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 - Categories: meetings

AAS Meetings

http://www.aas.org/meetings/index.html - Categories: meetings

ASP Conference Series

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

http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/cs/confseries.html - Categories: full_text meetings

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/ - Categories: meetings misc physics

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS)

The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution.
The Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.

http://www.adass.org/ - Categories: meetings

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 2000 (ADASS X)

Conference hosted by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, held on November 12-15, 2000.

http://adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass00/ - Categories: meetings

INACTIVE LINK ? - 165 --- Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 2001 (ADASS XI)

The ADASS XI conference, hosted by CADC, was held in Victoria, BC, Canada from 30 Sept. - 3 Oct., 2001.

http://cadcwww.hia.nrc.ca/adass_2001/ - Categories: meetings

INACTIVE LINK ? - 166 --- 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 - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: meetings

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/adass.html - Categories: meetings abstracts

INACTIVE LINK ? - 462 --- 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 - Categories: meetings

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. ADASS '98 was hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois Astronomy Department (Urbana, IL, November 1st - 4th, 1998).

http://monet.ncsa.uiuc.edu/adass98/ - Categories: meetings

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/ - Categories: meetings

Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Conference Series

http://www.aspbooks.org/ - Categories: meetings

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

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

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 - Categories: society meetings

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/institute/conference/calhst/ - Categories: meetings space

Carter Observatory (New Zealand)

Carter Observatory is the National Observatory of New Zealand.

http://www.carterobservatory.org - Categories: dept education meetings optical telescope

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 - Categories: meetings

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/DAD/ - Categories: meetings physics

Expanding Your Universe 2001 (EYU2001)

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~fraser/astrochem.html - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: misc center meetings planetary

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 - Categories: meetings

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/ - Categories: society meetings

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 - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: meetings

INACTIVE LINK ? - 284 --- Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conferences (INSAP)

The Third Conference of the series is to take place in Palermo (Sicily), Italy (December 31, 2000-January 6, 2001).

http://ethel.as.arizona.edu/~white/insap/ - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: dept agency meetings space

LISA conferences (LISA)

Links to past and future LISA (Library and Information Services in Astronomy) conferences and electronic proceedings.

http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html - Categories: library full_text meetings

Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV (LISA IV)

The fourth conference on Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA IV) will be held from July 2-5, 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic, and will be hosted by the Charles University.

http://lisa4.cuni.cz/ - Categories: meetings

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/ - Categories: meetings

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

http://www.iac.es/biblio/lisa/indice.htm - Categories: meetings

Los Alamos Astrophysics (LAA)

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://laastro.lanl.gov/ - Categories: dept meetings

MSSSO Heron Island Workshop 1995

The MSSSO Heron Island Workshop on Peculiar Velocities in the Universe

http://qso.lanl.gov/~heron/ - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: newsgroup abstracts full_text jobs meetings

Meetings on Extra-solar Planets

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

Mining the Sky (MPA/ ESO/ MPE Joint Astronomy Conference)

A Conference held in Garching, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2000.
This meeting aimed to investigate methods for the numerical and statistical analysis of astronomical datasets with particular emphasis on the manipulation of the very large databases arising from both existing and forthcoming projects, as well as current large-scale computer simulation studies. Review speakers gave overviews of cutting-edge methods applicable in the area of astronomical data-mining. Case-studies demonstrated the interplay between these techniques and interesting astronomical problems. Targetted talks presented current results, and there were also opportunities for participants to contribute shorter talks or posters.

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~cosmo/ - Categories: meetings

Multiwavelength AGN Surveys (AGN2003)

December 8-12, 2003. Cozumel, Mexico INAOE is pleased to announce this conference within the framework of the "Guillermo Haro Advanced Research Program". The huge amount of data obtained by surveys in all wavebands, from radio to X-rays, has allowed a major progress in the understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei and of their cosmic evolution. This conference is intended to give a broad overview of the recent results obtained by AGN surveys over the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Topics which will be discussed during the conference are: AGN evolution, contribution to the cosmic background, AGN luminosity functions in different wavebands, multiwavelength properties of AGN, unified model and unconventional AGN, connection with the host galaxies, co-evolution of AGN and galaxies, implications for the local density of supermassive black holes. Future AGN surveys planned with forthcoming new observational facilities will also be discussed.

http://www.inaoep.mx/~agn2003/ - Categories: meetings

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/ - Categories: meetings space

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/ - Categories: society meetings

The Cosmic Background Radiation, Strasbourg 96

A NATO Advanced Study Institute Strasbourg 1996 Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

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

INACTIVE LINK ? - 405 --- The XXXIIIYoung European Radio Astronomers Conference 2003 (YERAC)

The XXXIII YERAC was hosted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) in Bonn on September 16-19, 2003.

http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/apolatidis/YERAC/ - Categories: meetings radio

Virtual Observatories of the Future

The goal of the meeting held in Pasadena, June 13- 16, 2000, was to explore the possibilities for new astronomy with large digital sky surveys and archives, and to define the technical needs and the mandate for the future National (and ultimately Global) Virtual Observatory.

http://astro.caltech.edu/nvoconf/ - Categories: meetings

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/ - Categories: meetings

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 - Categories: meetings