scholarly journals EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP WOMEN IN ASTRONOMY

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (T26B) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Author(s):  
Anne J. Green ◽  
Sarah T. Maddison ◽  
Johannes Andersen ◽  
Olga B. Dluzhnevskaya ◽  
Gloria M. Dubner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Incoming President

The second Women in Astronomy Lunchtime Meeting was held on Monday 21 August 2006, with more than 250 participants. The meeting was hosted by the EC Working Group for Women in Astronomy, established at the 2003 IAU General Assembly, and was attended by the current President, the Presidents-Elect for this and the next General Assembly, the General Secretary and Vice-Presidents, many senior astronomers, as well as students and young astronomers. It was a particular pleasure to welcome and congratulate the incoming President, Dr Catherine Cesarsky, the first woman to hold the position.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Joint Discussion: Parameters of the Earth's Gravitational Field

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 607-609
Author(s):  
A. H. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
Earth’S Gravitational Field ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Astronomical Constants

The Chairman, W. Fricke, President of Commission 4, opened the Joint Discussion by drawing attention to the purpose and proposed procedure for the meeting. The Joint Discussion had been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Union in order to avoid the necessity for separate discussions by each Commission that was affected by the Report of the Working Group on the IAU System of Astronomical Constants. The Organizing Committee therefore proposed the following resolution:‘The members of the IAU at this Joint Discussion recommend to the Executive Committee that the following resolution be put before the General Assembly: “The International Astronomical Union endorses the final list of constants prepared by the Working Group on the System of Astronomical Constants and recommends that it be used in the national and international astronomical ephemerides at the earliest practicable date.’”

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Joint Discussion: Arguments in Favor of the Revision of the Conventional System of Astronomical Constants

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 604-606
Author(s):  
W. Fricke
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Conventional System ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Astronomical Constants

The Chairman, W. Fricke, President of Commission 4, opened the Joint Discussion by drawing attention to the purpose and proposed procedure for the meeting. The Joint Discussion had been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Union in order to avoid the necessity for separate discussions by each Commission that was affected by the Report of the Working Group on the IAU System of Astronomical Constants. The Organizing Committee therefore proposed the following resolution:‘The members of the IAU at this Joint Discussion recommend to the Executive Committee that the following resolution be put before the General Assembly: “The International Astronomical Union endorses the final list of constants prepared by the Working Group on the System of Astronomical Constants and recommends that it be used in the national and international astronomical ephemerides at the earliest practicable date.’”

scholarly journals Working Group on Future Large Scale Facilities in Astronomy

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Author(s):  
H. R. Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Hague

The idea for a Working Group (WG) on “Future Large Scale Facilities in Astronomy” grew from a discussion held on 20 August, 1994, during the IAU General Assembly in The Hague. The IAU Executive Committee approved its formation in August, 1995, and its composition in October, 1995. The WG will remain active at least until the XXIIIrd General Assembly in Kyoto in 1997. Members are: H. Butcher (Chairman), R. Ekers, B. Fort, N. Kardashev, M. Longair, F. Pacini, L. Rodriguez, G. Swarup, Y. Tanaka, H. Tananbaun, and L. Woltjer (ex officio). The WG carries out its work mostly by email and FAX.

scholarly journals Working Group on Hot Massive Stars (Groupe De Travail Sur Les Etoiles Massives Chaudes)

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-185
Author(s):  
Philippe Eenens ◽  
Joseph Cassinelli ◽  
Peter Conti ◽  
Catharine Garmany ◽  
Karel van der Hucht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Massive Stars ◽  
Starburst Galaxies ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Hot Stars ◽  
Ob Stars ◽  
Luminous Blue Variables

The Working Group on Hot Massive Stars has been officially recognized by the IAU Executive Committee during the XXIII General Assembly in August 1997. Its origins are the Hot Star Newsletter, launched in 1994, and a long tradition of interaction and collaborative research strengthened by a series of meetings on hot beaches. It gathers over 500 researchers working on OB stars, Luminous Blue Variables, Wolf-Rayet stars, and in general all topics related to the evolution of massive stars and to the physics and consequences of winds from hot stars. The very successful recent symposium on “Wolf-Rayet phenomena in massive stars and starburst galaxies” is an indicator of the increasing interest of the extragalactic community in the study of these extraordinary stars.

scholarly journals Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (Group De Travail Pour La Nomenclature Du System Plametaire)

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 613-619
Author(s):  
K. Aksnes ◽  
A. Brahic ◽  
M. Fulchignoni ◽  
M. Ya. Marov ◽  
D. Morrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Planetary System ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
General Assembly

It is with great sadness that we have to report the death on 24 August 1990 of the WG’s President, Harold Masursky, at the age of 66. Dr. Masursky is known for his many contributions in planetary science and for his many years of dedicated work in planetary nomenclature. During the interim until the next IAU General Assembly the IAU Executive Committee has appointed K. Aksnes as Acting President of the WG.

scholarly journals DIVISION G COMMISSION 42: CLOSE BINARY STARS

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (T29A) ◽  
pp. 474-489
Author(s):  
Mercedes T. Richards ◽  
Theodor Pribulla ◽  
Ignasi Ribas ◽  
David H. Bradstreet ◽  
Horst Dreschsel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Binary Stars ◽  
Close Binary ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Double Stars ◽  
Close Binary Stars ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Secretary

Commission 42 began life as Photometric Double Stars in 1948 at the 7th General Assembly in Zurich, under the presidency of Zdenek Kopal. As early as 1961, then General Secretary Lukas Plaut recommended a merger between C42 and C26, Double Stars, one of the original 32 commissions going back to 1919-22 (first president Aitken, assistant director at Lick). C42 became Close Binary Stars in 1970, at the 14th GA in Brighton (the first one I attended). Table 1 shows the presidents of C42, and vice presidents, from when the office started, through the history of the Commission.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Joint Discussion: Masses of the Principal Planets

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-614
Author(s):  
G. M. Clemence
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Astronomical Constants

The Chairman, W. Fricke, President of Commission 4, opened the Joint Discussion by drawing attention to the purpose and proposed procedure for the meeting. The Joint Discussion had been arranged by the Executive Committee of the Union in order to avoid the necessity for separate discussions by each Commission that was affected by the Report of the Working Group on the IAU System of Astronomical Constants. The Organizing Committee therefore proposed the following resolution:‘The members of the IAU at this Joint Discussion recommend to the Executive Committee that the following resolution be put before the General Assembly: “The International Astronomical Union endorses the final list of constants prepared by the Working Group on the System of Astronomical Constants and recommends that it be used in the national and international astronomical ephemerides at the earliest practicable date.’”

scholarly journals V. Report of the Executive Committee (1979–1981)

1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-381
Author(s):  
M.K. Vainu Bappu ◽  
M.W. Feast ◽  
D.S Heeschen ◽  
E.K. Kharadze ◽  
L. Kresak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Present Report ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Financial Report ◽  
Budget Proposal ◽  
General Secretary

The present report covers the period from 1 January 1979 to 31 December 1981. This period includes the first eight months (to 26 August) of the year 1979, which was part of the period in office of the previous Executive Committee; it does not include the first eight months of 1982, still the period of responsibility of the present Executive Committee (to 27 August 1982). The address of the General Secretary at the XVIIIth General Assembly will include a report for the period 1 January – 16 August 1982.This report includes a summarized financial report for the calendar years 1979, 1980 and 1981 and a budget proposal for the calendar year 1982, closing the 3-year budgetary period 1979-1982.

scholarly journals Before OAD

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 388-393
Author(s):  
Alan H. Batten
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Schools ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Vice President ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Education And Development ◽  
Year 2000

AbstractOAD, the Office of Astronomy for Development, one of the most significant innovations within the IAU, was created at the XXVII General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2009 and opened in 2011. The new office brought together and strengthened several activities of the IAU aimed at helping astronomers in developing or isolated countries to keep in touch with their colleagues elsewhere and up-to-date with the developments in our science. Those activities were mediated through the old commission structure by Commission 38 (Exchange of Astronomers) and Commission 46 (Astronomy Education and Development) which oversaw the International Schools of Young Astronomers (ISYA), the Visiting Lecturer Programme (VLP) and Teaching for Astronomy Development (TAD). In addition, Jorge Sahade, during his term as IAU President (1985–1988), formed the Working Group for the Promotion and Development of Astronomy, as a sub-committee of the Executive Committee, and asked the present writer, then a Vice-President, to act as chair. That Working Group (later renamed the Working Group for the Worldwide Development of Astronomy, WGWWDA) operated within the context of the already existing services of the IAU and in cooperation with the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). In this paper, the writer gives an account of the activities of the WGWWDA both during and between General Assemblies, until the year 2000, shortly after which he relinquished responsibility for them.

Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature: (Committee of the Executive Committee)

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 703-708
Author(s):  
H. Masursky ◽  
K. Aksnes ◽  
G.E. Hunt ◽  
M. Ya. Marov ◽  
P.M. Millman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Planetary System ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Task Groups ◽  
Nomenclature Committee

Since the General Assembly at New Delhi in November 1985, the Working Group held two meetings within six weeks of each other; most members of the Working Group and several members of Task Groups were able to attend at least one of these meetings. The thirteenth meeting of the Working Group was held at Toulouse, France on June 30 to July 2,1986; the fourteenth meeting was held at Moscow, USSR, on August 10,1986; the fifteenth meeting took place from August 13 to 15 in Soviet Armenia.

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