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Тема: Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership
Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership
Dear Colleagues,
As the Honolulu General Assembly is approaching, you will find below are some reminders and information of interest.
Please consult the IAU web page (
www.iau.org/) regularly -a lot is happening, and the information is being constantly updated.
For all information regarding the GA, the AAS web page (
astronomy2015.org/) is authoritative. Please consult it regularly also !
Thierry Montmerle
1. Deadline for Resolutions
2. Status of Proposals for Commissions and Symposia
3. New members to be admitted at the GA
4. IAU Directory for World Astronomy and NameExoWorlds contest
1. Deadline for Resolutions
According to the Bye-Laws, Sect.IV.15, Resolutions other than those having financial implications must be submitted to the General Secretary six months before the beginning of the General Assembly. This deadline (3 February) has now passed, but since no such Resolution has been received so far, *this deadline is postponed to 1st March*.
2. Status of Proposals for Commissions and Symposia
All Letters of Intent to propose Commissions have been followed up by Full Proposals. Some mergers have taken place, so the total number of proposals actually received is 48. The Letters of Intent and the results of the Expression of Interest will remain accessible (
www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann15002/) until the completion of the selection process.
In parallel, 23 Proposals for Symposia in 2016 have been received.
Both sets of proposals will be evaluated by a committee composed of the Division Presidents and Executive Committee Vice-Presidents, and chaired respectively by the President-Elect (Commissions) and Assistant General Secretary (Symposia).
The selections will be announced on 20 April, shortly after the next Executive Committee meeting (
www.iau.org/administration/events/1099/).
3. New members to be admitted at the GA
The submission of Applications for IAU Individual Membership is now closed, and the applications will be examined shortly by the Membership Committee. We can expect about 1200 new members will be admitted at the General Assembly, an all-time record (999 new members were admitted at the Beijing GA).
4. IAU Directory for World Astronomy and NameExoWorlds contest
The IAU Directory for World Astronomy (
directory.iau.org/) has been created not only for astronomy clubs and organisations, but also more generally for associations having an interest in astronomy (history, culture, etc.).
We encourage IAU members to contact such clubs and associations worldwide to register to the Directory. In particular, we are looking for greater geographical diversity than is currently available.
Also, registering to the Directory is mandatory to participate in the NameExoWorld contest for the public naming of exoplanets and their host stars (see
www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1501/).
Thierry Montmerle (Dr.)
General Secretary International Astronomical Union (IAU)
www.iau.org/
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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75014 Paris
France
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