[ASA] First announcement of IAU Symposium 298: Setting the Scene for Gaia and LAMOST - The current and next generations of surveys and models

[Gayandhi De Silva]

First announcement of

			      IAU Symposium 298

       		   SETTING THE SCENE FOR Gaia AND LAMOST -
	   THE CURRENT AND NEXT GENERATIONS OF SURVEYS AND MODELS

Place: Lijiang, China (Yunnan province)
Time: 20 - 24 May 2013

The formation and evolution of galaxies is a key topic in contemporary
astrophysics. With the transformational opportunities offered by on-going and next
generation surveys IAU is offering a symposium that  focuses on the
interplay between surveys, observing techniques, advances in abundance
analysis, and our theoretical understanding of galaxy formation, is
very timely. The symposium focuses on the promise of current and future large
surveys, including Gaia in the context of all other on-going efforts,
both observational as well as theoretical.

The SOC wishes to dedicate this IAU Symposium to Birgitta Nordstrˆm
and Johannes Andersen for their numerous contributions to Galactic
astronomy.

Deadline for early registration: 2013.2.28

More about the program and the meeting can be found at:http://iaus298.csp.escience.cn

For the SOC
     Sofia Feltzing and Gang Zhao (Co-chairs)

SOC: Emilio J. Alfaro (IAA-CSIC), Timothy Beers (Michigan State) ,
Masashi Chiba (Tohoku), Gayandhi De Silva (AAO), Sofia Feltzing (Lund),
Eva Grebel (Heidelberg), Amina Helmi (Groningen), Jaques Lepine (Sao Paulo),
Francois Mignard (Nice), Julio Navarro (UVic), Timo Prusti (ESA),
Sofia Randich (INAF/Arcetri), Becham Reddy (IIA Bangalore),
Nicholas Walton (Cambridge, UK), Patricia Whitelock (SAAO and UCT),
Gang Zhao (NAOC), Manuela Zoccali (Catolica)


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Dr. Gayandhi De Silva
Australian Astronomical Observatory
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