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 Forthcoming Meetings and events
October

8 October

RAS Parallel Discussion Meetings

A: Recent Advances in Star-Formation Studies

Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: S Viti (UCL), D A Williams (UCL)

Email:sv@star.ucl.ac.uk

G: The magnetospheric cusps revealed: Results from the CLUSTER mission

Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: Peter Cargill (ICL), Malcolm Dunlop (RAL), Chris Owen (MSSL/UCL)

Email:p.cargill@imperial.ac.uk

Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting

16:00 Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House.

Talks will include: Dr Benoit Lavraud (LANL) “The Magnetospheric Cusps as Seen by CLUSTER”; Dr David Malin (AAO) “Deep Images of Nearby Galaxies”; Prof. Paul Davies (Macquarie University) “The Arrow of Time” (The 2004 Gerald Whitrow Lecture)

Web:www.ras.org.uk/meetings/RASSDAG.html

20–22 October

Towards Large Submillimetre Dishes: Science Drivers and Technical Challenges

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contact: Dorothy Skedd

Web:www.roe.ac.uk/roe/workshop/lsd/

Email:dacs@roe.ac.uk

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November

12 November

RAS Parallel Discussion Meetings

A: Astroparticle Physics and the Search for Dark Matter

Society of Antiquaries Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: Tim Sumner (ICL), Nigel Smith (RAL)

Email:t.sumner@imperial.ac.uk

G: Extrasolar Planets

Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizer: Andrew Collier Cameron (St Andrews)

Email:Andrew.Cameron@st-and.ac.uk

Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting

16:00 Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House.

Talks will include: Jay Pasachoff (Williams, Mass.) “The Transit of Venus and the Black-Drop Mystery”; James Jackson (Cambridge) “The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Continental Cratons” (The 2004 Harold Jeffreys Lecture)

Web:www.ras.org.uk/meetings/RASSDAG.html

26 November

London Autumn MIST at the Geological Society, Burlington House

Contact:a.j.smith@bas.ac.uk

Web:www.mist.ac.uk

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December

10 December

RAS Parallel Discussion Meetings

A: Gravitational Lensing

Joint RAS/IoP Meeting at the Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: R Tucker (Lancaster), A Taylor (Edinburgh)

Email:r.tucker@lancaster.ac.uk

G: The Scientific and Social Case for Human Spaceflight

Linnean Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: I Crawford (Birkbeck/UCL), C Cockell (BAS)

Email:i.crawford@ucl.ac.uk

Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting

16:00 Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Speakers will include:

Clare Watt (Alberta), the 2003 RAS–Blackwell Prizewinner, “Resistivity without collisions”; William Tobin (Canterbury, NZ) “Foucault and the distance to the Sun”; Mike Edmunds (Cardiff) “The Elementary Universe” (The 2004 George Darwin Lecture)

Web:www.ras.org.uk/meetings/RASSDAG.html

13–17 December

AGU Fall Meeting

Web:www.agu.org/meetings/fm04/

Email:meetinginfo@agu.org (Subject: 2004 Fall Meeting)

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January 2005

9–13 January

205th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)

San Diego, CA

Contact: Diana Alexander, American Astronomical Society, 2000 Florida Avenue, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20009, USA

Fax:+1(202) 234-2560

Web:www.aas.org

Email:diana@aas.org

13–14 January

RAS Parallel Discussion Meetings

A: Wide-Field Spectroscopy: Science With, and Beyond, 2dF (13–14 Jan)

Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Organizers: G Dalton, Oxford

Email:gbd@astro.ox.ac.uk

G: Seismology of the Sun: From the Inner Core to Corona (14 Jan)

English Heritage Lecture Theatre, Savile Row

Organizers: I Ballai (Sheffield), W Chaplin (Birmingham)

Email:i.ballai@sheffield.ac.uk

Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting

16:00 Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Web:www.ras.org.uk/meetings/RASSDAG.html

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February

6–12 February

Chapman Conference on Corotating Solar Wind Streams and Recurrent Geomagnetic Activity

Tropical Manaus Eco-Resort and Convention Center, Manaus, Brazil

Organizers: Bruce T Tsurutani, Nat Gopalswamy, Walter D Gonzalez, Robert L McPherron, Gang Lu

Email:bruce.t.tsurutani@jpl.nasa.gov, gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov, gonzalez@dge.inpe.br, rmcpherron@igpp.ucla.edu, ganglu@ncar.ucar.edu

Web:www.ManausChapman2005.org; www.agu.org/meetings/cc05bcall.html

• Note that this is for guidance only; you should check all details with the organizers. Send meeting details to s.bowler@leeds.ac.uk.

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