FOCUS MEETINGS

FM 1

HARNESSING GROUND-BASED OPTICAL TELESCOPES: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING ASTRONOMY IN AFRICA

Start: 6 August 2024 | End: 7 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

FM 2

A COHERENT VIEW OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR GAS FROM INFRARED TO RADIO WAVELENGTHS

Start: 6 August 2024 | End: 7 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Alberto Bolatto: iaugas2024@gmail.com

Event Website

https://iaugas2024.umd.edu

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

FM 3

FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF SMALL BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN THE ERA OF LARGE DISCOVERY SURVEYS

Start: 6 August 2024 | End: 8 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Nicolas Erasmus: nerasmus@saao.ac.za

Event Website

https://sbss2024.saao.ac.za

Coordinating Division

Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

FM 4

BRIDGING THE FINAL STAGES OF MASSIVE STARS TO SUPERNOVAE AND TRANSIENTS

Start: 13 August 2024 | End: 14 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Hanindyo Kuncarayakti: kuncarayakti@gmail.com

Event Website

https://mssn-iau2024.utu.fi/

Coordinating Division

Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics, Division G Stars and Stellar Physics

FM 5

THE FUTURE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY IN AN INCREASINGLY CROWDED SPECTRUM

Start: 7 August 2024 | End: 8 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Gyula I. G. Józsa: gjozsa@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Event Website

https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/374/

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

FM 6

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE LATE MODERN PERIOD

Start: 7 August 2024 | End: 8 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Christiaan L. Sterken: csterken@vub.ac.be

Event Website

http://www.historyofastronomy.org/FM6-IAU32/FM6-IAU32.html

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

FM 7

NEW HORIZONS AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS AND BIG DATA

Start: 6 August 2024 | End: 8 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Shazrene S. Mohamed: shazrene@saao.ac.za

Event Website

https://idia.ac.za/bdh2024/

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage, Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics, Division E Sun and Heliosphere, Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

FM 8

ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING THE SOLAR AND STELLAR DYNAMOS

Start: 13 August 2024 | End: 14 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Alexander Kosovichev: alexander.g.kosovichev@njit.edu

Event Website

https://sun.njit.edu/IAU_FM8/

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage, Division E Sun and Heliosphere, Division G Stars and Stellar Physics

FM 9

MEASURES OF LUMINOUS AND DARK MATTER IN GALAXIES ACROSS TIME

Start: 13 August 2024 | End: 15 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Gauri Sharma gauri.sharma@astro.unistra.fr

Event Website

https://ga24dmfm9.saao.ac.za

Coordinating Division

Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics, Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

FM 10

TEACHING CAPACITY OF REMOTE OBSERVING FACILITIES FOR THE UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS

Start: 13 August 2024 | End: 15 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Michèle Gerbaldi: gerbaldi@iap.fr

Event Website

https://fm10.zemogle.net/

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

FM 11

MULTI-WAVELENGTH ASTROMETRY

Start: 14 August 2024 | End: 15 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Christopher S. Jacobs: Christopher.S.Jacobs@jpl.nasa.gov

Event Website

http://sarao.ac.za/iau_fm11/

Coordinating Division

Division A Fundamental Astronomy, Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

FM 12

THE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY UNIVERSE: RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES WITH WIDE-FIELD GROUND-BASED FACILITIES

Start: 14 August 2024 | End: 15 August 2024
Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Contact

Ulisses Barres de Almeida: ulisses@cbpf.br

Event Website

https://cbpf.br/ga2024-fmgamma/

Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics