IAU Division (Division Web Page) J Bulletin No. 4; December 2014 -- January 2015 INDEX * Vote on new Commissions: Dec. 31st is the deadline! * General Assembly * Prizes received by Division members: please advertise your prize! * Message from the Presidency * Call for contributions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Vote on new Commissions: Dec. 31st, 2014, is the deadline! Many new commissions have been proposed for the IAU, and your vote is very important in the selection process. You should have received an e-mail with the instructions and password to vote. If you have not received, please send an e-mail to iau@iap.fr. The complete list of proposed new commissions can be found at: http://www.iau.org/submissions/commissionproposal/list/ In particular, the ones under our division, with the partial votes already given to them can be found at: http://www.iau.org/public/images/detail/ann14037i/ Please vote before Dec. 31st! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * General Assembly (webpage:http://astronomy2015.org/) This is just a reminder of the Symposia and Focus Meetings endorsed by our Division that will take place together with the next General Assembly Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 3-14: Aug. 7 & 10, 2015: Our Division J meeting * Symposia -- IAUS 315 – From Interstellar Clouds to Star-forming Galaxies: Universal Processes? -- IAUS 317 – The General Assembly of Galactic Halos: Structure, Origin and Evolution -- IAUS 319 – Galaxies at High Redshift and Their Evolution Over Cosmic Time * Focus Meetings -- FM 4 – Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Galactic Structure and Evolution -- FM 5 – The Legacy of Planck -- FM 6 – X-ray Surveys of the Hot and Energetic Cosmos -- FM 7 – Stellar Physics in Galaxies Throughout the Universe -- FM 12 – Bridging Laboratory Astrophysics and Astronomy -- FM 14 – The Gravitational Wave Symphony of Structure Formation -- FM 15 – Search for Water and Life's Building Blocks in the Universe -- FM 18 – Scale-free Processes in the Universe -- FM 22 – The Frontier Fields: Transforming our Understanding of Cluster and Galaxy Evolution --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Prizes received by Division members: please advertise your prize! This is a new section we intend to include in the Newsletter. If you received any prize, please advertise in the Newsletter. Our first announcement is the Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society for 2015 that has been awarded to Dr. Jacob D. Bekenstein, from the Hebrew University, for his contribution on "Black Hole entropy". More information can be found at: http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/einstein.cfm and http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Bekenstein&first_nm=Jacob&year=2015 Congratulations, Dr. Bekenstein! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Next Science Meetings (2015): The number of forthcoming science meetings worldwide of interest to our Division is very large. Instead of listing them here, I remind you that these are available at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre: 2015 Meetings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Message from the Presidency: We wish you all Happy Hollidays and a wonderful New Year, and have we all a Great General Assembly and associated meetings ahead! Thaisa and Francoise ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Call for contributions: If you wish to send contributions to the next Newsletter that are relevant to our Division J, please send e-mail to thaisa@ufrgs.br by *** March 20, 2015 ***. This will appear in the next Bulletin issue, in April 2015. Thank you in advance for your inputs and best regards. Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, Secretary of IAU Div J.