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Women in Astronomy Meeting (WAM)

Monday 21 August 2006
at the IAU XXVIth General Assembly

The IAU XXVI GA Women in Astronomy Meeting luncheon will be held on Monday 21 August. The WAM will run from 12.30pm to 2.00pm and all IAU delegates are invited. The meeting will be held in the Small Hall on the ground floor of the Prague Congress Centre.

Program

The format of the WAM will be similar to the 2003 meeting, with keynote speakers Pat Knezek of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and Sunetra Giridhar of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, followed by break out groups of 10-12 will discuss various issues over lunch and then report back to the group over coffee. The focus will be on the current status of women in astronomy and to recommend future actions that will improve the environment for all astronomers.

Registration for WAM luncheon

Registration for the WAM is via the IAU GA registration. For details, please see the astronomy2006 website. There is a limit of 250 attendees, so please be sure to register avoid disappointment!

WAM Organising Committee

Co-chairs: Anne Green (Sydney) & Sarah Maddison (Swinburne)

Johannes Andersen (Niels Bohr)
Olga Dluzhnevskaya (INASAN)
Gloria Dubner (IAFE)
Andrea Dupree (CfA)
Elizabeth Griffin (DAO)
Miller Goss (NRAO) 		Mary Kontizas (Athens)
Birgitta Nordstrom (Niels Bohr)
Francesca Primas (ESO)
Sylvia Torres Peimbert (UNAM)
Yiping Wang (Purple Mountain)
Shahinaz Yousef (Cairo)

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