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IAU XXVIII General Assembly 20-31 August, 2012 第 28 届国际天文学联合会大会 Programme Book

1 Table of Contents

Welcome to IAU General Assembly XXVIII...... 4 Welcome to Beijing, welcome to !...... 6

1.IAU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HOST ORGANISATIONS, PARTNERS, SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS...... 8 1.1. IAU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE...... 8 1.2. IAU SECRETARIAT...... 8 1.3. HOST ORGANISATIONS...... 8 1.4. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE...... 9 1.5. NATIONAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE...... 9 1.6. LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE...... 10 1.7. ORGANISATION SUPPORT...... 11 1.8. PARTNERS, SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS...... 11 2.IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY INFORMATION...... 14 2.1. LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE OFFICE...... 14 2.2. IAU SECRETARIAT...... 14 2.3. REGISTRATION DESK – OPENING HOURS...... 14 2.4. ON SITE REGISTRATION FEES AND PAYMENTS...... 14 2.5. BADGES...... 15 2.6. VOLUNTEERS...... 15 2.7. WATER...... 15 2.8. MESSAGES...... 15 2.9. PROGRAMME UPDATES...... 16 2.10. DAILY SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS...... 16 2.11. SESSION ROOMS...... 17 LEVEL 3...... 17 LEVEL 4...... 18 2.12. COFFEE AND TEA BREAKS...... 19 2.13. LUNCH...... 19 2.14. GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEWSPAPER...... 19 2.15. MEDIA AND PRESS...... 20 2.16. PROCEEDINGS...... 21 2.17. EXHIBITION...... 21

1 2.18. ACCOMMODATION...... 22 2.19. TOURS...... 22 2.20. MAILING SERVICE ...... 22

3.VENUE INFORMATION...... 23 3.1. CHINA NATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER...... 23 3.2 TELEPHONES...... 23 3.3. ATM...... 23 3.4. WI-FI...... 23 3.5. BUSINESS CENTER...... 24 3.6. CHILDREN CARE...... 24 3.7. FIRST AID, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE...... 24 3.8. SECURITY...... 24 3.9. LOST & FOUND...... 24

4.GENERAL INFORMATION...... 25 4.1. INSURANCE...... 25 4.2. SMOKING...... 25 4.3. ELECTRICITY...... 25 4.4. WEATHER ...... 25 4.5. TRANSPORTATION FROM/TO THE AIRPORT AND CNCC...... 25 4.6. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION...... 26

5.OFFICIAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY SOCIAL EVENTS...... 27 5.1. INAUGURAL CEREMONY ...... 27 5.2. WELCOME RECEPTION...... 27 5.3. BANQUET...... 27 5.4. CLOSING CEREMONY ...... 28

6. SPECIAL EVENTS ...... 29 6.1. GRUBER FOUNDATION PRIZE AND 2012 FELLOWSHIP...... 29 6.2. WOMEN IN ...... 29 6.3. YOUNG ...... 30 6.4. YOUNG ASTRONOMERS CONSULTING SERVICE (YACS)...... 31 6.5. LIBRARIANS...... 31 6.6. WORKSHOP FOR JOURNAL AUTHORS AND REFEREES...... 32 6.7. ASTRONOMY/ TEACHER WORKSHOP...... 32 6.8. IAU/UNAWE WORKSHOP AND DAY CAMP...... 32

2 6.9. “SAVING HUBBLE”, a new independent documentary directed by David Gaynes...... 34 6.10. VISIT TO XINGLONG OBSERVATORY, NAOC...... 35

7.INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS...... 37 7.1. SPEAKER INSTRUCTIONS...... 37 7.2. AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT...... 38 7.3. POSTER PRESENTERS...... 38

8.IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY...... 40 8.1. INAUGURAL CEREMONY...... 40 8.2. FIRST SESSION...... 41 8.3. SECOND SESSION...... 41 8.4. CLOSING CEREMONY...... 42

9.ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS...... 43 9.1 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE...... 43 9.2. NATIONAL MEMBERS...... 43 9.3. DIVISION PRESIDENTS...... 44 9.4. COMMISSION PRESIDENTS...... 44 9.5. MEETINGS OF DIVISIONS, COMMISSIONS AND WORKING GROUPS ...... 44

10.SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME...... 49 10.1. OVERVIEW...... 49 10.2. INVITED DISCOURSES...... 52 10.3. SYMPOSIA...... 55 10.4. JOINT DISCUSSIONS...... 91 10.5. SPECIAL SESSIONS...... 107

11.THE IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY – DAY BY DAY..... 157 PROGRAMME and EVENT SCHEDULE DAY BY DAY – Week 1...... 157 PROGRAMME and EVENT SCHEDULE DAY BY DAY – Week 2...... 162

3 Welcome to IAU Beijing General Assembly XXVIII

It is a pleasure to invite and welcome the members and guests of the International Astronomical Union to the 2012 Beijing General Assembly. The Executive Committee, with the help of the Division Presidents, has crafted an excellent scientific Programme of talks, discussions, planning sessions and informal gatherings that will focus on research results and new projects. Opportunities will abound for you to socialize with colleagues and meet new people who may be interested in your own research. In particular, the IAU will continue with its recent efforts to bring young scientists and new members into the community of international astronomy via official luncheons and Programmed activities. It is fitting that the General Assembly is being held in China with its rich, historic tradition in astronomy that now continues with a focus on innovative projects, many of which are benefiting from the steadily increasing number of scientists in this part of the world that are being attracted to . This GA is the second that has been held in Asia, and I am impressed by the large number of astronomers from this region who are active in the IAU and taking part in this General Assembly. The IAU has been busy with a number of initiatives the past three that include the outstandingly successful United Nations/UNESCO International of Astronomy 2009, the production of the Strategic Plan “Astronomy for the Developing World” and the creation of the Office of Astronomy for Development in Cape Town that is a key to the IAU long-range plan to use education and outreach for purposes

4 of development in emerging countries. These efforts are notable for the way in which they have brought astronomy to the public, and their success has been due to thousands of volunteers, including many IAU members, who have worked hard on the various projects. The Executive Committee is committed to making the IAU as effective an organization as possible, especially in view of constantly changing technology. Several important changes to the way the IAU operates will be presented and voted upon at the Business Meetings. The first is the approval of electronic voting for all members on scientific issues, whether present or not at the General Assembly. The second is a proposed re- organization of the current divisional structure, produced with the active participation of Division Presidents and their OCs following extensive consultation. The issues will be explained and discussed in the main sessions, in the daily newspaper, and in a ‘town hall’ luncheon session. Truly this is an exciting time to be an . The challenges that face us would fill many pages: the expansion of the is accelerating; the of of its and energy is not yet determined; there are untold numbers of having unimaginable properties, and some of them may even harbor life. But as far as we know, there is only one that is hosting the IAU General Assembly in Beijing this August. Although that uniqueness may not qualify as a result that merits publication in a refereed journal, to those of you who can be a part of it ---- a hearty welcome!

Robert Williams IAU President

5 Welcome to Beijing, welcome to China!

It is a great honor and pleasure for us, as co-chairs of the National Organizing Committee, to welcome you to attend the XXVIII General Assembly (GA) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). This year marks the 90th anniversary of the first IAU GA and the founding of the Chinese Astronomical Society. Holding the triennial assembly in Beijing is of far-reaching significance. China has long been one of the major cradles of human civilization. With over 4,000 years’ development, the Chinese ancient astronomy experienced a brilliant period of spectacular prosperity. This precious history not only established a profound foundation for the development of Chinese astronomy and bequeathed to us as a priceless legacy, but also serves as an otherwise unavailable source of records for modern astronomical research. With the rapid economic growth of the country, the past 30 years, especially the last decade, have witnessed great advances in astronomical studies in China. China has invested in several major facilities, for example, the Guoshoujing Telescope (the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope, LAMOST), the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), and the ambitious Antarctic astronomy project. As the largest developing country in the world to launch its own manned spaceship and send an astronaut into , China has achieved steady progress in addressing scientific and technical challenges, and is ready to build and launch space- and lunar- based telescopes. It is reassuring to find that our effort and progress are acknowledged and welcomed by our international colleagues, as demonstrated and reflected by Beijing’s successful bidding for hosting the IAU XXVIII GA, the first time for China, which is propitious and timely. This will no doubt facilitate an impetus for the development of astronomy, raise the profile and boost the visibility of the subject in the country with one fifth of the total population of the planet.

6 The IAU XXVIII GA scientific Programme includes, but not limited to, four invited discourses, eight symposia, seven joint discussions and eighteen special sessions. Astronomers from around the world will report on and discus spotlighted topics, latest research results and discoveries from every field of contemporary astronomy. We believe this broad spectrum of topics should satisfy and embrace the interest of any attendee, and the GA will serve as a platform for stimulating exchanges of views, to consolidate existing collaborations and initiate new high- level research partnerships. In particular, ‘Women in Astronomy Meeting (WAM)’ will discuss the status and issues affecting women in astronomy, focusing on strategies for increasing gender equality, promoting diversity, and improving working environment of the field. The GA also offers fascinating social events. As a city with a history of 3000 years, Beijing is known for its heritage of architecture, historical and cultural treasures. The Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven have been designated as world cultural heritage by UNESCO. As a fast-growing, dynamic international metropolis, and the capital, the political, cultural, educational and scientific center of the country, Beijing is a symbol and showcase of the modernization of China as well. We believe the Beijing GA will be a memorable General Assembly and wish you a scientifically and socially productive experience. Welcome to Beijing, welcome to China!

Xiangqun CUI, Gang ZHAO Co-Chairs, NOC, IAU XXVIII GA

7 1. IAU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HOST ORGANISATIONS, PARTNERS, SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

1.1. IAU EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President Robert Williams, President-Elect Norio Kaifu, General Secretary Ian F. Corbett, Assistant General Secretary Thierry Montmerle, Vice-President Matthew Colless, Vice-President Martha P. Haynes, United States Vice-President George K. Miley, Netherlands Vice-President Jan Palouš, Czech Republic Vice-President Marta G. Rovira, Argentina Vice-President Giancarlo Setti, Italy Advisor Catherine J. Cesarsky, France Advisor Karel A. van der Hucht, Netherlands

1.2. IAU SECRETARIAT

IAU - UAI Secretariat 98-bis Boulevard Arago Institut d'Astrophysique de F–75014 Paris France

Phone: +33 (0) 1 43 25 83 58 Fax: +33 (0) 1 43 25 26 16 Email:[email protected] www.iau.org

1.3. HOST ORGANISATIONS

Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) http://english.astronomy.pmo.cas.cn/

8 National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of (NAOC) http://english.nao.cas.cn

1.4. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chair DENG, Nan (President, China Association for and Technology) Vice-Chairs CAO, Jianlin (Vice Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology) ZHAN, Wenlong (Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences) SHEN, Wenqing (Vice Director, National Natural Science Foundation of China) LIN, Huiqing (Assistant Minister, Ministry of Education) Members WANG, Shouguan (Honorary President, Chinese Astronomical Society) , Shuhua (Honorary President, Chinese Astronomical Society) QU, Qinyue (Honorary President, Chinese Astronomical Society) FANG, Cheng (Former President, Chinese Astronomical Society) SU, Dingqiang (Former President, Chinese Astronomical Society) YAN, Jun (Director General, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

1.5. NATIONAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Co-chairs CUI, Xiangqun (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, NAOC) ZHAO, Gang (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Members CHEN, Li (Beijing Normal University) DAI, Zigao () DING, Mingde (Nanjing University) DONG, Guoxuan (National Natural Science Foundation of China) FAN, Junhui ( University) HAN, Jinlin (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) HAN, Zhanwen (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, NAOC) HAO, Jinxin (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) HONG, Xiaoyu ( Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) GAN, Weiqun (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) GUO, Ji (National Time Service Center, NAOC) JI, Peiwen (National Natural Science Foundation of China) LI, Xiangdong (Nanjing University) LI, Yan (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, NAOC) LIAO, Xinhao (Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9 LU, Chunlin (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) LU, Jufu (Xiamen University) , Xiaochun (The Institute of the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences) WANG, Na (Urumqi Observatory, NAOC) WU, Xuebing (Peking University) YAN, Jun (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) YAN, Yihua (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) YANG, Ji (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) YUAN, Yefei (University of Science and Technology of China) ZHANG, Shuangnan (Institute of High Energy , Chinese Academy of Sciences) ZHAO, Yongheng (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) ZHENG, Xiaonian (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) ZHU, Jin (Beijing Planetarium) ZHU, Yongtian (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, NAOC) ZHU, Zonghong (Beijing Normal University)

1.6. LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Co-chairs YAN, Jun (NAOC) ZHAO, Gang (NAOC)

Members CHEN, Yue (NAOC) CHEN, Shanglan (MCI) CUI, Chenzhou (NAOC) GAO, Frankie (MCI) HEI, Qili (Computer Network Information Center, CAS) JING, Hairong (Beijing Planetarium) LI, Haining (NAOC) LIANG, Yanchun (NAOC) LIU, Xiaoshu (MCI) LIU, Yujuan (NAOC) LU, Ye (NAOC) PODT, Michael (MCI) RHEINDORF, Richard (MCI) SUN, Xiaochun (The Institute of the History of Natural Science, CAS) WANG, Junjie (NAOC) WANG, Yi (NAOC)

10 WAN, Haoyi (Beijing Planetarium) XU, Ang (NAOC) XUE, Suijian (NAOC) YANG, Deting (Computer Network Information Center, CAS) YUN, Xiaoshan (NAOC) ZHAI, Meng (NAOC) ZHAO, Bing (NAOC) ZHU, Jin (Beijing Planetarium)

1.7. ORGANISATION SUPPORT

Professional support in the planning of the General Assembly is provided by MCI Beijing. The MCI Group is a global meetings, association and communication management company with 47 offices in 23 countries, providing a range of services to international associations and corporations.

1.8. PARTNERS, SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

The IAU and Organising Committees acknowledge the invaluable support of the following institutions and organisations:

Partners Air China Beijing Science Video Network H3C Microsoft Research Alliance

Sponsors Associated Universities, Inc. Astronomy & Astrophysics Chinese Association for Science and Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences(NSFC) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) National Natural Science Foundation of China Wiley-Blackwell World Wide Telescope Academy Program

11 Exhibitors ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/ American Astronomical Society Andor Technology Netherlands Institute for Betop Multimedia Cambridge University Press Chinese Astronomical Society Copernicus Meetings & Publications CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Division for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences European Southern Observatory (ESO) European VLBI Network Fulldome.pro Finger Lakes Instrumentation GREAT - Research for European Astronomy Training Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias International Astronomical Union Office of Astronomy for Development The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute Cherenkov Telescope Array – HESS/MAGIC/VERITAS Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, NAOC Nanjing iOptron Scientific, Inc. National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences National Hellenic Research Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences Oceanside Photo & Telescope Officina Stellare SRL – Italy Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Santa Barbara Instrument Group PlaneWave Instruments School of Astronomy & Space Science, Nanjing University School of Space Science and Physics, Shandong University at Weihai

12 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences SKA Organisation Springer The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, NAOC Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, NAOC

13 2.IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY INFORMATION

2.1. LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE OFFICE

The LOC office is located in meeting room VIP 3-2 on level 3 of the China National Convention Center (CNCC). The office will be open during the daily schedule of meetings.

2.2. IAU SECRETARIAT

The IAU Secretariat is located in meeting room 401 on level 4 of the CNCC. The office will be open during the daily schedule of meetings.

2.3. REGISTRATION DESK – OPENING HOURS

The General Assembly Registration desk is located on level 3 of the CNCC. Registration desk opening hours are as follows:

Sunday, 19 August 13:00 - 18:00 Monday, 20 August 08:00 - 20:00 Tuesday, 21August 08:00 - 18:00 Wednesday, 22 August 08:00 - 18:00 Thursday, 23 August 08:00 - 18:00 Friday, 24 August 08:00 - 18:00

Saturday, 25 August CLOSED

Sunday, 26 August 13:00 - 18:00 Monday, 27 August 08:00 - 18:00 Tuesday, 28 August 08:00 - 18:00 Wednesday, 29 August 08:00 - 18:00 Thursday, 30 August 08:00 - 18:00 Friday, 31 August 08:00 - 12:00

2.4. ON SITE REGISTRATION FEES AND PAYMENTS

For new registrations and registrations paid on site, the following fees apply:

14 IAU members/non-members and invited participants: 5056 CNY (including one proceedings volume) Students and seniors: 2250 CNY Registered guests and children over 11 years: 1400 CNY (only registration fee) Children up to 11 years: free of charge

Conditions apply and are available on www.astronomy2012.org. Badges and materials are only handed to participants who have paid their fees in full.

2.5. BADGES

General Assembly badges must be worn to all scientific sessions. Badges will be checked at the entrance to session rooms. Attendees without the appropriate badge will be directed to the registration desk. All attendees, including speakers and scientific session chairs must register and pay the registration fee.

The colour codes for the badges and lanyards are as follows: Dark Blue IAU Member Light Blue IAU Non-member Gold IAU Executive Committee and IAU Secretariat Grey Sponsor Red Local Organising Committee Yellow VIP Purple Media and Press Pink Exhibitor (no access to scientific sessions) Green Guest (no access to scientific sessions) Orange Volunteer

2.6. VOLUNTEERS

A group of dedicated volunteers is available to provide information and guidance. Volunteers can be recognised by their orange polo shirts with the IAU General Assembly logo. Do not hesitate to contact them for any assistance needed.

2.7. WATER

Water stations are available in meeting and general areas.

15 2.8. MESSAGES

A message board is available in the registration area on level 3 of the CNCC. You may leave your message for other participants here, or use the available space for special poster announcements.

2.9. PROGRAMME UPDATES

Programme updates will be published outside the meeting room and in the registration area on level 3 of the CNCC. Please check the latest updates on a daily basis.

2.10. DAILY SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS

Please check the programme overview in this programme book, or the registration area for the detailed daily schedule.

Morning coffee and tea break is scheduled from 10:00 – 10:30 A lunch break is scheduled from 12:30 – 14:00 Afternoon coffee and tea break is scheduled from 15:30-16:00

16 2.11. SESSION ROOMS

LEVEL 3

Scientific Sessions Meeting room 301, 302, 303, 305, 306A, 306B 307, 308, 309A, 309B 310,311 Exhibition North Foyer level 3 and level 4 Registration North Foyer Messages and Programme Updates Registration area Daily Newspaper and Information Level 3 and level 4 Public computer area Level 3 Speaker Preview Room VIP Room 3-1 Local Organising Committee VIP Room 3-2 UNAWE Day Camp Room 201

17 LEVEL 4

Opening Ceremony, General Assembly I & II Plenary Hall B Plenary Sessions 290, 292, 294, 295, Gruber Lecture, Special Lectures Invited Discourses, Closing Ceremony IAU President VIP Room 4-1 President-Elect & Assistant General Secretary Room 402A Media and media interviews VIP Room 4-2 IAU Office Room 401 Business Meetings (refer to detailed schedule) Room 402B, 403, 405, 408, 409 VIP Room 4-3 Press Conferences and media interviews Room 406 Daily Newspaper editors office Room 407 Posters Plenary Hall A Young Astronomers Lunch Plenary Hall B Women in Astronomy Lunch Plenary Hall A

18 2.12. COFFEE AND TEA BREAKS During scheduled breaks, coffee and tea are served in the dedicated areas on level 3 of the CNCC.

2.13. LUNCH

Lunch will be available daily from 12:30 – 14:00. Lunch is not included in the registration fee. Restaurants are available on the Gallery on level 3 of the CNCC.

Small snacks, sandwiches and drinks may also be purchased at the business center (level 3) or at the refreshment kiosks on level 3 and inside plenary Hall A on level 4 of the CNCC. Plenary Hall A will offer seating facilities during lunch breaks.

The underground Xin’Ao Shopping Center is located in the Olympic Park across the street from the CNCC. The shopping center has many different restaurants. Maps with an overview of available options are available in your registration bag.

2.14. GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEWSPAPER

The IAU XXVIII General Assembly daily newspaper 天問 or “Inquiries of Heaven”, will be published during the GA in ten editions. The name of the newspaper was chosen after the poem “Inquiries of Heaven (IH)” ( 天問 ) by Yuan QU, a Chinese poet, in 310 B.C. He raised more than 150 inquiries about the Universe and society in "Inquiries of Heaven," and described humanity's early thoughts on the Cosmos. At the beginning of the poem, Yuan QU asks about the remotest past of the Universe with his profound thoughts[1]:

Whoever has convey’d to us 曰 : 邃古之初， Stories of the remotest past? 谁传道之？ Who can verify the shapeless 上下未形， Beginning time has overcast? 何由考之？ Who can confirm the world had been 冥昭瞢暗， A mass without darkness and light? 谁能极之？ If th’ universe was but chaos, 冯翼惟像， What evidence is there in sight? 何以识之？ And then, how was it arranged 明明暗暗， That, there came to be Night and Day? 惟时何为？ ‘Mongst th’ yin, th’ yang and th’ either that make 阴阳三合， Things, th’ vital role which one does play 何本何化？

19 [1] Translation into English by Zhenying Zhuo in The Verse of Chu, Library of Chinese Classics, Hunan Peoples’ Publishing House (http://www.hnppp.com), 2006.

The newspaper will be published by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics with collaboration of China Features of Xinhua News Agency, National Astronomy and Amateur Astronomer. The Editorial Board is listed below.

Editor and Associate Editors: Jingxiu Wang (Sun and Heliosphere, Fundamental Astronomy and miscellaneous) Xiaowei Liu (IMS, , planets and bio-astronomy) Shude Mao (Cosmology, and theoretical astrophysics) Shuang Nan Zhang (Space and High energy astrophysics, Radio astronomy, major scientific & International collaboration projects) Yongtian Zhu (Projects, instruments, methods and local information) Editorialists and language editors: Peter Anders, Thijs Kouwenhoven, Sarah Reed, James Wicker, Marcel Zemp Art and technical editors: Yangyang An, Geng Li, Jian Li Advisor: Thierry Montmerle (IAU Assistant General Secretary, on behalf of the IAU Executive Committee: GA "Hot Topics") Managing coordinator: Suijian Xue Secretary: Lan Wang Editorial assistance: Jingyi Huang

This newspaper will not only feature summaries and reports of the scientific sessions and activities in the GA, but also highlights the rapid progress in research and hot topics that emerged over the last two to three years.

To create a good newspaper in support of the GA, we are calling on your generous participation. The editors welcome contributions from participants on GA topics and astronomy in general by offering articles, letters, news, views, comments, photographs and illustrations. The newspaper Editorial Board has its headquarters in room 407 on level 4. An email address: heaven@ nao.cas.cn is also available for input. The webpage of the GA Newspaper is http://www. astronomy2012.org/ih/.

2.15. MEDIA AND PRESS

The Press Office for the General Assembly will carry out the communication with all media

20 and will provide information and materials related to the GA and astronomy in general.

The team of the Press Office of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly comprises: - Lars Lindberg Christensen (IAU Press Officer, international press) - Ang Xu (Local Press Officer, LOC press contact) - Raquel YumiShida (IAU Deputy Press Officer, Web Master) - Local assistants

The IAU Press Office is located in room VIP 4-2 on level 4 on all weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00. The official Press Conference room is room 406 on level 4. The Press Office will be closed during the weekend 25-26 August.

Space for media interviews is available in room VIP 4-2 and meeting room 406.

2.16. PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings of the Symposia held at the IAU XXVIII General Assembly will be published in separate volumes by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The Invited Discourses, Joint Discussions and Special Sessions will be published in the Highlights of Astronomy 16. The Proceedings of the Twenty Eighth General Assembly will be published in the Transactions of the IAU B series, and the triennial reports of all IAU scientific bodies will be published in the Transactions of the IAU A series Reports on Astronomy.

On registering for the GA, attendees were asked to select one volume of the Proceedings of the IAU Symposia or the Highlights of Astronomy 16, purchase of which is included in the Registration Fee. CUP will send them the volume chosen when published in 2013. If a volume was not selected at registration it can be done at the Registration Desk. Failure to select a volume will result in the default selection of Highlights of Astronomy 16. Further volumes could be ordered and paid for at registration and can be ordered and paid for at the registration desk.

2.17. EXHIBITION

The exhibition area is located on level 3 of the CNCC.

Opening hours: Monday, 20 August 09:00 – 18:00 Tuesday, 21 August 09:00 – 19:30 – reception

21 Wednesday, 22 August 09:00 – 18:00 Thursday, 23 August 09:00 – 18:00 Friday, 24 August 09:00 – 18:00

Monday, 27 August 09:00 – 18:00 Tuesday, 28 August 09:00 – 18:00 Wednesday, 29 August 09:00 – 18:00 Thursday, 30 August 09:00 – 18:00 Friday, 31 August 09:00 – 18:00

2.18. ACCOMMODATION

Participants are responsible for arranging their own hotel accommodation. Discounted hotel rates are available for general assembly participants. For a listing of available hotels and rates, please check www.astronomy2012.org. For onsite reservations, please contact the hotel accommodation desk at the registration area.

2.19. TOURS

A number of interesting and entertaining tours are available for participants and guests. For tour reservations, please sign up at the tour desk in the registration area.

2.20. MAILING SERVICE

China National Philatelic Corporation made special envelopes and will be available for mailing services. China Post will be presented in the registration area on level 3 of the CNCC with a mailbox.

22 3.VENUE INFORMATION

3.1. CHINA NATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER

Airport

3.2 TELEPHONES

Out of courtesy to other participants, please make sure that mobile telephones are on 'mute' during all GA sessions. Public pay-phones are available on level 3 of the CNCC, next to the registration desk.

3.3. ATM

ATM machines are located on level 3 of the CNCC, next to the registration desk.

3.4. WI-FI

In most areas of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly Wi-Fi (wireless network) will be available. Details on the wifi and necessary log-in information are available on your badge.

23 3.5. BUSINESS CENTER

The CNCC Business Center is located on level 3 of the CNCC. Internet, copy and fax facilities are available here.

3.6. CHILDREN CARE

No children care facilities are available at the venue.

3.7. FIRST AID, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Medical assistance is available in room VIP 3-2.

3.8. SECURITY

All delegates, including registered guests, are asked to wear their badges at all times. Access to the session rooms or exhibition and poster areas will be denied to those not wearing a badge. For security reasons, upon entering the CNCC, you and items you carry may be subject to passing through a scanner. Please adhere to instructions provided by security staff.

3.9. LOST & FOUND

Please take any found articles to the registration desk or inquire there for lost articles. Found items not collected at the end of the day will be handed to the CNCC security staff. We recommend that you label your conference bag.

24 4.GENERAL INFORMATION

4.1. INSURANCE

All participants are strongly recommended to arrange for medical and travel insurance for the duration of their stay in China. The committees and the IAU will not accept liability for sickness, personal injuries sustained, accidents, or for loss or damage to personal belongings of participants and their guests either during or as a result of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly.

4.2. SMOKING

Smoking is not allowed in any area inside the convention center. Smoking is allowed outside.

4.3. ELECTRICITY

The electricity supply in China is 220V 50Hz. Most, but not all, sockets will accept both European and US style plugs.

4.4. WEATHER

Beijing weather in August is usually hot and humid, with an average daytime temperature of 30º C, decreasing to 18º C at night. In the evening, there may the occasional rain shower. The CNCC is air conditioned.

4.5. TRANSPORTATION FROM/TO THE AIRPORT AND CNCC

A taxi from the airport to the CNCC and nearby hotels is approximately 100RMB ($15US) and takes about 30 minutes. No tips are necessary. We recommend that you print out the venue address or your hotel address in Chinese characters and give it to the taxi driver, so your destination is clear. Please check 3.1. for the CNCC address.

There is also an airport express train (25RMB) that goes directly from the airport into the city. The airport express train makes two stops in the city, with direct links to the subway network; Sanyuanqiao station linking to . Change to at Beitucheng station to Olympic Green station, Exit E and A1, for the CNCC. Please see the metro map on the next page.

Shuttle bus line 6 is available to bring you from the airport directly to the south exit of the NAOC campus, one stop before the last stop. From here, it is a short walk to the CNCC and nearby hotels. 25 4.6. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Beijing’s metro system is quick, fast and reliable and will connect you to all areas of the city. Subway tickets (2 RMB) can be bought either at the electronic vending machines or ticket office. The subway station nearest to the CNCC is Olympic Green on line 8 (Green Line). Upon arrival, please exit at gate E and A1 which is closest to the venue.

26 5.OFFICIAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY SOCIAL EVENTS

The XXVIII General Assembly’s Social Programme will provide you with networking opportunities, to meet with old and new friends. Please see below for an overview of the scheduled social events.

5.1. INAUGURAL CEREMONY

Tuesday, 21 August 14:00 - 16:00 Price: included in the registration fee. All registered participants and guests are welcome. Plenary Hall B

Join us for the official opening of the XXVIII General Assembly in the main plenary room. The Inaugural Ceremony will feature a range of performance from renowned performers, including traditional dances from the Qin Dynasty, regional Tibet Dance and Chinese Acrobatics, as well as a special performance, Dream of Heaven, by NAOC staff.

5.2. WELCOME RECEPTION

Tuesday, 21 August 18:00 - 19:30 Price: included in the registration fee. All registered participants and guests welcome.

5.3. BANQUET

Thursday, 23 August 19:00 – 23:00 Birds’ Nest Olympic Stadium Access: North East side, between entrances J and K Price: 550 RMB per person Paid tickets will be provided with your badge. If not yet paid, limited tickets are still available at the registration desk.

The Olympic Stadium is walking distance from the CNCC, approximately 20 minutes. No transfers will be provided. To access the dinner area, please take the north-east entrance between stadium entrance J and K.

The official banquet will be celebrated on the date of the Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar. In late summer, the stars Altair

27 and are high in the night sky, and the Chinese tell an incredible love story during Qixi Festival:

A young cowherd (Niulang) came across a beautiful girl, the seventh daughter of the Goddess (Zhinü), who just had escaped from boring heaven to look for fun. Zhinü soon fell in love with Niulang, and they got married without the knowledge of the Goddess. The Goddess of Heaven was furious to find out that Zhinü had married a mere mortal and ordered Zhinü to return to heaven. On , Niulang was very upset that his wife had disappeared. Suddenly, his ox began to talk, telling him that if he killed it and put on its hide, he would be able to go up to Heaven to find his wife. Crying bitterly, he killed the ox, put on the skin, and carried his two beloved children off to Heaven to find Zhinü. The Goddess discovered this and was very angry. Taking out her hairpin, the Goddess scratched a wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever, thus forming the between Altair and Vega.

5.4. CLOSING CEREMONY

Thursday, 30 August 16:00 Price: included in the registration fee. All registered participants and guests welcome. Plenary Hall B

The official Closing Ceremony will feature the official presentation of the IAU XXIX General Assembly and an official farewell performance to thank you for your participation and wish you a safe journey home on behalf of the IAU and organising committees.

28 6. SPECIAL EVENTS

6.1. GRUBER FOUNDATION COSMOLOGY PRIZE AND 2012 FELLOWSHIP

Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 August The Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize for 2012 has been awarded to Charles L. Bennett and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team “for their vital contribution to the study of the properties of the Universe as a whole. The prize citation further recognises that the measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by Bennett and the WMAP team have helped to transform the current paradigm of the of the Universe from “appealing scenario into precise science”. Their observations and analyses of ancient light have provided the unprecedentedly rigorous measurements of the age, content, geometry, and origin of the universe that now comprise the Standard Cosmological Model. The presentation will be made to Charles Bennett during the Inaugural Ceremony, 14:00-16:00 on Tuesday 21 August, and will be followed by a special lunchtime lecture by Charles Bennett at 12:45 on Wednesday 22 August.

The 2012 Gruber Foundation Fellowship has been awarded to Anna Lisa Varri of Milan to work at Indiana University on research devoted to the dynamics of globular clusters, with the aim of providing a more realistic dynamical paradigm for this class of stellar systems. She will be presented at the Inaugural Ceremony.

6.2. WOMEN IN ASTRONOMY

Monday 27 August 2012 The IAU XXVIII GA Women in Astronomy Meeting (WAM) lunch, generously sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation and the IAU, will be held on Monday 27 August 2012. The WAM will run from 12:30 to 14:00. The meeting will be held in Plenary Hall A on level 4 of the CNCC.

Programme The keynote speech will be delivered by Xiangqun Cui, President of the Chinese Astronomical Society and former Director of the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology, who will give a summary of the current situation for women in astronomy in China. This will be followed by break out groups to discuss a range of issues over lunch, focusing on strategies that will improve the environment for all astronomers.

29 Registration for WAM luncheon There is no registration fee for WAM, but we do need an indication of numbers for catering purposes. There is a limit to the number of attendees, so please be sure to register avoid disappointment!

WAM Organising Committee Co-chairs: Sarah Maddison (Swinburne) & Francesca Primas (ESO) Yanchun Liang (NAOC, China) Conny Aerts (Katholieke University Leuven) Geoffery Clayton (Louisiana State University) Françoise Combes (Observatoire de Paris) Gloria Dubner (University of Buenos Aires) Luigina Feretti (INAF) Anne Green (U. ) Elizabeth Griffin (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory) Yuko Motizuki (Saitama University) Birgitta Nordström (Copenhagen University)

Meet-a-mentor evening session The Women in Astronomy lunch will be a followed by an evening meet-a-mentor session on Monday 27 August in Function Hall on level 1 of the NAOC. The mentoring session will run from 18:30 until 20:00. The focus of the meet-a-mentor session is to discuss career issues which female scientists find important. This will be done in small groups, where a number of mentees receive comments and guidance on specific input from more senior mentors. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided thanks to the generous support of NAOC. Numbers are limited and registration is mandatory.

6.3. YOUNG ASTRONOMERS

There will be a special invitation only lunch for Young Astronomers, generously sponsored by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation, for Young Astronomers on Thursday 23 August starting at 11:00 in Plenary Hall B on level 4 of the CNCC. This lunch will provide a unique opportunity for young astronomers to meet with members of the IAU Executive Committee and astronomers representing a range of institutions and variety of fields. The plan is to have 30 round tables of 10 participants: 8 young astronomers + 2 senior guest astronomers.

30 The tables will be allocated on the basis of fifteen discussion topics identified through a questionnaire completed by the Young Astronomers. 1. Astrophysics research in Asia : important collaborations 2. ESO --- possibilities for young astronomers 3. Space Agencies - possibilities for young astronomers 4. Where to have an access to a global list of the postdoc/PhD Programmes offered? CV content for a postdoc 5. Engineering careers with a PhD in theoretical astrophysics --- are they possible? 6. How to organize the exploding number of papers in the literature? Am I the only one who cannot keep up? 7. The international collaborations, with astronomers in other countries 8. Funding opportunities through scholarships 9. Astronomy in "astronomically" developing countries 10. What should I care about more --- publishing bunch of papers or development of science? 11. I don't want to be a : non-tenure track careers for Astronomers 12. General job prospects in the long term and possibility for the tenure-track positions 13. Super-computing possibilities in astrophysics 14. Writing proposals: original/risky/challenging versus mainstream/safe/easy 15. The transition from academia to industry, i.e. how are PhDs perceived in the industry?

6.4. YOUNG ASTRONOMERS CONSULTING SERVICE (YACS)

A separate but related matter: throughout the General Assembly, a Consulting Service (YACS) will be set up with the aim of offering the possibility of one-to-one discussions between young astronomers and more advanced astronomers, who have volunteered to be available throughout most of the GA. Room VIP 4-3 will be available for pre-arranged meetings on 20, 22, 23, 27, 30 and 31 August, and in Room 409 on 29 August: the list of senior astronomers, with contact details, will be available at the registration desk and in room VIP 4-3.

6.5. LIBRARIANS

The Commission 5 Library Working Group has been making special efforts this year to foster discussion between librarians and astronomers in two days of sessions at the GA, on 23 and 24 August in Room 409. A group of librarians will be attending the GA specifically to take part in these discussions. Further information is available from the Co-Chair of the WG, Marsha Bishop ([email protected]).

31 6.6. WORKSHOP FOR JOURNAL AUTHORS AND REFEREES

The major astronomical journals in North America and Europe are co-sponsoring a workshop for journal authors and referees at the XXVIII General Assembly of the IAU. The workshop is aimed mainly at young astronomers and astronomers from Asian and developing countries. The topics that will be covered in the workshop include how to write a good paper, how to be an effective reviewer, and how the modern scholarly journal system works. The one-day workshop will be offered four different times during the General Assembly in Beijing, on 22 (Room 403), 24 (Room 408), 27 (Room 405) and 29 August (Room 408). A separate registration for the workshop will be required.

6.7. ASTRONOMY/ASTROBIOLOGY TEACHER WORKSHOP

Saturday 25 August and Sunday 26 August, 08:30-17:00, in the Beijing Planetarium

This is a workshop lead by IAU scientists and Education and Public Outreach in conjunction with the Beijing Planetarium. The workshop is designed for high school physics teachers to train them in the integration of astrobiology and astronomy into physics curricula. The workshop content focuses on science, and . The programme will discuss exciting new results from recent international space missions as well as some plans for new mission ideas. The teachers will work with the scientists in groups using astronomical data to learn how to translate new science results (e.g. related to the Kepler mission and Mars) into the classroom. The programme begins at 8:30am each day and consists of a combination of lectures, hands-on activities and discussion and will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and English. The goal is to motivate teachers to want to learn about forefront astronomical research and introduce the new results into the classroom.

IAU scientists who are interested in learning to work with high school teachers are invited to participate. The workshop will be held at the Beijing Planetarium which can be reached by bus or subway from the CNCC. Space is limited, so participation is first come first served. Lunch and refreshment will be provided each day for a modest fee. For information on participation, contact Mary Kadooka ([email protected]).

6.8. IAU/UNAWE WORKSHOP AND DAY CAMP

Pedro Russo, who was responsible for the organisation of IYA2009, now runs the UNAWE Programme, with headquarters in Leiden, Netherlands. UNAWE is organising a Universe Awareness Workshop for the duration of the General Assembly.

32 Introduction In collaboration with the educational Programme Universe Awareness, is organising a day- camp for children of astronomers attending the IAU General Assembly. The idea behind the Day Camp is to combine professional childcare support for parents who would like to bring their family to the conference with a rich Programme of educational astronomy activities for their children. The organisers will also invite local children to attend the Day Camp. The benefit of this approach is twofold: to give something back to the local community in the GA’s host city, and to offer the visiting children a unique opportunity to learn about Chinese culture and customs as they play and learn together.

The day-camp will offer a rich programme of science and cultural activities. The schedule will include hands-on science activities, games, social activities, 2-3 excursion per week (Planetarium, Ancient Observatory, Science Centre), lunch and snack and a presentation of their activities on the last day of the IAU General Assembly. Monitors will be recruited among international students and multilingual staff; groups will be formed based on language and age.

Who can participate? The day camp is addressed to the children of IAU GA attendants and those from the local community (Chinese and expats), aged 5-11 (date of birth between 20/8/2007 and 31/8/2001). The maximum number of participants each week is 25.

Where The day camp will take place in meeting room 201 on level 2 of the CNCC. Weather permitting, the children can play in the park outside the rooms. The programme will include excursions to local sites for children.

Staff and monitors The camp is organised by IAU in collaboration with Universe Awareness and Sterrenlab. All staff involved have previous experience with children and science education Programmes.

Safety The day camp will be run in a safe and healthy environment: • the camp venue is safe and appropriate for children’s activities • monitors (>19 years old) and staff have previous experience with children • parents will be asked to fill a form about health status (e.g. allergies) of their child(ren) • contact with first aid at the conference and local hospital • parents can contact the staff at any time of the day

33 Dates Week I: 20-25 August 2012 Week II: 26-31 August 2012 The camp opens 15 minutes before the first session and closes 30 minutes after the last one. Children must be collected by parent(s) before the camp closes. Children can be registered for week I, week II, or both. Maximum number of participants is 25.

Fee The day-camp cost per child per week is 200 €, including lunch, 2 snacks per day monitors (1 every 10 children) and staff material for activities 2-3 excursions per week

Registration conditions No refunds can be made after cancellations after 5 August.

Information Email: [email protected]

6.9. “SAVING HUBBLE”, a new independent documentary directed by David Gaynes

(68 minutes, English, USA, 2012)

28 and 30 August 2012, 12:30-14:00 in Room 311A+B Preview Screening presented by IAU and Beijing Science Video Website Website/Trailer: www.savinghubble.com “I loved the feeling of the film...brought tears to my eyes...shows the power of a great idea and a few people to move a nation and to accomplish something totally magnificent.” – John Mather, Nobel Laureate in Physics, on “Saving Hubble”. A love letter to the machine that stands as humanity’s ambassador to the expanding universe, Saving Hubble is also the story of ordinary people finding their voice in the grassroots movement that saved the Hubble from an untimely death. It examines NASA’s decision in 2004 to cancel the world’s most famous telescope, and introduces us to the people who united to save it. Many films have been made about what Hubble teaches humans about the universe. This is the first time a film about Hubble has asked “What does this machine say

34 about us?” The film has been previewing for a variety of audiences around the USA, including an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd of 450 professional scientists at the 219th American Astronomical Society Meeting, employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and attendees of the National Space Symposium, the Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show (NEAF), SETIcon II, and ALCon 2012. A traveling chautauqua or modern-day medicine show, The Hubble Roadshow is an expansive nonprofit outreach tour of locally unique events that feature Saving Hubble, sidewalk astronomy, scientists talking about what’s new in the worlds of astronomy and technology, opportunities for science learning and outreach, music, art, food, and most importantly, a conversation about human beings’ connection to the cosmos and society’s role in exploring this connection.

The Director, David Gaynes, is emerging as a unique voice in the world of independent documentary film. A layman in the field of astronomy, David was inspired to explore the public’s connection to space when he heard on the evening news that a necessary repair mission to the had been cancelled. David’s first feature, Keeper of the Kohn (2005), is a portrait of Peter Kohn, a beloved autistic field manager for the Middlebury College lacrosse team. It won the Jury Prize for best documentary at the Vail Film Festival. The forthcoming Next Year In Jerusalem tells the story of eight nursing home residents on a pilgrimage to . David was the cinematographer for the award-winning documentary All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert (2011, directed by Vivian Ducat).

6.10. VISIT TO XINGLONG OBSERVATORY, NAOC

Saturday 25 August

Two special visits to Xinglong Observatory will be organised on August 25. Participation in these tours costs 150 rmb per person, including transportation, lunch, and 2 bottles of water. Registration and payment can be done at the registration area (tour desk). A maximum number of 90 people (45 people per group) can take part.

Schedule of Group A 08:00 Departure from the CNCC, entrance gate C1 10:30 Arrival at Xinglong Observatory (Center Building) 10:30-11:00 Visit the Exhibition Hall 11:00-12:30 Visit the 2.16 m Telescope and LAMOST (Group A divides into Team I and Team II; Team I starts from the 2.16 m Telescope, and Team II starts from LAMOST)

35 12:30-13:10 Lunch 13:10-13:40 Free time 13:40 Departure from Xinglong Observatory 16:10 Arrival at CNCC

Schedule of Group B 09:00 Departure from the CNCC, entrance gate C1 11:30 Arrivat at Xinglong Observatory (Dining Room) 11:30-12:10 Lunch 12:10-12:40 Visit the Exhibition Hall 12:40-14:10 Visit the 2.16 m Telescope and LAMOST (Group B divides into Team I and Team II; Team I starts from the 2.16 m Telescope, and Team II starts from LAMOST); 14:10-14:40 Free time 14:40 Departure from Xinglong Observatory 17:10 Arrival at CNCC

For detailed information, please contact Huijuan Wang: +86-13810374088, [email protected].

36 7. INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS

7.1. SPEAKER INSTRUCTIONS

Note that it is not permitted for presenters to use their own laptop. During the XXVIII General Assembly all speaker presentations will be handled by M-Events. Prior to presenting, all speakers will have to upload their (PPT) presentation(s) slides to a protected server. After uploading, the presentation slides will be made available in your session room and accessible to you in an efficient way. Using a network-based presentation system will ensure perfect quality and efficient handling of all presentations. All session rooms are equipped with the necessary technical requirements, and additional back-up systems. The Speaker Preview Room is located in room VIP 3-1 on level 3 of the CNCC. As speaker, you are welcome to visit the room to work or make changes to your presentation(s) during opening hours. In the Speaker Preview Room a Mac is available. Sunday, 19 August 14:00 – 18:00 Monday, 20 August 08:00 – 18.00 Tuesday, 21August 08:00 – 18:00 Wednesday, 22 August 08:00 – 18:00 Thursday, 23 August 08:00 – 18:00 Friday, 24 August 08:00 – 18:00

Saturday, 25 August closed Sunday, 26 August closed

Monday, 27 August 08:00 – 18:00 Tuesday, 28 August 08:00 – 18:00 Wednesday, 29 August 08:00 – 18:00 Thursday, 30 August 08:00 – 18:00 Friday, 31 August 08:00 – 18:00

It is highly recommended that you submit your final files at least 2 hours prior to your scheduled session. It is highly recommend using only Powerpoints in .ppt or .pptx format, as this speeds up the uploading process and minimizes possible technical issues. Various video formats are supported. Please remember to bring your video files as separate files. We can assist and support presentations using Mac-Powerpoint, PDFs and Keynote also. If you are using any of these formats, please review the following:

37 • Mac-PPTs will be converted to regular Powerpoints, not affecting the design or appearance of presentations. In most cases, this conversion process will not take any extra time. In more complicated cases, which are rare, this will take anywhere between five minutes and half an hour. • We manually convert PDF presentations, normally without any changes in the appearance of the presentation. In rare cases there may be some minor visual changes, the process may take a couple of minutes. • Keynote presentations are not compatible to Powerpoint and can only be converted manually. This process may take a longer time, anywhere from one hour up to half a day, depending on the complexity of the Keynote (i.e. lots of animated slides, large amount of videos). If speakers prefer to use their original Keynote file and do not wish to have it converted into a Powerpoint, they may use their own laptops. M-Event technicians can assist connecting laptops to the system.

All presenters must report to the Speaker Preview Room at VIP 3-1 on level 3, regardless of what type of presentation is prepared.

7.2. AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT

Audio-visual equipment available in every meeting/session room includes: - PC - Projector - Lectern - Microphone

Note that it is not permitted for presenters to use their own laptop. Presentations must be uploaded on the central presentation network at least 2 hours before the session, see 7.1.

7.3. POSTER PRESENTERS

All poster papers will be displayed in Plenary Hall A of the CNCC.

Poster size The maximum size for the poster is 120cm in height and 80cm in width. Poster panel materials are hardboard plastic. The authors are responsible for mounting and dismounting their own posters and bring material to fix the poster on the board. Due to the material on the panels, pushpins cannot be used.

38 Poster mounting Posters can be mounted on Monday of the week in which the scientific event takes place. Symposia posters will remain for the whole of the GA and should be dismounted on Friday 31 August. JD and SpS posters will have to be removed on the Friday of the same week in which the JD or SpS takes place.

Posters which have not been removed at 18:00 on the Friday will be discarded.

Poster help desk Information on the location of specific poster or session can be obtained at the poster help desk on level 4 of the CNCC.

The help desk is open on the following times: Monday, 20 August 2012 09:00 – 18:00 Monday, 27 August, 2012 09:00 – 18:00

If you need assistance outside of these times, please ask our staff at the registration desk.

39 8. IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Plenary Hall B, Chinese National Convention Centre (CNCC)

8.1. INAUGURAL CEREMONY

Tuesday 21 August 2012, 14:00-16:00 Display of images displaying the world's observatories at night provided by The World at Night (www.twanight.org)

Opening Address by Robert Williams, President of the IAU Welcome addresses by invitees of Senior Government Officials Presentation of Sponsors

Introduction of Gruber Foundation by Robert Williams and response Introduction of 2012 Gruber Foundation Fellow Anna-Lisa Varri Award of 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize to Charles Bennett

Chinese Drum Performance Classic Dance of Qin Dynasty Ancient Traditional Musical Instrument Performance

Presentation by Jocelyn Bell-Burnell: Astronomy - Amazing Subject, Amazing Universe. Presentation by Ding-qiang Su: Understanding Astronomy in China through Recent Major Projects.

Chinese Long Ribbon Dance – Flying Apsaras

Tibet Dance

Chinese Silk Acrobatics –Butterfly Love, Winner of Italian Golden Circus Festival and China National Acrobatic Contest

Performance by NAOC staff - 天梦 (Dream of Heaven)

Address by Xiangqun Cui, President of the Chinese Astronomical Society

40 8.2. FIRST SESSION

Tuesday 21 August , 16:30-18:00 Chaired by Robert Williams, President of the IAU.

1. Welcome by Robert Williams, President of the IAU 2. Listing of representatives of National Members 3. Adoption of Agenda 4. Reminder of voting rules 5. Appointment of Official Tellers 6. Admission of New National Members 7. Revisions to Statutes and Bye-Laws 8. Report of the Executive Committee 9. Report of the Special Nominating Committee 10.Presentation of Proposed Changes to Divisional Structure 11.Proposals to host XXX General Assembly 2018

After the conclusion of the session Professor Dov Jaron (ICSU Board Member) will give a short introduction to the work of ICSU, the International Council for Science. Welcome Reception in the exhibition and poster areas on levels 3 and 4 from 18:00-19:30.

8.3. SECOND SESSION

Thursday 30 August , 14:00-16:00 Chaired by Robert Williams, President of the IAU 12.Welcome by Robert Williams, President of the IAU 13.Individual Members admitted by Executive Committee 14.Deceased members followed by 1 minute silence 15.Tribute to , President 2001-2003 16.Appointment of Official Tellers 17.Proposed Changes to Divisional Structure 18.Resolutions (voting by Individual Members) 18.1 B1 on guidelines for the designations and specifications of optical and infrared astronomical photometric passbands. 18.2 B2 on the re-definition of the of length. 18.3 B3 on the establishment of an International NEO Early Warning System. 18.4 B4 on the restructuring of the IAU Divisions. 19.Proposed Division Presidents and Vice-Presidents

41 20.Proposed Commission Presidents and Vice-Presidents 21.Financial Matters 21.1 Report of Finance Sub-Committee on 2009-2011 Accounts 21.2 Report of Finance Sub-Committee on 2013-2015 Budget 21.3 Formal votes on Accounts and Budget 22.Election of Members of Finance and Membership Committees 23.Appointment of Resolutions Committee 2012-2015 24.Appointment of the Special Nominating Committee 2012-2015 25.Election of Executive Committee 2012-2015 26.Dates and Place of XXX General Assembly 2018 27.Any Other Business

8.4. CLOSING CEREMONY

Thursday 30 August , 16:30-18:00

Welcome by Noiro Kaifu, President Invitation to XXIX General Assembly, Hawai’i, August 2015

Retiring Addresses Robert Williams Ian Corbett Incoming Addresses Norio Kaifu Tierry Montmerle

Traditional Chinese Thousand Hand Dance Performance by the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Closing Remarks by Gang Zhao, Co-chair, NOC and LOC of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly Ceremony to hand the IAU flag to the hosts of the next General Assembly

Vote of Thanks by Norio Kaifu

42 9. ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS

9.1 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

EC91-1 Sunday August 19 9:30-17:30 NAOC A601 General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B EC91-2 Thursday August 23 8:30-10:00 VIP 4-3 EC91-3 Wednesday August 29 10:30-12:30 VIP 4-3 General Assembly Second Session Thursday August 30 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly Closing Ceremony Thursday August 30 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B EC92 Saturday September 1 8:30-17:30 NAOC A601

9.2. NATIONAL MEMBERS

National Representatives National Representatives Meeting Monday August 20 14:00-15:00 Room 402B General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B National Representatives Meeting Wednesday August 29 14:00-15:00 Room 402B General Assembly Second Session Thursday August 30 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly Closing Ceremony Thursday August 30 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B

Finance Committee Finance Sub-Committee Meeting Monday August 20 14:00-15:00 Room 403 Finance Committee Meeting Monday August 20 15:00-16:00 Room 402B General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B Finance Sub-Committee Meeting Wednesday August 29 16:00-18:00 VIP 4-3 Finance Committee Meeting Wednesday August 29 15:00-16:00 Room 402B General Assembly Second Session Thursday August 30 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly Closing Ceremony Thursday August 30 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B

Nominating Committee Nominating Committee Meeting Monday August 20 16:00-17:00 Room 402B General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B

43 General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B Nominating Committee Meeting Wednesday August 29 16:00-17:00 Room 402B General Assembly Second Session Thursday August 30 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly Closing Ceremony Thursday August 30 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B

9.3. DIVISION PRESIDENTS

Outgoing EC91-1 Sunday August 19 09:30-17:30 NAOC A601 General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B Incoming General Assembly, Inaugural Ceremony Tuesday August 21 14:00-16:00 Plenary Hall B General Assembly First Session Tuesday August 21 16:30-18:00 Plenary Hall B EC92 Saturday September 1 08:30-17:30 NAOC A601

9.4. COMMISSION PRESIDENTS

Outgoing meeting Monday August 20 17:00-18:00 Room 402B Incoming meeting Wednesday August 29 17:00-18:00 Room 402B

9.5. MEETINGS OF DIVISIONS, COMMISSIONS AND WORKING GROUPS

Division I Division I 29 14:00-15:30 Room 405 Comm 4 Ephemerides 27 08:30-10:00 Room 402B Comm 7 & Dynamical Astronomy 28 18:00-20:00 NAOC Comm 8 27 18:00-20:00 NAOC 29 16:00-19:30 Room 406 Comm 19 Rotation of the Earth: business 29 08:30-10:00 Room 402B Rotation of the Earth: science 30 08:30-12:30 Room 402B Comm 31 Time 28 18:00-20:00 NAOC Comm 52 Relativity in Fundamental 28 08:30-10:00 Room 402B Astronomy 29 08:30-10:00 Room 402B WG - Numerical Standards/SOFA 30 18:00-20:00 NAOC WG- Cartographic Coordinates/Div III 27 16:00-18:00 Room 402B WG-Natural Satellites/Div III 28 14:00-15:30 Room 402B

44 WG –ST 28 08:30-10:00 Room 408 ------Division II Division II 23 16:00-18:00 Room 406 Comm 10 Solar Activity 23 14:00-16:00 Room 406 Comm 12 Solar Radiation and Structure 22 14:00-15:30 Room 405 Comm 49 Interplanetary Plasma and Heliosphere 23 14:00-15:30 Room 405 WG-Int. Collaboration on Space Weather 23 08:30-12:30 Room 403 WG-Solar Minima 23 14:00-18:00 Room 403 ------Division III Division III 24 16:00-18:00 Room 306B 30 08:30-10:00 Room 403 Comm 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets 29 14:00-18:00 Room 405 Comm16 Physical Study of Planets & Satellites 27 08:30-10:00 Room 403 Comm 20 Position and Motion of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites 24 14:00-15:30 Room 306B Comm 22 Meteors, Meteorites, and Interplanetary Dust 24 14:00-15:30 Room 403 Comm 51 Bio-Astronomy: business 27 18:00-20:00 NAOC Comm 51 Bio-Astronomy: science 29 08:30-10:00 Room 405 Comm 53 Extra-Solar Planets 28 18:00-20:00 NAOC WG-Small Bodies Nomenclature 28 14:00-15:30 Room 408 WG-Planetary Systems Nomenclature 29 08:30-12:30 Room 403 WG NEO 31 16:00-18:00 Room 306B ------Division IV Division IV (with Div V) 24 14:00-15:30 Room 402B Comm 26 Double and Multiple Stars 28 14:00-18:00 Room 402B Comm 29 Stellar Spectra 24 08:30-10:00 Room 403 Comm 36 Theory of Stellar Atmospheres 27 14:00-18:00 Room 405 Comm 45 24 16:00-18:00 Room 403 WG-Massive Stars 22 16:00-18:00 Room 405 WG-Abundancies in Red Giants 24 10:30-12:30 Room 403

45 WG-Active B-type Stars/Div IV 22 14:00-18:00 Room 408 WG-Ap and Related Stars/Div IV 23 14:00-18:00 Room 408 ------Division V Division V 24 08:30-12:30 Room 402B Comm 27 Variable Stars & Comm 42 Close Binary Stars 24 08:30-12:30 Room 402B Div IV-V joint meeting 24 14:00-18:00 Room 402B ------Division VI Comm 34 Interstellar Matter 29 12:30-14:00 Room 402B WG-Planetary Nebulae 30 10:30-12:30 Room 403 ------Division VII Division VII 24 16:00-18:00 Room 406 Comm 33 Structure & Dynamics of the 24 14:00-15:30 Room 406 Galactic System 28 16:00-18:00 VIP 4-3 Comm 37 Star Clusters & Associations 24 10:30-12:30 Room 406 24 14:00-18:00 Room 306A ------Division VIII Division VIII 23 12:30-14:00 Room 402B Comm 28 Galaxies 23 12:30-14:00 Room 402B Comm 47 Cosmology 27 18:00-20:00 NAOC WG-Supernovae 22 14:00-18:00 Room 409 23 10:30-12:30 Room 408 ------Division IX Comm 25 Astronomical Photometry And 28 14:00-18:00 Room 403 Comm 25 WG-IR Astronomy 29 14:00-18:00 Room 403 Comm 30 Radial Velocities 28 08:30-12:30 VIP 4-3 Comm 54 Optical and IR 24 10:30-12:30 Room 405 WG-Astronomy from the /Div IX, X, XI 22 16:00-18:00 Room 406 ------

46 Division X Division X 22 08:30-12:30 Room 405 WG-Interference Mitigation 22 14:00-15.30 Room 406 WG-Astronomy from the Moon/Div IX, X, XI 22 16:00-18:00 Room 406 WG-Historic Radio Astronomy/Div XII 27 08:30-10:00 Room 408 14:00-18:00 Room 408 IUCAF 24 14:00-15:30 Room 305 Evolutionary Map of Universe (EMU) 28 08:30-18:00 Room 409 ------Division XI Division XI 23 12:30-14:00 Room 406 WG-Astronomy from the Moon/Div IX, X, XI 22 16:00-18:00 Room 406 ------Division XII Comm 5 27 10:30-12:30 Room 403 Comm 5 WG-Astronomical Data 28 08:30-10:00 Room 403 Comm 5 WG-Nomenclature 27 16:00-18:00 Room 403 Comm 5 WG-Libraries 23 08:30-18:00 Room 409 24 08:30-18:00 Room 409 Comm 5 WG-FITS Data Format 28 10:30-12:30 Room 402B Comm 5 WG-Virtual Observatories 27 14:00-15:30 Room 403 Comm 5 TF-Photographic Plates 28 16:00-18:00 Room 408 Comm 6 Astronomical Telegrams 24 08:30-12:30 Room 405 Comm 14 Atomic & Molecular Data 24 14:00-18:00 Room 405 Comm 41 business 22 14:00-15:30 Room 402B Science 1 22 16:00-18:00 Room 402B Science 2 23 08:30-18:00 Room 402B Comm 41 WG-Historical Instruments 28 10:30-18:00 Room 405 Comm 41 WG-Astronomy & World Heritage 24 08:30-18:00 VIP 4-3 Comm 46 Astronomy Education & 23 14:00-18:00 VIP 4-3 Development 28 14:00-18:00 Room 405 Comm 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites 27 16:00-18:00 Room 409

47 Comm 55 Communicating Astronomy with the public 27 10:30-12:30 Room 402B ------

SEC Working Group FLSF 28 18:00-20:00 NAOC

SpS10 ASSE 30 10:30-18:00 Room 405

Women in Astronomy Working Group 27 10:30-12:00 Room 408

48 10. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

10.1. OVERVIEW

(a) Invited Discourses Plenary Hall B 18:00-19:30

ID1 “The Zoo of Galaxies” Karen Masters, University of Portsmouth, UK Monday, 20 August

ID2 “Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and ” , ANU, Australia Wednesday, 22 August

ID3 “The Herschel View of Star Formation” Philippe André, CEA Saclay, France Wednesday, 29 August

ID4 “Past, Present and Future of Chinese Astronomy” Cheng Fang, Nanjing University, China Nanjing Thursday, 30 August

(b) Plenary Symposium Review Talks Plenary Hall B (B) 8:30-10:00 Or Rooms 309A+B (3)

IAUS 288 Astrophysics from Antarctica John Storey (3) Mon.20 IAUS 289 The Cosmic Distance Scale: Past, Present and Future Wendy Freedman (3) Mon.27 IAUS 290 Probing General Relativity using Accreting Black Holes Andy Fabian (B) Wed.22 IAUS 291 are Cool – seriously Scott Ransom (3) Thu.23 : neutron stars with magnetic storms Nanda Rea (3) Thu.23

Probing Gravitation with Pulsars Michael Kremer (3) Thu.23 IAUS 292 From Gas to Stars over Cosmic Time Mordacai-Mark Mac Low (B) Tue.21 IAUS 293 The Kepler Mission: NASA’s ExoEarth Census Natalie Batalha (3) Tue.28 IAUS 294 The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism Bryan Gaensler (B) Wed.29 IAUS 295 Black Holes in Galaxies John Kormendy (B) Thu.30

49 (c) Symposia - Week 1 IAUS 288 Astrophysics from Antartica IAUS 290 on all scales IAUS 291 Neutron Stars and Pulsars IAUS 292 Molecular gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies

(d) Symposia –Week 2 IAUS 289 Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances IAUS 293 Extrasolar Habitable Planets IAUS 294 Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos IAUS 295 Massive Galaxies

(e) Joint Discussions – Week 1 JD1-High Energy Ray Universe JD2-Very massive Stars in Local Universe JD3-3D View of the Cycling Sun JD4-UV Emission in Galaxies JD5-Meteors & Meteorites JD6-Fermi AGN

(f) Special Sessions – Week 1 SpS1-Massive Star Clusters SpS2-Cosmic Evolution - clusters SpS3-Galaxy Evolution SpS4-Interstellar & Galactic Magnetic Fields SpS5-IR View of Massive Stars SpS6-Science with Large SpS18a-"Hot Topics from Week 1"

(g) Joint Discussion Week 2 JD7-Space-Time Reference Systems

(h) Special Sessions Week 2 SpS7-NEO Hazards SpS8-Calibration of Star Formation SpS9-Future Large Scale Facilities

50 SpS10-Star-Planet Relation & Public Outrreach SpS11-Strategic Plan & OAD SpS12-Modern ISM SpS13-High Precision Stellar Physics SpS14-Communicating Astronomy SpS15-Data Intensive Astronomy SpS16- SpS17-Light Polution SpS18b-Hot topics from Week 2

51 10.2. INVITED DISCOURSES

18:00, Plenary Hall B

ID1 "The Zoo of Galaxies", Karen Masters, Monday, 20 August, Chair: Martha Haynes

We live in a universe filled with galaxies with an amazing variety of sizes and shapes. One of the biggest challenges for astronomers working in this field is to understand how all these types relate to each other in the background of an expanding universe. Modern astronomical surveys (like the ) have revolutionized this field of astronomy, by providing vast numbers of galaxies to study. The sheer size of the these databases made traditional visual classification of the types galaxies impossible and in 2007 inspired the Galaxy Zoo project (www.galaxyzoo.org); starting the largest ever scientific collaboration by asking members of the public to help classify galaxies by type and shape. Galaxy Zoo has since shown itself, in a series of now almost 30 scientific papers, to be a fantastic database for the study of galaxy evolution.

ID2 "Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy" Brian Schmidt, Wednesday, 22 August, Chair: Matthew Colless

Type Ia supernovae remain one of Astronomy's most precise tools for measuring distances in the Universe. I will describe the cosmological application of these stellar explosions, and chronicle how they were used to discover an accelerating Universe in 1998 - an observation which is most simply explained if more than 70% of the Universe is made up of some previously undetected form of 'Dark Energy'. Over the intervening 13 years, a variety of experiments have been completed, and even more proposed to better constrain the source of the acceleration. I will review the range of experiments, describing the current state of our understanding of the observed acceleration, and speculate about future progress in understanding Dark Energy.

ID3 "The Herschel View of Star Formation" Philippe André, Wednesday, 29 August, Chair: Thierry Montmerle

52 “Star formation is one of the most fundamental, most complex, and least understood processes in astrophysics. Recent studies of the nearest star-forming clouds of the Galaxy at submillimeter wavelengths with the Herschel Space Observatory have provided us with unprecedented images of the initial conditions and early phases of the star formation process. The Herschel images reveal an intricate network of filamentary structure in every . These filaments all exhibit remarkably similar widths - about one third of a light year - but only the densest ones contain prestellar cores, the seeds of future stars. The Herschel results suggest favor a scenario in which interstellar filaments and prestellar cores represent two key steps in the star formation process: first turbulence stirs up the gas, giving rise to a universal web-like structure in the interstellar medium, then takes over and controls the further fragmentation of filaments into prestellar cores and ultimately protostars. This scenario provides new insight into the inefficiency of star formation, the origin of stellar , and the global rate of star formation in galaxies. Despite an apparent complexity, global star formation may be governed by relatively simple universal laws from filament to galactic scales.”

ID4 "Past, Present and Future of Chinese Astronomy" Cheng Fang, Thursday, 30 August, Chair: Norio Kaifu

“In ancient history, Chinese astronomers had got tremendous achievement. Since the main purpose of the ancient Chinese astronomy was to study the correlation between man and the universe, all the Emperors made ancient Chinese astronomy the highly regarded science throughout the history. After brief introduction of the achievement of ancient Chinese astronomy, I describe the beginnings of modern astronomy research in China in the 20th century. Benefited from the fast development of Chinese economy, the research in astronomy in China has made remarkable progress in the recent years. The number of astronomer has doubled in the past ten years, and the number of graduated students has grown over 1500. The current budget for astronomy research is ten times larger than that ten years ago. The research covers all fields in astronomy, from galaxy to the Sun. The recent progress in both the instruments, such as the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), and the theoretical research will be briefly presented. The ongoing and the future projects on the space- and ground-based facilities will be described, including Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical (FAST), “Chang E” project (Lunar mission), Hard X-ray Modulate Telescope (HXMT) , Deep Space Solar Observatory (DSO), Chinese Antarctic Observatory (CAO),and Chinese Spectral Radioheliogaph (CSRH) etc.”

53 Special Lunchtime Lectures

"Chinese Ancient Astronomy" by Xiaochun Sun Tuesday, 21 August (Room 311 A+B) and Thursday, 29 August (Plenary Hall B)

54 10.3. SYMPOSIA

IAUS 288 Astrophysics from Antarctica 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: IX - Optical & Infrared Techniques Contact: Michael Burton [email protected] URL: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/IAUS288

SOC Co-Chairs: Michael Burton (Australia), Xiangqun Cui (China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Leo Bronfman (Chile), Nicolas Epchtein (France), Peter Gorham (United States), Takashi Ichikawa (Japan), Doug Johnstone (Canada), John Kovac (United States), Silvia Masi (Italy), Young Minh (Korea, Rep of), Klaus Strassmeier (), Ji Yang (China Nanjing), Zhaohui Shang (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Michael Burton (Australia), Xiangqun Cui (China Nanjing), Nick Tothill (Australia)

IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” Programme Full details on http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/IAUS288/iaus288Programme.pdf

Plenary Presentation Monday 20 August Room 309A+B, overflow room 310 08:30-10:00 Astrophysics from Antarctica, University of New South Wales John Storey

All following sessions are in Room 309A

Monday 20 August

Session 1: Understanding the Antarctic Environment 10:30-11:00 Evaluating observatory sites around the world Marc Sarazin 11:00-11:30 Autonomous observatories for the Antarctic plateau Jon Lawrence 11:30-12:00 Site characteristics of the high Antarctic plateau Michael Ashley

55 12:00-12:15 Dome Fuji seeing – summer results and future winter observations Hirofumi Okita 12:15-12:30 Snodar – the Dome F story Colin Bonner 14:00-14:30 Turbulence above the Antarctic plateau Eric Fossat 14:30-14:45 Site testing for sub-mm astronomy at Dome C & worldwide sites comparison based on satellite data Pascal Tremblin 14:45-15:00 A Fourier transform spectrometer for atmospheric measurements at Dome A Sheng-Cai Shi 15:00-15:15 Winter sky brightness & cloud cover at Dome A Anna Moore 15:15-15:30 First look at HRCAM images from Dome A Geoff Sims

Session 2: Cosmic Microwave Background 16:00-16:30 CMB science: an overview Anthony Challinor 16:30-17:10 Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements from the South Pole Nils Halverson 17:10-17:35 Towards B-modes and – an overview Bill Jones 17:35-18:00 Measurements of CMB polarization with the QUaD experiment Sarah Church

Tuesday 21 August

Session 3: Cosmic Microwave Background (continued) 10:30-10:55 Final results from three years observations with the BICEP telescope Colin Bischoff 10:55-11:20 CMB Polarization results from BICEP2 and Keck Array Clem Pryke 11:20-11:40 CMB lensing as a new astrophysical probe Sudeep Das 11:40-12:00 The South Pole Telescope: Latest Results and Future Prospects Brad Benson 12:00-12:20 POLAR1 and the future of CMB polarization at the South Pole Chao-Lin Kuo

Wednesday 22 August

Session 4: Neutrinos 10:30-11:00 IceCube: Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos Francis Halzen 11:00-11:30 The road from AMANDA to IceCube and visions beyond IceCube Albrecht Karle 11:30-12:10 The IceCube Neutrino Telescope Tom Gaisser 12:10-12:30 Neutrinos via the Askaryan effect from the RICE experiment at the South Pole Ilya Kravchenko 14:00-14:20 Neutrinos via the Askaryan effect from long duration balloons (ANITA) Jiwoo Nam 14:20-14:40 The Askaryan Radio Array Kara Hoffman

56 14:40-15:00 Progress in the Development of the ARIANNA High Energy Neutrino Detector Steve Barwick 15:00-15:15 DM-Ice: a search for at the South Pole Maruyama Reina

Session 5: Cosmogenic Signatures in Ice & Atmosphere 16:00-16:25 On the candidates for cometary dust in Antarctic micrometeorites Naoya Imae 16:25-16:50 Antarctic meteorites and the origin of and Akira Yamaguchi 16:50-17:15 and activity signatures from ice cores Yuko Motizuki 17:15-17:30 Results from the CREAM cosmic ray experiment in Antarctica Il H Park

Session 6: Sub-millimetre & Terahertz 17:30-17:45 THz observations of the cool neutral medium John Dickey 17:45-18:00 Intensity mapping of the [CII] fine structure line during the of re-ionization Yan Gong

Thursday 23 August

Session 6: Sub-millimetre & Terahertz continued 10:30-11:00 Exploration of the Interstellar Medium from Antarctica Mark Wolfire 10:00-11:30 Sub-millimetre astronomy from the South Pole (AST/RO) Tony Stark 11:30-12:00 The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope (BLAST) Pascale Enzo 12:00-12:25 Balloon-borne astronomy in the THz Chris Walker

Session 7: Antarctic Stations 14:00-14:35 Science in and from Antarctica: the role of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Sergio Marennsi 14:35-15:05 Astrophysics at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and perspectives for international collaboration Vladimir Papitashvili 15:05-15: 30 Winterover Personnel in Antarctic Astrophysics Nicholas Tothill 16:00-16:30 Kunlun Station, the Chinese Antarctic Inland Scientific Base at Dome A Yuansheng Li 16:30-17:00 Dome Fuji station in East Antarctica and Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition Kazuyuki Shiraishi 17:00-17:30 The US Long Duration Balloon Facility at McMurdo Station Vernon Jones 17:30-18:00 The French / Italian Concordia Station at Dome C Djamel Mekarnia

57 Friday 24 August

Session 8: The Arctic Analogue 8:30-8:55 Astronomy from 80 Degrees North on Ellesmere Island, Canada Eric Steinbring 8:55-9:15 Imaging of shadows using VLBI from the Arctic Makato Inoue 9:15-9:30 225 GHz atmospheric opacity measurements from two Arctic sites Ming-Tang Chen

Session 9: Optical/Infrared 9:30-9:45 Mid-IR astronomy at Dome C: results from IRAIT Gilles Durand 9:45-10:00 Present and future observations of Earthshine from Antarctica Danielle Briot 10:30-10:55 Probing the Dark Universe Gongbo Zhao 10:55-11.20 Time domain astronomy from Dome C: results from ASTEP Jean-Pierre Rivet 11:20-11:35 An analysis of 4 years of data from ASTEP South Nicolas Crouzet 11:35-12:00 The working progress of CSTAR Xu Zhou 12:00-12:15 Mid-IR and Far-IR astrophysics: Antarctica vs. SOFIA Hans Zinnecker 12:15-12:30 A next generation deep 2µm survey from Antarctica Jeremy Mould

Session 10: Facilities for the Future 14:00-14:35 Grand design facilities for astronomy for the next generation Mark McCaughrean 14:35-15:00 A European vision for a "Polar Large Telescope" project, and beyond Lyu Abe 15:00-15:30 An Optical / IR / THz observatory at Dome A Lifan Wang 16:00-16:20 Dome Fuji in Antarctica as a Site for THz and Masumichi Seta 16:20-16:40 Opportunities for Terahertz Facilities on the High Plateau Craig Kulesa 16:40-16:55 Terahertz Interferometry from the Antarctic Plateau Matsuo Hiroshi 16:55-17:15 Optical Interferometry from the Antarctic Peter Tuthill 17:15-17:35 High Resolution Solar Coronagraphic Observations from Antarctica Luc Damé 17:35-17:50 Preliminary design of the Kunlun Dark Universe Survey Telescope (KDUST) Xiangyan Yuan

IAUS 289 Advancing the physics of cosmic distances 27-31 August

Coordinating Division: VII - Galactic System Contact: Richard de Grijs [email protected] URL: http://www.mporzio.astro.it/IAUS289

58 SOC Co-Chairs: Richard de Grijs (China Nanjing), Giuseppe Bono (Italy)

SOC Members: Susan Cartwright (United Kingdom), Robin Ciardullo (United States), Andrei Dambis (Russian Federation), Michael Feast (South Africa), Wendy Freedman (United States), Wolfgang Gieren (Chile), Martin Groenewegen (Belgium), Jeremy Mould (Australia), Carme Jordi (Spain), Mark Reid (United States), Myung-Hyun Rhee (Korea, Rep of), Don VandenBerg (Canada), Rogier Windhorst (United States), Ye Xu (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Richard de Grijs (China Nanjing), Giuseppe Bono (Italy)

IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” Programme Full details on http://www.mporzio.astro.it/IAUS289/www/Programme.html

Plenary Presentation Monday 27 August Room 309A+B, overflow room 310 08:30-10:00 The Cosmic Distance Scale: Past, Present and Future, Carnegie Institute Wendy Freedman

All following sessions are in Room 309A

Monday 27 August

I: Resolved stars in the Milky Way 10:30-11:00 Allan Sandage and the Distance Scale (dedication) Gustav Tammann 11:00-11:30 The distance to the Galactic Center Stefan Gillessen 11:30-11:50 The Gould's Belt Distances Survey Laurent Loinard 11:50-12:10 Adjusting the distance scales of old and intermediate-age tracers via statistical parallax Andrei Dambis 12:10-12:30 The Programme - what to learn from the largest sample of trigonometric parallaxes Alexandre Humberto Andrei 14:00-14:30 Direct distance determination using parallax: Techniques, promises and limitations Lennart Lindegren 14:30-14:50 A VLBI Resolution of the Pleiades Distance Controversy Carl Melis

59 14:50-15:10 A new assessment of the kinematic distance to the Pleiades from radial velocities and proper motions only Siegfried Roeser 15:10-15:30 Processing binaries adequately is essential in distance determination Dimitri Pourbaix 16:00-16:30 Determining distances to stars statistically from photometry Heidi Newberg 16:30-16:50 Astrometric Observations of Neutron Stars Shami Chatterjee 16:50-17:10 Spectroscopic distances to late-type stars Maria Bergemann 17:10-17:30 Parallaxes to Metal-Poor Stars Brian Chaboyer 17:30-17:45 VLBI Astrometry of Semi-regular RX Bootis Tatsuya Kamezaki 17:45-18:00 Outer Rotation Curve project with VERA Trigonometric parallax of IRAS 05168+3634 Nobuyuki Sakai

Tuesday 28 August

II: From the Milky Way to the (1) 10:30-11:00 RR Lyrae stars: prime calibrators for the first rung of the distance ladder Carla Cacciari 11:00-11:20 Cepheid variable stars in the Galactic Center and in nearby galaxies Noriyuki Matsunaga 11:20-11:40 Cepheids, what else? Giuseppe Bono 11:40-12:00 Physical parameters and of RR Lyrae stars from SDSS photometry Márcio Catelan 12:00-12:15 Estimation of distances within the Milky Way using RR Lyrae stars Daniele Fantin 12:15-12:30 Wesenheit Function for Galactic Cepheids: Application to The Period- Relations and the Projection Factors Chow-Choong Ngeow 14:00-14:30 Cepheid distances from the Baade-Wesselink method Wolfgang Gieren 14:30-14:50 Evolutionary properties of stellar standard candles: , AGB clump and white dwarfs Maurizio Salaris 14:50-15:10 A self-consistent search for Classical Cepheids in Galactic Open Clusters Richard Anderson 15:10-15:30 Circumstellar envelopes of Cepheids: a possible bias for the distance scale? Pierre Kervella 16:00-16:30 Stellar Physics Uncertainties and Their Impact on Distance Estimates Based on Models of Lower Mass Stars Don VandenBerg 16:30-16:50 Accurate distance measurement to the LMC Gregorz Pietrzynski 16:50-17:10 Eclipsing Binary Distances to the Edge of the Local Group Alceste Bonanos

60 17:10-17:30 The Araucaria Project: the Baade-Wesselink projection factor Nicolas Nardetto of pulsating stars and recent interferometric contribution to the eclipsing binaries technique 17:30-17:45 Toward improving the accuracy of Cepheid distances by parallax of pulsation Antoine Merand 17:45-18:00 Period-Radius relation of Classical Cepheids and the problem of their mode identification Mikhail Sachkov

Wednesday 29 August

II: From the Milky Way to the Local Group (2) 10:30-11:00 Galactic Structure from Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions Mark Reid 11:00-11:20 VERA status and results Hideyuki Kobayashi 11:20-11:40 The Baade-Becker-Wesselink technique and the fundamental astrophysical parameters of Cepheids Alexey Rastorguev 11:40-12:00 From supergiant stars to galaxies: the path to extragalactic distances Fabio Bresolin 12:00-12:30 AGB variables as extragalactic distance indicators Patricia Whitelock 14:00-14:15 Period-Luminosity relation of stars Akiharu Nakagawa 14:15-14:30 Maximum-Likelihood implementation of Tip of the Branch method Dmitry Makarov 14:30-14:50 The Application of the Direct Distance Estimation Procedure to Eclipsing Binaries in Star Clusters Eugene Milone 14:50-15:10 Rotational Parallaxes of nearby Galaxies Andreas Brunthaler 15:10-15:30 The precise determination of a distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud from eclipsing binary stars Dariusz Graczyk 16:00-16:15 The distances, depth structure and kinematics of Magellanic Clouds by disentangling spectra of eclipsing binaries and Cepheids Petr Hadrava 16:15-16:35 The distance to M31 in the era of precision cosmology David Valls-Gabaud 16:35-16:50 Multi-parametric scaling relations for gas-rich dwarf galaxies in different environments Margarita Sharina 16:50-17:10 Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Indicator and Structure of the Nearest Galaxy Groups Lidia Makarova

III: Reaching Virgo cluster distances and beyond (1) 17:10-17:40 The Planetary Luminosity Function Robin Ciardullo 17:40-18:00 Measuring the Hubble Constant with Observations of Water Vapor Megamasers James Braatz

61 Thursday 30 August

III: Reaching Virgo cluster distances and beyond (2) 10:30-11:00 The Virgo Cluster Jeremy Mould 11:00-11:20 The 6dFGS Field Christopher Springob 11:20-11:40 Carnegie Hubble Programme distances to galaxies beyond the Local Group Victoria Scowcroft 11:40-12:00 A promising primary standard candle reaching the Hubble flow: the ultra long period Cepheids Giuliana Fiorentino 12:00-12:15 The planetary nebulae luminosity function (PNLF) in the Hydra I and Coma clusters Magda Arnaboldi 12:15-12:30 Integrating photometric and SED fitting as tool for galaxy evolution studies Ralf Kotulla

Friday 31 August

III: Reaching Virgo cluster distances and beyond (3) & IV: Cosmological distances 10:30-11:05 Scaling Relations and Their Applications to the Distance Scale Riccardo Giovanelli 11:05-11:30 Cosmic Distances from Surface Brightness Fluctuations John Blakeslee 11:30-11:50 2MASS Tully-Fisher Survey - Mapping Mass in the Local Universe Tao Hong

IV: Cosmological distances 11:50-12:10 Measuring H0 from the 6dF Galaxy Survey and future low- surveys Matthew Colless 12:10-12:30 Visualization of Structures and Cosmic Flows in the Local Universe Daniel Pomarede 14:00-14:30 Type Ia supernovae as extragalactic distance indicators Brian Schmidt 14:30-14:50 Improving Type Ia Supernova Distances Through Multi-Wavelength Studies of Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies Brad Tucker 14:50-15:10 The Heterogeneity of Type Ia Supernova Progenitor Systems and Their Use as Cosmic Distance Indicators Paul Ricker 15:10-15:30 Using the Test of the Distance-Duality Relation to Probe the Morphology of Galaxy Clusters Xiao-Lei Meng 16:00-16:30 Accurate Cosmology from Time Delays Sherry Suyu 16:30-16:50 Measurement of the cosmological distance scale using X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect observations of galaxy clusters Massimiliano Bonamente

62 16:50-17:10 Clusters of galaxies in the Survey Nabila Aghanim 17:10-17:30 Hubble Constant, Lensing, and Time Delay in TeVeS Yong Tian 17:30-17:50 Conference Summary Richard de Grijs

IAUS 290 Feeding compact objects: Accretion on all scales 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: XI - Space & High Energy Astrophysics Contact: Chengmin ZHANG [email protected] URL: http://iaus290.bao.ac.cn/

SOC Co-Chairs: Tomaso Belloni (Italy),Mariano Méndez (Netherlands), Chengmin ZHANG (China Nanjing), Shuangnan ZHANG (China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Roger Blandford (United States), Chryssa Kouveliotou (United States), Ramesh Narayan (United States), Günther Hasinger (Germany), Brian Warner (South Africa), Donald Melrose (Australia), Rashid Sunyaev (Russian Federation), Gustavo Romero (Argentina), Jean-Pierre Lasota (France), Bozena Czerny (Poland), Chris Done (United Kingdom), Ken Ebisawa (Japan)

Editors of Proceedings: Tomaso Belloni (Italy), Mariano Méndez (Netherlands),Chengmin ZHANG (China Nanjing), Shuangnan ZHANG (China Nanjing)

IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” Programme Full details on http://iaus290.bao.ac.cn/Programme.html

Plenary Presentation Wednesday 22 August Plenary Hall B 08:30 – 10:00 Probing General Relativity using Accreting Black Holes, Andrew Fabian

All following sessions are in room 310

63 Monday 20 August

Session 1: ACCRETION ONTO BLACK HOLES, NEUTRON STARS AND WHITE DWARFS 10:30 Opening Remarks & Welcome Address Tomaso Belloni, Shuang-Nan Zhang 10:40 Black Hole Spin, Accretion and Jets Ramesh Narayan 11:10 Stellar Black Holes at the Dawn of the Universe Felix Mirabel 11:30 The Formation and Evolution of Millisecond Pulsars in Binary Systems Ronald Taam 12:00-12:30 Cataclysmic Variables: Accretion, Outflows and Evolution Christian Knigge

Session 2: ACCRETION ONTO BLACK HOLES, NEUTRON STARS AND WHITE DWARFS 14:00 Constraining masses and radii with thermonuclear X-ray bursts Cole Miller 14:30 On the connection between accreting X-ray and radio millisecond pulsars Thomas Tauris 14:45 Formation of millisecond pulsars - magnetic torque, initial NS mass and EOS Michal Bejger 15:00 Feeding Neutron Stars in High-Mass X-ray Binaries Xiangdong Li 15:15-15:30 IA UNAM Accretion disks of bounce back cataclysmic variables Gagik Tovmasian

Session 3: ACCRETION ONTO BLACK HOLES, NEUTRON STARS AND WHITE DWARFS 16:00 High Speed Optical Photometry of LMXBs and CVs Paul Mason 16:20 The MV Lyr mimics the variability properties of X-ray binaries Elmar Koerding 16:40 The submillimeter properties of AE Aqr Ulf Torkelsson 17:00 Degenerate with Dusty Disk: White Dwarf and Cataclysmic Variable in Infrared D. W. Hoard 17:20 The white dwarf accretion and type Ia supernovae Zhanwen Han 17:35 The expansion of the nebular remnant of the recurrent RS Ophiuchi Valerio Ribeiro 17:50-18:00 Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction Edward van den Heuvel, Brian Warner

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: Multi-wavelength Coverage from Radio to Gamma Rays 10:30 Multi-wavelength observations of AGN: some inferences AnnaLisa Celotti 11:00 Seven years of nearly-daily observations of Sgr A* with Swift Nathalie Degenaar 11:15 Fermi Bubbles and Its Implications to the Accretion History of Sgr A Meng Su 11:30 On the location of the gamma-ray emission in Juri Poutanen 11:45 Chandra Multi-wavelength Plane Survey Ping Zhao

64 12:00 Observing Black Holes on Schwarzschild Radius Scales with the Sheperd Doeleman 12:15-12:30 Feeding and small-scale feedback in Low-Luminosity AGNs Roman Shcherbakov

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5: Accretion-ejection connection - Jets and outflows 10:30 David vs. Goliath: exploiting the black hole mass scale to constrain inflow/outflow connections Sera Markoff 11:00 Accretion-ejection connection in accreting black holes Stephane Corbel 11:30 Strong and weak jets and a paradigm shift in the unification of radio-loud AGNs Giovanni Fossati 11:50 The emission of compact jets powered by internal shocks Julien Malzac 12:10 Radio jets and outflows of cold gas Raffaella Morganti

Session 6: Probing General Relativity through Accreting Systems 14:00 Identifying astrophysical black holes within the context of Einstein's general relativity Shuang-Nan Zhang 14:30 A New Probe of Black Holes and Their Environments Stefanie Komossa 14:50 Mysteries of the intermediate-mass BH candidate HLX1 Roberto Soria 15:10-15:30 Subaru spectroscopy of optical counterparts of ultraluminous X-ray sources Sergei Fabrika

Session 7: Accretion-ejection Connection - Jets and outflows 16:00 Accretion and outflow in local universe - first results from LOFAR Heino Falcke 16:20 Accretion and outflow of gas in Markarian 509 Jelle Kaastra 16:40 Understanding the Last Mile - Physics of the Accretion Column Peter Kretschmar 17:00 The Murmur Of the Hidden Monster: Variability and Accretion of the Black Hole In M31 Zhiyuan Li 17:20 Outflows from Accretion Disks around Compact Objects Xuebing Wu 17:40-18:00 Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction Felix Mirabel, Jean-Pierre Lasota

Thursday 23 August

Session 8: Time variability across the electromagnetic spectrum 10:30 Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in accreting neutron-star systems Mariano Mendez 11:00 Accreting Millisecond Pulsars Deepto Chakrabarty

65 11:30 An insight into the properties of black hole X-ray binaries via novel spectral-timing techniques Pablo Cassatella 11:45 Finding order in the chaos: coherent timing of accreting millisecond pulsars Luciano Burderi 12:00 Excitations of Global Oscillations in BH Accretion Disks and High-Frequency QPOs Dong Lai 12:15-12:30 Black Holes in Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources: X-ray Timing versus Spectroscopy Maria Caballero-Garcia

Session 9: Large Scale Properties of Accretion - Unified Models 14:00 On the of Thin, Thick, Slim and ADAF Marek Abramowicz 14:30 Variability of disc winds in X-ray binaries Maria Diaz Trigo 14:50 On the role of initial & outer boundary conditions in simulations of accretion disks Feng Yuan 15:10-15:30 Transport of magnetic flux and vertical structure of accretion discs Jerome Guilet

Session 10: Large Scale Properties of Accretion - Unified Models 16:00 From small to big: Scaling models and unification among accreting compact objects Sebastian Heinz 16:30 Coronal response to varying central luminosity Wlodek Kluzniak 16:50 Hot accretion in X-ray binaries: spectra and variability Alexandra Veledina 17:10 Coupling of the accretion disk and corona around black holes Bifang Liu 17:25 Accretion disks in the near-IR Paulina Lira 17:40-18:00 Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction Ramesh Narayan, Marek Abramowicz

Friday 24 August

Session 11: Magnetic environments around compact objects 08:30 Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the environment of the Swift J1834.9-0846 Chryssa Kouveliotou 09:00 On the magnetic environments of compact objects Ali Alpar 09:30-10:00 Global Simulations of Magnetic Environments around Compact Objects Ryoji Matsumoto

Session 12: Multi-wavelength coverage from radio to gamma rays 10:30 Fe K emission from active galaxies beyond redshift z~1 Vincenzo Mainieri 10:45 On the origin of the infalling gas cloud in the Galactic Centre Jorge Cuadra 11:00 X-ray variability of 88 AGNs. XMM-Newton power-spectrum

66 profiles Omaira Gonzalez-Martin 11:15 Black Hole Mass Measurements in the Era of Large Surveys Doron Chelouche 11:30 Accretion disk and stream origin of the dip phenomenon in X-1 Denis Leahy 11:45 X-ray Variability in LINERs Lorena Hernandez 12:00 Dusty origin of the Broad Line Region in active galaxies Bozena Czerny 12:15-12:30 Duration Distribution of Fermi/GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts Enwei Liang

Session 13: Multi-wavelength coverage from radio to gamma rays 14:00 Overview of an extensive multi-wavelength study of GX 339-4 during its 2010 outburst Marion Cadolle Bel 14:20 The evolution of ultracompact X-ray binaries Lennart van Haaften 14:40 Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction

Session 14: Instrumentation of next decade 16:00 Understanding accretion with the next generation of X-ray observatories Kirpal Nandra 16:30 The Mission Dipankar Bhattacharya 17:00 The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) Tomaso Belloni 17:30 Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction Chryssa Kouveliotou Kirpal Nandra 17:50-18:00 Symposium Summary & Farewell Mariano Mendez, Chengmin Zhang

IAUS 291 Neutron stars and pulsars: Challenges and opportunities after 80 Years 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: XI - Space & High Energy Astrophysics Contact: Richard Manchester [email protected] URL: http://www.pulsarastronomy.net/IAUS291/

SOC Co-Chairs: R. N. Manchester (Australia), Renxin Xu (China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Sarah Buchner (South Africa), Yashwant Gupta (India), Jinlin Han (China Nanjing), Rick Jenet (United States), Vicky Kaspi (Canada), Michael Kramer (Germany), Maura McLaughlin (United States), Andreas Reisenegger (Chile), Roger Romani (United States), Shinpei Shibata (Japan), Marten van Kerkwijk (Canada), Joeri van Leeuwen (Netherlands), Nina Wang (China Nanjing), Silvia Zane (United Kingdom)

Editor of Proceedings: Joeri van Leeuwen (Netherlands)

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Topics: • genesis and neutron-star structure • X-ray and gamma-ray emission from pulsars, especially recent results from Fermi • Pulsar diversity – relationship of magnetars, INS, CCOs, RRATs to radio pulsars • Pulsar astronomy with large radio telescopes – looking forward to FAST and the SKA • Toward a census of Galactic neutron stars – Galactic distribution and evolution • Magnetospheric structure – pair creation and currents, magnetic decay, pulsar braking • Non-thermal emission physics – giant radio pulses, mode changing, high-energy emission • Binary pulsars – eclipsing systems, post-Newtonian physics, stellar masses • Pulsar Timing Arrays – detection of gravitational waves and a pulsar time standard • Pulsars as probes of the interstellar medium

IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” Programme Full details at http://www.pulsarastronomy.net/IAUS291/Programme/

Plenary Presentation Thursday 23 August Room 309, overflow room 310 08:30–10:00 08:30 Pulsars are cool – seriously, NRAO Scott Ransom 09:00 Magnetars: neutron stars with magnetic storms, CSIC-IEEC, Barcelona Nanda Rea 09:30-10:00 Probing gravitation with pulsars, Max-Planck-Instut fur Radioastronomie Michael Kramer

All following sessions are in Room 311A+B

Monday 20 August

Session 1: Pulsar Discovery I 10.35 The HTRU surveys for pulsars & fast transients Michael Keith 10:55 The PALFA Survey: Going to great depths to find radio pulsars Patrick Lazarus 11:15 The hunt for new pulsars with the Ryan Lynch 11:35 New results from LOFAR Ben Stappers 11:55 Conducting the deepest all-sky pulsar survey ever: The All-Sky High Time Resolution Universe Legacy Survey Cherry Ng

68 12:15-12:30 A search for pulsars in the central of the Galactic Center Andrew Siemion

Session 2: Pulsar Genesis – Neutron-star formation and birth properties 14:00 Neutron star structure: What we learn from their masses and radii Feryal Ozel 14:20 Structure of quark stars Fridolin Weber 14:40 Numerical modeling of core-collapse supernovae and compact objects Kohsuke Sumiyoshi 15:00-15:15 Superfluidity and entrainment in neutron-star crusts Nicolas Chamel

Session 3: Pulsar discovery II and Poster Session 16:00 Fermi LAT Searches for gamma-ray pulsars Pablo Saz Parkinson 16:20 Radio counterparts of gamma-ray pulsars Lucas Guillemot 16:40-18:00 Poster Presentations: 1–minute/1-slide per poster

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: Pulsar diversity 10:30 RRATs and other high-B pulsars Sarah Burke-Spolaor 10:50 X-ray properties of rotation-powered pulsars George Pavlov 11:10 CCOs Wynn Ho 11:30 Discoveries of RRATs in the 350 MHz GBT Drift-scan Survey Chen Karako 11:45 The decaying magnetic field of magnetars: evidence and inference Simone Dall'Osso 12:00-12:15 The first radio-quiet ? Andrea Belfiore 12:15 -12:30 Single Pulses from Nearby Galaxies Eduardo Rubio-Herrera

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5: Binary pulsars 10:30 Binary pulsar evolution: unveiled links and new species Andrea Possenti 10:50 Surrounded by spiders: The newly discovered population of eclipsing binary millisecond pulsars Mallory Roberts 11:10 Neutron-star masses David Nice 11:30 Formation of the planet around the millisecond pulsar J1719-1438 Lennart van Haaften 11:45 Recycling pulsars: spins, masses and ages Thomas Tauris 12:00 Constraining neutron star EoS from cooling stages of X-ray bursts Juri Poutanen 12:15-12:30 Peeking into the crust of an accreting neutron star Nathalie Degenaar

69 Session 6: Neutron star vibration and emission 14:00 Neutron-star seismology Nils Andersson 14:20 Magnetar X-ray emission mechanisms Silvia Zane 14:40 X-ray emission from neutron-star surfaces Dong Lai 15:00 Understanding magnetars through their flare emission Caroline D'Angelo 15:15-15:30 Long timescale radio emission variability and spin-down changes in PSR J0738-4042 Aris Karastergiou

Session 7: Pulsar timing and testing gravitational theories 16:00 Pulsar Timing Arrays: Status and techniques George Hobbs 16:20 Prospects for probing strong gravity with a pulsar-black hole system Norbert Wex 16:40 Constraining the nanohertz background with the PPTA Ryan Shannon 17:00 Stochastic and continuous gravitational wave analysis pipelines for PTA data Justin Ellis 17:15 19 years of high precision timing of the millisecond pulsar J1713+0747 Weiwei Zhu 17:30-17:45 Update on the European Kuo Liu

Thursday 23 August

Session 8: Pulsar timing 10:30 Magnetospheric regulation of pulsar slow-down 10:50 Testing gravity theories in the radiative regime using pulsar timing arrays Kejia Lee 11:10 Vela glitch monitoring from HartRAO Sarah Buchner 11:30 The spin evolution of young pulsars Cristobal Espinoza 11:45 On the peculiarities in the spin-down of isolated radio pulsars Augustine Chukwude 12:00 Measurement of relativistic spin precession in the young binary pulsar J1906+0746 Gregory Desvignes 12:15-12:30 The superslow-pulsation X-ray pulsars in high-mass X-ray binaries Wei Wang

Session 9: Pulsars and the interstellar medium 14:00 Galactic structure and turbulence from pulsar observations: Results and implications Jim Cordes 14:20 Interstellar scattering Jean-Pierre Macquart 14:40 Galactic magnetic fields derived from pulsar rotation measures Jinlin Han 15:00 LOFAR commissioning pulsar surveys Thijs Coenen 15:15-15:30 FRATs: Searching for fast radio transients in real-time with LOFAR Heino Falcke

70 Session 10: Galactic distribution and evolution of neutron stars 16:00 The Galactic neutron-star population Duncan Lorimer 16:20 The pulsar population in globular clusters: differences and similarities to the pulsar population in the Galaxy Paulo Freire 16:40 Pulsar nebulae Samar Safi–Harb 17:00 Science with radio pulsar astrometry Shami Chatterjee 17:15 Constraining the luminosity function parameters and population size of pulsars in globular clusters Jayanth Chennamangalam 17:30 A magnetic powered nebula around RRAT J1819-1458? Ascension Camero 17:45 Particle transport in young Xiaping Tang

Friday 24 August

Session 11: Pulsar magnetosphere and emission mechanisms 8:30 Modelling of pulsar magnetospheres Anatoly Spitkovsky 8:50 The complex charm of the pulsar magnetosphere Andrey Timokhin 9:10 The structure of the pulsar magnetosphere via particle simulation with GRAPE Shinpei Shibata 9:25 Cosmic electrodynamics of extreme phenomena Don Melrose 9:40-9:55 Resistivity and dissipation in pulsar magnetospheres Jason Li

Session 12: Emission mechanisms 10:30 Radio emission properties: Nulling, mode changing and drifting Evan Keane 10:50 Radio pulse emission mechanisms: directional patterns Jarek Dyks 11:10 Gamma-ray emission mechanism Matthew Kerr 11:30 "An X-Raydio Switcheroo" - Detection of correlated mode changes in radio and X-ray Joeri van Leeuwen 11:45 PSR B1259-63 spectral evolution and classification of pulsar spectra Marta Dembska 12:00 Pulsar Emission at the Bottom-End of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Vladislav Kondratiev 12:15-12:30 A multi-wavelength campaign to study giant pulses from the Walid Majid

Session 13: Future facilities 14:00 SKA pathfinders Simon Johnston 14:20 The promise of a giant radio telescope Di Li 14:40 The NuSTAR and GEMS X-ray telescopes Vicky Kaspi 15:00-15:20 The Richard Schilizzi

71 Session 14: Forum and Summary 16:00 Forum Discussion – Future Facilities, Future Discoveries and Big Questions Introduced and moderated by Jim Cordes, Vicky Kaspi, Dong Lai 17:00 Meeting summary Jocelyn Bell-Burnell

IAUS 292 Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: VIII - Galaxies & the Universe Contact: Martin Bureau [email protected] URL: http://www.a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/IAUS292/

SOC Co-Chairs: Martin Bureau (United Kingdom), Yasuo Fukui (Japan)

SOC Members: Kate Brooks (Australia), Leonardo Bronfman (Chile), Daniela Calzetti (United States), Paola Caselli (United Kingdom), Françoise Combes (France), François Boulanger (France), Erwin de Blok (South Africa), Yu Gao (China Nanjing), Mark Krumholz (United States), Jürgen Ott (United States), Linda Tacconi (Germany), Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (Mexico), Tony Wong (United States)

Editors of Proceedings: Tony Wong (United States), Jürgen Ott (United States)

IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” Programme Full details at http://www.a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/IAUS292/Programme/

Plenary Presentation Tuesday 21 August Plenary Hall B 8:30-10:00 From Gas to Stars over Cosmic Time, American Museum of Natural History, New Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

All following sessions are in Room 309B

72 Monday 20 August

Session 1: MOLECULAR CLOUDS: Internal Properties, Star Formation, Stellar Feedback 10:30 Molecular Clouds: Internal Properties, Turbulence, Star Formation, Stellar Feedback Jonathan Tan 11:10 Star-forming Substructure within Molecular Clouds James Di Francesco 11:30 From Filaments to Bubbles: the Star Formation Zoo in the Milky Way from the Herschel Hi-GAL Survey Sergio Molinari 11:50 On the Verge of Star Formation Paola Caselli 12:10-12:30 GMC Origins and Turbulent Motions in Spiral and Dwarf Galaxies Bruce Elmegreen

Session 2: Distribution, Large-scale Properties, Formation, Evolution 14:00 Outflows, Inflows and GMCs Leo Blitz 14:30 Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of Molecular Clouds in the Magellanic Clouds Akiko Kawamura 14:50 The Population of the Tony Wong 15:10-15:30 Unveiling the Central Molecular Zone with Mopra Michael Burton

Session 3: 16:00 The Properties of Spitzer Dark Clouds: Probing the Initial Conditions for the Formation of Stellar Clusters and Massive Stars Gary Fuller 16:20 The Methanol Multibeam Survey: a Unique Window on High-mass Star Formation Throughout our Galaxy James Caswell 16:40 Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation with SOFIA Hans Zinnecker 17:00 The Supershell/Molecular Cloud Connection in the Milky Way and Beyond Joanne Dawson 17:20 Modes of Star Formation in our Galaxy as Revealed by Herschel Leonardo Testi 17:40-18:00 From Gas to Stars: Simulating a Population of GMCs Nathan Goldbaum

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR GAS IN GALAXIES: Nearby Dwarfs, Spirals, Early-types, Starbursts 10:30 Molecular Gas and Dust in Nearby Spiral Galaxies Christine Wilson 11:00 Dwarf Galaxies as Keystones to Galaxy Evolution: Effects of on Gas and Dust Properties Suzanne Madden 11:30 Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Early-type Galaxies Martin Bureau

73 11:50 The Molecular Interstellar Medium and Cloud Population of M33 Jonathan Braine 12:10-12:30 An Updated View of Giant Molecular Clouds, Gas Flows and Star Formation in M51 with PAWS Sharon Meidt

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5: 10:30 Molecular Gas and Dust in Nearby Galactic Centers: from SMA to ALMA Kazushi Sakamoto 11:00 The Dark Molecular Gas in the Magellanic Clouds Monica Rubio 11:30 Opaque Atomic Gas in Nearby Galaxies Robert Braun 11:50 Using HI Observations to Rewind the Clock in Early-type Galaxies Tom Oosterloo 12:10-12:30 Gas-related Accretion and Quenching Processes as Revealed by the Clustering Properties of Nearby Galaxies Cheng Li

Session 6: Cooling Flows, Radio Galaxies, High Redshift Galaxies, Epoch of Reionisation 14:00 Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Distant Galaxies Emanuele Daddi 14:40 Molecular Gas in Brightest Cluster Galaxies Philippe Salome 15:05-15:30 Radio and Submillimeter Continuum Observations of High-redshift Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang

Session 7: 16:00 Gas, Star Formation and AGN Feedback in Massive Galaxies at 0 < z < 1 Elaine Sadler 16:20 Molecular Gas in Optically-selected and Warm ULIRGs David Sanders 16:40 Molecular Gas in Dusty Star-forming Galaxies at High Redshift: New Results from the Ultrawide-bandwidth Zpectrometer Andrew Baker 17:00 Correlating Star-formation and Black-hole Accretion Rates in z~2 Obscured Quasars Vincenzo Mainieri 17:20 Gas, Dust and Stellar Properties of Herschel-selected Lensed Dusty Starbursts Asantha Cooray 17:40-18:00 Star Formation in Host Galaxies at Redshift 6 Ran Wang

Thursday 23 August

Session 8: ISM DIAGNOSTICS: Physical Conditions, Excitation Mechanisms, Chemistry, Atomic- Molecular Transition, Dust

74 10:30 Molecules as Tracers of Galaxy Evolution Susanne Aalto 11:10 CO Lines as H2 Mass Estimators, Energy Source and SF Mode Indicators Padelis Papadopoulos 11:30 Diagnostics of the ISM in Star-formation Regions Willem Baan 11:50 Molecular Gas Properties in the Universe Estelle Bayet 12:10-12:30 Warm Chemistry in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium: a Tracer of Turbulent Dissipation Edith Falgarone

Session 9: 14:00 The Atomic-Molecular Transition and its Relationship to Star Formation Mark Krumholz 14:30 GOT C+ Survey of [CII] 158 Micron Emission: Atomic to Molecular Cloud Transitions in the Inner Galaxy Thangasamy Velusamy 14:45 Formaldehyde Densitometry of Starburst Galaxies Christian Henkel 15:00 New Insights on the Neutral ISM of Dwarf Galaxies: Chemical Abundances and Gas Heating Vianney Lebouteiller 15:15-15:30 The Herschel/PACS View on the Heating and Cooling of the ISM in Local LIRGS Tanio Diaz-Santos

Session 10: Dust 16:00 ISM Diagnostics: Dust Takashi Onaka 16:30 Global Gas and Dust Budgets of the Magellanic Clouds Mikako Matsuura 16:50 Processing of Interstellar Dust Grains in Galaxies Revealed by Hidehiro Kaneda 17:10 Dust Extinction and the Main Sequence of Star-forming Galaxies in the Redshift Range 0.75

Friday 24 August

Session 11: STAR FORMATION: Tracers, Scaling Relations, Efficiency, Modeling 08:30 Star Formation Tracers: UV, Optical/NIR Emission Lines, /FIR, Sub-mm/m Lisa Kewley 09:00 Star Formation Efficiency across the Local Galaxy Population Amelie Saintonge 09:20 Gas, Dust and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies as Seen with the JCMT Jose Ramon Sanchez-Gallego

75 09:40-10:00 Star Formation Efficiency at Intermediate Redshift Francoise Combes

Session 12: 10:30 The Star-formation Relation in Nearby Galaxies Andreas Schruba 11:00 Resolved Schmidt-Kennicutt Relation of Star-forming Regions in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds Rosie Chen 11:20 Star-formation Laws in Galaxies Near and Far Yu Gao 11:40 Star-formation Laws in Luminous Infrared Galaxies: New Observational Constraints on Models Santiago Garcia-Burillo 12:00 Star Formation in Elliptical vs Spiral Galaxies Marie Martig 12:15-12:30 ChaoticTHINGS: Investigating Spatially-resolved Star Formation in Nearby Mergers Pierre-Alain Duc

Session 13: FEEDBACK: Stellar Feedback, AGN Feedback, Gas Accretion, Outflows 14:00 Stellar and AGN Feedback, and Outflows Norm Murray 14:40 Molecular Gas in Galaxies: Much More than Just the Fuel of Star Formation Nicole Nesvadba 15:10-15:30 Assessing the Role of Stellar Feedback in HII Regions Laura Lopez

Session 14: 16:00 Radiative Feedback to the ISM around an AGN Keiichi Wada, 16:20 The Importance of AGN-driven Outflows of Cold Gas for Galaxy Evolution Raffaella Morganti 16:40 Measuring Gas Removal and Gas Accretion with HI Thijs van der Hulst 17:00 Measuring AGN Feedback from Outflows Mueller-Sanchez 17:15 Feedback Between Stars, ISM and IGM in IR-luminous Galaxies Claus Leitherer 17:30-18:00 Conference Summary Yasuo Fukui

IAUS 293 Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets 27-31 August

Coordinating Division: III - Planetary Systems Sciences Contact: Nader Haghighipour [email protected] URL: www.ifa.hawaii.edu/iau293

SOC Co-Chairs: Nader Haghighipour (United States), Ji-Lin Zhou (China Nanjing)

76 SOC Members: Alan Boss (United States), Rudolf Dvorak (Austria), Pascale Ehrenfreund (Netherlands), Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (Brazil), Muriel Gargaud (France), Krzysztof Gozdziewski (Poland), Caitlin Griffith (United States), Shigeru Ida (Japan), Doug Lin (United States), Rosemary Mardling (Australia), Frédéric Masset (Mexico), Karen Meech (United States), Stéphane Udry (), Gang Zhao (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Nader Haghighipour (United States), Ji-Lin Zhou (China Nanjing)

IAUS 293 “Extra-Solar Habitable Planets” Programme Full details at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/iau293/Programme.html

Plenary Presentation Tuesday 28 August Room 309 A+B, overflow 310 8:30-10:00 The Kepler Mission: NASA's ExoEarth Census Natalie Batalha Nader Haghighipour

All following sessions are in room 309B

Monday 27 August

Session 1: Current State of (Habitable) Planet Detection I 10:30 Opening Remarks Nader Haghighipour 10:45 Detecting Habitable Planets and Activities in East Asia Bunei Sato 11:15 Patterns of Planet Occurrence from Doppler and Kepler Andrew Howard 11:45 Bayesian Statistics and Habitable Extrasolar Planets Turner Edwin 12:00 The Dependence of the Frequency of Planets on the Mass of the Host Stars Eike Guenther 12:15 – 12:30 Stellar Variabilities: Challenges for the Detection and Characterization of Low-Mass Planets Isabelle Boisse

Session 2: Current State of (Habitable) Planet Detection II 14:00 The Population at short Explored by CoRoT Deleuil Magali 14:30 New low-mass planets from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Hugh Jones 14:45 Current and Future of Microlensing Exoplanet Search Takahir Sumio

77 15:15 Microlensing constraints on the abundance of extrasolar planets Arnaud Cassan

Session 3: Detecting Signatures of Earth-Like Planets 16:00 Possible False Positive Signatures of Life in Planetary Atmospheres Around M-dwarfs Feng Tian 16:30 Signatures of Earth-like Planets in the Chemical Composition of Solar-Type Stars Jorge Melendez 16:45 2012 MOST Photometry of the System Diana Dragomir 17:00 A Campaign for the Detection of Earth-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zone of Rob Wittenmyer 17:15 Exoplanets Surveys at Universidad de Chile Patricio Rojo 17:30 The PLATO Mission Giampaolo Piotto 17:45 – 18:00 Exploring the cosmic context of Earth Martin Dominik

Tuesday 28 August

Session 4: Kepler Mission and Other Techniques 10:30 Eta-Sub-Earth: New Projection from Kepler Data Wesley Traub 10:45 The Kepler Completeness Study: Implications for Rocky Planets Jessie Christiansen 11:00 Auto-Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates Identified by the Kepler Science Pipeline Jon Jenkins 11:15 Evidence for Solid Planets from Kepler's Near-Resonance Systems Man Hoi Lee 11:30 On the Asymmetrical Distribution of Kepler's Near-Resonance Planets Ji-Wei Xie 11:45 Kepler's Rocky Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs John Johnson 12:00 Detection and Characterization of Transiting Systems with Smaller Exoplanets Teruyuki Hirano 12:15 – 12:30 Microarcsecond Relative Astrometry from the Ground Using a Diffractive Mask and Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Mark Ammons

Session 5: Terrestrial Planets in and Earth’s Water 14:00 The Basic Dynamical Model of Formation Eiichiro Kokubo 14:30 Shaping of the Inner Solar System by the Gas-Driven Migration of Jupiter Kevin Walsh 15:00 Main-Belt Comets as Tracers of Ice in the Inner Solar System Henry Hsieh 15:15 – 15:30 Frozen Volatiles in Comets and on the Moon Rita Schulz

78 Session 6: Terrestrial Planets and Water Delivery in Extrasolar Planets 16:00 The Elemental Compositions of Extrasolar Planetesimals Michael Jura 16:30 Possible Signs of Water in an Extrasolar Jay Farihi 16:45 Migration & Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets: Watering the Planets Jade Carter-Bond 17:00 Observations of Terrestrial Planet Formation Carl Melis 17:15 – 17:30 Terrestrial Planet Formation in a Triple Stellar System Othon Winter

Wednesday 29 August

Session 7: Planets in and around Binary Stars, Trojan Planets and 10:30 Recent Kepler Results on Circumbinary Planets William Welsh 10:45 Prospects of the Detection of Additional Circumbinary Extrasolar Planets Tobias Hinse 11:00 On the Habitability of Terrestrial Planets in Systems Elke Pilat-Lohinger 11:15 Habitability of Planet-Hosting Binary Star Systems: Calculating Habitable Zone for Circumprimary and Circumbinay Planets Nader Haghighipour 11:30 Mutual Inclinations of Multi-Planet Systems and Circumbinary Planets and the Assembly of Proto-Planetary Disks Dong Lai 11:45 Trojans in Exosystems with Two Massive Planets Rudolf Dvorak 12:00 Habitability Constrained by Illumination and Tidal Heating René Heller 12:15 –12:30 Exoplanets Behaving Badly with Their Host Stars: Evidence of Transfer of Planet Orbital Angular Momentum to Their Host Stars Case Study of the System HD 189733 (and other examples) Edward Guinan

Session 8: Atmospheric Characterization: Giant Planets 14:00 Atmospheric Characterization of Extrasolar Planets Jean-Michel Desert 14:30 Atmospheric Dynamics of Short Period Planets Ian Dobbs-Dixon 14:45 Near-infrared Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters Bryce Croll 15:00 Characterizing Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: New Results from Hubble WFC3 Sukrit Ranjan 15:15 – 15:30 WASP-12b and 4b: Closing in on the Compositions of Highly-Irradiated Exoplanet Atmospheres Morgan Hollis

Session 9: Atmospheric Characterization: Terrestrial Planets 16:00 Climate Regimes of Tidal-Locking Aqua-Exoplanets Yongyun Hu 16:30 Temporal Variations in the Evaporating Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HD 189733b Alain Lecavelier des Etangs

79 16:45 Diversity of Planetary Atmospheric Circulations and Climates in a Simplified General Circulation Model Yixiong Wang 17:00 Photochemistry of Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres and Applications in Searching for Gases Renyu Hu 17:15 Terrestrial Planet Atmospheric Characterization with HST: From Venusto David Ehrenreich 17:30 On the Climatic Impact of CO2 Ice Particles in Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets Daniel Kitzmann 17:45 – 18:00 Capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope for Exoplanet Imaging Mark Clampin

Thursday 30 August

Session 10: Habitability of Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (10:30 - 12:30) 10:30 The HARPS Search for Low-Mass, Habitable, Transiting Planets around M dwarfs Thierry Forveille 11:00 Carmenes: A Radial-Velocity Survey For Terrestrial Planets In The Habitable Zone Of M Dwarfs Andreas Quirrenbach 11:15 Occurrence Rate of Habitable Planets Around M-dwarfs: Limits from Kepler Courtney Dressing 11:30 Planetary Climate in M-dwarf Systems Raymond Pierrehumbert 12:00 The UV Radiation Environment of Exoplanets Linsky Jeffrey 12:15 – 12:30 Habitable Worlds Around M Dwarf Stars Alan Boss

Friday 31 August

Session 11: Super- and their Interior Dynamics 8:30 Habitable planets: Interior Dynamics and Long-Term Evolution Paul Tackley 9:00 Mass-Radius Relationships of Rocky Exoplanets Frank Sohl 9:15 Consequences of the Tidal Disruption of Giant Planets: On the Connections with the Hot Super-Earths Shang-Fei Liu 9:30 The Anelastic Equilibrium Tide in Exoplanetary Systems Francoise 9:45 – 10:00 Detecting Molecules and Magnetic Fields on Exoplanets Svetlana Berdyugina

Session 12: Formation and Disk-Planet Interaction 10:30 From Dust to Planetesimals in the Habitable Zone Hubert Klahr 10:45 Planetesimal Formation in Zonal Flows Arising in Magneto Rotationally Unstable Protoplanetary Disks Karsten Dittrich

80 11:00 Laminar Accretion in the Habitable Zone of Protoplanetary Disks Xuening Bai 11:15 Type I Planet Migration in Weakly Magnetised Laminar Discs Jérôme Guilet 11:30 Accretion and Planet Formation in the dead Zones of Accretion Disks Wladimir 11:45 Modeling Disc-Planet Interactions Jorge Cuadra 12:00 Observational Constraints on Disk Evolution and the Initial Steps Towards Planet Formation Leonardo Testi 12:15 – 12:30 Planetesimal Capture by an Evolving Giant Gaseous Podolak Morris

Session 13: Surveys and Detection Programmes I 14:00 The Impact of Herschel on the Debris Disc-Exoplanet Connection Jonathan Marshall 14:15 The WFCAM Transit Survey: Search For Planets Around Cool Stars Sipőcz Brigitta 14:30 Astrometric Detection of Earth-like Planets with Moderate Space Telescope Michael Shao 14:45 Exoplanets Search and Characterization with the SOPHIE Spectrograph at OHP Guillaume Hébrard 15:00 Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets: Current Status John Southworth 15:15-15:30 TFRM-PSES: Filling a Niche in Transit Surveys of Super- Earths Around M Dwarfs Octavi Fors

Session 14: Surveys and Detection Programmes II 16:00 The Arecibo Search for Radio Flares From Ultracool Dwarfs Alexander Wolszczan 16:15 SPICES: A Mission Concept to Characterize Long-Period Planets From Giants to Super-Earths Anthony Boccaletti 16:30 Exoplanet Spectrophotometry with SOFIA Daniel Angerhausen 16:45 Characterising Super Earths with the ECHO Space Mission Concept Marcell Tessenyi 17:00 Do Have Nanosatellites a role in Detecting Exoplanets? Werner Weiss 17:15 The Planetary Astrobiological eXplorer (PAX) Project Alain Leger 17:30 – 18:00 Concluding Remarks Nader Haghighipour

IAUS 294 Solar and astrophysical dynamos and magnetic activity 27-31 August

Coordinating Division: II - Sun & Heliosphere Contact: Alexander Kosovichev [email protected] URL: http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS294/

SOC Co-Chairs: Alexander Kosovichev (United States), Yihua Yan

81 (China Nanjing), Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (France), Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (Brazil)

SOC Members: Rainer Beck (Germany), Axel Brandenburg (Sweden), Gianna Cauzzi (Italy), Arnab Rai Choudhuri (India), Louise Harra (United Kingdom), Maarit Korpi (Finland), Vladimir Kuznetsov (Russian Federation), Aimee Norton (Australia), Kristof Petrovay (Hungary), Nikolai Piskunov (Sweden), Takashi Sekii (Japan), Nataliya Shchukina (Ukraine)

Editors of Proceedings: Alexander Kosovichev (United States), Yihua Yan (China Nanjing), Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (France), Elisabete de Gouveia Dal (Brazil)

IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” Programme Full details at http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS294/Programme.html

Plenary Presentation Wednesday 29 August Plenary Hall B 08:30 – 10:00 The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism", Bryan Gaensler

All following sessions are in Room 310

Monday 27 August

Session 1: Solar dynamo and activity cycles: observations, theories and simulations. I. 10:30 Multi-scale nature of solar magnetism and cyclicity of magnetic activity Sami Solanki 11:00 Helioseismic measurements of differential rotation and meridional flows Junwei Zhao 11:30 Observations of magnetic and kinetic helicity proxies Hongqi Zhang 12:00-12:30 Sunspot properties and the solar dynamo Aimee Norton

Session 2: Solar dynamo and activity cycles: observations, theories and simulations. II. 14:00 Flux-transport and mean-field dynamo theories of solar cycles Arnab Choudhuri 14:30-15:00 Solar-cycle precursors and predictions Jie Jiang 15:00-15:30 Poster introductions 1 (1 min each) Chair: Axel Brandenburg

82 Session 3: Solar and stellar dynamos and cycles 16:00 Magnetic activity cycles across the HR-diagram Svetlana Berdyugina 16:30 The vigorous activity of young solar-type stars Mark Miesch 16:45 Solar magnetic field reversals and the role of dynamo families Allan Sacha Brun 17:00 Magnetic helicity as a probe of magnetic flux-tube dynamics in the solar interior Takashi Sakurai 17:15-17:30 Magnetic network elements in solar cycle 23 Chunlan Jin 17:30-18:00 Poster introductions 2 (1 min each) Chair:Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Tuesday 28 August

Session 4: Local dynamo: ubiquitous small-scale magnetic fields and "hidden magnetism" 10:30 Discovery of ubiquitous small-scale fields Saku Tsuneta 11:00 New spectropolarimetric diagnostics of unresolved magnetic fields Natalia Schukina & Javier Trujillo Bueno 11:30 Links between the local and global dynamos Jan Stenflo 12:00 Convective mechanism of amplification and structuring of magnetic field Alexander Getling 12:15-12:30 On the origin of quiet-Sun magnetic fields revealed with Ryohko Ishikawa

Session 5: Magnetoconvection and local dynamo 14:00 Physics of solar magnetoconvection and local dynamo Manfred Schuessler 14:30-15:00 Fractal multi-scale nature of solar/stellar magnetic fields Valentina Abramenko 15:00-15:30 Poster introductions 3 (1 min each) Chair: Kristof Petrovay

Session 6: Coronal activity: driving mechanisms, and role in the dynamo process 16:00 Helicity transport from the convection zone to interplanetary space Mei Zhang 16:30 Driving mechanisms of magnetic energy release phenomena, flares and CME at various stages of solar/stellar cycles Kazunari Shibata 17:00-17:30 Magnetic helicity ejections and coronal activity Alexander Nindos 17:30-18:00 Poster introductions 4 (1 min each) Chair: Yihua Yan

Wednesday 29 August

Session 7: Magnetic self-organization of solar/stellar plasma 10:30 Starspot detection and properties Igor Savanov 11:00 Mechanisms of formation of solar pores and spots Irina Kitiashvili

83 11:30 Ejections of magnetic structures above a spherical wedge driven by a convective dynamo with differential rotation Joern Warnecke 11:45 Current helicity of in solar active regions as a tracer of solar dynamo Dmitry Sokoloff 12:00-12:30 Poster introductions 5 (1 min each) Chair: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino

Session 8: Poster viewing session 14:00 – 15:30

Session 9: Stellar and planetary and dynamos 16:00 Mechanisms of planetary and stellar dynamos Emmanuel Dormy 16:30 Complexes of activity ("active longitudes") and their role in dynamo Maarit Mantere 17:00 Magnetic field generation in an accretion disk of close binary star Dmitry Bisikalo 17:15 Modeling the grand minima of solar activity using a flux transport dynamo model Binay Bidya Karak 17:30 Model of poleward magnetic field streams from sunspot butterflies Nadezhda Zolotova 17:45-18:00 Dynamo in subsurface convective layers Matteo Cantiello

Thursday 30 August

Session 10: Interstellar and galactic dynamos 10:30 Magnetic fields in our Milky Way and nearby galaxies Jinlin Han 11:00 Interstellar and intergalactic dynamos Michal Hanasz 11:30 Dynamo seed fields in proto-galaxies and dynamo action in young galaxies Jennifer Schober 12:00-12:30 Prospect on intergalactic magnetic field measurements with gamma-ray instruments Helene Sol

Friday 31 August

Session 11: Critical physical ingredients for dynamos: turbulence and instabilities 8:30 Stellar and interstellar turbulence Blakesley Burkhard 9:00 Interlinks between MHD turbulence and dynamos Elisabete Dal Pino 9:30 On MHD turbulence and angular momentum transport in accretion disk boundary layers Chi -kwan Chan 9:45-10:00 Topological restrictions in magnetic field dynamics and reconnectionSimon Candelaresi

Session 12: Advances in dynamo theories, simulations and experiments 10:30 Advances in mean-field dynamo theories Valery Pipin

84 11:00 Non-linear and chaotic dynamo regimes Axel Brandenburg 11:30 Theory of differential rotation and meridional circulation Leonid Kitchatinov 12:00 Experimental realization of dynamo action: present status and prospects Andre Giesecke 12:15-12:30 Global numerical simulations of solar convection and differential rotation Gustavo Guerrero

Session 13: Current and new observing Programmes from the ground and space 14:00 Synthesis of high-resolution and global-Sun observations of solar magnetism and dynamics Gianna Cauzzi 14:30 Observational methods for stellar magnetism: from detection to cartography Klaus Strassmeier 15:00 Bcool Stephen Marsden 15:15-15:30 Radio imaging-spectroscopy observations of the Sun in decimetric wavelengths Yihua Yan

Session 14: New frontiers in understanding the origins of cosmic magnetism 16:00 Negative effective magnetic pressure in turbulent convection Petri Kapyla 16:15 Turbulent pumping of magnetic flux reduces the memory of the solar cycle Dibyendu Nandy 16:30 How the knowledge of stellar activity is needed for the exoplanetary field (and how the exoplanetary research helps the stellar dynamo understanding) Isabelle Boisse 16:45-17:00 Measuring magnetic fields in interstellar gas, in the Milky Way, and beyond Bryan Gaensler 17:00-18:00 Discussion and summary Alexander Kosovichev Yihua Yan Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino

IAUS 295 The intriguing life of massive galaxies 27-31August

Coordinating Division: VIII - Galaxies & the Universe Contact: Daniel Thomas [email protected] URL: http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/IAUS295

85 SOC Co-Chairs: Daniel Thomas (United Kingdom), Anna Pasquali (Germany), Ignacio Ferreras (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Roger Davies (United Kingdom), Avishai Dekel (Israel), Richard Ellis (United States), Yipeng Jing (China Nanjing), Xu Kong (China Nanjing), Shude Mao (United Kingdom), Eric Peng (China Nanjing), Alvio Renzini (Italy), Rachel Somerville (United States), Ian Smail (United Kingdom), Linda Tacconi (Germany), Christy Tremonti (United States), XianZhong Zheng (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Daniel Thomas (United Kingdom), Anna Pasquali (Germany), Ignacio Ferreras (United Kingdom)

IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” Programme Full details at http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/IAUS295/Programme.html

Plenary Presentation Thursday 30 August Plenary Hall B 08:30-10:00 Black holes in galaxies”, University of Austin John Kormendy

All following sessions are in Room 311 A+B

Monday 27 August

Session 1: The first galaxies in the very early Universe Theory 10:30 Simulating the first galaxies Volker Bromm 11:00 Enhancing and inhibiting star formation: high-resolution simulation studies of the impact of cold accretion mergers and feedback on individual massive galaxiesLeila Powell 11:15 The First Billion Years Simulation: galactic outflows and metal enrichment Claudio Dalla Vecchia Observations 11:30 Observing the first galaxies Dan Stark 12:00 Using HST+Spitzer Observations to Characterize the Build-up of Galaxies in the Early Universe Rychard Bouwens 12:15-12:30 Massive galaxies at 1 < z < 7 from Z-FOURGE Ivo Labbe

86 Session 2: The first few billion years Observations Kinematics and structure 14:00 The kinematics and structure of massive galaxies at high redshifts Natascha Foerster-Schreiber 14:30 The evolution of mass and size of massive galaxies Ignacio Trujillo 15:00 Ultra-deep spectroscopy of massive and compact red galaxies at z ~ 1 Evelyn Caris 15:15-15:30 A resolved view on galaxies at cosmic noon Stijn Wuyts 16:00 Dynamical Masses of Early-Type Galaxies at z ~ 2 Michele Cappellari 16:20 Were massive quiescent galaxies indeed denser at earlier times? Jesse Van de Sande 16:35 Massive Galaxies at z > 2 seen with GNS and CANDELS Jamie Ownsworth 16:50 The Morphologies of Massive Galaxies at 1

Tuesday 28 August

10:30-10:45 Mid-infrared Spectroscopy and Multi-wavelength Study of ULIRGs at Redshift z~2 Xu Kong 10:45-11:00 Last results of the "Mass Assembly Survey with SINFONI in VVDS (MASSIV)" Philippe Amram Theory 11:00 Progress and Problems in Simulating Massive Galaxies in the First Few Billion Years Oleg Gnedin 11:30 Structural Properties and Visual Morphologies of z~2 Galaxies in the CANDELS Fields and Hydrodynamical Simulations Mark Mozena 11:45 The nature of star formation and the IMF in the progenitors of massive galaxies Cedric Lacey 12:00 Using the Millennium II simulation to test CDM predictions for the structure of massive galaxies Andrew Cooper 12:15 Discussion

87 Session 3: Evolution of massive galaxies in the second half Observations 14:00 The mass assembly of massive galaxies Pieter van Dokkum 14:30 Evolving Structure of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Ivana Damjanov 14:45 The Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Xianzhong Zheng 15:05 The emergence of the red sequence at z~2 seen through galaxy clustering in the UKIDSS UDS Will Hartley 15:20-15:30 Discussion 16:00 Massive galaxies in large galaxy surveys Yipeng Jing 16:30 Evolution of the distribution of and light since redshift of unity Cheng Li 17:00 Understanding the growth of massive galaxies via stellar populations Ignacio Ferreras 17:15 Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies to z=0.6: I. A New Method for Physical Parameter Estimation Yanmei Chen 17:30 Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Diego Capozzi 17:45-18:00 Discussion

Wednesday 29August

Session 4: Environment 10:30 Massive galaxies in large galaxy surveys Simon Lilly 11:00 The evolution of galaxy sizes and masses Bianca Poggianti 11:15 GAMA: The mass and energy breakdown of massive galaxies Simon Driver 11:30 The environmental dependence of AGN passive and star-forming galaxies in the GAMA survey Oliver Steele 11:45 Quenching star formation at intermediate redshifts: downsizing of the mass flux density in the green valley Thiago Goncalves 12:00 The intriguing life of massive galaxies in a simple analytical model Peng Yingjie 12:15-12:30 Discussion Theory 14:00 The evolution of massive galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation Carlton Baugh 14:30 Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in a hierarchical universe Chiara Tonini 14:45 Structural Evolution of Massive Early-Type Galaxies Ludwig Oser 15:00 Using Semi-Analytic Models to Study the Formation and Evolution of the Fundamental Plane Lauren Porter 15:15-15:30 Discussion

88 Session 5: Massive galaxies today 16:00 Dark matter in massive galaxies Ortwin Gerhardt 16:30 The XLENS Project: Do More Massive Early-Type Galaxies Have More Dark Matter or Different Stellar IMFs? Chiara Spiniello 16:45 The co-evolution of massive galaxies and their dark matter haloes from weak lensing Mike Hudson 17:00 The rotation of early-type galaxies in dense environments Roger Davies 17:15 Gravitational lensing probes of dark matter in massive early-type galaxies Tommaso Treu 17:30 The kinematic record of hierarchical galaxy halo assembly Jacob Arnold 17:45-18:00 Further evidence for large central mass-to-light ratios in massive early-type galaxies Enrico Maria Corsini

Thursday 30 August

10:30 Black holes and nuclear clusters in galaxies Alister Graham 10:45 Low Luminosity X-ray AGN in Nearby Normal Early-Type Galaxies Christine Jones 11:00-11:15 Chandra and VLA Observations of Outbursts in M87 William Forman

Session 7: Stellar populations 11:15 modelling Claudia Maraston 11:45 Galaxy Spectra from the UV to the mid-IR Michael Brown 12:00 Matching the luminosity function of TP-AGB stars from the SAGE survey of the LMC and SM with population synthesis models Gustavo Bruzual 12:15-12:30 The resolved enrichment histories of early type galaxies Jakob Walcher

Friday 31 August

08:30 The stellar populations of massive galaxies in the local Universe Harald Kuntschner 09:00 The star formation histories of early-type galaxies from Atlas3D Richard McDermid 09:15 The spatially resolved star formation history of galaxies: CALIFA perspective Gonzalez Delgado Rosa 09:30-09:45 Massive Galaxy Formation as Revealed by their Systems Duncan Forbes

Session 8: Gas accretion and outflows 09:45-10:00 Molecular gas in early-type galaxies Martin Bureau

89 10:30 The link between stellar population gradients and gas properties in massive galaxies Jonas Johansson 10:45-11:00 Revealing the origin of the cold ISM in massive early-type galaxies Timothy Davis 11:00 Origin and Ionziation of the Warm Ionized Gas in Massive Early-type Galaxies Renbin Yan 11:15 Dust emission in Early-Type Galaxies from the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey Sperello di Serego Alighieri Theory 11:30-12:00 Modelling the formation of today's massive galaxies Thorsten Naab 12:00-12:15 Red Galaxies from Hot Halos in Cosmological Simulations Jared Gabor 12:15-12:30 Assembly histories and observational properties of simulated Early-Type Galaxies Peter Johansson 14:00 The mass assembly of massive Early-Type-Galaxies probed by deep imaging Pierre-Alain Duc 14:15-14:30 The role of Active Galactic Nuclei feedback in the formation of the brightest cluster galaxies Davide Martizzi

Session 9: Massive galaxies in our neighbourhood 14:30 High-resolution N-body simulations of galaxies Anatoly Klypin 15:00-15:30 The mass assembly histories of Local Group galaxies Annette Ferguson

Session 10: Future prospects and final discussion 16:00 Future prospects in observational galaxy evolution Karl Glazebrook 16:30 Future prospects in the modelling of massive galaxies Carlos Frenk 17:00-18:00 Summary and Discussion Alvio Renzini

90 10.4. JOINT DISCUSSIONS

JD1 The highest-energy gamma-ray universe observed with Cherenkov telescope arrays 20-21 August

Coordinating Division: XI - Space & High Energy Astrophysics Contact: Diego F. Torres [email protected] URL: http://www.ice.csic.es/research/JD-IAU

SOC Co-Chairs: Catherine Cesarsky (France), Stefan Wagner (Germany)

SOC Members: Aya Bamba (Japan), Zhen Cao (China Nanjing), Dainis Dravins (Sweden), Brenda Dingus (United States), Tadayasu Dotani (Japan), Luke Drury (), Anne Green (Australia), Felix Mirabel (France), Helene Sol (France), Diego F. Torres (Spain), Meg Urry (United States), Shuang-Nan Zhang (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Diego F. Torres (Spain), Catherine Cesarsky (France), Helene Sol (France), Stefan Wagner (Germany)

JD1 “The Highest-Energy Gamma-Ray Universe Observed with Cerenkov Telescope Arrays ”Programme Full details at http://www.ice.csic.es/research/JD-IAU/JD-IAU__Gamma-Ray_Universe.html Room 301 A+B

Monday 20 August

10:25 Brief introductory words from organizers S. Wagner, C. Cesarsky, D. Torres 10:30 Current-generation GeV telescopes: results P. Michelson 11:00 Current-generation Cherenkov telescopes: results J. Hinton 11:30 Introducing the Cherenkov Telescope Array W. Hofmann 12:00 – 12:30 Gamma-ray astrophysics at the highest energies: LHASSO Z. Cao 14:00 Gamma-ray astrophysics at the highest energies (HAWC and beyond) J. Pretz 14:30 Astronomy with the future ¬generation of gamma-ray instruments: jets, CRs and their acceleration sites S. Wagner

91 15:00 – 15:30 Fermi Gamma-ray Bubbles and their possible detection in TeV Meng Su 16:00 Astronomy with the future generation of gamma-ray instruments: Dark Energy / Dark Matter / Cosmology S. Sarkar 16:30 Extremely high angular resolution optical astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes D. Dravins 17:00 The multi-wavelength context of the future gamma-ray instruments: X-rays T. Dotani 17:30 – 18:00 The Cosmological Impact of TeV Blazars: from Plasma Instabilities to Structure Formation Christoph Pfrommer

Tuesday 21 August

10:30 The multi-wavelength context of the future gamma-ray instruments: radio A. Green 11:00 LOFAR in the era of CTA Heino Falcke 11:20 An outlook on PWN and SNRs studies with CTA Giovanna Pedaletti 11:40 A WISE view of the gamma-ray sky Francesco Massaro 12:00 – 12:30 Evolution of gamma-ray astronomy C. Cesarsky

JD2 Very massive stars in the local universe 20-22 August

Coordinating Division: IV - Stars Contact: Jorick Vink [email protected] URL: http://www.arm.ac.uk/IAU

SOC Chair: Jorick S. Vink (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Artemio Herrero (Spain), Alexander Heger (United States), Dany Vanbeveren (Belgium), Anthony Moffat (Canada)

Editor of Proceedings: Jorick S. Vink (United Kingdom)

JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” Programme Full details at http://www.arm.ac.uk/IAU/dprg.txt Room 302 A+B

92 Monday 20 August

10:30 Introduction Jorick Vink 10:40 Evidence for Very Massive Stars Paul Crowther 11:10 Very massive stars in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Cloud Hamann 11:25 The Galactic WC stars and their role in the massive star regime Sander 11:45 Unveiling the chemistry of M33 through its youngsters Castro 12:00 (Very?) Massive Stars in IC1613 Herrero 12:15-12:30 Luminous Blue Variables: unstable massive stars close to the Limit Groh 14:00 Blue hypergiants in the Milky Way Negueruela 14:20 Eta Carinae at radio wavelengths Abraham 14:35 Eclipses and collapses in eta Carinae Daminelli 14.50-15:30 DISCUSSION: DO VERY MASSIVE STARS REALLY EXIST? 16:00 The Formation of Very Massive Stars Krumholz 16:30 Radiation Transfer of Models of Massive Star Formation Zhang 16:45 What Sets the Initial Rotation Rates of Massive Stars? Rosen 17:00 On the formation of massive stars Kaper 17:20 The emergence of super-canonical stars in R136-type star-burst clusters Banerjee 17:40-18:00 DISCUSSION: HOW DO VMS FORM?

Tuesday 21 August

10:30 Mass loss mechanisms of Very Massive Stars Puls 11:00 New X-ray approach of stellar wind measurement for colliding wind binary Sugawara 11:15 X-ray diagnostics of very massive stars Oskinova 11:30 On the mass-loss rate of massive stars in sub-SMCmetallicity environments Tramper 11:45 Short-time Line Profile Variations in spectra of the Massive Stars Kholtygin 12:00 The mass-loss dominated evolution and fate of the most massive stars Vink 12:15-12:30 Population synthesis of massive stars in nearby OB associations Voss

Wednesday 22 August

10:30 The Evolution and Death of Very Massive Stars Heger 11:00 Massive stars near the Eddington limit Graefener 11:20 The effects of very massive stars on the chemical evolution of the Solar Neighbourhood Vanbeveren

93 11:40 3D Simulations of Thermonuclear Supernovae From Very Massive Stars Chen 12:00 DISCUSSION: MASS LOSS AND FATE OF VMS 14:00 Very massive stars in the primitive galaxy, I Zw 18 Heap 14:20 Nebular HeII 4686 emission: an indirect tracer of massive stars at low metallicities Shirazi 14:40 Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Extraordinary Cluster NGC 3125-1 Leitherer 15:00-15:30 FINAL DISCUSSION: OVERALL IMPLICATIONS OF VMS

JD3 3-D views of the cycling Sun in stellar context 20-22 August

Coordinating Division: II - Sun & Heliosphere Contact: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi [email protected] URL: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/iau_c10/iau28ga_jd03.html

SOC Co-Chairs: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (France), Carolus J. Schrijver (United States), Gibor B. Basri (United States)

SOC Members: Gianna Cauzzi (Italy), Peng-Fei Chen (China Nanjing), Katalin Olah (Hungary), Rachel Osten (United States)

Editor of Proceedings: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (France)

Topics: • Driving magnetic activity: differential rotation from seismology and patterns in surface activity – Observations and theory • Magnetic activity from microflares to megaflares – Observations and theory • 3-D views of the Sun and active stars – surfaces and interiors • 3-D views of the Sun and active stars – atmospheres and astrospheres • Solar and stellar cycles

JD 3 “3-D Views of the Cycling Sun in Stellar Context” Programme Full details at http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/iau_c10/iau28ga_jd03.html#Programme Room 303 A+B

94 Monday 20 August

10:30 Welcome and introduction L. van Driel-Gesztelyi

Session 1: Evolution of solar and stellar magnetic fields 10:35 The evolution of the solar magnetic field Todd Hoeksema 11:05 Evolution of stellar magnetic fields Manuel Güdel 11:35 Vector magnetic field characteristics of the super-active regions with major flare activity Anqin Chen, Jingxiu Wang 11:55 Theoretical modeling of grand minima of solar activity using the flux transport dynamo model Arnab Choudhuri, Bidya Karak 12:10-12:30 3D view of "EIT waves" in the solar corona Peng-Fei Chen

Session 2: Driving magnetic activity: differential rotation from seismology and patterns in surface activity – Observations and theory 14:00 Convection, shear and Magnetism in the Sun and its implications for cyclic solar and stellar activity Mark Miesch 14:30 Driving magnetic activity: differential rotation, flow structures, and surface patterns Klaus Strassmeier 15:00 Activity in low-mass stars: spatial correlation and evolution of the observed features Krisztian Vida 15:15-15:30 Revised solar models with rotation and magnetic fields Shaolan Bi

Session 3. Magnetic activity from microflares to megaflares – Observations and theory 16:00 Solar state of the art observations and modelling Lyndsay Fletcher 16:30 Stellar state of the art observations and modelling Adam Kowalski 17:00 The X-ray limb of the Sun Hugh Hudson 17:15 Solar Flare, CME, and the Reconnecting Current Sheet in Between Jun Lin 17:30 Solar Flare Sulphur Abundance Janusz Sylvester 17:45 Flare Differential Emission Measure from RESIK and RHESSI Spectra Barbara Sylvester

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4. 3-D views of the Sun and active stars – surfaces and interiors 10:30 Simulating the solar dynamo in 3-D Allan Sacha Brun 11:00 3-D reconstructions of active stars – observations Heidi Korhonen

95 11:30 Chromospheric Properties of Sun as a Star Debi Prasad Choudhary 11:45 Helioseismic Studies of Solar Far-Side Active Regions and Emerging Active Regions Junwei Zhao 12:00 Poster presentations (11x2.5-min)

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5. 3-D views of the Sun and active stars – atmospheres and astrospheres 10:30 3-D perspectives of solar activity – modelling Alexis Rouillard 11:00 3-D perspectives of stellar activity – observations and modelling Moira Jardine 11:30 Magnetic topology of solar activity events Etienne Pariat 11:45 Multi-wavelength observations of solar eruptions Lucie M. Green 12:00 Solar-Stellar Cycles and their Implication on the Astrospheres Dibyendu Nandy 12:15-12:30 Magnetic energy evolution and its relation to solar flares Hui Li

Session 6. Solar and stellar cycles 14:00 The solar cycle: looking forward after a long and deep minimum Robert Cameron 14:30 Theoretical models of stellar activity cycles Emre Isik 15:00 Solar Cycle variations of Coronal Mass Ejections David Webb 15:15-15:30 The stellar wind cycles and planetary radio emission of the Tau Boo system Aline Vidotto

Session 7. Session - New results from SDO and Kepler 16:00 Stellar Variability Observed by Kepler Jon M. Jenkins 16:30 P and R modes in solar limb shape HMI-SDO observations Marcelo Emilio 16:45 An analysis of a Transequatorial Loop Jie Chen 17:00 Observations and magnetic field modeling of a solar polar crown prominence Yingna Su 17:15 Relation between solar activities at low and high latitudes inferred from microwave observations Kiyoto Shibasaki 17:30 Revision of solar spicule classification Yuzong Zhang 17:45-18.00 Concluding remarks Karel Schrijver

JD4 Ultraviolet emission in early-type galaxies 20-22 August

Coordinating Division: VIII - Galaxies & the Universe Contact: Sugata Kaviraj [email protected] URL: http://astroweb1.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Kaviraj/IAU2012_JD4/home

96 SOC Co-Chairs: Sugata Kaviraj (United Kingdom), Sukyoung Yi (Republic of Korea),Martin Bureau (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Beatriz Barbuy (Brazil), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Australia), Daniela Calzetti (United States), Matthew Colless (Australia), J. Jesus Gonzalez (Mexico), Genevieve Graves (United States), Zhanwen Han (China Nanjing), Robert O'Connell (United States), C Megan Urry (United States)

Editors of Proceedings: Sugata Kaviraj (United Kingdom), Sukyoung Yi (Republic of Korea), Martin Bureau (United Kingdom)

JD4 “Ultraviolet emission in early-type galaxies” Progamme Full details at http://astroweb1.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Kaviraj/IAU2012_JD4/programme.htm Room 305

Monday 20 August

Session 1 10:30 The Helium-UV connection (Review talk) Alvio Renzini 11:10 Extreme stars in passively evolving early-type galaxies. Binary or single star progenitors? Gustavo Bruzual 11:35 Far-UV radiation from binary hot subdwarf stars in early-type galaxies Zhanwen Han 12:00 The Burstein relation in early-type galaxies Roger Davies

Session 2 14:00 The effect of Helium-enhanced stellar populations on the ultraviolet upturn phenomenonof early-type galaxies Chul Chung 14:20 Ultraviolet color-color relations of early-type galaxies Chang Ree 14:40 The warm ionized gas in early-type galaxies and their UV flux Renbin Yan 15:05 What drives the UV colours of passive galaxies? Russell Smith

Session 3 16:00 The UV upturn and environmental effects Sukyoung Yi 16:25 The UV-upturn in brightest cluster galaxies Ilani Loubser 16:50 The Central PNe Populations of External Galaxies with SAURON: Clues for Understanding the Nature of the UV-Flux of Old Galaxies Marc Sarzi

97 17:15 Star formation in early-type galaxies (Review talk) Sugata Kaviraj

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4 10:30 Young stars in tnearby early-type galaxies: The GALEX-SAURON perspective Hyunjin Jeong 10:55 Extended star formation in green valley early-type galaxies Jerome Fang 11:20 Ultra-violet emission of selected gas-rich early-type galaxies Lerothodi Leeuw 11:45 The ionized gas in E/S0 galaxies – a case for star formation induced by intergalactic material accretion Noah Brosch 12:10 A catalogue of local star-forming early-type galaxies Alfredo Carpineti

Session 7 16:00 Relationship of the Cold ISM to Star Formation Traced by UV in Early-type galaxies (Review talk) Martin Bureau 16:40 The molecular gas properties in early-type galaxies Estelle Bayet 17:00 Spatially resolved molecular gas conditions and kinematics in early-type galaxies Timothy Davis 17:20 Dusty early-type galaxies Kate Rowlands 17:40 Positive AGN feedback in A Stanislav Shabala

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5 10:30 Characterization of peculiar early-type galaxies in the local universe Beatriz Ramos 10:50 Ultraviolet properties of early-typedwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster Suk Kim 11:15 UV Emission in Type Ia Supernova elliptical host galaxies Brad Tucker 11:40 Morphological hints to the mechanisms for recent star-formation in ETGs at 0.35 < z < 1.5 in the ERS/GOODS-S field Michael Rutkowski 12:05 The distribution of UV light and star formation in galaxies at z >2 Christopher Conselice

Session 6 14:00 Star formation and AGN activity in massive interacting galaxies: A Near-UV perspective Caroline Scott

98 14:20 Tracing the evolution within nearby galaxy grops: a multiwavelength approach Daniela Bettoni 14:40 Correlations of morphological fractions in galaxy clusters with redshift and luminosity Qi-Rong Yuan 15:05 The World Space Observatory – Ultraviolet Project Mikhail Sachkov

JD5 From meteors and meteorites to their parent bodies: Current status and future developments 22-24 August

Coordinating Division: III - Planetary Systems Sciences Contact: Junichi Watanabe [email protected] URL: http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/IAUXXVIIIGA_JD5/

SOC Co-Chairs: Peter Jenniskens (United States), Junichi Watanabe (Japan), Jin Zhu (China Nanjing), Iwan Williams (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Michael A’Hearn (United States), Peter Brown (Canada), Tadeusz Jopek (Poland), Karen Meech (United States), Sho Sasaki (Japan), Caroline Smith (United Kingdom), Mitsuru Soma (Japan), Pavel Spurny Czech Republic), Jérémie Vaubaillon (France), Hitoshi Yamaoka (Japan), Makoto Yoshikawa (Japan), Hajime Yano (Japan), Masateru Ishiguro (Republic of Korea), Daisuke Kinoshita (China Taipei)

Editor of Proceedings: Peter Jenniskens (United States)

JD5 “From Meteors and Meteorites to their Parent Bodies: Current Status and Future Developments” Programme Full details at http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/IAUXXVIIIGA_JD5/Programme.html Room 301 A+B

Wednesday 22 August

Session 1: Legacy of Brian Marsden & Meteorites 10:30–11:10 The Legacy of Brian Marsden (1937-2010) Daniel W. E. Green 11:10–11:50 Meteorites — The significance of Collection and Curation and Future Developments Caroline Smith

99 11:50–12:10 The quinquennial grand shrine festival with the Nogata meteorite Hitoshi Yamaoka 12:10–12:30 Supplemental ancient Chinese meteor, meteorite fall and comet records with Zhongguo gudai tianxiang jilu zongji (1) Nagatoshi Nogami

Session 2: Historical Records 14:00–14:40 Analysis of historical meteor and meteor shower records: Korea, China, and Japan Hong-Jin Yang 14:40–15:20 A list of historical comets observed at plural sites Kiyotaka Tanikawa Mitsuru Sôma

Session 3: Meteor Showers & NEOs 16:00–16:40 Meteor Showers: which ones are real and where do they come from? Peter Jenniskens 16:40–17:00 Near-Earth objects from the cometary flux Vacheslav V. Emel'yanenko 17:00–17:40 Stream and sporadic meteoroids associated with Near Earth Objects Tadeusz Jan Jopek Iwan P. Williams 17:40–18:00 Jovian impact flashes and their implication to small bodies Jun-ichi Watanabe

Thursday 23 August

Session 4a: Mission results: 10:30–11:10 Dawn at 4 Vesta H. Uwe Keller 11:10–11:30 Micrometeoroid Detection in the Inner Planetary Region by the IKAROS-ALADDIN Hajime Yano 11:30–11:50 Temperature Shocks at the origin of regolith on asteroids Patrick Michel 11:50–12:10 Chemical enrichment of the solar system by stellar ejecta Sun Kwok

Session 4b: Mission results: comets 14:00–14:40 Results from the EPOXI and StardustNExT Missions — A Changing View of Comet Volatiles and Activity Karen Meech 14:40–15:00 Location of the Upper Border of the Main Cavity Excavated after the Deep Impact Collision Sergei Ipatov 15:00–15:20 Comets and transneptunian planets Ayyub S. Guliyev

Session 5: Future Missions 16:00–16:40 Future Small Body Exploration after the Investigation of Asteroid Itokawa by Remote Sensing and Returned Sample Analyses Hajime Yano

100 16:40–17:00 Disk-Resolved Optical Spectra of Near-Earth Asteroid 25143 Itokawa with Hayabusa/AMICA observations Masateru Ishiguro 17:00–17:20 MarcoPolo-R: Near Earth Asteroid Sample Return Mission candidate as ESA-M3 class mission Patrick Michel 17:20–17:40 Brief Introduction Of Promoting The Chinese Programme For Exploring The Martian System Jinsong Ping

Friday 24 August

Session 6: Parent bodies & Main Belt comets 08:30–09:10 The influx rate of long-period comets in the Earth's neighborhood and their debris contribution to the Julio Angel Fernández 09:10–09:50 Puzzling Snowballs: Main Belt Comets Bin Yang Karen Meech

Session 7: Grand-Based Observations; present & future 10:30–11:10 Phaethon-Gemind complex by Pan-STARRS Shinsuke Abe 11:10–11:30 Development of fully depleted CCD imager NCUcam-1 and follow-up observations for PS1 sky surveys Daisuke Kinoshita 11:30–11:50 C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR) and 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 — CO+ and N2+ rich comets Aleksandra Ivanova 11:50–12:10 Towards understanding the cometary dust: Photo-polarimetry of the comaeKiran Baliyan 12:10–12:30 Comets: extremal states and their observational manifestations Subhon Ibadov

JD6 The connection between radio properties and high-energy emission in AGNs 23-24 August

Coordinating Division: X - Radio Astronomy Contact: Gabriele Giovannini [email protected] URL: http://www.ira.inaf.it/meetings/iau2012jd6/

SOC Co-Chairs: Gabriele Giovannini (Italy), Xiaoyu Hong (China Nanjing), Laura Maraschi (Italy)

SOC Members: Teddy Cheung (United States), Ed Fomalont (United States), Luigi Foschini (Italy), Marcello Giroletti (Italy), Seiji Kameno (Japan), Matthias Kadler (Germany), Yuri

101 Kovalev (Russian Federation), Thomas Krichbaum (Germany), Alan Marscher (United States), Raffaella Morganti (Netherlands), David Paneque (Germany), Maria Rioja (Australia), Eduardo Ros (Spain), Lukasz Stawarz (Japan), Meg Urry (United States), Anton Zensus (Germany)

Editors of Proceedings: Gabriele Giovannini (Italy), Teddy Cheung (United States), Marcello Giroletti (Italy), Laura Maraschi (Italy)

JD6 “The Connection between Radio Properties and high-energy Emission in AGNs” Programme Full details at http://www.ira.inaf.it/meetings/iau2012jd6/Programme.html Room 305

Thursday 23 August

Session 1: The AGN population as seen in the radio and gamma-ray bands 10:30 The AGN Population in Radio and Gamma rays: Origins and Present Perspective T. Cheung 11:00 The AGN Population in Radio and Gamma rays: Theoretical Perspective L. Stawarz 11:30 Very high energy gamma-ray radiogalaxies and blazars H. Sol 11:45 Counterparts to Fermi-LAT sources from the ATPMN 5 and 8GHz catalogue of southern radio sources D. McConnell 12:00 Gamma rays in flat-spectrum AGN: revisiting the fast jet hypothesis M. Karouzos 12:15-12:30 To be or not to be a . The case of gamma-ray narrow line Seyfert1 SBS0846+513 F. D'Ammando

Session 2: High resolution core and jet properties 14:00 RadioAstron Space VLBI mission: early results N. Kardashev 14:30 Blazars at high resolution: what large multi-epoch VLBI studies can tell us M.L. Lister 15:00 On the connection between radio and gamma rays. The extraordinary case of the flaring blazar PKS1510-089 M. Orienti 15:15-15:30 The radio counterparts of the 2009 exceptional gamma-ray flares in 3C 273 Z. Abraham 16.00-16.30 High precision position measurements of the cores in 3C66A and 3C66B Z. Shen

Session 3: Multi-wavelength correlations and variability 16:30 Variability of blazars: probing emission regions and acceleration processes F. Tavecchio

102 17:00 OVRO 40m BLAZAR monitoring Programme: recent results of the 15 GHz radio and gamma-ray connection in blazars T. Hovatta 17:30 VLBI core flux density and position angle analysis of the MOJAVE AGN X. Liu 17:45-18:00 Gamma-ray emission along the radio jet: studies with Planck, Metsahovi and Fermi data E. Valtaoja

Friday 24 August

Session 4: Jet physics and the role of BH spin and BH accretion 8:30 What Sets the Power of Jets from Accreting Black Holes? A. Tchekhovskoy 9:00 On the location of gamma-ray emission in BLAZARS J. Poutanen 9:15 The view of Low-Luminosity AGN with Fermi R. Nemmen 9:30 FERMI Gamma-Ray bubbles and the connection between radio, microwave and Gamma-Ray M. Su 9:45-10:00 Final discussion chaired by G. Giovannini, L. Maraschi, and X. Hong

JD7 Space-time reference systems for future research 27-29 August

Coordinating Division: I - Fundamental Astronomy Contact: Dennis McCarthy [email protected] URL: http://www.referencesystems.info/iau-joint-discussion-7.html

SOC Co-Chairs: Nicole Capitaine (France), Sergei Klioner (Germany), Dennis McCarthy (United States)

SOC Members: George H. Kaplan (United States), Zoran Knezevic (Republic of Serbia), Dafydd Wyn Evans (United Kingdom), Harald Schuh (Austria), Richard N. Manchester (Australia), Gérard Petit (France) Editors of Proceedings: George Kaplan (United States), Dennis McCarthy (United States)

JD 7 “Space-time Reference Systems for Future Research” Programme Full details at: http://www.referencesystems.info/iau-joint-discussion-7.html Room 306A

103 Monday 27 August

Session 1 Theoretical aspects of reference systems 10:40 Relativity in fundamental astronomy: status and prospects Michael Soffel 10:55 Celestial dynamics and astrometry in expanding universe Sergei Kopeikin 11:10 Extension of the DSX-formalism to 2PN order for the problem of light propagation Chongming Xu 11:20 A dynamical reference frame for geophysics and experimental gravitation Pacome Delva 11:30 Observational evidences for the propagation from Earth tides Keyun Tang 11:40 Explicit expressions for the global metric and coordinate transformation with local multipole moments Yi Xie 11:50 New approach to relativistic celestial reference frames Olivier Minazzoli 12:00 2PN light propagation in the scalar-tensor theory: an N-point mass case Xue-Mei Deng 12:10 Relativistic spherical multipole moments in astronomy Jin-he Tao 12:20 -12:30 DISCUSSION / POSTERS

Session 2 Reference timescale requirements 14:00 A pulsar-based timescale George Hobbs 14:15 Long-term stability of atomic time scales Felicitas Arias 14:30 Perspectives for time and frequency transfer Philip Tuckey 14:40 Developments of optical clocks and their comparisons for future time reference Yasuhiro Koyama 14:50 Connecting kinematic and dynamic reference frames by D-VLBI Harald Schuh 15:00 Link of reference frames by pulsar observations Aleksandr Rodin 15:10 A convention for Coordinated Universal Time Dennis McCarthy 15:20-15:30 DISCUSSION

Session 3 Topics in celestial mechanics 16:00 Requirements on space-time reference systems for the BepiColombo and Juno missions Andrea Milani 16:15 The trajectory monitoring of spacecraft via VLBI in China's Lunar Exploration Project Jinling Li 16:25 General-relativistic equations of two extended bodies in the post-newtonian approximation William Alexander 16:35 Advanced dynamical models for very well observed asteroids: relativity, non-gravitational effects, perturbations from small bodies Fabrizio Bernardi

104 16:50 Phoebe's orbit from ground-based and space-based observations Josselin Desmars 17:00 The geoid computed from a new generalized theory of the figure of the earth Cheng-li Huang 17:10 May small digital PZT and radio beacons improve the LPhl for future lunar missions Jinsong Ping 17:20 Progress of astrometric research in Nikolaev Observatory Anatoliy Ivantsov 17:30-18:00 DISCUSSION

Tuesday 28 August

Session 4 Space mission requirements 10:30 Time and frequency transfer with the ESA/CNES ACES-PHARAO mission Pacôme Delva 10:45 Celestial reference frame realizations at multiple radio frequency bands Chris Jacobs 11:00 Status of Gaia and early operation plans Francois Mignard 11:15 Current status of the celestial reference frame and future prospects Ralph Gaume 11:25 Next-generation VLBI model: higher accuracy and larger baselines Sergei Klioner 11:35 New Pulkovo combined catalogues of the radio source positions Yulia Sokolova 11:45 Morphology of QSOs - the grid points of the Gaia Celestial Reference Frame Alexandre Andrei 11:55 Systematic effect of the galactic aberration on the ICRS realization and the Earth orientation parameters Jia-Cheng Liu 12:05 Dipole systematic effect in of the reference radio sources Oleg Titov 12:15 Towards ICRF3: preparing the VLBI frame for future synergy with the Gaia frame Patrick Charlot 12:25-12:30 DISCUSSION / POSTERS

Session 5 Future requirements for planetary ephemerides 14:00 INPOP: evolution, applications and perspectives Jacques Laskar 14:15 Linking the planetary ephemerides to the ICRF Petr Kuchynka 14:30 EPM the high-precision planetary ephemerides of IAA RAS for scientific research, astronavigation on the Earth and space Elena Pitjevar 14:45 A new approach to asteroid modeling in a planetary ephemeris Petr Kuchynka 14:55 New developments in spacecraft raw data direct analysis for the INPOP planetary ephemerides Ashok Verma 15:05 The re-definition of the astronomical unit of length: reasons and consequences Nicole Capitaine 15:15-15:30 DISCUSSION / POSTERS

105 Session 6 Relating reference systems 16:00 Connecting terrestrial to celestial reference frames Zinovy Malkin 16:15 SOFA, an IAU service for the future Catherine Hohenkerk 16:30 The IERS Conventions (2010): Reference Systems and New Models Brian Luzum 16:45 Link the EOC4 catalog to the ICRS Cyril Ron 16:55 A New Numerical Theory of Earth Rotation Enrico Gerlach 17:05 Asymmetric Effects in Polar Motion Excitation Christian Bizouard 17:15 Evaluation of the Accuracy of the IAU 2006/2000 Precession-Nutation Nicole Capitaine 17:25 Impact of IERS Conventions (2010) on VLBI-Derived Reference Frames Robert Heinkelmann 17:35 Influence of the inner Core on the Rotation of the Earth Revisited Alberto Escapa 17:45 Researches on Predictions of Earth Orientation Parameters Xueqing Xu 17:55-18:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS

Wednesday 29 August

Session 7 Concluding Discussion and Recommendations 10:30-12:30 Astronomical Unit ICRS/ICRF Leap Second Pulsar Time Scale Others

106 10.5. SPECIAL SESSIONS

SpS1 Origin and complexity of massive star clusters 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: VII - Galactic System Contact: Giampaolo Piotto [email protected] URL: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~sps1_2012/

SOC Co-Chairs: Giampaolo Piotto (Italy), Enrico Vesperini (United States)

SOC Members: Antonio Aparicio (Spain), Beatrice Barbuy (Brazil), Kenji Bekki (Australia), Torsten Boeker (Netherlands), Corinne Charbonnel (France), Cathie Clarke (United Kingdom), Francesca D'Antona (Italy), Licai Deng (China Nanjing), Bruce Elmegreen (United States), Raffaele Gratton (Italy), Young Wook (Republic of Korea), Steven Majewski (United States), Eline Tolstoy (Netherlands), Hans Zinnecker (United States)

Editors of Proceedings: Enrico Vesperini (United States), Giampaolo Piotto (Italy)

SpS 1 “Origin and Complexity of Massive Star Clusters” Programme Full details at http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~sps1_2012/ Room 306A

Monday 20 August

10:30 Welcome Address

Session I: Observational Evidence of multiple populations: Spectroscopy. (1st part) 10:35 Chemical properties of massive star clusters: the spectroscopic evidence of multiple populations in globular clusters R. Gratton 11:15 Light-elements inhomogeneities in Globular Clusters S. Lucatello 11:40 Multiple populations in Galactic globular clusters: the spectroscopic View J. Cohen 12:05-12:30 Multiple stellar populations in massive globular clusters: the cases of and M22 A. Marino

107 Session I: Observational Evidence of multiple populations: Spectroscopy. (2nd part) 14:00 High Precision Differential Chemical Abundance Measurements D. Yong 14:25 Helium Variations in Globular Clusters A. K. Dupree 14:40 What Is A Globular Cluster? Discovery of an Old, Massive, with a Single Stellar Population D. Geisler 14:50 How to model the spectra of star clusters properly? P. Anders 15:20-15:30 poster presentations

Session II. Observational Evidence of multiple populations. Photometry. (1st part) 16:00 Photomeric Evidence for Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters J. Anderson 16:40 Photometric Evidence of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters G. Piotto 17:05 Photometry of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters A. Milone 17:30 Exploring the Multiple Stellar Populations of the Galactic Globular Clusters: A High-Spatial Resolution Strömgren Survey J. Garcia 17:40 Helium Spread in Globular Clusters from Color-Magnitude Diagrams A.R. Valcarce 17:50-18:00 Poster presentations

Tuesday 21 August

Session II. Observational Evidence of multiple populations. Photometry. (2nd part) 10:30 Unveiling the true nature of : a pristine fragment of the F. Ferraro 10:55 Multiple Stellar Populations of Globular Clusters through Ca byphotometry J. W. Lee 11:20 The Nature of Extended Main Sequence Turn-off Regions in Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters P. Goudfroiji 11:35 Multiple stellar populations in massive star-burst clusters G. Beccari 11:50 The UV view of NGC346 A. Nota 12:05 Multiple Stellar Populations and Exotic Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters – Two Sides of the Same Coin? A. Sills 12:20-12:30 Probing the dynamical evolution of stellar aggregates with blue straggler stars B. Lanzoni

Wednesday 22 August

Session III. Stellar models for the possible sources of polluting gas. 10:30 Multiple Stellar Populations: The Stellar Evolutionary Framework S. Cassisi 10:55 Population models for the massive globular clusters Y.W. Lee 11:20 The pollution of the interstellar medium from AGB and SAGB stars in Globular Clusters P. Ventura

108 11:45 The effect of interacting binaries on the chemical evolution of Globular Clusters D. Vanbeveren 12:00-12:30 Poster presentations

Session IV. Formation and evolution of globular clusters. (1st part) 14:00 Dynamics of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters E. Vesperini 14:25 Physical processes for the origin of globular clusters with multiple stellar populations K. Bekki 14:50 The role of massive stars in the turbulent enfancy of globular clusters: Multiple populations, multiple consequences C. Charbonnel 15:15 Formation of globular clusters throughout cosmic time O. Gnedin 15:30-15:40 A Tale of the "Dragon" Nebula: First Steps in Making a Massive Star Cluster W. Wang

Session IV. Formation and evolution of globular clusters. (2nd part) 16:00 Dwarf Galaxies at High Redshift: Formation Sites for Low-Metal Globular Clusters B. Elmegreen 16:25 Early Mass Segregation in Massive Star Clusters S. McMillan 16:50 The Secondary Star Formation in Young Massive Star Clusters J. Palous 17:00 HST Proper Motions of Globular Clusters A. Bellini 17:10 Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters N. Luetzgendorf 17:20 Dynamical evolution of rotating globular clusters A.L. Varri 17:30 "The Brick": A pristine molecular cloud building block of a Galactic globular cluster? S. Longmore 17:40 The most massive young clusters in the Milky Way I. Negueruela 17:50-18:00 Multiple stellar population in Galactic : the massive starcluster NGC 6791 G. Carraro

Thursday 23 August

Session V. Extragalactic Massive Clusters and Nuclear star clusters. 10:30 Nuclear star clusters: structure and stellar populations N. Neumayer 11:10 Growing Nuclear Star Clusters T. Boeker 11:35 The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster R. Schoedel 12:00 The Star Formation History of the Milky Way's Nuclear Star Cluster O. Pfuhl 12:10-12:25 Clues to the Origin of Multiple Stellar Populations from Extragalactic Young Star Clusters S. Larsen

109 Session V. Extragalactic Massive Clusters and Nuclear star clusters. (cont.) 14:00 UV bright globular clusters in M87: evidence for super-He-rich stellar populations in extra-galactic stellar populations S. Kaviraj

Session VI. Dwarf Galaxies. (1st part) 14:15 The Stellar Populations of Dwarf Galaxies M. Bellazzini 14:55-15:20 Star formation history of dwarf galaxies: seeking footprints of the primeval Universe S. Hidalgo

Session VI. Dwarf Galaxies. (2nd part) 16:00 Connections between Galactic star clusters and Dwarf Galaxies K. Venn 16:25 The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Keck Spectroscopy E. Kirby 16:50 The - Ultra Compact Dwarf - Globular Cluster Connection D. Forbes 17:05 Progenitor environment of massive globular clusters - nuclei of dwarf galaxies? I. Georgiev 17:15 The massive star clusters called ultra-compact dwarf galaxies - internal properties M. Hilker 17:25 The massive star clusters called ultra-compact dwarf galaxies – global properties S. Mieske 17:35 Stellar populations of ultra faint dwarf galaxies S. Okamoto 17:45-17:55 UCDs in the Perseus Cluster core: massive star clusters or stripped galaxies? S. Penny

Friday 24 August

Session VII. Chemical properties and structure of the halo. (1st part) 8:30 The : stellar populations and their chemical properties J. Norris 9:10 The Structure and Chemistry of the Halo System of the Milky Way D. Carollo 9:35-10:00 Chemical properties and structure of the halo P. Francois

Session VII. Chemical properties and structure of the halo. (2nd part) 10:30 Globular cluster contributions to Galactic halo assembly S. Martell 10:55 Panel discussion summary

110 SpS2 Cosmic evolution of groups and clusters of galaxies 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: XI - Space & High Energy Astrophysics Contact: Jan Vrtilek [email protected] URL:http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/IAU/Programme.html

SOC Co-Chairs: Jan M. Vrtilek (United States), Laurence P. David (United States)

SOC Members: Monique Arnaud (France), Paulo Lopes (Brazil), D. J. Saikia (India), Omar Lopez-Cruz (Mexico), Eugene Churazov (Russian Federation), Sabine Schindler (Austria), Diana Worrall (United Kingdom), Matthew Colless (Australia), Noam Soker (Israel), Manolis Plionis (Greece), Yipeng Jing (China Nanjing), Jeremy Lim (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: Jan Vrtilek (United States), Laurence David (United States)

SpS 2 “Cosmic Evolution of Groups and Clusters” Programme. Full details at http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/IAU/Programme.html Room 307A+B

Topic 1 - Cosmology and Cluster Formation Monday 20 August

Session 1: Cosmology - SZ Studies 10:30 Welcome and introductory notes Organizers 10:35 Surveying and imaging cluster atmospheres using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect Mark Birkinshaw 11:00 The South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Survey Benson Bradford 11:20 Clusters and Groups from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Suzanne Staggs 11:40 Planck results on galaxy clusters Jose M Diego 12:00 SZ observations with ALMA Ruediger Kneissl 12:10 GBT+MUSTANG 9'' Resolution Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters Tony Mroczkowski 12:20-12:30 Cluster Science with the Australian SKA Pathfinder and the Murchison Widefield Array Melanie Johnston-Hollit

111 Session 2: Cosmology – X-rays and high z clusters 14:00 Cosmology using Clusters of Galaxies Steven Allen 14:25 The X-ray luminous Population at 0.9 < z <~ 1.6 Rene Fassbender 14:45 Quiescent early-type galaxies in z>1.5 groups Masayuki Tanaka 15:00 Probing substructures in galaxy clusters and resulting systematic Yuying Zhang in cosmological applications with X-ray and optical surveys 15:15-15:30 Deep Chandra observation of the galaxy cluster WARPJ1415.1+3612 Joana Santos at z=1: an evolved cool-core cluster at high redshift

Session 3: Large Scale Properties of Clusters and Cluster Merging 16:00 Large scale properties of clusters Christine Jones 16:25 The Outer Limits of Galaxy Clusters: Probing the Hot ICM to the Virial Radius Eric Miller 16:45 Baryon Content of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z=0-0.6 YenTing Lin 17:00 X-ray study of Gas Bulk Motions in Galaxy Clusters Takayuki Tamura 17:15 Substructures in the Hydra~I cluster core Magda Arnaboldi 17:30 Non-gravitational Energy Deposition and Universality in ICM Entropy Injection for Nearby Galaxy Clusters Subhabrata Majumdar 17:45-18:00 Shocking Tails in the cluster merger Abell 2744 Matt Owers

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: Cluster Simulations and Theory 10:30 Simulations of cluster and group formation Daisuke Nagai 10:55 Deciphering merger histories and ICM properties from gas sloshing signatures Elke Roediger 11:15 Sloshing cold fronts and g-modes in galaxy clusters Paul Nulsen 11:30 Assembly - What Defines the Type of a Group? -Silvia Remus 11:45 Group-Cluster Mergers: Pre- and Post-Merger Evolution. Rukmani Vijayaraghavan 12:00 The effects of baryon physics on the mass distribution in clusters of galaxies Davide Martizzi 12:15-12:30 Testing CDM predictions for the faint stellar structures in groups and clusters with the Millennium II simulation Andrew Cooper

112 Topic 2 - Cooling Flows/AGN Feedback- Wednesday 22 August

Session 5: Cooling flows/AGN Feedback – Observation 10:30 AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters Brian McNamara 10:55 AGN feedback in galaxy groups Ewan O'Sullivan 11:20 PKS B2152-699: A low-z exemplar of the under-studied population dominating radio feedback Diana Worrall 11:35 Unique Multiphase Signatures of AGN Feedback in Abell 2597 Grant Tremblay 11:50 The environments of hot- and cold-mode accretors John Ching 12:05 3C449: our understanding of the source from radio and X-ray observations Dharam Vir Lal 12:20-12:30 The relationship between mechanical power and radio luminosity in radio galaxies Leith Godfrey

Session 6: Cooling flows/AGN Feedback – Theory 14:00 Biting the hand that feeds them: Black holes and their impact on the ICM Sebastian Heinz 14:25 AGN Feedback and Scatter in Galaxy Cluster Mass-Observable Relations Paul Ricker 14:50 Simulating the Cooling Flow and AGN Feedback of Cool-Core Clusters Yuan Li 15:05 Stable Heating of Cluster Cool Cores by Cosmic-Ray Streaming Yutaka Fujita 15:20-15:30 An examination of magnetized outflows from active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters Paul Sutter

Session 7: Cold gas and star formation in CFs 16:00 Molecular matter in cluster cores: current status and ALMA prospects Jeremy Lim 16:25 The particle heating model for BCG filaments Andy Fabian 16:50 UV and IR Signatures of Heating and Star Formation in the Cores of Cool-Core Clusters of Galaxies Megan Donahue 17:15 Cold matter in the cores of galaxy clusters with Herschel Françoise Combes 17:40 The Evolution of the Feedback/Cooling Balance in Galaxy Cluster Cores Michael McDonald 17:50-18:00 Clues on how the optical nebula in NGC 1275 may be structured from its velocity field Jeffrey Chan

113 Thursday 23 August

Session 8: Ellipticals and Groups of Galaxies 10:30 Unusually X-ray Luminous Coronae and Unusually Massive Black Holes in Optically Faint Galaxies William Forman 10:55 Galaxy groups: a window on the assembly of visible matter Stefania Giodini 11:15 An X-ray view of nearby galaxy groups in ZENS John Silverman 11:30 Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 4472 and NGC 4552: Gas Dyanmics in the Virgo Cluster Ralph Kraft 11:45 In Search of Local Group Analogues Aaron Robotham 12:00 On the mass-to-light ratios of fossil groups and clusters from weak lensing data Eduardo Cypriano 12:15-12:30 Kinematics of groups of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 Cheng Li

Topic 3 - Non-thermal properties of clusters

Session 9: Global Radio Properties, Relativistic Particles, and Magnetic Fields 14:00 Global radio properties of galaxy clusters Tiziana Venturi 14:25 Relativistic particles and magnetic fields in clusters: observational aspects Tracy Clarke 14:50 Non-thermal emision in galaxy clusters: the X-ray view Silvano Molendi 15:15-15:30 Radio Observations of the Massive Galaxy Cluster A3266 Rowan Miller

Topic 4 - Environmental Impact of Galaxy Evolution in Clusters

Session 10: Galaxy Evolution – Part 1 (Clusters) 16:00 The impact of galaxy evolution on clusters and groups Trevor Ponman 16:25 Galaxy Evolution in Clusters Bianca Poggianti 16:50 The formation of red galaxies in groups and clusters Yipeng Jing 17:05 Impact of magnetic fields on ram pressure stripping in disk galaxies Mateusz Ruszkowski 17:20 Cluster galaxies 10 billion years ago Veronica Strazzullo 17:30 Detailed stellar population analysis of a rich galaxy cluster at z=0.83 Anna Ferre-Mateu 17:40 Using field spectroscopy to resolve the role of environment in galaxy formation Sarah Brough

114 17:50-18:00 Stripping and quenching in the Coma cluster (and beyond) and in semi-analytic models Russell Smith

Friday 24 August

Session 11: Galaxy Evolution – Part 2 (Groups) 08:30 Galaxy Evolution in Groups Yang Xiaohu 08:55 The Assembly and Evolution of Groups of Galaxies Eric Wilcots 09:10 Which environment affects galaxy evolution? Marcella Carollo 09:25 Galaxy evolution in zCOSMOS groups to z ~ 1 Simon Lilly 09:40 Multiple galaxies and groups among the BIG objects Areg Mickaelian 09:50-10:00 The quenching of satellite galaxies as the origin of environmental effects Yingjie Peng

Session 12: Galaxy Evolution – Part 3 10:30 Galaxy Groups: Results from the GEMS Survey Duncan Forbes 10:55 Segregation Effects in Galaxy Groups Paulo Lopes 11:10 The Tully-Fisher relation for interacting and field galaxies at z=0: lessons to be learned for high-redshift TF work Claudia Mendes de Oliveira 11:25 When, where and how star formation is quenched on cluster infall Mike Hudson 11:40 Galaxy Evolution through the Cosmic Time Thais Idiart 11:55 Summary, open questions, and discussion Panel 12:25-12:30 Closing remarks Organisers

SpS3 Galaxy evolution through secular processes 20-24 August

Coordinating Division: VIII - Galaxies & the Universe Contact: Ron Buta [email protected] URL : http://bama.ua.edu/~rbuta/iau-2012-sps3/

SOC Co-Chairs: Ronald J. Buta (United States), Daniel Pfenniger (Switzerland)

SOC Members: John Kormendy (United States), Simon White (Germany), Kenneth C. Freeman (Australia), Xiaolei Zhang (United States), Robert C. Kennicutt (United Kingdom), Eija Laurikainen (Finland), Jerry Sellwood (United States), Juntai Shen (China Nanjing),

115 Reynier Peletier (Netherlands), Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro (Spain), Johan Knapen (Spain), Lia Athanassoula (France), Bruce G. Elmegreen (United States), Françoise Combes (France)

Editors of Proceedings: Ronald J. Buta (United States), Daniel Pfenniger (Switzerland)

SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution through Secular Processes” Programme. Full details at http://bama.ua.edu/~rbuta/iau-2012-sps3/Programme.html Room 308

Monday 20 August

Session 1: Observational and theoretical overviews 10:30 Welcome R. Buta 10:35 Introduction to internal and environmental secular evolution in disk galaxies J. Kormendy 11:15 Overview of dynamical mechanisms of secular evolution D. Pfenniger 11:45 The role of collective effects and secular mass migration X. Zhang on galactic transformation 12:15-12:30 The role of resonances on the evolution of galactic disks J. Lepine

Session 2: Evolution of Spirals and Bars 14:00 Lifetimes of bars and spirals J. Sellwood 14:30 Structures in disk galaxies from internal or external processes E. Athanassoula 15:00 Signatures of long-lived spiral patterns E. Martinez-Garcia 15:15-15:30 Revealing Galactic Scale Bars with the help of Galaxy Zoo K. Masters

Session 3: Barred Galaxies (continued) 16:00 Bar Properties as seen in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) K. Sheth 16:30 Galactic rings and secular evolution in barred galaxies J. Knapen 17:00 Multiple bars and secular evolution J. Shen 17:30 Kinematical Evidence for Secular Evolution in S4G Spirals S. Erroz 17:45-18:00 Rotation of classical bulges during secular evolution of barred galaxies K. Saha

116 Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: Barred and Early-Type Galaxies 10:30 Parallel-sequencing of fast rotator ETGs and spiral galaxies M. Cappellari 11:00 NIRS0S and secular evolution spanning the Sa/S0/disky E boundaries E. Laurikainen 11:30 Comparison of NIRS0S Ks-band and S4G 3.6 micron data: Fourier amplitudes force profiles and color maps H. Salo 11:45 Characterization of Peculiar Early-Type Galaxies in the Local Universe B. Ferreira Ramos 12:00 3D View on Virgo and Field Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: Late-type Origin and Environmental Transformations A. Rys 12:15-12:30 Kinematic Properties and Dark Matter Halos of Virgo Dwarf Early-type Galaxies E. Toloba

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5: Stellar Populations and Star Formation 10:30 Stellar populations in bulges and disks and the secular evolution connection R. Peletier 11:00 The Gas and Star Formation in Bulges D. Fisher 11:30 The Growth of Mass and Metallicity in Bulges and Disks R. Gonzalez-Delgado 11:45 Rejuvenation of bulges by bars: evidence from stellar population analysis D. Gadotti 12:00 Stellar Populations of Bulges in Galaxies with a Low Surface Brightness Disk L. Morelli 12:15-12:30 Evolution of the Star Formation Efficiency in Galaxies J. Braine

Session 6: Thick Disks AGN Bulges and Dwarfs 14:00 The Origin of Thick Disks S. Comeron 14:30 Vertical structure of stellar populations in galaxy disks D. Streich 14:45 The downplayed role of secular processes in the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes M. Cisternas 15:00 A Longslit Spectroscopic Survey of Bulges in Disk Galaxies (to be presented by D. Fisher) M. Fabricius 15:15 Tidal Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies with Shallow Dark Matter Density Profiles E. Lokas

Session 7: The Milky Way 16:00 Secular evolution in the Milky Way V. Debattista 16:30 The Digital Sky Survey of the Galactic Anti-center X-W. Liu 17:00 Frequency Maps as a Probe of Secular Evolution in the Milky Way M. Valluri

117 17:15 A new self-consistent model of the bar of the Milky Way Y. Wang 17:30 A secular evolution model for the Milky Way bar and bulge I. Martinez-Valpuesta 17:45-18:00 Chemical fingerprinting of stellar populations in the Milky Way halo M.-Y. Chou

Thursday 23 August

Session 8: Radial Mixing 10:30 Quantifying the Mixing Due to Bars P. Sanchez-Blazquez 11:00 The Outskirts of Spiral Galaxies: Probing Stellar Migration Theory J. Bakos 11:15 Radial mixing in galaxy disks: how, when, where? Di Matteo 11:30 Searching for observational evidence of radial mixing in the Milky Way disk M. Haywood 11:45 A Test for Radial Mixing Due to Local Star Samples J. Yu 12:00 Disk Structures in the CGS Survey Z. Li 12:15-12:30 Dynamical evolution of star clusters in transient spiral arms M. Fujii

Session 9: Implications on Secular evolution from Structural and Morphological Analysis 14:00 How well can we identify pseudobulges? A. Graham 14:25 Outer Disk Profiles as Tracers of Secular Evolution J. Beckman 14:45 Quantifying Secular Evolution Through Structural Decomposition L. 15:00 Bar-driven evolution of fast rotators: the role and fate of bars in early- and late-type galaxies E. Emsellem 15:15-15:30 Dissecting Early-Type Dwarf Galaxies into their Multiple Components J. Janz

Session 10: Isolated Galaxies and Local Environmental Effects 16:00 Galaxies driven only by secular evolution? L. Verdes-Montenegro 16:30 The role of external gas accretion on secular transformations F. Combes 17:00 Effects of Secular Evolution on the Star Formation History of Galaxies M. Fernandez Lorenzo 17:15 Hoag's Object: the quintessential N. Brosch 17:30 The Role of Close Pair Interactions in Triggering Stellar Bars P. Nair 17:45-18:00 Role of massive stars in the evolution of primitive galaxies S. Heap

Friday 24 August

Session 11: Secular Evolution in a Cosmological Context. I. 08:30 The Influence of Halo Evolution on Galaxy Structure S. White

118 09:00 Shaping Disk Galaxy Stellar Populations via Internal and External Processes R. Roskar 09:30 Bars in a cosmological context M. Martig 09:45-10:00 Star formation history: secular processes in "main sequence" galaxies versus merger-driven starbursts M. Bethermin

Session 12: Secular Evolution in a Cosmological Context. II. 10:30 Secular evolution in young galaxies B. Elmegreen 11:00 Hydrodynamical Simulations of the NGC 1097 L-H. Lin 11:15 Galaxies in most dense environments at z~1.4 V. Strazzullo 11:30 The ALHAMBRA project: morphological classification M. Povic 11:45 Testing Galaxy Formation Models with the GHOSTS survey: The Stellar Halo of M81 A. Monachesi 12:00-12:30 Conclusions and Open Questions: R. Buta (Observations) & D. Pfenniger (Theory)

SpS4 New era for studying interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields 20-23 August

Coordinating Division: X - Radio Astronomy Contact: JinLin Han [email protected] URL: http://iau2012sps4.csp.escience.cn

SOC Co-Chairs: JinLin Han (China Nanjing), Marijke Haverkorn (Netherlands), Robert Braun (Australia)

SOC Members: Rainer Beck (Germany), Robert Braun (Australia), Jo-Anne Brown (Canada), Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (Brazil), Torsten Ensslin (Germany), Luigina Feretti (Italy), Bryan M. Gaensler (Australia), Tom Troland (United States), Alex Lazarian (United States), Giles Novak (United States), Eve Ostriker (United States), Dongsu Ryu Chungnam (Republic of Korea), Kandaswamy Subramanian (India)

Editors of Proceedings: Marijke Haverkorn (Netherlands), JinLin Han (China Nanjing)

SpS4 “New Era for studying Interstellar and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields” Programme. Room 306B Full details at http://iau2012sps4.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65595

119 Monday 20 August

Session 1: Magnetic fields through new generation of instruments 10:30 History of polarization measurements for magnetic fields Richard Wielebinski 11:00 First results from Planck observations of dust polarization Francois Boulanger 11:20 LOFAR and SKA for magnetism science 11:40 Revealing magnetic fields with the Australian SKA Pathfinder N. McClure-Griffiths 12:00 Magnetic fields in ISM: A view from optical and near-Infrared Antonio Mario Magalhães 12:20--12:30 Poster Announcements -- 1

Session 2: Magnetic fields and turbulence 14:00 Turbulence and the generation of large scale magnetic fields Ethan Vishniac 14:20 Formation of filaments in hydro and MHD turbulence Patrick Hennebelle 14:40 Magnetic fields and turbulence Alex Lazarian 15:05 Cosmic ray transport in MHD turbulence Huirong Yan 15:25-15:30 Poster Announcements -- 2

Session 3: Magnetic fields and dynamics in interstellar medium 16:00 The magnetic field structure of Galactic Fermi bubbles Meng Su 16:15 The S-PASS view of the Gum nebula: our nearest magnetic bubble Cormac Purcell 16:30 Near-infrared polarimetry and interstellar magnetic fields in the Galactic center Shogo Nishiyama 16:50 Orientations of intense velocity shear-layers, magnetic fields and filaments in diffuse molecular gas Edith Falgarone 17:05 Effects of magnetic fields on gaseous structures and mass inflow rates in barred galaxies Woong-Tae Kim 17:25 The role of self gravity and magnetic fields in early phases of molecular cloud formation Adriana Gazol 17:45--18:00 Magnetic field structure in molecular clouds by polarization measurements W. P. Chen

Tuesday 21 August

Session 4: Magnetic fields in molecular clouds and star formation 10:30 Observational Characterization of Magnetized Turbulence in Molecular Clouds Martin Houde 10:55 Magnetic Braking and Protostellar Disk Formation Zhi-Yun Li

120 11:20 BLASTPol 2010: Probing magnetic field structures in nearby star forming regions F. Poidevin 11:35 Submillimeter Array observations of magnetic fields in star forming regions Ramprasad Rao 11:50 Confronting Star-formation Models with Magnetic-field Observations Huabai Li 12:10 Magnetic field morphologies in star forming clouds at mpc angular resolution Ya-Wen Tang 12:25-12:30 Poster Announcements – 3

Wednesday 22 August

Session 5a: Magnetic fields in the Milky Way 10:30 Observational Review of Galactic magnetic fields Marijke Haverkorn 10:55 CGPS studies of the Galactic Magnetic Field Joern Geisbuesch 11:10 The Sino-German 6cm polarization survey of the JinLin Han 11:30 Probing Interstellar Magnetic Fields With Supernova Remnants Roland Kothes 11:45 CBASS: The C-Band All Sky Survey Stephen Muchovej 12:00 The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey Michael Pavel 12:15-12:30 MAGMO: Mapping the Galactic Magnetic field through OH masers James Green

Session 5b: Magnetic fields in the Milky Way 14:00 Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way Halo Sui Ann Mao 14:20 Radio observational constraints on Galactic 3D-emission models XiaoHui Sun 14:40 Modeling Large-scale Galactic Magnetic Fields with a Self-Consistent Multi-wavelength Approach Tess Jaffe 14:55 Theoretical understanding of Galactic magnetic fields Katia Ferriere 15:20-15:30: Poster Announcements -- 4

Session 6: Magnetic fields in diverse galaxies 16:00 Magnetic nature of galaxies: from tiny dwarfs to merging beasts K. T. Chyży 16:25 Magnetic fields and star formation in spiral galaxies Marita Krause 16:45 Magnetic field structures in nearby galaxies from WSRT-SINGS George Heald 17:05 Multiscale magnetic fields in spiral galaxies: evolution and reversals Dmitry Sokoloff 17:20 Magnetic fields around galaxies at high redshifts Simon Lilly 17:35 Observational signatures of fluctuation dynamos in astrophysical systems Pallavi Bhat 17:50--18:05 Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection sites: from solar flares to AGNs and GRBs Grzegorz Kowa

121 Thursday 23 August

Session 7: Magnetic fields in intracluster medium 10:30 Observations of magnetic fields in intracluster medium Federica Govoni 11:55 Radio relics and magnetic field amplification in the ICM Annalisa Bonafede 11:20 MHD turbulence in intracluster medium Diego Falceta-Gonçalves 11:40 Open Questions Regarding Radio Halos and Relics in Galaxy Clusters Christoph Pfrommer 12:00 A first estimate of the statistics from large-scale cosmological simulations Paul Sutter 12:15--12:30 The rotation measure of the universe as a function of redshift Alison Hammond

Session 8: Magnetic fields in the cosmic web and early universe 14:00 Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmic Web Dongsu Ryu 14:20 RM due to magnetic fields in the cosmic web and SKA observations Takuya Akahori 14:40 Magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium Andrii Neronov 15:00 The Physics of TeV Photon Propagation: A Challenge to IGMF Constraints Philip Chang 15:15--15:35 Magnetic fields in the early universe Christos G. Tsagas 16:00--17:45 Open Discussions: (Led by all SOC members, e.g. Giles Novak, Ryu, Dongsu, ....) In the new era for studying interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields: 1) Big questions? 2) Possible developments? 3) Expected new view of magnetic fields? 17:45--18:00 Closing session Marijke Haverkorn Robert Braun JinLin Han

SpS5 The IR view of massive stars: the main sequence and beyond 23-24 August

Coordinating Division: IV - Stars Contact: Hanson [email protected] URL : http://www.gaphe.ulg.ac.be/IAU_XXVIII/index.html

SOC Chair: Yaël Nazé (Belgium)

SOC Members: Jura Borrisova (Chile), Margaret Hanson (United States), Fabrice Martins (France), Paco Najarro (Spain), Barbara Whitney (United States)

122 Editor of Proceedings: Yaël Nazé (Belgium)

SpS 5 “The IR View of Massive Stars: the Main Sequence and Beyond” Programme. Full details at http://www.gaphe.ulg.ac.be/IAU_XXVIII/prg.html Room 303A+B

Thursday 23 August

Session 1. Obscured and distant clusters 10:30 Opening of SpS 5 Y. Naze 10:50 Search and characterization of obscured and distant young stellar clusters D. Froebrich 11:30 Massive stars in the Galactic center F. Martins 12:10-12:30 Young stellar clusters in the VVV survey: Towards a better understanding of their early evolution A.-N. Chene 14:00 Massive clusters in the Milky Way A. Herrero 14:20 Finding Red Supergiants in the Galaxy and Measuring their Distances K. Menten 14:40 The Scutum Complex I. Negueruela 15:00-15:30 Distribution of Wolf-Rayet stars in the Milky Way from near-IR surveys C. Rosslowe

Session 2. Stellar and wind parameters 16:00 Atmospheric modelling of massive stars in the IR domain M.F. Nieva 16:40 The Of/WN transition region J.M. Bestenlehner 17:00 Physical properties of Wolf-Rayet stars from near to far-IR diagnostics P.Crowther 17:20 The spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars in the IR W.R. Hamann 17:40-18:00 The potential of the IR to constrain Mass loss rates in Massive stars F. Najarro

Friday 24 August

8:30 Near-IR Spectroscopy of A-type supergiants with CRIRES N. Przybilla 8:50 Non-LTE metallicities of red supergiants M. Bergemann 9:10 Far-infrared emission of bow shocks around runaway OB stars N. Cox 9:30-9:50 Resolving the wind of the most massive stars with near-IR interferometry J. Groh

Session 3. Matter ejection and feedback 10:30 The Circumstellar Environments of Massive Stars Revealed in the Infrared S. Wachter 11:10 Infrared Interferometric Imaging of Massive stars and Circumstellar Disks X.Che 11:30 Towards a coherent view at infrared wavelengths of mass loss in P. Kervella

123 11:50 Massive Stars with Infrared-Excess in the Young Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3 H.-J. Kim 12:10-12:20 Herschel spectroscopic studies of mass-loss from red-supergiants M. Matsuura 14:00 Photometric and Spectral Variability of Newly Identified Candidate Luminous Blue Variables and Other Massive Stars G. Stringfellow 14:20 Posters: Summary M. Hanson 14:40-15:30 Concluding remarks A. Daminelli

SpS6 Science with large solar telescopes 22-24 August

Coordinating Division: II - Sun & Heliosphere Contact: Gianna Cauzzi [email protected] URL: http://www.arcetri.astro.it/IAUSpS6/

SOC Co-Chairs: Gianna Cauzzi (Italy), Alexandra Tritschler (United States), Yuanyong Deng (China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Tom Berger (United States), Manolo Collados (Spain), Phil Goode (United States), Siraj Hasan (India), Fernando Moreno Insertis (Spain), Jiong Qiu (United States), Goran Scharmer (Sweden), Wolfgang Schmidt (Germany), Manfred Schuessler (Germany), Steve Tomczyk (United States), Saku Tsuneta (Japan)

Editors of Proceedings: Gianna Cauzzi (Italy), Alexandra Tritschler (United States)

SpS 6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” Programme Full details at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/IAUSpS6/Programme.html Room 302A+B

Wednesday 22 August

Session 1 - Key Scientific Questions 16:00 Welcome G. Cauzzi, A. Tritschler, Y. Deng Overview 16:10 The science challenge for large solar telescopes Oskar Steiner State of the Art 16:50 Realistic numerical simulations of solar convection: emerging flux, pores, and Stokes spectra Dali Georgobiani

124 17:15 Properties of transient horizontal magnetic fields, and their implication for the origin of quiet-Sun magnetism Ryohko Ishikawa 17:40 Investigation of small scale turbulent MHD phenomena using numerical simulations and NST observations Irina Kitiashvili 17:55-18:00 Poster presentation

Thursday 23 August

Session 1 (continued) 10:30 Current status of self-consistent 3D radiative-MHD simulations of the solar atmosphere Juan Martinez-Sykora (Metcalf Lecturer) 10:55 Using large telescopes to answer: why must the Sun have a chromosphere and corona? Phil Judge 11:20 The role of spicules in explaining the corona and the transition region James Klimchuk 11:35 Solar intranetwork magnetic elements - the weakest component of solar magnetism Jingxiu Wang

Session 2 - Existing and planned large facilities: what is their impact on key scientific questions? OVERVIEW:-- 11:50 - 12:30 Science with large solar telescopes: Addressing key science questions with new observing modes Thomas Berger

Newly operating facilities 14:00 The 1.6 m New Solar Telescope (NST) in Big Bear Wenda Cao 14:15 The GREGOR Solar Telescope Carsten Denker 14:30 The one meter aperture solar telescope in China Haisheng Ji 14:45 Observing the Sun with ALMA Arnold Benz Upcoming facilities 15:00 Construction of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope - a progress report Thomas Rimmele 15:20 - 15:30 Discussion

Friday 24 August

Session 2 (continued) 08:30 Next space solar observatory SOLAR-C: mission overview and science objectives Yukio Katsukawa

125 08:45 Science and instrument design of 1.5 m aperture Solar for the Solar-C mission Yoshinori Suematsu 09:00 The Space Solar Telescope Yuanyong Deng 09:15 The set of imaging instruments for Interhelioprobe solar observatory Sergey Bogachev 09:30 The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) of India Shiraj Hasan 09:45-10:00 The European Solar Telescope Hector Socas Navarro 10:30-10:45 An introduction to the Chinese Giant Solar Telescope Zhong Liu 10:45 The Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory Steve Tomczyk 11:00 Observing the Sun at radio-wavelengths: current status and future prospects Tim Bastian 11:15 On solar radio imaging-spectroscopy Yihua Yan

Session 3 – Step ahead: Future science and what the new facilities should not forget! 11:30 The quiet Sun magnetism: What can we learn from the Hanle effect? Marianne Faurobert 11:55-12:20 Polarized Radiation Diagnostics for Measuring the Magnetic Field of the Outer Solar Atmosphere Javier Trujillo Bueno 14:00 Towards the next frontier in high precision solar polarimetry: 10-4 Valentin Martinez Pillet 14:25 Restoration of the contrast in solar images Mats Lofdahl 14:50 Spectral diagnostics of the heating and dynamics of the solar chromosphere MingDe Ding 15:15 - 15:30 Ha Imaging Spectroscopy of a C-class Flare with IBIS Na Deng

Session 4 – Lessons learned and future direction for telescope operation 16:00 Observing strategies for future solar facilities: the ATST test case Hans Uitenbroek 16:30 Mining Solar Data: the experience with SDO, Hinode, and TRACE Karel Schrjiver 17:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 18:00 Closing of the meeting

SpS7 “The impact hazard: current activities and future plans” 29-31August

Coordinating Division: III - Planetary Systems Sciences Contact: G. Valsecchi [email protected] URL: http://adams.dm.unipi.it/iausps7/

SOC Co-Chairs: G. Valsecchi (Italy), W. Huebner (United States), A. Milani (Italy)

126 SOC Members: S. Chesley (United States), A. Harris (Germany), R. Jedicke (United States), D. Koschny (Netherlands), S. Larson (United States), A. Mainzer (United States), R. McMillan (United States), A. Milani (Italy), D. Morrison (United States), H. Rickman (Sweden), B. Shustov (Russian Federation), M. Yoshikawa (Japan)

Editor(s) of Proceedings: W. Huebner (United States), A. Milani (Italy), H. Rickman (Sweden), G. Valsecchi (Italy)

SpS7 “The impact hazard: current activities and future plans” Programme Full details at http://adams.dm.unipi.it/iausps7/ Room 306A

Wednesday 29 August

14:00-15:30 1. Overview of the impact hazard, impact consequences vs. size 16:00-18:00 2. Population, impact frequency vs. size, status of current surveys

Thursday 30 August

10:30-12:30 3. Human and robotic exploration

Friday 31 August

08:30-10:00 4. Plans for future surveys, ground-based and space-based 10:30-12:30 5. Mitigation, short-warning and long-warning strategies and methods 14:00-15:30 6. Public policy, communication, international collaboration, IAU role

SpS8 Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum 27-30 August

Coordinating Division: XI - Space & High Energy Astrophysics Contact: Andreas Zezas [email protected] URL: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2012/IAU_SpS8/index.html

127 SOC Co-Chairs: Andreas Zezas (Greece), Ann Hornschemeier (United States), Daniela Calzetti (United States)

SOC Members: Almudena Alonso-Herrero (Spain), Matthew Ashby (United States), Eric Bell (United States), Alessandro Boselli (France), Véronique Buat (France), Roberto Cid Fernandes (Brazil), Michael Dopita (Australia), Lisa Kewley (United States), Xu Kong (China Nanjing), Robert Kennicutt (United Kingdom), Pavel Kroupa (Germany), Yanchun Liang(China Nanjing), Daniel Schaerer (Switzerland), Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (Brazil), Vivienne Wild (United Kingdom)

Editors of Proceedings: Andreas Zezas (Greece), Ann Hornschemeier (United States), Daniela Calzetti (United States)

SpS8“Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum ” Programme Full details at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2012/IAU_SpS8/Program.html Room 305

Monday 27 August

Session 1 – Multi-wavelength SFR calibrations 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome A. Zezas 10:40 – 11:20 The most popular star formation indicators: are they reliable? (I) Veronique Buat 11:20 – 12:00 Calibrate star formation rate of galaxies with infrared luminosity (I) Hong Wu 12:00 – 12:30 Testing Star Formation Rate Indicators using Data from UV-IR Xu Kong

Session 1 – (continued) 14:00 – 14:40 X-ray Emission as a SFR Indicator: The Status of Calibrations using Nearby and Cosmologically Distant Galaxies (I) Bret Lehmer 14:40 – 15:20 CALIFA: The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey, status report (I) Sebastian F. Sanchez

Session 1 – (continued) 16:00 –16:40 Measuring Star Formation Rates in Galaxies (I) Daniel Dale 16:40 –17:05 The Spitzer Interacting Galaxies Survey Nicola Brassington

128 17:05 –17:30 Unexpectedly high variations in the calculation of the SFR within galaxies Jonathan Braine 17:30 –18:00 Calibration of the 3.3 μm PAH Emission Feature as a Star Formation Rate Indicator with AKARI Ji Hoon Kim

Tuesday 28 August

Session 2 – SFR measurements from SED modeling 10:30 –11:10 Star-formation parameters based on modelling SEDs of spiral galaxies (I) Christina Popescu 11:10 –11:35 Measuring the relative contributions of active galactic nuclei and star formation in optical spectra James Allen 11:35 –12:00 The Star-Formation Reference Survey: Comparison of SFR indicators in different environments Andreas Zezas 12:00 –12:30 Poster Presentations

Session 3 – Stellar populations and SFR calibrations 14:00 –14:40 On the derivation of the SFR of nearby galaxies using population synthesis models (I) Gustavo Bruzual 14:40 –15:05 and its Impact on Ionizing Spectra Emily Levesque 15:05 –15:30 Star formation rates in molecular cloud complexes from far-infrared continuum observations Quang Nguyen Luong,

Session 4 – Initial Mass Function and SFR calibrations 16:00 –16:40 Recent advances on the stellar initial mass function (IMF) (I) Pavel Kroupa 16:40 –17:20 The effect of binaries on SFRIs (I) John Eldridge 17:20 –18:00 The IMF in galaxies and its effect on SF-tracers: clustered star formation vs. a scale-free constant IMF (I) Jan Pflamm-Altenburg

Wednesday 29 August

Session 5 – Interstellar Medium and Star Formation 10:30– 11:10 The relation between cold dust and star formation in nearby galaxies (I) George Bendo 11:10– 11:35 Star formation, dust and gas content in Nearby Galaxies as seen with the JCMT. Jose Ramon Sanchez-Gallego 11:35– 12:00 Using new star formation indicators to investigate variations in the Galactic SFR and density thresholds for star formation Steven Longmore

129 12:00– 12:30 Parameters of Star Formation in Selected Areas of the Galaxy Alisher S. Hojaev

Session 6 – Interstellar Medium and SFR measurements 14:00– 14:40 Dust attenuation curve shapes in star-forming galaxies (I) Vivienne Wild 14:40– 15:05 The IRX-beta relation on sub-galactic scales in star-forming galaxies Mederic Boquien 15:05– 15:30 GOODS-Herschel: dust attenuation in star forming galaxies up to z~4 Maurilio Pannella

Session 6 – (Continued) 16:00– 16:25 The S4G View of Stellar Mass, Mid-IR Dust, and Evolved, Intermediate age Stars in Nearby Galaxies Sharon Meidt

Session 7 – High Redshift star-formation 16:25– 17:05 Recent advances on SFR measurements in nearby and distant galaxies with Herschel David Elbaz 17:05 – 17:30 Probing cosmic star formation up to z= 9.4 with gamma-ray bursts Rafael de Souza 17:30 – 18:00 Lyman break galaxies at 2.5 < z < 4 detected in the Far-Infrared with Herschel: what information on the star formation ? Denis Burgarella

Thursday 30 August

Session 7 – High Redshift star-formation (Continued) 10:30 – 10:55 Improved models for cosmic infrared background anisotropies: new constraints on the infrared galaxy population Cien Shang 10:55 – 11:35 Measuring star formation in galaxies and its evolution (I) Andrew Hopkins 11:35 – 12:30 Discussion

SpS9 Future Large Scale Facilities 27-28 August

To be organised by the Executive Committee Working Group:

R. Davies (Chair) - Oxford, UK I. Corbett - General Secretary R. Ekers - CSIRO, Australia N. Gehrels - NASA/GSFC, USA R. Green - NAOA, USA

130 M. Iye - NAOJ, Japan L. Tacconi - MPE, Germany M. Tarenghi - ESO, Germany C. Wilson - McMaster, Canada G. Zhao - NAOC, China Nanjing

SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” Programme Programme details at http://www.iau.org/static/scientific_meetings/iau_ga_2012/SpS9_ Programme.pdf Room 307A+B

Monday 27 August

Session 1: Ground Based Radio & High Energy Projects 10:30 Meerkat Justin Jonas 10:55 ASKAP Phil Diamond 11:20 SKA Michael Kramer 11:45 Cerenkov Telescope Array Stefan Wagner 12:10:12:35 CCAT Riccardo Giovanelli

Session 2: Space Projects 1 14:00 EChO Ingo Waldmann 14:20 PLATO Giampaolo Piotto 14:40 GAIA Timo Prusti 15:05-15:30 SPICA Takao Nakagawa

Session 3: Ground based UVOIR projects 16:00 ALMA Thijs de Graauw 16:25 E-ELT Adrian Russell 16:50 TMT Ray Carlberg 17:15 GMT Wendy Freedman 17:40-18:05 LSST Tony Tyson

Tuesday 28 August

Session 4: Governance 10:30 Lessons from SKA Ron Ekers

131 10:55 Models for international collaboration Vern Pankonin & Stefan Michalowski (OECD) 11:20 Prioritizing international projects Piero Ubertini & Ian Corbett 11:45 How to be confident in cost estimates and stick to them? Adrian Russell 12:10-12:30 Discussion

Session 5 : Solar projects 14:00 EST Hector Socas Navarro 14:20 ATST Tom Rimmele 14 :45 Valentin Martinez Pillet 15 :10-15:30 Solar Yukio Katsukawa

Session 6: Space projects 2 16 :00 JWST Rogier Windhorst & Mark Clampin 16:40 Mark Cropper 17:05 WFIRST James Green 17:30-18:00 Future X-ray telescopes Kirpal Nandra

SpS10 Dynamics of the star-planet relations 27-31 August

Coordinating Division: II - Sun & Heliosphere Contact: Jean-Louis Bougeret [email protected]

SOC Co-Chairs: Jean-Louis Bougeret (France), Abraham C.-L. Chian (Brazil), Xueshang Feng (China Nanjing), Merav Opher (United States)

SOC Members: Alan P. Boss (United States), Sandra C. Chapman (United Kingdom), Christopher J. Corbally (Vatican City State), Cheng Fang (China Nanjing), Nat Gopalswamy (United States), Zoran Knezevic (Republic of Serbia), Alexander Kosovichev (United States), Valentin Martinez Pillet (Spain), Karen J. Meech (United States), Heike Rauer (Germany), Kazunari Shibata (Japan), David F. Webb (United States)

Editors of Proceedings: Merav Opher (United States), Abraham C.-L. Chian (Brazil) Jean-Louis Bougeret (France), Xueshang Feng (China Nanjing)

132 Two Public Forums: • Peking University, 27 Aug. 19:30-22:00 • Tsinghua University, 29 Aug. 19:30-22:00

WISER-IAU Advanced School • Advanced School on space environment: 30 Aug. 10:30-18:00

SpS10 “ Dynamics of the star-planet relations” Programme Full details at http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/IAUSpS10/ Room 303A+B

Monday 27 August

Session I: Overview of the star-planet relations 10:30-10:35 Opening Jean-Louis Bougeret 10:35-10:45 Communicating Heliophysics with the public (I) Carine Briand 10:45-11:20 The Heliosphere (I) John Richardson 11:20-11:55 The Asterospheres (I) Jeffrey Linsky 11:55-12:30 Sun-Earth and star-planet relations (I) Sami Solanki

Session II: Physical processes in the stellar-planetary environment, part 1 14:00-14:30 Magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration – A review (I) James Drake 14:30-14:50 Conditions for the onset of magnetic reconnection deduced from solar wind observations (I) Tai Phan 14:50-15:10 Physics of thin current sheet and magnetic reconnection (I) Lin-Ni Hau 15:10-15:30 Cross-scale coupling in space plasmas: lessons from multi-spacecraft (I)Malcolm Dunlop

Session II: Physical processes in the stellar-planetary environment, part 2 16:00-16:20 Energetic particles in the heliosheath (I) Randy Jokipii 16:20-16:40 Impact of the nonuniformity/nonstationarity of a perpendicular shock front on ions dynamics (I) Bertrand Lembège 16:40-17:00 Nonlinear dynamics of relativistic interacting with whistler-mode chorus emission and EMIC triggered emissions in the planetary magnétosphère (I) Yoshiharu Omura 17:00-17:20 Solar magnetic field (I) Jie Jiang 17:20-17:40 MHD turbulence in the solar wind (I) Qing-Yu Luo

133 17:40-18:00 Characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres, magnetospheres and stellar winds from energetic neutral atom observations (I) M. Holmstrom

Public Forum I on “The Sun-Planet Relation” at Peking University

20:00-20:15 Solar magnetic cycles (I) Alan Sacha Brun 20:15-20:30 Origin of the solar wind (I) Chuanyi Tu 20:30-20:45 Sun-Earth and star-planet relations (I) Sami Solanki 20:45-21:00 The heliosphere (I)-John Richardson 21:00-21:15 The asterospheres (I) Jeffrey Linsky 21:15-21:30 Laboratory experiments of astrophysical phenomena (I) Hideaki Takabe

Tuesday 28 August

Session III: Stellar-solar variability 10:30-11:00 Solar magnetic cycles (I) Alexander Kosovichev 11:00-11:30 From quiet to active inner Sun : what are the consequences on Sun-planet Relationship (I) Sylvaine Turck-Chièze 11:30-11:50 From helioseismology to asteroseismology (I) Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard 11:50-12:10 Dynamic coupling between the and chromosphere revealed with HINODE (I) Yukio Katsukawa 12:10-12:30 Sunspots and Starspots: Cut from the same cloth? (I) Svetlana Berdyugina

Session IV: Sun-planet relations 14:00-14:30 Multi-spacecraft observations of solar wind-magnetosphere interactions (I) Hiroshi Hasegawa 14:30-14:50 A 3-D magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the correspondence of EIT and CME induced waves (I) S. T. Wu and C.C. Wu 14:50-15:10 Acceleration and deceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection and its driven shock (I) Chin-Chun Wu 15:10-15:30 3D MHD numerical study of two CMEs' evolution and their interaction Fang Shen

Session V: Star-planet relations, part 1 16:00-16:30 Star-planet interactions in a stellar-planetary system (I) Annie Baglin 16:30-17:00 Solar System evolution and the diversity of planetary systems (I) Patrick Michel 17:00-17:20 Planets at very wide from re-capture of free floating planets Thijs Kouwenhoven

134 17:20-17:40 Interaction between a close-in exoplanet with the magnetosphere of its host star: and inflation Randy Laine 17:40-18:00 Single evolved stars with enhanced rotation: A signature of planetary accretion? Bruno Canto Martins

Wednesday 29 August

Session V: Star-planet relations, part 2 10:30-10:50 Bow shocks around exoplanets (I) Aline Vidotto 10:50-11:10 Physics and evolution of the stellar winds from low to intermediate stars (I) Takeru Suzuki 11:10-11:30 Observation and modelling of transits and starspots in the WASP-19 planetary system Jeremy Tregloan-Reed 11:30-11:50 Modeling stellar granulation as seen in disk-integrated intensity Réza Samadi 11:50-12:10 Spectrophotometric explorations of chromospheric activity variations for star systems with exoplanets Yuliana Kuznyetsova 12:10-12:30 Jupiter's polar activities driven by high-speed magnetized solar winds (I) Yu-Qing Lou

Session VI: Heliosphere and Asterospheres 14:00-14:20 Multi-component nature of the SW/LISM interaction: models vs. Observations (I) Vladislav Izmodenov 14:20-14:35 Magnetic reconnection in the heliosheath and its signatures and consequences (I) James Drake 14:35-14:50 Modeling of heliosphere and magnetic reconnection in the heliosheath (I) Merav Opher 14:50-15:10 The heliosphere and the interplanetary ultraviolet background (I) Eric Quémerais 15:10-15:30 Effects of the solar wind-LISM interaction on the properties of backscattered solar Lyman-alpha radiation measured by SOHO/SWAN Olga Katushkina

Session VI: : Heliosphere and Asterospheres, part 2 16:00-16:20 The Astrospheres of Sun-like stars (I) Brian Wood 16:20-16:40 Recent discoveries and investigations into infrared bow shocks between stellar winds and the ISM (I) Toshiya Ueta 16:40-17:00 Dust in bow shocks and shells: Probing the interaction between stellar winds and the ISM (I) Nick Cox 17:00-17:20 Radio observations of the interfaces between red giant stellar outflows and the ISM (I) Thibault Lebertre

135 17:20-17:40 Multiple interaction features in the slow and dusty winds of AGB stars (I) Andreas Mayer 17:40-18:00 The interaction between the runaway O star HD34078 (AE Aurigae) with the surrounding molecular cloud (I) Pierre Gratier

Public Forum II on “The Star-Planet Relations” at Tsinghua University

20:00-20:15 The interior of stars (I) Sylvaine Turck-Chièze 20:15-20:30 Stellar-planetary dynamos (I) A. Brandenburg 20:30-20:45 Stellar wind evolution and its effect on planets (I) Brian Wood 20:45-21:00 Sun-planet relations (I) W.-H. Ip 21:00-21:15 Star-planet interactions in a stellar-planetary system (I) Annie Baglin 21:15-21:30 Observation and characterization of exoplanet’s atmosphere-magnetosphere environment (I) Helmut Lammer

Thursday 30 August

Session VI: Heliosphere and Asterospheres, part 3 10:30-10:50 The role of stellar plasma interaction in terrestrial planetary atmosphere evolution (I) Helmut Lammer 10:50-11:10 The wind effects of weak-lined T Tauri stars on the environment of extrasolar planets (I) Vera Jatenco-Pereira 11:10-11:30 Probing the stellar plasma environment around exoplanets via Energetic Neutral Atom modeling (I) Kristina Kislyakova 11:30-11:50 Space weather at small distances from the Sun and in extra-solar planet environment (I) Merav Opher 11:50-12:10 Physics and evolution of the stellar winds (I) Moira Jardine 12:10-12:30 Numerical simulation and nonlinear dynamics of turbulent dynamos (I) Erico Rempel

Friday 31 August

Session VII: Perspectives of the star-planet relations, part 1 08:30-08:45 Future Programmes in star-planet relations (I) Magali Deleuil 08:45-09:05 Will superfares occur on our Sun? (I) Kazunari Shibata 09:05-09:25 Laboratory experiments of shocks and magnetic reconnections (I) Yasuhiro Kuramitsu 09:25-09:45 Magnetic twist : a source and property of space weather Joern Warnecke 09:45-10:00 Coronal magnetic topologies and dynamics of interplanetary electrons Chuan Li

136 Session VII: Perspectives of the star-planet relations, part 2 10:30-10:50 Particle acceleration and transport in the Heliosphere (I) Gang Li 10:50-11:10 Dispersive Alfvénic turbulence in solar-terrestrial relations Yuriy Voitenko & Johan De Keyser 11:10-11:30 Signatures of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere (I) Nat Gopalswamy 11:30-11:50 Are CMEs really mass motions? (I) Peng-Fei Chen 11:50-12:10 CMEs and the buildup of magnetic flux in the Heliosphere David Webb 12:10-12:30 Perspective of future space- and ground-based projects for solar observations in China (I) Yihua Yan 12:30 Closing SOC chairs

SpS11 IAU Strategic Plan and the Global Office of Astronomy for Development 27-28 August

Contact person: Kevin Govender [email protected] URL: http://www.astro4dev.org/index.php/oadevents/iauga

SOC Chair: Kevin Govender (South Africa)

SOC Members: George Miley (Netherlands), Khotso Mokhele (South Africa), Kaz Sekiguchi (Japan), Megan Donahue (United States), Claude Carignan (Canada), Patricia Whitelock( South Africa)

Editors of Proceedings; Kevin Govender (South Africa), George Miley (Netherlands)

SpS11 “ IAU Strategic Plan and the Global Office of Astronomy for Development ” Full details at ftp://ftp.saao.ac.za/outgoing/kg/astro4dev/SpS11_Programme_draft06.pdf Room 306B

Monday 27 August

Session I: 10:30-11:00 Implementation of the IAU Strategic Plan George Miley

137 11:00-11:30 The IAU Office of Astronomy for Development Kevin Govender 11:30-12:00 Using astronomy to shape a country′s science and technology landscape Khotso Mokhele Task Force 1: Astronomy for Universities and Research 12:00-12:15 Astronomy for a Better World: IAU OAD Task Force-1 Programmes for Advancing Astronomy Education and Research in Universities in Developing Countries Ed Guinan 12:15-12:30 TWINNING between Institutions in developed and less developed Countries: An ideal way to set-up an Astrophysics Programme Claude Carignan 12:30 End of Session

Session II: 14:00-14:15 Advances in Astrophysics in Peru: a 32 m Radio Telescope to Observe Methanol Masers Within Star Forming Regions will allow Development of Astrophysics in Local Universities Jose Ishitsuka 14:15-14:30 Volunteer work at KIE, Rwanda Mirjana Povic Task Force 2: Astronomy for Children and Schools 14:30-14:45 IAU Office of Astronomy for Development: Task Force Children & School Education Pedro Russo 14:45-15:00 The GTTP Movement: Engaging young minds to the beauty of science and space exploration Rosa Doran 15:00-15:15 Education for development under the skies of Chile Cecilia Scorza and Olaf Fischer 15:15-15:30 New Strategies and Results of the CIDA-UNAWE-GTTP Programme in Venezuela Enrique Torres 15:30 End of Session

Session III: Task Force 3: Astronomy for the Public 16:00-16:15 The ′Astronomy for the Public′ Task Force Carolina Ödman-Govender 16:15-16:30 Communicating Astronomy with the Public (Youth) as the Gateway to Astronomy for Development Dennis Crabtree 16:30-16:45 NAOJ′s activities on Astronomy for Development Fumi Yoshida 16:45-17:00 Touch the sky with your hands Beatriz Garcia 17:00-17:15 Global Astronomy Month – An Annual Celebration of the Universe Thilina Heenatigala 17:15-17:30 Amateur Astronomy Network Development in Indonesia Avivah Yamani

138 17:30-18:00 Poster plugs Poster Presenters Poster presenters have 30 seconds and one slide to invite people to view their posters (25 posters) 18:00 End of Day 1

Tuesday 28 August

Session IV: Regional Development 10:30-10:40 Astronomy development in Serbia in view of the IAU Strategic Plan Olga Atanackovic 10:40-10:50 A project of two meters telescope in North of Africa Zouhair Benkhaldoun 10:50-11:00 In search of a viable IAU OAD Regional Node Okere Bonaventure 11:00-11:10 Strategic Plan of Development of Astronomy in DPRK Sok JONG 11:10-11:20 Armenia as a Regional Centre for ′′Astronomy for Development″ activities Areg Mickaelian 11:20-11:30 An exemplary developing astronomy movement in Nepal Sudeep Neupane 11:30-11:40 Astronomy in Mozambique Valerio A.R.M. Ribeiro 11:40-11:50 Developing Astronomy Research and Education in the Philippines R.M.D. Sese 11:50-12:00 A route to follow for the strategic plan in Latin America and the Caribbean Silvia Torres-Peimbert 12:00 Discussion and summary Kevin Govender, George Miley

SpS12 Modern views of the interstellar medium 27-30 August

Coordinating Division: VI - Interstellar Matter Contact: You-Hua Chu [email protected] URL: http://crescent.astro.illinois.edu/IAU_SpS12/

SOC Co-Chairs: You-Hua Chu (United States), Dieter Breitschwerdt (Germany)

SOC Members: Michael Burton (Australia), Miguel de Avillez (Portugal), Erwin de Blok (South Africa),

139 Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (Brazil), Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (Germany), Edith Falgarone (France), Tom Hartquist (United Kingdom), Bon-Chul Koo (Korea, Rep of), Naomi McClure-Griffiths (Australia), Eve Ostriker (United States), J. Xavier Prochaska (United States), Laszlo Viktor Toth (Hungary), Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (Mexico), Keiichi Wada (Japan), Mark Wolfire (United States), Ji Yang (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: You-Hua Chu (United States), Dieter Breitschwerdt (Germany)

SpS 12 “Modern ISM” Programme Full details at http://crescent.astro.illinois.edu/IAU_SpS12/Programme.html Room 308

Monday 27 August

Session 1 10:30 Opening statement OBSERVATIONS OF THE ISM 10:35 A Historical Perspective on the Interstellar Medium (I) John Dickey 11:15 HI in the Milky Way (I) Naomi McClure-Griffiths 11:40 HI in Nearby Galaxies (I) George Heald 12:05-12:30 Cosmic Evolution of the Atomic ISM (I) Robert Braun

Session 2 14:00 Warm Ionized Gas in the Galaxy (I) Alex Hill 14:25 On the Origins of the Diffuse Halpha Emission: Ionized Gas or Dust-Scattered Halpha Halos? Kwang-Il Seon 14:45 Cold Cores of Molecular Clouds (I) Mika Juvela 15:10-15:30 A Statistical View on the Galactic Cold ISM Distribution Laszlo Viktor Toth

Session 3 16:00 Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center Cornelia Lang 16:20 The Formation of Molecular Clouds Michael Burton 16:40 Observations of Interstellar Dust Based on Recent IR Space Telescopes (I) Takashi Onaka 17:05 The Chemical Composition of the Local Interstellar Dust Maria Fernanda Nieva 17:25 AKARI All-Sky Far-I Map Takao Nakagawa 17:45 3D Mapping of Gas and Dust in the Milky Way Rosine Lallement

140 Tuesday 28 August

Session 4 INTERPLAY BETWEEN ISM AND STARS: STAR FORMATION AND FEEDBACK 10:30 Molecular Clouds and Star Formation Paradox (I) Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni 11:05 The Coupled Effects of Protostellar Outflows, Radiation Feedback (I) Richard Klein and Turbulence on the Formation of Massive Stars and -Like Clusters 11:30 Star Formation and the Transport of Magnetic Flux: a New Paradigm E. de Gouveia Dal Pino 11:50 Star Formation and the IMF (I) Hans Zinnecker 12:15-12:30 Variations in the Galactic Star Formation Rate and Density Thresholds for Star Formation Steven Longmore

Session 5 14:00 Stellar Energy Feedback - from HII Regions to SNR (I) Jane Arthur 14:35 Dust and Molecule Formation and Processing in Supernovae and their Remnants (I) Jeonghee Rho 15:00 106 K Hot Gas You-Hua Chu 15:15-15:30 Stellar Wind and SN Feedback from Massive Stars Julian Pittard

Session 6 16:00 HII Radiative Transfer Revealed by Ionization Parameter Mapping (I) Sally Oey 16:25 Formation of Structures around HII Regions: Ionization Feedback from Massive Stars Pascal Tremblin 16:45 Molecular Cloud Structure and Star Formation in the W43 Complex Philipp Carlhoff 17:05 Physics and Chemistry of UV Illuminated Neutral Gas: the Horsehead Case Viviana Guzman 17:25 Cosmic Rays (I) Vladimir Dogiel 17:50-18:00 Discussion

Wednesday 29 August

Session 7 OBSERVATIONS OF DISK-HALO CONNECTION, ISM-IGM CONNECTION 10:30 Gas in galactic halos (I) Ralf-Juergen Dettmar 10:55 Infall, High-Velocity Clouds and the Galactic Fountain (I) Bart Wakker

141 11:20 The Galactic All Sky Survey of HVC Catalog Vanessa Moss 11:40 Galactic Outflows from pc to kpc Scales and the SF Feedback Claudio Melioli 12:00 The Beauty of Radiation Driven Implosion Model: for Different Structure Jingqi Miao Formations at HII Boundaries

Session 8 OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS TO MODELS 14:10 Observational Constraints on Multiphase ISM (I) Mark Wolfire 14:35 Direct Imaging of Turbulence in the Diffuse ISM (I) Bryan Gaensler 15:00 Warm Chemistry in the Diffuse ISM: a Tracer of Turbulent Dissipation (I) Edith Falgarone Session 9 THEORY/MHD SIMULATION OF THE ISM IN A GALAXY 16:00 Simulations of the ISM: An Overview of Models (I) Miguel de Avillez 16:40 Hydrodynamic and MHD Turbulence in the ISM (I) Stanislav Boldyrev 17:05 Numerical Modeling of Multiphase, Turbulent Galactic Disks Chang-Goo Kim with Star Formation Feedback (I) 17:30-18:00 Stability Properties of Phase Transition Layers in the Diffuse ISM Revisited Jennifer Stone

Thursday 30 August

Session 10 ISM IN NEARBY GALAXIES 10:30 The Cool and Warm Molecular Gas in M82 with Herschel-SPIE Julia Kamenetzky 10:50 Gravitational Fragmentation of the Carina Flare Supershell Richard Wunsch 11:10 The Resolved Magnetic Fields of the Quiescent Cloud GRSMC 45.60+0.30 Michael Pavel 11:30 Size distribution of Supernova Remnants and the ISM Abdul Asvarov 11:50 The ISM in the Small Local Group Spiral M33 Jonathan Braine 12:10-12:30 Gas Velocity Dispersions of the 3 ISM Phases in Nearby Galaxies Moses Mogotsi

Friday 31 August

Session 11 8:30 Spitzer Observations of Extragalatic HII Regions: NGC 6822 and the Hot Star, Robert Rubin H II Region Connection

142 8:50 Gas Density Histograms of Galaxies: the Observational Density Toshihiro Handa Probability Function of the Interstellar Gas Density 9:10 Statistical Study of the ISM of GRB Host Galaxies at All Redshifts A. de Ugarte Postigo 9:30-10:00 The Planck View of the ISM (I) Jan Tauber

Session 12 10:30 Chemical Enrichment of the ISM by Stellar Ejecta Sun Kwok 10:50 Deuterium Chemistry in Hot and Cold Molecular Environments with Large Chemical Networks Tobias Albertsson 11:10 Herschel/HIFI Unique View of Hydride Molecules: HF and HCl Raquel Monje 11:30 Commemorating John Dyson (I) Julian Pittard 12:05-12:30 Discussion

SpS13 High-precision tests of stellar physics from high-precision photometry 27-31 August

Contact: David Soderblom [email protected] URL: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/iausps13

SOC Co-Chairs: David Soderblom (United States), Andrea Dupree (United States)

SOC Members: Conny Aerts (Belgium), Martin Asplund (Germany), Annie Baglin (France), Timothy Bedding (Australia), Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz (Poland), LiCai Deng (China Nanjing), Fabio Favata (Italy), Jianning Fu (China Nanjing), Marc Pinsonneault (United States), Ignasi Ribas (Spain), Sylvie Vauclair (France), Werner Weiss (Austria), (United Kingdom)

Editors of Proceedings: Lucianne Walkopwicz (United States), David Soderblom (United States)

SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” Programme Full details at http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/iausps13/SpS13_Programme_0508.pdf Room 307A+B

143 Monday 27 August

Session M1 Setting the stage 10:30 Welcome, motivation, daily news Soderblom 10: 50 New stellar physics across the H-R diagram Martin Still 11:20 A theorist looks at a new age for stellar physics Steve Kawaler 11:50-12:20 Precision stellar physics from the ground Andrezej Pigulski

Session M2 Brown dwarfs, stellar masses 14:00 What’s new about brown dwarfs? Jacqueline Radigan 14:30 Measuring Stars with High Precision as the Key to Finding and Characterizing New Earths Ignasi Ribas 15:00 Stellar masses from photometry Steven Bloemen 15:15-15:30 Expectations and limitations of Kepler ground-based follow-up Observations Joanna Molenda-Zalowicz

Session M3 Star clusters 16:00 Rotation of cluster stars Soren Meibom 16:30 Stellar surface features from high-precision photometry Klaus Strassmeier 17:00 Seismology of clusters in the Kepler field Dennis Stello 17:30-18:00 New constraints on PMS models Konstanze Zwintz

Tuesday 28 August

Session Tu1 Star models and theory, PMS stars 10:30 Internal seismic diagnostics in stars Anwesh Mazumdar 11:00 Radial velocities from photometry and their application Hiromoto Shibahashi 11:30 Orbital period analyses for CVs inside the period gap Zhibin Dai 11:45 CoRoT and Kepler eclipsing binaries Carla Maceroni 12:00-12:30 Young stellar disks and NGC 2264 Silvia Alencar

Session Tu2 The solar CNO abundance problem 14:00 CNO in of the Sun and solar-type stars Jorge Melendez 14:30 CNO in massive stars Norbert Przybilla 15:00-15:30 Limits on solar CNO from helioseismology Aldo Serenelli

144 Session Tu3 Intermediate masses, binary systems 16:00 Solar-like oscillations in intermediate-mass stars Victoria Antoci 16:30 Intermediate-mass stars: magnetic fields, rapid rotation, and seismology Francois Lignieres 17:00 A new technique to measure ΔY/ΔZ Aldo Valcarce 17:15 Binaries as tests of stellar physics Andrej Prsa 17:45-18:00 KOI 54: A highly eccentric binary with tidally-induced brightenings and harmonic pulsations William Welsh

Wednesday 29 August

Session W1 Solar-type physics and solar-type stars I 10:30 Ed Guinan, Villanova U., USA The Sun in context 11:00 Stellar differential rotation from analysis of planetary transits Adriana Silva-Valio 11:30 Detecting activity cycles from astroseismology Savita Mathur 12:00 Superflares on solar-type stars Hiroyuki Maehara 12:15-12:30 Observation and modeling of WASP-19 Jeremy Tregolan-Reed

Session W2 Solar-type physics and solar-type stars II 14:00 Improving our understanding of solar physics by studying other stars Guenther Houdek 14:30 Helium in solar-type stars Saskia Hekker 15:00-15:30 Rotation and differential rotation in solar-type stars Lucianne Walkowicz

Session W3 Solar-type physics and solar-type stars III 16:00 Stellar physics revealed by planet transits Willie Torres 16:30 Flares on low-mass stars Adam Kowalski 17:00 Granulation in stars Thomas Kallinger 17:30 Photometric variability and spectroscopic diagnostics Andrea Dupree 17:45-18:00 BRITE – Werner Weiss

Thursday 30 August

Session Th1 Massive and evolved stars I 10:30 G and K giants as Galactic probes Andrea Miglio 11:00 New insights into atomic diffusion Valerie van Grootel 11:30 Evolution of massive stars constrained by supergiant pulsations Hideyaki Saio

145 12:00 Mixing processes in main sequence stars from dipole modes in red giants Josefina Montalban 12:15-12:30 Variable stars in the OGLE sky survey Igor Soszynski

Friday 31 August

Session F1 Massive and evolved stars II 8:30 Deep secrets of massive stars Pieter Degroote 9:00 Pulsations and magnetic fields in massive stars Matteo Cantiello 9:30 Testing the effects of opacity etc. in B stars Sebastien Salmon 9:45-10:00 Semi-sinusoidal variability with CoRoT Izan de Castro Leao

Session F2 Conclusions and forecasts 10:30 The state of solar and stellar models Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard 11:00 The future of high-precision photometry Tim Brown 11:30-12:00 The relevance of HPP for the rest of astrophysics Juan Carlos Suarez

SpS14 Communicating astronomy with the public for scientists 29-31 August

Coordinating Division: XII - Union-Wide Activities Contact: Dennis Crabtree [email protected] URL: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/meetings/iauga2012-sps14/

SOC Co-Chairs: Dennis Crabtree (Canada), Lars Lindberg Christensen (Germany)

SOC Members: Andrew Cohen (United Kingdom), Antonieta Garcia (Chile), Avivah Yamani (Indonesia), Carine Briand (France), Dirk Lorenzen (Germany), Doris Daou (United States), Hong- Kyu Moon (Republic of Korea), Ian Robson (United Kingdom), Kaz Sekiguchi (Japan), Pamela Gay (United States), Patricia Whitelock (South Africa), Pedro Russo (Netherlands), Rob Thacker (Canada), Wei-Hsin Sun (China Taipei)

Editors of Proceedings: Dennis Crabtree (Canada), Lars Linberg Christensen (Germany), Pedro Russo (Netherlands)

146 SpS 14 “Communicating Astronomy” Programme. Full details at http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/meetings/iauga2012-sps14/ Programme.html Room302A+B

Wednesday 29 August

10:30 Welcome Dennis Crabtree 10:40 Office of Astronomy for Development Kevin Govender 11:30 Public Presentations Garr Reynolds 12:10-12:30 Communicating Astronomy in a Metropolis and Disaster Area – Activities of the Tenpla Project Kamegai 14:00 Knowing Your Audience Matthew McCool 14:40 School Workshops on Astronomy Molenda-Zakowicz 15:00-15:30 Strategies for public communication of eclipses Bretones 16:00 Communicating the science of the 11-year sunspot cycle to the general public Choudhuri 16:20 Communicating ALMA with the public in Japan Hiramatsu 16:40 Knowing the people who come to an astronomical observatory: case of Akita prefecture, Japan Kawamura 17:00 Using journalists / how to access the media Rick Feinberg 17:40-18:00 The challengers of astronomer being a journalist Podorvanyuk

Thursday 30 August

10:30 Identifying public communication opportunities Pedro Russo 11:10 Las Cumbres Observatory: Building a global telescope network from the ground up Gomez 11:30 The Inflativerse - The University Of Nottingham's inflatable planetarium Jamie Ownsworth 11:50 Exploring science and technology through the Herschel space observatory Minier 12:10-12:30 The transit of and other teaching activities at Guanajuato Astronomical Observatory Alfaro 14:00 Hinode Education and Outreach Activities in Recent Years and in the Future Yaji 14:20 Choosing the Right Medium Oana Sandu 15:00-15:30 Mitaka TAIYOKEI (solar system) walk; a collaborative science outreach Programme by institutes, local government, and shopping stores Handa

147 16:00 A Global view of the Eclipse over the Earth (GEE) in 2009 and 2012 Handa 16:20 Destination – A Journey into Documentary Film Making Zarnecki 16:40 Earth and Sky Images For Astronomy Communication Tafreshi

Friday 31 August

10:30 Making the Best of Your Images Lars Lindberg Christensen 11:30 Using Social Media Pamela Gay 12:10-12:30 Reaching masses through vernacular media: Scope and Challenges Sule 14:00 Astro Talk in Social Media Yamani 14:20 Cultural Awareness Bambang Hidayat 15:00-15:30 Communicating Astronomy by UNIZUL Science Centre Beesham 15:50 One World, One Sky: Outreach in a Multicultural, Multilingual Metropolis Reid 16:10 Astronomy Outreach Adventures in Rural Guatemala Strubbe 16:30 Astronomy education for public and its future development in Mongolia Renchin 16:50 Informal Astronomy Education & Communication in Egypt Ibrahim 17:10-17:30 The state of the heavens: Australian sites of astronomical heritage Stevenson

SpS15 Data intensive astronomy 28-31 August

Coordinating Division: XII - Union-Wide Activities Contact: Masatoshi Ohishi [email protected] URL: http://www.adc.nao.ac.jp/SpS15/index.html

SOC Chair: Masatoshi Ohishi (Japan)

SOC Members: Kirk Borne (United States), Janet Drew (United Kingdom), Robert Hanisch (United States), Melaine Johnston-Hollitt (New Zealand), Nick Kaiser (United States), Ajit Kembhavi (India), Oleg Malkov (Russian Federation), Bob Mann (United Kingdom), Raffaella Morganti (Netherlands), Paolo Padovani (Germany), Hu Zhan (China Nanjing)

Editor of Proceedings: Masatoshi Ohishi (Japan)

148 SpS 15 “Data Intensive Astronomy”Programme. Full details at http://www.adc.nao.ac.jp/SpS15/Programme.html Room 306B

Tuesday 28 August

Session 1: Scientific Impact of Past and On-Going Large-Scale Observations and Surveys to Astronomy 14:00 Welcome Address Masatoshi Ohishi 14:05 Optical Surveys of Galaxies: Past, Present, and Future (I) Sadanori Okamura 14:35 Radio Surveys: an Overview (I) Raffaella Morganti 15:05-15:35 The Role of Wide Field X-ray Surveys in Astronomy (I) Richard Saxton

Session 2: Current Status and Challenges of Future Large-Scale Observations and Surveys (1) 16:00 LAMOST and China-VO (I) Zhao Yonheng 16:30 Systematic Trends in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Data Daniel Bramich 16:45 Taming the ALMA Data Avalanche (I) Felix Stoehr 17:15 The ESO Phase 3 for Public Surveys and Large Programmes. Magda Arnaboldi 17:30 The First Public Data Releases from the VISTA Science Archive Nicholas Cross 17:45-18:00 The Taiwan Extragalactic Astronomical Data Center Sebastien Foucaud

Wednesday 29 August

Session 3: Current Status and Challenges in Future Large-Scale Observations and Surveys (2) 10:30 LSST Data Management: Entering the Era of Petascale Optical Astronomy (I) Tony J. Tyson 11:00 Analysis of LOFAR EoR data on a GPU Cluster Panagiotis Lampropoulos 11:15 ALERT, the APERTIF Legacy Exploration of the Radio Transient Sky Joeri van Leeuwen 11:30 Mathematical Challenges of the EUCLID Spatial Project Jean-Luc Starck 1145 Data Intensive Radio Astronomy on route to the SKA (I) Russ Taylor 1215-1230 e-Science for the Square Kilometre Array Juan de Dios Santander-Vela

Session 4: Data Management and Data Access: Past, Present and Future 14:00 Exascale Data Management with LOFAR (I) Michael Wise 14:30 The Influence of Virtual Observatories on Data Management and Access (I)Ajit Kembhavi 15:00 A Fast Database for Large Observational or Simulation Datasets Adrian Partl 15:15-15:30 Firefly: Archive Data Access Made Easy Wu Xiuqin

149 Session 5: Advanced Data Analysis in the Data Intensive Astronomy Era 16:00 Real-time Visualisation and Analysis of Tera-scale Datasets (I) Christopher Fluke 16:30 Knowledge Discovery Workflows in the Exploration of Complex Astronomical Datasets (I) Raffaele D'Abrusco 17:00 A Mining Tool of Solar Active Phenomena Lin Ganghua 17:15 Kernel PCA for SN Photometric Classification Emille Ishida 17:30 Preparing the Analysis of Outlying Data for ESA Gaia Mission: Unveiling the Unexpected Minia Manteiga 17:45-18:00 Modeling the Flux Distribution of Compact Sources on Herschel Large-scale Maps of Diffuse Galactic Fields Gabor Marton

Thursday 30 August

Session 6: Synergy of Data Intensive Astronomy with Other Fields 10:30 TBD (I) Alex Gray 11:45 South African Virtual Observatory - A new era of data intensive astronomy in Africa Sudhanshu Barway 11:30 The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) Consortium = Level 3 Service and Future Prospects Marie-Lise Dubernet 11:45 Automated Stellar Parameters Measurement Technologies from Low-resolution Spectra Basing on Spectral Line Information Zhang Jiannan 12:00 The ICSU World Data System Francoise Genova 12:15-12:30 R: A Software Environment for Comprehensive Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Data Eric Feigelson

Friday 31 August

Session 7: Expectation on Scientific Insights in the Data IntensiveAstronomy Era 08:30 Variable Stars and Data-Intensive Astronomy (I) Nikolay Samus 09:00 Cosmology with Future Optical/NIR Surveys (I) Hu Zhan 09:30 BOOTES-4 Robotic Astronomical Observatory, Linking Time Domain Astronomy and Data Intensive Astronomy Chenzhou Cui 09:45-10:00 Automatic Classification of Variable 2XMM Sources Kitty Lo

Session 8: Education, Public Outreach Related with Data Intensive Astronomy 10:30 Galaxy Zoo: Outreach and Science Hand in Hand (I) Karen Masters

150 11:00 The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope on our Culture (I) Mario Livio 11:30 Open Data for Open Astronomy (I) Yan Xu 12:00 Discover the Cosmos - Bringing cutting edge science to schools across Europe Rosa Doran 12:15-12:30 Conclusion Robert Hanisch

SpS16 Unexplained spectral phenomena in the interstellar medium 27-28 August

Coordinating Division: VI - Interstellar Matter Contact: Sun Kwok [email protected] URL: http://www.scifac.hku.hk/SpS16

SOC Chair: Sun Kwok (China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Peter Bernath (United Kingdom), Walt Duley (Canada), Pascale Ehrenfreund (Netherlands), Thomas Henning (Germany), Christine Joblin (France), Aigen Li (United States), John P. Maier (Switzerland), Vito Mennella (Italy), Takashi Onaka (Japan), Peter Sarre (United Kingdom), Kris Sellgren (United States), Adolf Witt (United States)

Editor of Proceedings: Sun Kwok (China Nanjing)

SpS 16 “Unexplained Spectral Phenomena in the Interstellar Medium” Programme. Full details at http://www.scifac.hku.hk/SpS16/sciProgramme.html Room302A+B

Monday 27 August

10:30 Opening Introduction / Unexplained Spectral Phenomena in the ISM Sun Kwok 11:00 Unidentified Infrared Emission Features Christine Joblin 11:30 New Views on Diffuse Interstellar Band Carriers Nick Cox 12:00 PAHs and the Interstellar Extinction Curve Giacomo Mulas 14:00 Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Galactic Emission Takashi Onaka 14:30 Photoluminescence by Interstellar Dust: Extended Red Emission (ERE) and Blue Luminescence (BL) Uma P. Vijh

151 15:00 Carbon Star Dust Features: The 21 and 30 Micron Features Kevin Volk 16:00 Infrared Diffuse Interstellar Bands in the Galactic Center T. R. Geballe 16:15 The Deep 3.4mm Interstellar Absorption Feature toward the IRAS 18511+0146 Cluster Marie Godard 16:30 Dust Spectroscopy in the Early Universe Aigen Li 17:00 Studies of Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Cool Star Spectra Rosine Lallement 17:15 Using Diffuse Interstellar Bands to Probe the Local Bubble Mandy Bailey 17:30 Fullerenes in Circumstellar and Interstellar Environments Jan Cami 18:00 Detections of Diffuse Interstellar Bands in the SDSS Low-resolution Spectra Hai-Bo Yuan

Tuesday 28 August

10:30 Amorphous Hydrocarbon Dust Evolution in the ISM: Theory, Modelling and Observation Anthony Jones 11:00 Prebiotic Matter in Space: Recent Results from Observations, Laboratory Analyses and Space Experiments Pascale Ehrenfreund 11:30 Spectroscopic Properties of Carbonaceous Matter from the Laboratory Cornelia Jäger 12:00 Carbon Nanoparticles and Carbonaceous Solids Walt Duley 14:00 Nanodust in the Interstellar Medium: Comparison to Observations in the Solar System Ingrid Mann 14:15 Diffuse Interstellar Bands versus Interstellar Extinction Fuyuan Xiang 14:30 Laboratory Simulations of Chemical Processes under Interstellar Conditions Guillermo Manuel Muñoz Caro 15:00 Synthesis and Transformation of Carbonaceous Nanoparticles Vito Mennella

16:00 Laboratory Analogues of the Carbonaceous Dust: Synthesis of Soot-like Materials and their Properties Thomas Pino 16:30 A Review on Amorphous Carbon and Carbon-rich Compounds in Space Franco Cataldo 17:00 The 6.9-micron and 15.8-micron Features in Magellanic Cloud Post-AGB Stars Mikako Matsuura 17:15 Spectroscopic Characterization of Molecules in Space by Theoretical Chemistry: From Rovibrational Spectroscopic Constants to CO2/SO2 IR Line ListsXinchuan Huang 17:30 Mixed Chemistry Phenomenon in the Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae Ryszard Szczerba

152 SpS17 : Protecting Astronomical Sites and Increasing Global Awareness through Education 29-31 August

Coordinating Division: XII - Union-Wide Activities Contacts: Beatriz García [email protected] , Richard Green [email protected] URL: http://iau.iteda.org/

SOC Co-Chairs: Richard Green (United States), Beatriz García (Argentina), Constance Walker (United States), Sui Jian Xue(China Nanjing)

SOC Members: Rosa Ros (Spain), WenJing Jin (China Nanjing), Stephen Pompea (United States), Elizabeth Alvarez del Castillo (United States), Russell Cannon (Australia), David Galadí- Enríquez (Spain), Brijesh Kumar (India), Malcolm Smith (Chile), Richard Wainscoat (United States), Jay Pasachoff (United States), Edward Guinan (United States), Mary Kay Hemenway (USA), Michèle Gerbaldi (France), Wim van Driel (France), Ramotholo Sefako (South Africa)

Editors of Proceedings: W. Scott Kardel (United States), Elizabeth Alvarez del Castillo (United States), Rosa Ros (Spain), Magda Stavinschi (Romania)

SpS 17 “Light Pollution” Programme. Full details at http://iau.iteda.org/ Room 307A+B

Wednesday 29 August

The Role of Media, Planetaria and Amateur Astronomers in Light Pollution Education 10:30 Welcome Richard Green and Beatriz Garcia 10:45 Increasing Dark Skies Awareness in Chinese Society Xiaohua Wang 11:00 Dark Skies Awareness Programmes in Global Astronomy Month 2012 Mike Simmons 11:15 The World at Night and Dark Skies Programmes Babak Tafreshi 11:30 "Losing the Dark": A planetarium PSA about light pollution. Carolyn Petersen

153 11:45 Espinho Planetarium's Public Outreach on Light Pollution Lina Canas 12:00 Media and Light Pollution Education for the Public Romanowska Julia 12:15-12:30 TV shows on Light Pollution Education for the Public Valentin Grigore*

Light Pollution Education in Schools and in Cultures 14:00 Knowing What Is Best Elizabeth Griffin 14:15 More Observations in Schools for Promoting Astronomy and Sky Protection Rosa Ros 14:30 Developing Light Pollution Themes in the Curriculum Robert Hill* 14:45 Dark Skies Rangers – Fighting Light Pollution and Simulating Dark Skies Rosa Doran 15:00 The Impact of Light Pollution Education through a Global Star-Hunting Constance Walker Campaign and Classroom Curricula 15:15 The Culture Ties to Astronomy and Dark Skies in Sub-Sahara Africa Rodney Medupe 15:30 Coffee Break

Global Star-Hunting and "Nights of Darkness" Campaigns 16:00 GLOBE at Night in China Hongfeng Guo 16:15 Citizen Science Programmes on Light Pollution Awareness: Constance Walker Where Do We Go with the Data? 16:20 SPACE's Great Indian Star Count "Quantifying Light Pollution in India"Chandar Devgun 16:45 Night of Darkness Campaign, Make Light Pollution Something Friedel Pas* Everybody Cares About 17:00 Moderated Discussion on All Today’s SpS17 Sessions Beatriz Garcia 17:45 1-minute poster summaries Poster Presenters 18:00 Dinner Break

19:30-22:00 Social Event at the Beijing Planetarium (Premier of “Losing the Dark”)

Thursday 30 August

Dark Sky Places, Starlight Reserves and Astro-Tourism 10:30 A New Starlight Reserve for the Central South Island of New Zealand John Hearnshaw 10:45 Light Pollution in an Island State - the Situation in the Maltese Islands Alexei Pace 11:00 A Vision for Broad Scale Dark Sky Conservation— Chad Moore* Creating a 200,000 km2 Reserve on the Colorado Plateau, USA

154 11:15 Astro-Tourism: "Astro Izery" Project Tomasz Mrozek ______* Presentations being given by other than lead author Dark Skies Measurements and Site Monitoring 11:30 The Future of Night Sky Protection Bob Parks 11:45 Upward angular distribution of light pollution at 10,000 ft Chris Kyba* 12:00 ISS Nocturnal Images as a Scientific Tool Against Light Pollution: Jaime Zamorano Flux Calibration and Colors 12:15 TBD

Friday 31 August

Dark Skies Measurements and Site Monitoring, continued 8:30 The Night Sky Monitoring Network in Hong Kong Jason Pun 8:45 SKYMONITOR: A Global Network for Sky Brightness Measurements Dan McKenna 9:00 A Standard Format for Measurements of Skyglow Chris Kyba* 9:15-10:00 Moderated Discussion of Dark Skies Measurements and Site Monitoring Malcolm Smith

Light Pollution Legislation and Protecting Observatory Sites 10:30 Assessing the Contribution from Different Parts of the to the Martin Aube Hemispheric Spectral Sky Radiance Levels over European Northern Observatories 10:45 International Astrophysical Projects and Light Pollution: The CTA Case Beatriz Garcia 11:00 Protection of Northern Chile as an ICOMOS/IAU " Window to the Universe" Malcolm Smith 11:15 Dark Sky Collaborators: Arizona Observatories, Communities, and Businesses Chris Corbally 11:30 The Selection and Protection of Optical Astronomical Observing Sites in China Wenjing Jin 11:45 Light Pollution and Protecting of Xinglong Station, NAOC Yongheng Zhao 12:00 Legal Protection of the Night Sky in Andalusia (South-Western Europe) David Galadi-Enriquez 12:15:12:30 SAAO Telescopes' Capabilities and Future Direction Ramotholo Sefako

Light Pollution Legislation and Protecting Observatory Sites, continued 14:00 Light Pollution control and Sky Protection Initiatives in Argentina Beatriz Garcia 14:15 Legislation to Address Light Pollution Martin Morgan-Taylor*

155 14:30 Moderated Discussion of Light Pollution Legislation David Galadi-Enrique

Progress and Action Plan for Implementing IAU 2009 Resolution B5 15:00 An Introduction to IAU 2009 Resolution B5 Malcolm Smith 15:10 IAU 2009 Resolution B5 in Defense of the Night Sky - the Why and What Wim van Driel* 15:20-15:30 Commission 50 Draft Action Plan Richard Green 16:00-16:35 Moderated Discussion of IAU 2009 Resolution B5 Xue Suijian

Spectra of Artificial Blue-Rich Sources 16:35 The Effect of Lamp Spectral Distribution on Sky Glow over Observatory Sites Chris Luginbuhl 16:50 The spectral energy distribution of blue-rich artificial light sources Richard Wainscoat and their impact on astronomy

Astronomical Input to Lighting Industry Development; Prospects for Success 17:05 The Astronomy Case to Lighting Professionals Richard Wainscoat 17:20 Moderated Discussion Blue-Rich Sources Richard Green and Lighting Industry Development Sessions 17:55-18:00 Conclusions and Closing SOC/LOC ______* Presentations being given by other than lead author

SpS18 “Hot Topics” for each week 24 August & 31 August

Contact: Thierry Montmerle, AGS [email protected]

24 August: Room 301 A+B 31 August: Room 303 A+B

156 11. THE IAU XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY – DAY BY DAY

PROGRAMME and EVENT SCHEDULE DAY BY DAY – Week 1

Sunday 19 August 9:30-17:30 Executive Committee Meeting EC91-1 plus Division Presidents NAOC

Monday 20 August 08:30-10:00 IAUS 288 Plenary: “Astrophysics from Antarctica”, John Storey 309A+B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD1 “High Energy Gamma Ray Universe” 301A+B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and poster displays 14:00-15:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD1 “High Energy Gamma Ray Universe” 301A+B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308

157 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 15:30-16:00 Break and posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD1 “High Energy Gamma Ray Universe” 301A+B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B18:00 JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 18:00-19:30 Invited Discourse 1 “The Zoo of Galaxies” Karen Masters Plenary B

Tuesday 21 August 08:30-10:00 IAUS 292 Plenary: “From Gas to Stars over Cosmic Time”, Mac Low Plenary B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD1 “High Energy Gamma Ray Universe” 301A+B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and poster displays 12:45-13:45 Special Lecture: “Ancient Chinese Astronomy”, Xiaochun Sun 311 A+B 14:00-16:00 Inaugural Ceremony Plenary B 16:30-18:00 First GA Session Plenary B 18:00-19:30 Welcome Reception for all

158 Wednesday 22 August 08:30-10:00 IAUS 290 Plenary: “Probing General Relativity using Accreting Black Holes”, Andrew Fabian Plenary B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and poster displays 12:45-14:00 Gruber Prize Lecture: Charles Bennett Plenary B 14:00-15:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD2 “Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe” 302A+B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305 JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B 15:30-16:00 Break and posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD3 “3D View of the Cycling Sun” 303A+B JD4 “UV Emission in Galaxies” 305

159 JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 18:00-19:30 Invited Discourse 2 “Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy” Brian Schmidt Plenary B

Thursday 23 August 08:30-10:00 IAUS 291 Plenary: “Pulsars are cool – seriously”, Scott Ransom “Magnetars: neutron stars with magnetic storms”, Nanda Rea “Probing Gravitation with Pulsars”, Michael Kramer 309A+B Executive Committee EC91-2 VIP 4-3 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B JD6 “Fermi AGN” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and poster displays 11:00-14:00 Young Astronomers Lunch - invitation only - sponsored by NASL, NAS and NSF Plenary Hall B 14:00-15:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B JD6 “Fermi AGN” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A

160 SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 15:30-16:00 Break and posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B JD6 “Fermi AGN” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS4 “Interstellar and Galactic Magnetic Fields” 306B SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 19:30-22:00 BANQUET, Birds Nest Olympic Stadium, ticket required.

Friday 24 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B JD6 “Fermi AGN” 305 SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 10:00-10:30 Beak and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 288 “Astrophysics from Antarctica” 309A IAUS 290 “Accretion on all Scales” 310 IAUS 291 “Neutron Stars and Pulsars” 311A+B IAUS 292 “Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies” 309B

161 JD5 “Meteors and Meteorites” 301A+B SpS1 “Massive Star Clusters” 306A SpS2 “Cosmic Evolution – Galaxy Clusters” 307A+B SpS3 “Galaxy Evolution” 308 SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B 12:30-14:00 Open discussion of Proposed Divisional Restructuring 311A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and Posters 14:00-15:30 SpS5 “IR view of Massive Stars” 303A+B SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B SpS18a “Hot Topics” 301A+B 15:30-16:00 Break and Posters 16:00-18:00 SpS6 “Science with Large Solar Telescopes” 302A+B SpS18a “Hot Topics” 301A+B

Saturday 25 8:30-17:00 Astronomy / Astrobiology Teacher Workshop Beijing Planetarium

Sunday 26 8:30-17:00 Astronomy / Astrobiology Teacher Workshop Beijing Planetarium

PROGRAMME and EVENT SCHEDULE DAY BY DAY – Week 2

Monday 27 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 289 Plenary: “The Cosmic Distance Scales, Past, Present and Future”, Wendy Freedman 309A+B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS11 “Strategic Plan and OAD” 306B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B

162 12:30-14:00 Women in Astronomy Lunch – invitation only – sponsored by the NAS and the NSF Plenary Hall A 12:30-14:00 Lunch break and Posters 14:00-15:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS11 “Strategic Plan and OAD” 306B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B 15:30-16:00 Break and Posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS11 “Strategic Plan and OAD” 306B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B 18:00-20:00 Women in Astronomy event - sponsored by the NAOC NAOC

Tuesday 28 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 293 Plenary “The Kepler Mission: NASA’s ExoEarth Census”, Natalie Batalha 309A+B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310

163 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS11 “Strategic Plan and OAD” 306B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B 12:30-14:00 Special Event – screening of film “Saving the Hubble” 311A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch and Posters 14:00-15:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B 15:30-16:00 Break and Posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS9 “Future Large Scale Facilities” 307A+B SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS16 “Interstellar Medium” 302A+B

164 Wednesday 29 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 294 Plenary “The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism”, Bryan Gaensler Plenary B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B JD7 “Space-Time Reference Systems” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch and Posters 12:45-13:45 Special Lecture “Chinese Ancient Astronomy”, Xiaochun Sun Plenary B 14:00-15:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 15:30-16:00 Break and Posters 16:00-18:00 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305

165 SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 18:00-19:30 ID3 “The Herschel View of Star Formation”, Philippe André Plenary B

Thursday 30 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 295 Plenary “Black Holes in Galaxies”, John KormendyPlenary B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A SpS8 “Calibration of Star Formation” 305 SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 303A+B SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 12:30-14:00 Special Event – screening of film “Saving the Hubble” 311A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch and Posters 14:00-16:00 Second Session of General Assembly Plenary B 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:00 Closing Ceremony Plenary B 18:00-19:30 Invited Discourse 4: “Past, Present and Future of Chinese Astronomy”, Cheng Fang Plenary B

Friday 31 August 8:30-10:00 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A

166 SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 305 SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B SpS18b “Hot Topics” 303A+B 10:00-10:30 Break and Posters 10:30-12:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A SpS10 “Star-Planet Relation and Public Outreach” 305 SpS12 “Modern ISM” 308 SpS13 “High Precision Stellar Physics” 301A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS15 “Data Intensive Astronomy” 306B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B SpS18b “Hot Topics” 303A+B 12:30-14:00 Lunch and Poster 14:00-15:30 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS7 “NEO Hazards” 306A SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-18:00 IAUS 289 “Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances” 309A IAUS 293 “Extrasolar Habitable Planets” 309B IAUS 294 “Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos” 310 IAUS 295 “Massive Galaxies” 311A+B SpS14 “Communicating Astronomy” 302A+B SpS17 “Light Pollution” 307A+B 18:00 End of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly

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