IAU Commission 36
OFFICIALS 2000-2003
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President: Dainis DRAVINS Lund
Observatory
Phone: + 46 - 46 - 222 72 97 |
Vice president: Monique SPITE
Observatoire de Paris - Meudon Phone: +33 - 1- 45 07 78 39 |
Organizing Committee:
| Tom AYRES, Boulder | Dainis DRAVINS, Lund | Roberto PALLAVICINI, Palermo | Monique SPITE, Meudon |
| Beatriz BARBUY, São Paolo | Dan KISELMAN, Stockholm | Hideyuki SAIO, Sendai | Kazimierz STEPIEN, Warsaw |
| Lawrence CRAM, Sydney | John LANDSTREET, London, Ont. | Christopher SNEDEN, Austin | Klaus WERNER, Tübingen |
The tasks of the Organizing
Committee include the evaluation of proposals for scientific meetings to
be organized with IAU
support, as well as a preparation of reports to
forthcoming IAU General Assemblies
Previous presidents of Commission 36:
Roberto
PALLAVICINI, Palermo (1997-2000);
Lawrence CRAM, Sydney (1994-1997);
Wolfgang KALKOFEN, Cambridge, Mass. (1991-1994);
David GRAY, London, Ont. (1988-1991);
Keiichi KODAIRA, Tokyo (1985-1988);
Bengt GUSTAFSSON, Uppsala (1982-1985);
Gerhard TRAVING, Heidelberg (1979-1982); Dimitri MIHALAS, Boulder
(1976-1979); Roger CAYREL, Paris (1973-1976); Richard THOMAS, Boulder
(1970-1973).
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMISSION 36
The Commission currently has about 300 members. Any IAU member who works in the field, and who is not yet a member of this commission, should contact its current president. The full list of members can, unfortunately, not be published on this webpage (due to legal constraints) but the addresses of individual members with a well-known name spelling may be found in the IAU membership directory.
COMMISSION DOCUMENTS
Scientific report to the Manchester General Assembly, covering 1997-1999 [PostScript]
Business report from the Commission 36 meeting at the Manchester GA [PostScript]
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF PRIME RELEVANCE
There exist many meetings whose contents are relevant for the study of stellar atmospheres. The following are of particular relevance:
Stellar Coronae in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era, Noordwijk, The Netherlands; June 25-29, 2001
Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics (IAU Colloquium No.185), Leuven, Belgium; July 26-31, 2001
12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun: The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.; July 30 - August 3, 2001
Workshop on Stellar Atmosphere Modeling, Tübingen, Germany, September 17-21, 2001
Potsdam Thinkshop on Sunspots & Starspots, Potsdam, Germany, May 6-10, 2002
Modelling of Stellar Atmospheres (IAU Symposium No.210), Uppsala, Sweden; June 17-21, 2002
IAU XXV:th General Assembly, Sydney, Australia; July 13-26, 2003
Commission 36 is part of the IAU Division IV - Stars, which organizes astronomers studying the characterization, interior and atmospheric structure, and evolution of stars of all masses, ages, and chemical compositions. Its president for 2000-2003 is Beatriz Barbuy, São Paolo.
Updated
May 4, 2001