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Letters of Intent received in 2016
GA Symposia
LoI 2018-1977
| Title | The physics and evolution of intermediate mass stars |
| Contact | Richard Monier (Richard.Monier@obspm.fr) |
Non-GA Symposia
LoI 2018-1953
| Title | Magnetic Activity, Planetary Climates and Habitability |
| Location | Greenbelt, MD |
| Country | United States |
| Dates | 10 September 2018 to 14 September 2018 |
| Contact | Vladimir Airapetian (vladimir.airapetian@nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1925
| Title | From dense cores to galaxies: star formation in the Local Universe |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Joao Alves (joao.alves@univie.ac.at) |
LoI 2018-1894
| Title | Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe |
| Location | Vienna (at the XXX GA) |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Bragaglia Angela (angela.bragaglia@oabo.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1949
| Title | Dark Massive: Luminous and Dark Matter in Massive Galaxies |
| Location | Vien |
| Country | Australia |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Magda Arnaboldi (marnabol@eso.org) |
LoI 2018-1948
| Title | Long term study of the Sun and space climate |
| Location | Jaipur, http://birlaauditoriumjaipur.com |
| Country | India |
| Dates | 19 February 2018 to 23 February 2018 |
| Contact | Dipankar Banerjee (dipu@iiap.res.in) |
LoI 2018-1886
| Title | White Dwarfs: probes of exo-planets, stellar and galactic evolution and cosmology |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Martin Barstow (mab@le.ac.uk) |
LoI 2018-1928
| Title | The European ELT - Project status & plans for early science |
| Location | Wien |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Giuseppe Bono (bono@roma2.infn.it) |
LoI 2018-1896
| Title | GA or Non-GA Symposium: Challenges in Panchromatic Modelling with Next Generation Facilities |
| Location | To be determined |
| Country | AA-Country unknown |
| Dates | 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018 |
| Contact | Médéric Boquien (mederic.boquien@uantof.cl) |
LoI 2018-1899
| Title | GA Symposium: The link between dense gas and star formation |
| Location | Vienna (GA) |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Jonathan Braine (jonathan.braine@u-bordeaux.fr) |
LoI 2018-1951
| Title | Science with the SKA Precursors and Prospects for the SKA |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 23 August 2018 |
| Contact | Robert Braun (r.braun@skatelescope.org) |
LoI 2018-1966
| Title | Galactic Rings |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Ronald Buta (rbuta@ua.edu) |
LoI 2018-1924
| Title | Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) in the Universe: Current Understanding and Prospectives |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 23 August 2018 |
| Contact | Paola Caselli (caselli@mpe.mpg.de) |
LoI 2018-1945
| Title | Stellar Pulsation and Evolution Challenges: Synergies between Observation and Theory |
| Location | Nice |
| Country | France |
| Dates | 10 December 2018 to 14 December 2018 |
| Contact | Merieme Chadid (chadid@unice.fr) |
LoI 2018-1929
| Title | Small stellar systems: probes of galaxy evolution and the location of star formation |
| Location | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Country | Brazil |
| Dates | 5 February 2018 to 9 February 2018 |
| Contact | Ana Chies Santos (ana.chies@ufrgs.br) |
LoI 2018-1895
| Title | GA Symposium: Structure, kinematics and stellar populations of the Magellanic system |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 30 August 2018 |
| Contact | Maria-Rosa Cioni (mcioni@aip.de) |
LoI 2018-1926
| Title | Build-up of Galaxy Clusters Over Cosmic Time |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 21 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Helmut Dannerbauer (helmut@iac.es) |
LoI 2018-1893
| Title | Dwarf Galaxies: From the Deep Universe to the Present |
| Location | IAU GA 2018 |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Romeel Dave (romeeld@gmail.com) |
LoI 2018-1898
| Title | GA Symposium: Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Bruce Elmegreen (bge@us.ibm.com) |
LoI 2018-1923
| Title | GA Symposium: Transients across and beyond the electromagnetic spectrum |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 24 August 2018 to 26 August 2018 |
| Contact | Avishay Gal-Yam (avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il) |
LoI 2018-1939
| Title | Constraining galaxy formation and evolution using massive star clusters |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Mark Gieles (m.gieles@surrey.ac.uk) |
LoI 2018-1914
| Title | NON-GA SYMPOSIUM - Perseus in Sicily: from black hole to cluster outskirts |
| Location | Noto |
| Country | Italy |
| Dates | 14 May 2018 to 18 May 2018 |
| Contact | Marcello Giroletti (giroletti@ira.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1916
| Title | GA Symposium: Linking the fundamental scales of Star Formation |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Dimitrios Gouliermis (dgoulier@mpia.de) |
LoI 2018-1937
| Title | Binary stars through the Universe |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Zhanwen Han (zhanwenhan@ynao.ac.cn) |
LoI 2018-305
| Title | Under one Sky: the IAU Centenary Symposium |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 23 August 2018 |
| Contact | John Hearnshaw (john.hearnshaw@canterbury.ac.nz) |
LoI 2018-304
| Title | The Victor Hess Legacy: Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas |
| Location | Vienna General Assembly |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 18 August 2018 to 20 August 2018 |
| Contact | Hyesung Kang (hskang@pusan.ac.kr) |
LoI 2018-1930
| Title | GA Symposium --- The Interstellar Star Formation Cycle: Clouds, Stars, and Feedback |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Jens Kauffmann (jens.kauffmann@gmail.com) |
LoI 2018-1950
| Title | Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time |
| Location | Vienna, GA30 Venue |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Franz Kerschbaum (franz.kerschbaum@univie.ac.at) |
LoI 2018-1917
| Title | Star-Planet Interaction: Observations and Modeling |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 30 August 2018 |
| Contact | Irina Kitiashvili (irina.n.kitiashvili@nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1906
| Title | GA Symposium: Seismology of the Sun and Sun-like Stars from the Interior to the Corona |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Alexander Kosovichev (alexander.g.kosovichev@njit.edu) |
LoI 2018-1911
| Title | High resolution and high precision astronomy |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Yuri Kovalev (yykovalev@gmail.com) |
LoI 2018-1922
| Title | GA Symposium: 21st Century Astrometry: crossing the Dark and Habitable frontiers |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 30 August 2018 |
| Contact | Alberto Krone-Martins (algol@sim.ul.pt) |
LoI 2018-1885
| Title | The Intergalactic Medium: Outside-In and Inside-Out |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Avery Meiksin (meiksin@staffmail.ed.ac.uk) |
LoI 2018-1940
| Title | New challenges in our Solar System ephemerides |
| Location | Wien |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 1 August 2018 to 1 August 2018 |
| Contact | Andrea Milani Comparetti (milani@dm.unipi.it) |
LoI 2018-1934
| Title | Red giant stars as Galactic probes |
| Location | Saint-Malo |
| Country | France |
| Dates | 22 October 2018 to 26 October 2018 |
| Contact | Benoit Mosser (benoit.mosser@obspm.fr) |
LoI 2018-1969
| Title | High-mass X-ray binaries at the cross-roads of astrophysics |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Lidia Oskinova (lida@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de) |
LoI 2018-1976
| Title | A post Dawn Look at the Pristine Solar System |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 21 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Ernesto Palomba (ernesto.palomba@iaps.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1910
| Title | Computational Discovery in Astrophysics (GA or Non-GA Symposium) |
| Location | Vienna Switserland or Paralia Katerini, Mt. Olympus, Greece |
| Country | Greece |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 27 August 2018 |
| Contact | Simon Portegies Zwart (spz@strw.leidenuniv.nl) |
LoI 2018-1935
| Title | Binaries, Multis and Astrostatistics at the Crossroads |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Andrej Prsa (aprsa@villanova.edu) |
LoI 2018-1900
| Title | GA Symposium: Reference Frames |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 27 August 2018 to 30 August 2018 |
| Contact | Gross Richard (Richard.Gross@jpl.nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1905
| Title | Non-GA Symposium: Laboratory Astrophysics: from Observations to Interpretation |
| Location | Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Dates | 2 April 2018 to 6 April 2018 |
| Contact | Farid Salama (farid.salama@nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1947
| Title | Asteroseismology and Galactic Archaeology in the era of large surveys |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Victor Silva Aguirre (victor@phys.au.dk) |
LoI 2018-1915
| Title | Galaxy Evolution and Feedback Across Cosmic Time |
| Location | Bento Goncalves, near Porto Alegre |
| Country | Brazil |
| Dates | 5 March 2018 to 9 March 2018 |
| Contact | Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (thaisa@ufrgs.br) |
LoI 2018-1927
| Title | The Realm of the Low Surface Brightness Universe |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 23 August 2018 |
| Contact | David Valls-Gabaud (david.valls-gabaud@obspm.fr) |
LoI 2018-1912
| Title | GA Symposium: "Cosmic dust: origin, applications and implications" |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Darach Watson (darach@dark-cosmology.dk) |
LoI 2018-1964
| Title | The Astrophyiscs of Extreme Transients |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018 |
| Contact | Ralph Wijers (Ralph.Wijers@uva.nl) |
LoI 2018-1919
| Title | GA Symposium: Two decades of accreting millisecond pulsars |
| Location | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Dates | 20 August 2018 to 31 August 2018 |
| Contact | Rudy Wijnands (r.a.d.wijnands@uva.nl) |
GA Focus Meetings
LoI 2018-1960
| Title | A radius-time journey: from exoplanet atmosphere to planet formation |
| Contact | yann alibert (alibert@space.unibe.ch) |
LoI 2018-1961
| Title | The alpha Centauri system as a benchmark for stellar and planetary systems |
| Contact | Pedro J. Amado (pja@iaa.csic.es) |
LoI 2018-1943
| Title | Radio Galaxies: Resolving the AGN phenomenon |
| Contact | Volker Beckmann (beckmann@in2p3.fr) |
LoI 2018-1903
| Title | The New Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics - Focus Meeting (GA) |
| Contact | Marica Branchesi (marica.branchesi@uniurb.it) |
LoI 2018-1901
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): Nonthermal Phenomena in Galaxy Clusters: New Frontiers |
| Contact | Rossella Cassano (rcassano@ira.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1938
| Title | Bridging astronomers and the outreach communities |
| Contact | Sze-leung Cheung (cheungszeleung@iau.org) |
LoI 2018-1958
| Title | SECCHI’S SCIENTIFIC LEGACY: over 150 years of spectral classification |
| Contact | Ileana Chinnici (chinnici@astropa.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1944
| Title | New Insights in Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetic Fields |
| Contact | Luigina Feretti (lferetti@ira.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1909
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): Massive stars and low metallicity environments |
| Contact | Miriam Garcia Garcia (mgg@cab.inta-csic.es) |
LoI 2018-1963
| Title | Stars on the run - The Gaia perspective |
| Contact | Stephan Geier (geier@astro.uni-tuebingen.de) |
LoI 2018-1907
| Title | SCIENCE CHALLENGES IN ULTRAVIOLET AND OPTICAL ASTROPHYSICS AFTER HUBBLE |
| Contact | Ana Ines Gomez de Castro (aig@mat.ucm.es) |
LoI 2018-1921
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): Astronomy for Development |
| Contact | Kevin Govender (kg@astro4dev.org) |
LoI 2018-1954
| Title | Mitigating the Threat to Ground-Based Observations |
| Contact | Richard Green (rgreen@email.arizona.edu) |
LoI 2018-1897
| Title | Focus Meeting: Massive star evolution in the era of big surveys |
| Contact | Jose Groh (jose.groh@tcd.ie) |
LoI 2018-1887
LoI 2018-1965
| Title | Source regions of near-Earth objects, meteorites, and meteoroids |
| Contact | Peter Jenniskens (Petrus.M.Jenniskens@nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1931
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): The multi-wavelength Sun: bridging radio and space-based observations |
| Contact | Eduard Kontar (eduard@astro.gla.ac.uk) |
LoI 2018-1971
| Title | Solar Irradiance: Physics-Based Advances |
| Contact | Greg Kopp (Greg.Kopp@LASP.Colorado.edu) |
LoI 2018-1933
| Title | Engaging and renewing partnerships in scholarly publication |
| Contact | Jill Lagerstrom (lagerstrom@stsci.edu) |
LoI 2018-1952
| Title | JWST: Launch, Commissioning, and Cycle 1 Science |
| Contact | Nikole Lewis (nlewis@stsci.edu) |
LoI 2018-1975
| Title | Distributions and statistical mechanics in space plasmas |
| Contact | George Livadiotis (glivadiotis@swri.edu) |
LoI 2018-1902
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): KEPLER'S THIRD LAW: HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC LEGACY |
| Contact | Terence Mahoney (tjm@iac.es) |
LoI 2018-1941
| Title | 'Energetic particles in the heliosphere: acceleration, transport and space weather effects' |
| Contact | Olga E. Malandraki (omaland@astro.noa.gr) |
LoI 2018-1913
| Title | Nano Dust in Space and Astrophysics |
| Contact | Ingrid Mann (ingrid.b.mann@uit.no) |
LoI 2018-1884
| Title | Focus Meeting: A Century of Asteroid Families |
| Contact | Joseph Masiero (joseph.masiero@jpl.nasa.gov) |
LoI 2018-1956
| Title | The Unstable HR Diagram: Asteroseismology at all masses and ages |
| Contact | Jaymie Matthews (matthews@astro.ubc.ca) |
LoI 2018-1920
| Title | Focus Meeting: Polarimetric observations to probe magnetic fields from the ISM to stars |
| Contact | Anaëlle Maury (anaelle.maury@cea.fr) |
LoI 2018-1957
| Title | AGN-driven outflows traced by the new generation radio telescopes |
| Contact | Raffaella Morganti (morganti@astron.nl) |
LoI 2018-1962
| Title | Understanding historical observations to study transient phenomena |
| Contact | Ralph Neuhaeuser (rne@astro.uni-jena.de) |
LoI 2018-1908
| Title | Focus Meeting (GA): Galactic Angular Momentum |
| Contact | Danail Obreschkow (danail.obreschkow@icrar.org) |
LoI 2018-1891
| Title | Focus Meeting: [A post Dawn Look at the Pristine Solar System] |
| Contact | Ernesto Palomba (ernesto.palomba@iaps.inaf.it) |
LoI 2018-1970
| Title | Messaging to ET |
| Contact | Alan Penny (alan.penny@st-andrews.ac.uk) |
LoI 2018-1889
| Title | Focus Meeting: Gaia Science |
| Contact | Timo Prusti (tprusti@cosmos.esa.int) |
LoI 2018-1888
| Title | Focus Meeting: [The X-ray view of stellar winds] |
| Contact | Gregor Rauw (rauw@astro.ulg.ac.be) |
LoI 2018-1942
| Title | Physics of star-disk interactions in OB stars |
| Contact | Thomas Rivinius (triviniu@eso.org) |
LoI 2018-1918
LoI 2018-1955
| Title | Calibration and Standardization Issues in UV-VIS-IR Astronomy |
| Contact | J. Allyn Smith (smithj@apsu.edu) |
LoI 2018-1946
| Title | Radial metallicity gradients in disc galaxies |
| Contact | Letizia Stanghellini (lstanghellini@noao.edu) |
LoI 2018-1959
| Title | CMB Spectral distortions from MHz to THz |
| Contact | Ravi Subrahmanyan (rsubrahm@rri.res.in) |
LoI 2018-1932
| Title | FM: Magnetic fields and related physics of B- and O-type stars |
| Contact | Gregg Wade (wade-g@rmc.ca) |
LoI 2018-1974
| Title | Communicating Astronomy in a Changing World |
| Contact | William Waller (williamhwaller@gmail.com) |
LoI 2018-1892
| Title | Focus Meeting: Warm and Hot Baryonic Matter in the Cosmos |
| Contact | Cui Wei (cui@purdue.edu) |
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