© 2024 IAU General Assembly 2024 – Cape Town
Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
You can learn more about the work of this Division at https://iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/divisions/B/
Scientific Organising Committee
Gabriele Giovannini (President)
Ana I. Gomez de Castro (Vice-President)
Christian M. Boily (Commission B1 President)
Chenzhou CUI (Commission B2 President)
Ashish Mahabal (Commission B3 President)
Carole A. Jackson (Commission B4 President)
Paul S. Barklem (Commission B5 President)
J. Allyn Smith (Commission B6 President)
Constance Elaine Walker (Commission B7 President)
Elizabeth Marie George
Jan Mathijs van der Hulst
Yongtian ZHU
Michael G. Burton (Advisor – Past President)
Anthony James Beasley (Advisor)
Young-Soo KIM (Advisor)
Thomas Henning (Advisor)
Division B Days at the 2024 IAU GA
Final Program
Friday 9th
10.30 – 12.00 Session 1 – Division B
10.30 – 10.35 Welcome
10.35 – 10.55 PhD winner 2022 talk: Joachim Moeyens, “The Characterization and Discovery of Solar System Small Bodies in Modern Astronomical Surveys”.
10.55 – 11.15 PhD winner 2023 talk: Jeroen Audenaer, Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy: Unraveling variable stars with machine learning and the NASA Kepler and TESS space missions
11.15 – 12.00 Plenary Discussion on Division, Commission and WGs activities and organization
13.30 – 15.00 Session 2 – High Energy
13.30 – 14.00 Neutrino detectors present and future (Soebur Razzaque Centre for Astro-Particle Physics SA)
14.00 – 14.30 Neutrino astrophysics a quick view on present and future (Paolo Giommi INAF/Brera Obs.)
14.30 – 15.00 Very high energy astrophysics: CTA present and future (Markus Boettcher Centre for Sp. Res. NW Un. SA)
Monday 12th
10.30 – 12.00 Parallel Session 3a — Future Instruments I
10.30 – 11.00 The path to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) – the science and the means (Kevin France, U. Colorado, USA.)
11.00 – 11.30 The technologies needed for HWO including the role of cubesats and small space mission in paving the path to HWO (Paul Scowen, NASA, USA. )
11.30 – 12.00 European participation in HWO (Ana I. Gómez de Castro, U Complutense Madrid.)
13.30 – 15.00 Session 4 — Future Instruments II
13.30 – 14.00 Status of the Lunar International Observatory (Steve Durst, ILOA)
14.00 – 14.30 Status of astronomical polarimetry across the spectrum (Antonio M. Magalhaes, Univ. Sao Paolo)
14.30 – 14.50 ULTRASAT: Revolutionizing our view of the transient universe (Yossi Shvartzvald, Weizmann Institute of Science)
14.50 – 15.10 Rubin’s LSST as a large-scale time-domain photometric survey (Zeljko Ivezic, Dpt of Astronomy, Univ of Washington)
15.30 – 17.00 Session 5
15.30 – 16.00 65 years of Radio Astronomy in South Africa: from The Shack to SKA-Mid (Justin L Jonas – SKAO/Rhodes University/SARAO et al.)
16.00 – 16.30 The Meerkat telescope (Roger Deane University of the Witwatersrand / University of Pretoria)
16.30 – 17.00 Synergies between ngVLA and SKA-Mid SKA-Mid (Tony Beasley NRAO + Philip Diamond SKAO)
Monday 12th
10.30 – 12.00 Parallel Session 3b — Community Engagement , Open Science and the Virtual Observatory
10.30 – 10.35 Introduction to the Virtual Observatory and the Goals of the Meeting – Bruce Berriman
10.35 – 10.50 The VO and Education: Data accessibility in developing nations and access by underprivileged groups within developed nations. (Priya Shah, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad)
10.50 – 11.05 Enabling Future Breakthroughs in Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astronomy (Brad Cenko, NASA/GSFC)
11.05 – 11.20 Big Data and Open Science and Engagement in Radio Astronomy (Russ Taylor, University of Cape Town)
11.20 – 11.30 The VO, FAIR Principles and Open Science (Bruce Berriman, Caltech/IPAC)
11:30 – 11:45. Scalable visualization of large distributed data sets enabled by Virtual Observatory standards and tools (Mark Allen, Strasbourg astronomical observatory)
11.30 – 12.00 Panel discussion
IMPORTANT: we will have also about 70 Posters showing and discussing new results