IAU Division (Division Web Page) J Bulletin No. 6; 
July 2015


INDEX

 * Welcome to new members of the Division Steering Committee

 * Reminder to vote on the members of Organizing Committees of the new
 Commissions

 * General Assembly

 * Prizes

 * Books

 * Future meetings

 * Goodbye from present President and Secretary of Division J

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 * Welcome to new members of Division J SC


 We give a warm welcome to the recently elected new President of Division J,

 Claus Leitherer, as well as to the new Vice-President Matthew Malkan and
 new members of the Steering Committee: Leslie Hunt, Marcella Carollo and
 Jeremy Mould.


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 * Vote on the members of Organizing Committee's of the new Commissions:


 The coming July 8th is the deadline for voting in the members of the
 Scientific Committees of the new Commissions. Please visit
 http://www.iau.org/submissions/commission_candidacy/review/ to know about
 the candidates!


 The list of new Commissions linked to our Division J is:


 C.J1 Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions   (Parent Division)

 C.J2 Intergalactic Medium    (Parent Division)

 C.X1 Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback, and Galaxy Evolution
 (Cross-Division)

 C.H4 Stellar Clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time  (Inter-Division)


 The complete list of new commissions can be found at:

 http://www.iau.org/static/submissions/EC_Approved_Commissions.pdf

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 * General Assembly (webpage: http://astronomy2015.org/)


 This is just a reminder of the Symposia and Focus Meetings endorsed by our
 Division, as well as our Division Meeting that will take place together
 with the next General Assembly Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 3-14:



 **  Symposia

   IAUS 315 -- From Interstellar Clouds to Star-forming
 Galaxies: Universal Processes?
 <http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/1121/

   IAUS 317 -- The General Assembly of Galactic Halos:
 Structure, Origin and Evolution
 <http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/1124/

   IAUS 319 -- Galaxies at High Redshift and Their
 Evolution Over Cosmic Time
 <http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/1126/


 **    Focus Meetings

   FM 4 -- Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Galactic
 Structure and Evolution <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1131/

   FM 5 -- The Legacy of Planck
 <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1132/

   FM 6 -- X-ray Surveys of the Hot and Energetic Cosmos
 <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1133/

   FM 7 -- Stellar Physics in Galaxies Throughout the
 Universe <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1134/

   FM 12 -- Bridging Laboratory Astrophysics and
 Astronomy <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1139/

   FM 14 -- The Gravitational Wave Symphony of Structure
 Formation <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1141/

   FM 15 -- Search for Water and Life's Building Blocks
 in the Universe <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1142/

   FM 18 -- Scale-free Processes in the Universe
 <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1145/

   FM 22 -- The Frontier Fields: Transforming our
 Understanding of Cluster and Galaxy Evolution
 <http://www.iau.org/science/events/1149/

 **   Our Division Meeting will be on August 7th and 10th:

 http://aramis.obspm.fr/IAU-J/index.php?body=divJ-2015.html


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 * Prizes


 This section depends on the Division members informing about prizes you
 have won! Thus it is not a complete list!


 1 - Professor Eva K. Grebel (Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg University,
 Germany) was awarded a 2015 Hector Prize and elected to the Hector Fellow
 Academy. The Hector Prize is an award across scientific disciplines that
 recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching in Germany. The
 Hector Fellows are "a community of outstanding scientists, who are
 recognized by the Hector Foundation for their performance and achievements
 and teaching." The Hector Prize citation for Professor Grebel notes her
 contributions to the field of galactic archaeology and studies of the
 evolutionary histories of galaxies in the local universe. The web site for
 the Hector Foundation is


 http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/hector-fellow-academy/concept/index.htm


 Congratulations Professor Eva K. Grebel!


 2 - In time: as we did not have the newsletter previously, I incentived the
 members to announce the prizes won since the last Assembly, and the next
 one falls into this category

 Jerry Sellwood received the 2013 Dirk Brouwer award of the American
 Astronomical Society for excellence and outstanding scholarship in the
 field of dynamical astronomy.


 Congratulations Professor Jerry Sellwood!

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* Books

Title = A Sky Wonderful with Stars: 50 Years of Modern Astronomy on Maunakea
Author = Michael J. West (mwest@mariamitchell.org)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: July 2015

http://www.amazon.com/Sky-Wonderful-Stars-Astronomy-Maunakea/dp/0824852680

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 * Future Scientific Meetings (2015 and 2016):


 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
 <http://www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/meetings/getMeetings.html?year=2015&title=2015~Meetings


 We also would like to announce what seems to be the only IAU Symposium
 approved for 2016 that is linked to our Division:

 IAUS 321- Formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts
 <http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/1154/ (
 http://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/symposia/1154/), to take place
 in Toledo, Spain from March 14 to March 18, 2016. The composition of the
 Scientific Committee is: J. Lee, L. Kewley, J. Koda, C. Mendes de Oliveira,
 A. Gil de Paz.

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 * Good bye from the present President and Secretary of Division J

 After the next General Assembly, Francoise Combes will be stepping as
 President of Division J and I from the Steering Committee and from the
 position of Secretary of Division J. We wish all the new members a fruitful
 term!

 Thaisa Storchi Bergmann and Francoise Combes