Start date/time

August 20, 2012

End date/time

August 22, 2012

Place

Beijing,
China, Nanjing

Contact

Sugata Kaviraj
s.kaviraj@imperial.ac.uk

Event website

http://astroweb1.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Kaviraj/IAU2012_JD4/home

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Coordinating Division

Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe

SOC Co-Chairs: Sugata Kaviraj (United Kingdom), Sukyoung Yi (Republic of Korea), Martin Bureau (United Kingdom)

SOC Members: Beatriz Barbuy (Brazil), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Australia), Daniela Calzetti (United States), Matthew Colless (Australia), J. Jesus Gonzalez (Mexico), Genevieve Graves (United States), Zhanwen Han (China Nanjing), Robert O'Connell (United States), C Megan Urry (United States)

Editors of Proceedings: Sugata Kaviraj (United Kingdom), Sukyoung Yi (Republic of Korea), Martin Bureau (United Kingdom) 

Topics:

• Observational evidence for enhanced UV emission in early-type galaxies
• Extended horizontal branch, post-asymptotic giant branch, and binary stars
• Young stars and star formation
• Globular clusters and Helium enhancement
• Active galactic nuclei
• UV detectors and telescopes