Symposia

IAU Symposia

IAUS 389: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Paul Groot
paul.groot@uct.ac.za

Event Website


Coordinating Division

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

IAU Symposia

IAUS 390: A Multi-Point view of the Sun: Advances in Solar Observations and in Space Weather Understanding

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Marco Romoli
marco.romoli@unifi.it

Event website

https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/iaus-390/home-page


Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and HeritageDivision E Sun and Heliosphere

IAU Symposia

IAUS 391: The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Themiya Nanayakkara
themiyananayakkara@gmail.com

Event Website

https://jadc.swin.edu.au/#IAUS391


Coordinating Division

Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

IAU Symposia

IAUS 392: Neutral hydrogen in and around galaxies in the SKA era

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Elizabeth Adams
adams@astron.nl

Event website

https://iaus392.saao.ac.za/


Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data ScienceDivision H Interstellar Matter and Local UniverseDivision J Galaxies and Cosmology

IAU Symposia

IAUS 393: Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Zouhair Benkhaldoun
zouhair@uca.ma

Event website

https://iaus393.uca.ma


Coordinating Division

Division C Education, Outreach and HeritageDivision F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology

IAU Symposia

IAUS 394: All inclusive AGN

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Sarah White
sarahwhite.astro@gmail.com

Event website

https://allinclusiveagn.saao.ac.za


Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and HeritageDivision J Galaxies and Cosmology

Focus Meetings

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 1: Harnessing ground-based optical telescopes: an opportunity for emerging astronomy in Africa

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Yosry Azzam
yosryahmed@yahoo.co.uk

Event website

https://telescopes-fm2024.saao.ac.za/


Coordinating Division

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

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 2: A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 ScienceDivision H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 3: Follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System in the era of large discovery surveys

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 PhysicsDivision G Stars and Stellar Physics

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 5: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

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


Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 6: History of Astronomy in South Africa: The Late Modern Period

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and Heritage

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 7: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Shazrene S. Mohamed
shazrene@saao.ac.za

Event Website


Coordinating Division

Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and HeritageDivision D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental PhysicsDivision E Sun and HeliosphereDivision J Galaxies and Cosmology

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 8: Advances and Challenges in Understanding the Solar and Stellar Dynamos

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and HeritageDivision E Sun and HeliosphereDivision G Stars and Stellar Physics

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 9: Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 2024

Place

Cape Town,
South Africa

Contact

Sabine Thater
sabine.thater@univie.ac.at

Event website

https://ga24dmfm9.saao.ac.za/


Coordinating Division

Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental PhysicsDivision J Galaxies and Cosmology

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 10: Teaching capacity of remote observing facilities for the Universities and High Schools

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 ScienceDivision C Education, Outreach and Heritage

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 11: Multi-wavelength Astrometry

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 AstronomyDivision B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

IAU Focus Meetings (GA)

FM 12: The High-Energy Gamma-ray Universe: Results and perspectives with wide-field ground-based facilities

Start date/time

August 6, 2024

End date/time

August 15, 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 ScienceDivision D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics