Address at Closing Ceremony

24 August 2006

Inaugural address from the new IAU President, Catherine Cesarsky, at the IAU General Assembly 2006 in Prague. "We started this conference, in magnificent Prague, with a lovely rendition of 'What poor astronomers are they', from John Dowland. I would like to close it with my motto: 'what lucky astronomers we are': we lead purposeful and interesting lives."(...)  Full text