OC (Organising Committee) 2006 - 2009

 

President: Francoise COMBES LERMA Observatoire de Paris 61 Av. de l'Observatoire F-75 014 PARIS Phone: +33 1 4051 2077 Fax: +33 1 4051 2002 e-mail: Francoise.Combes@obspm.fr; URL: aramis.obspm.fr/~combes

Vice-President: Roger DAVIES Astrophysics, Dept of Physics University of Oxford Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK Phone: +44 1865 273305/282190 Fax: +44 1865 272262 e-mail: rld@astro.ox.ac.uk; URL: www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/rld.shtml

Organizing Committee:

Avishai DEKEL, Jerusalem (ISRAEL)	Marijn FRANX,Leiden (NL)	Jay GALLAGHER, Madison (USA)	Valentina KARACHENTSEVA, Kiev (UKRAINE)
Gill KNAPP, Princeton (USA)	Renée KRAAN- KORTEWEG, Cape Town (SOUTH AFRICA)	Bruno LEIBUNDGUT, Garching (GERMANY)	Naomasa NAKAI, Tsukuba (JAPAN)
Jayant NARLIKAR, Pune (INDIA)	Monica RUBIO, Santiago (CHILE)	Elaine SADLER, Sydney (AUSTRALIA)

The tasks of the Organizing Committee include the evaluation of proposals for scientific meetings to be organized with IAU support, as well as a preparation of reports to forthcoming IAU General Assemblies

Previous presidents of Commission 28:
2003-06 Elaine Sadler, Australia;
2000-03 Sadanori Okamura, Japan;
1997-00 Francesco Bertola, Italy;
1994-97 Virginia Trimble, USA;
1991-94 E. Ye. Khachikian, Armenia;
1988-91 Gustav Tammann, Switzerland;
1985-88 Piet van der Kruit, The Netherlands;
1982-85 Vera Rubin, USA;
1979-82 Bengt Westerlund, Sweden;
1976-79 B.E. Markarian, Armenia;
1973-76 Erik Holmberg, Sweden;
1970-73 E. Margaret Burbidge, USA;
1967-70 George C. McVittie, USA;
1964-67 Rudolph L. Minkowski, USA;
1961-64 Bertil Lindblad, Sweden;
1958-61 Nicholas U. Mayall, USA;
1952-58 Walter Baade, USA;
1938-52 Edwin P. Hubble, USA;
1932-38 Harlow Shapley, USA;
1925-32 Edwin P. Hubble, USA;
1922-25 Vesto M. Slipher, USA;
1919-22 Guillaume Bigourdan, France;