Announced Conferences 2006

XXVIth IAU General Assembly  August 14th - 25th, 2006

Topics:

• Overview of cosmic particle acceleration
• Production and role of solar energetic particles
• Acceleration in planetary magnetospheres and the ISM
• Pulsars/pulsar winds and supernova remnants
• Active stars and colliding stellar winds
• Gamma-ray bursters
• AGNs, jets and clusters of galaxies
• Theory of acceleration mechanisms and their diagnostics
• Particle in cell and other simulations

Scientific Organizing Committee:

• Jonathan Arons (USA)
• Roger D. Blandford (USA)
• John C. Brown (UK, Chair)
• Mary K. Hudson (USA)
• Marian Karlický (Czech Republic, co-Chair)
• John Kirk (Germany, co-Chair)
• Robert P. Lin (USA)
• Donald B. Melrose (Australia)
• Kazunari Shibata (Japan)
• Nicole Vilmer (France)

Invited Reviewers:

• Blandford R., Gallant Y., Lin R.
• Medvedev M., Melrose D., Vlahos L.

Registration:

Registration procedure is common for the whole General Assembly (http://www.astronomy2006.com/).

Abstracts of contributions:

Please submit your contributions via the Abstract Server (see http://www.astronomy2006.com/).

We call for contributed oral talks and posters. Depending on the number of participants, most contributions will likely be accepted in the category of poster papers.

Please, submit your abstracts as soon as possible but not later than May 31, 2006.

Till June 30, 2006 you will be notified about the status of your submission.

Proceedings:

The Proceedings of all GA-2006 Joint Discussions will be published in the IAU series "Highlights of Astronomy", Volume 14 (Cambridge University Press). The Highlights of Astronomy will be made available electronically and in book form, and can be ordered via the GA-2006 Registration Form.

The contract with CUP stipulates that Highlights of Astronomy will be published six months after GA-2006. CUP needs three months for the production process, leaving the three months right after GA-2006 for the Editors to complete their task. This implies that Joint Discussion Editors have to request from all speakers in their JD to submit their completed manuscripts (both in printed and electronic form) to the Editors at the time of GA-2006.

Further instructions and style-files will be posted at the web page (http://wave.asu.cas.cz/iaujd01/) in due time.

Contact:

Professor John C. Brown (Chair)
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Kelvin Building,
University of Glasgow,
University Ave
G12 8QW Glasgow
United Kingdom

E-mail: john@astro.gla.ac.uk

Dr. Marian Karlický (Co-chair, editor)
Astronomical Institute
Fricova 298
CZ - 25165 Ondrejov
Czech Republic

E-mail: karlicky@asu.cas.cz

Dr. John Kirk (co-chair)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Saupfercheckweg 1
D-69117 Heidelberg
Germany

E-mail: John.Kirk@mpi-hd.mpg.de

Preliminary Programme:

August 16th from 9.00 to 18.00

9.00-10.30	General review 30+5 mins (Melrose, D.) Solar system - review 30+5 (Lin, R.) 1 short oral presentation 15+3 Sun/Heliospheric
10.30-11.30	coffee/posters
11.30-12.45	4 short oral presentation 4 x (15+3) Sun/Heliospheric
12.45-14.15	Lunch
14.15-15.30	Galaxy - review 30+5 (Gallant, Y.) 2 short oral presentation 2 x (15+3) Galactic/Extra-Galactic
15.30-16.30	coffee/posters
16.30-18.00	Extra-Galactic - review 30+5 (Medvedev, M.) 3 short oral presentation 3 x (15+3) Extra-Galactic/Galactic

August 17th from 9 - 12.30

9.00-10.30	Theory - review 30+5 (Blandford, R.) 3 short oral presentation 3 x (15+3) Theory
10.30-11.30	coffee/posters
11.30-12.30	1 short oral presentation (15+3) Theory Conference summary 30+10 (Vlahos, L.)

On behalf of the organizing committee,
Sincerely,

Dr. Marian Karlicky

E-Mail: karlicky@asu.cas.cz
Fax: +420 32 3620 110