas.org/meetings/meetings.html

ASP Conference Series

Lists the current volumes available in the Conference Series of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

http://www.aspsky.org/pubs/confseries.html

Aspen Center for Physics (ACP)

The Aspen Center for Physics is a scientific organization which promotes organized research in physics, astrophysics and related fields through a program of individual and collaborative research, seminars, workshops and conferences and which promotes the education of the general public through public lectures and other activities.

http://andy.bu.edu/aspen/

Astronavigator

Astronavigator is a monthly seminar held by post-graduate students in Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, in order that all its participants be familiar with the latest news and current status of astronomical knowledge. The invited speakers are also asked to pay particular attention to the preparation of the seminar's public issues, popular articles, pictures and movies to share with amateur astronomers and other interested people.

http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/dikarev/navigator/gator.html

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 93 (ADASS III)

The electronic version of the Proceedings for the ADASS III Conference, held in Victoria, October 13-15, 1993, is available on-line. A printed volume, A.S.P. Conference Series Volume 61 (Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette Barnes, Editors), is also available, which can be ordered from the A.S.P. office in San Francisco through the WWW pages or by sending a FAX inquiry to them directly at 415-337-5205. Comments about the electronic proceedings can be sent to the editors at adass-eds@dao.nrc.ca. Electronic Editors: Daniel Durand, Jeannette Barnes, Dennis R. Crabtree.

http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/ADASS/adass.html

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 94 (ADASS IV)

(Baltimore, September 25-28, 1994)
This conference will provide a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. An important element of the program is to foster communication between developers and users with a range of expertise in the production and use of software and systems. We also hope to expose developers and users to developments in other areas of computer science which may have applications in an astronomical context. Contributions to the program are invited in the areas of algorithms, software, systems, and related topics, with emphasis on practical solutions to the problems of treating real data. Key Topics: Astronomical Data Modelling and Analysis, Design and Development of Graphical User Interfaces, Network Information Systems, Parallel and Distributed Processing.

http://ra.stsci.edu/ADASS.html

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 95 (ADASS V)

The ADASS Conferences provide a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. ADASS '95, held in Tucson, AZ, was hosted by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (October 22-25, 1995).

http://iraf.noao.edu/ADASS/adass_conf/adass_95/adass95.html

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 96 (ADASS VI)

The ADASS Conferences provide a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. ADASS '96 was hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Virginia Departments of Astronomy and Computer Science (September 22-25, 1996).

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/adass/

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 97 (ADASS VII)

ADASS '97 took place during September 14-17, 1997 in Sonthofen, Bavaria.

http://ecf.hq.eso.org/adass/adass97.html

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 98 (ADASS VIII)

Urbana, IL, November 1st - 4th, 1998.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ADASS98

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 98 (ADASS VIII)

The ADASS Conference Series provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.

http://monet.astro.uiuc.edu/adass98/

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 99 (ADASS IX)

Conference hosted by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), held on the Island of Hawaii's Kohala Coast, 3-6 October, 1999.

http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ADASS/

Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Conference Series

http://www.stsci.edu/pasp/ASP_conference_series

Binary Star Conferences in the near future (list maintained at MPA)

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/Binary/conferences.html

Bucks-Mont Astronomical Association (BMAA)

Bucks-Mont Astronomical Association is an active astronomy organization of Bucks and Montgomery County colleagues in Pennsylvania. BMAA sponsors Stella-Della-Valley, the annual weekend convention held in October at a dark-sky observing site in upper Bucks County (Ottsville, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles north of PHiladelphia). BMAA numbers about 80 members.

http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/bmaa/index.html

Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope

The proceedings from the HST Calibration Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute November 15-17, 1993. These proceedings include discussions on the calibration of each instrument, including the Fine Guidance Sensors. There is also a general section that includes papers on the Optical Telescope Assembly, the HST Calibration Database and information on the calibration of other space observatories namely, the IUE and the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope. Check the table of contents for a full listing. For the user's convenience this book is available both by individual paper and by hefty chunks of postscript for each section: WFPC, FOC, FOS, GHRS and General. The latter method is most useful for those of you who want to collect the whole book. The main text of the book is 442 pages.

http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/calhst/home.html

Colloquium in the framework of IAU Commission N 5

Colloquium "International Cooperation in Dissemination of the Astronomical Data" was held in Pulkovo (St.-Petersburg, Russia) from 2 till 8 July 1996.

http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/~colloq/index.html

Cosmological Constant Conference

International Conference on "The Cosmological Constant and the Evolution of the Universe", The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), November 7 - 10, 1995
Observational data, such as the Hubble constant measurements and estimates of the age of globular clusters, have strongly suggested the existence of nonvanishing cosmological constant. It is, however, quite difficult to explain the observationally suggested value on purely theoretical grounds. The purpose of the Conference was to bring together the observational data and theoretical ideas concerning the cosmological constant.

http://www-utap.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lambda.html

Disks, Planetesimals and Planets

Conference on Disks, Planetesimals and Planets, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, SPAIN, 24-28 January 2000.
The recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the progress in studies of disks around pre-main sequence and main sequence stars highlight the need of better understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Many groups and observatories are dedicating important efforts towards these goals. The 1998 international time of the Canary Islands Observatories is fully devoted to studies related to these topics, making use of spectroscopic, polarimetric and photometric techniques in the optical, as well as near-IR photometry. The conference is the frame where the large amount of data collected with the facilities in the Canary Islands will be presented. In addition, contributions from participants addressing theoretical models and observations in all wavelength ranges will provide an updated overview of the field. The conference will last five days (including a free afternoon) and will consist of sessions with invited and contributed talks and poster. Sessions will devoted to: (a) PMS objects: circumstellar (protoplanetary) disks around protostellar objects, PMS stars and Vega-type stars (b) Planetesimals in PMS and MS stellar systems (c) Planets around stars (d) Searches for planets (e) Impact on planetary system studies of future space and ground-based facilities

http://www.iac.es/proyect/planet/0ann_planet.html

Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs

A six-month research programme (08 Jan - 03 Jul 98) at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. The programme brought together experts from relevant areas in astrophysics and mathematicians and scientists familiar with appropriate analytic methods and numerical simulation techniques, including the solution of differential or integro-differential equations.

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/old_progs/dad.html

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia

This resource, maintained by Jean Schneider (Observatoire de Paris), provides updated information about the search for extrasolar planets.
It includes a Catalog of Extrasolar Planets and a list of meetings.

http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html

Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory (IAU Symposium 189)

Table of Contents of proceedings, conference in Sydney, Australia, 13-17 January 1997.

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/astron/iau189/contents.html

Global Network of Automatic Telescopes (GNAT)

Home page of the Global Network of Automatic Telescopes including white papers, meeting announcements and other information.

http://www.gnat.org/~ida/gnat/

How Far Can You Go ? (A critical review of the distance scale of the universe)

Recent determinations or new approaches have brought a new light on the distance scale of the universe: Hubble Space Telescope key project, Hipparcos distance determinations, microlensing surveys, etc.
This workshop brought together key persons working on complementary aspects in order to make a critical review of the distance scale of the universe. It was organized by the Observatoire de Strasbourg and held at La Petite Pierre, Northern Vosges, 25-27 June 1997.
Electronic proceedings are available.

http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/howfar97.html

INAOE Conference on Starbust Activity in Galaxies - 1996 (Tonantzintla, Puebla, MEXICO. April 29 - May 3, 1996)

This is the STARBURST phenomenon in galaxies, held at INAOE. The conference responded to the rapidly growing interest in the Starburst phenomenon and the possible links between nuclear Starburst and AGN activity.The central aim was to provide an open forum to discuss the most recent results about the Starburst activity, and the possible Starburst-AGN connections.
The conference brought together theory and observations (over a wide range of frequencies) of Star Formation and Starbursts, Galactic Winds, HII Galaxies, Interacting Galaxies, IRAS Ultraluminous Galaxies, and Nuclear Starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei.

http://www.inaoep.mx/~starbur/conference.html

International Astronomy Conferences and Meetings

This list of astronomy meetings is compiled by Liz Bryson of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. This version of the meeting list has been updated to provide links to those meetings which are providing information electronically. If you find this list useful please send e-mail to bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu (Bryson's plain text version of the file is available via FTP; the HTML is easier to read, and includes links).

http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/meetings/meetings.html

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)

ISSI is an Institute in Switzerland at which scientists from different countries can work together. Its main task is to contribute to the achievement of a deeper understanding of the results from space-research missions, adding value to those results through multi-disciplinary research in an atmosphere of international cooperation.

http://www.issi.unibe.ch

INACTIVE LINK ? - 12 --- Jacob Shaham - Memorial Conference

Memorial conference to Jacob Shaham held in Jerusalem April 27 - May 1, 1996. The lectures reflected Jacob's broad interest in different aspects of Physics and Astrophysics.

http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/shaham/conference.html

Kyiv Shevchenko University - Astronomy and Space physics department (Kiev, Ukraine)

Research interests:

• Space Physics Plasma
• Optical spectrometry and photometry
• Design of on-board TV and Spectrophotometry devices
• Nightglow emission
• Solar corona
• Comet observations

Host of annual Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics (YSC).

http://space.ups.kiev.ua/

Library and Informations Services in Astronomy II Conference

The aims of LISA-II, a proposed IAU Colloquium, are twofold: (1) to provide the opportunity for librarians of astronomical observatories and institutes to meet to discuss common problems, and ways of stimulating greater cooperation between libraries and their services; and (2) to raise discussion about, and to throw light on, the interface areas between astronomical libraries and the wide range of online and other astronomical computer-based services which are becoming ever more widespread.

http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa-ii/

Library and Informations Services in Astronomy III Conference (LISA III)

http://www.iac.es/biblio/lisa/indice.htm

Los Alamos Astrophysic (LAASTRO)

Los Alamos Astrophysics (LAA) is an informal organization at Los Alamos National Laboratory that maintains a regular colloquium series, serves as a clearing-house for information on astrophysical research at the lab, and prepares the annual astrophysics report.

http://mioruilt.lanl.gov/

MSSSO Heron Island Workshop 1995

The MSSSO Heron Island Workshop on Peculiar Velocities in the Universe

http://qso.lanl.gov/~heron/

Magellanic Clouds Newsletter (European mirror)

The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter is an electronic publication for information exchange on Magellanic Clouds research. It is distributed bimonthly and provides abstracts of submitted papers on the Magellanic Clouds, dissertation abstracts, meeting information and job announcements.

http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~mcnews/MCNews.html

Meetings on Extra-solar Planets

http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/meetings.html

Restoration of HST Images and Spectra Workshop

Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 18-19 November 1993. Edited by Robert J. Hanisch (hanisch@stsci.edu) and Richard L. White (rlw@stsci.edu). Advanced Systems Group, Science Computing and Research Support Division, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218

http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/irw/

Science With The NGST

The conference on Science with the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) will provide a forum for astronomers to discuss scientific goals and key problems that this proposed observatory would address. NASA is currently studying several concepts for the NGST, conceived as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The NGST will be a large (>4m), passively cooled, IR optimized (1 to 5-20 microns) imaging and spectroscopic instrument placed in far Earth orbit. The unmatched aperture size will make this instrument uniquely suited for investigating many astronomical phenomena in the early universe.

http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/meetings/NGSTmeeting1.html

Solar Workshops (an Italian list)

http://www.oat.ts.astro.it/isps/sworkshops.html

Southern Astronomical Society Home Page

One of the first WWW sites of an amateur astronomical in Australia. Set up for the Southern Astronomical Society, Inc. by the administrator, Zac Pujic. The site contains general information about astronomy as well as information about the society.

http://www.sas.org.au/

Texas Star Party (TSP)

The Texas Star Party is a week-long astronomy convention held annually in April-May in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. Over 700 amateur astronomers observe & photograph the dark skies, attend daily paper sessions, hear presentations from prominent astronomers, and otherwise socialize with people from all over the world.

http://www.metronet.com/~tsp/

The Cosmic Background Radiation, Strasbourg 96

A NATO Advanced Study Institute Strasbourg 1996 Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/cbr96.html

Volga Space Plasma Physics Summer School Information - 1997

The purpose of these Summer Schools, held every second summer onboard a river cruise ship on the Volga and organised jointly by the Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI), Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia and the Uppsala Division of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRFU), Uppsala, Sweden, is to give an introduction to modern space plasma physics by bringing together experienced researchers, young scientists and scholars in astrophysics, space physics and plasma physics for a fruitful exchange of ideas across areas of interest, language, culture and age barriers.
The topics covered include linear and non-linear plasma physics, waves and radiation phenomena in plasma, waves in random media and turbulence, planetary, solar and stellar coronal plasma, plasma under extreme conditions in space, space plasma radio emission, radio methods for investigating space plasma environments, and the use of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere as a space plasma laboratory for model experiments simulating phenomena in other plasma environments.

http://www.wavegroup.irfu.se/Volga97/

Washington Area Astronomers (WAA)

Washington Area Astronomers meetings provide a forum in which the large number of professional astronomers and astrophysicists in the Washington-Baltimore area can present recent research results to their colleagues in the local astronomical community.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/waa/

Weaving the Astronomy Web (WAW)

A Conference organized at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, Strasbourg, France (6-7 April 1995). This Conference is intended to be a forum for astronomical data providers, webmasters, astronomers and space scientists interested in the current and future developments of the World-Wide Web, and more generally of electronic on-line information handling in an astronomy and space sciences context. Proceedings are available on-line.

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/waw.html

Wide-Field Astronomy (The New Era of)

The New Era of Wide-Field Astronomy : A Conference to be held in Preston (England), 21 - 24 August 2000.
We are at the beginning of a new era in wide-field astronomy, with major new surveys now in production, and with new telescopes and instruments, both ground- and space-based, scheduled to be in production in the next few years. This conference aims to review the present and future of this exciting new era of wide-field astronomy, and to discuss the optimum exploitation of the remarkable range of new facilities. The conference will cover all aspects of the new era - cosmology and both extragalactic and galactic astronomy, from X-ray to radio.

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/new_era