XXXII IAU General Assembly 2024 Satellite Viewing Centre Heidelberg

Haus der Astronomie is a Satellite Viewing Centre of the XXXII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, taking place hybrid 6-15 August 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa and online.

Haus der Astronomie invites researchers, students and the public to attend the XXXII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, taking place hybrid 6-15 August 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa and online. HdA serves as a Satellite Viewing Centre, which allows interactive participation in the plenaries and selected parallel sessions from HdA‘s Auditorium and seminar rooms via Zoom. We also encourage in-person discussions among the participants in Heidelberg.

The programme of the GA includes the six IAU Symposia 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics, 390 A Multi-Point view of the Sun: Advances in Solar Observations and in Space Weather Understanding, 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST, 392 Neutral hydrogen in and around galaxies in the SKA era, 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope and 394 All-inclusive AGN, as well as the twelve Focus Meetings Harnessing ground-based optical telescopes: an opportunity for emerging astronomy in Africa, A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths, Follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System in the era of large discovery surveys, Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients, The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum, History of Astronomy in South Africa: The Late Modern Period, New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data, Advances and Challenges in Understanding the Solar and Stellar Dynamos, Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time, Teaching capacity of remote observing facilities for the Universities and High Schools, Multi-wavelength Astrometry, The High-Energy Gamma-ray Universe: Results and perspectives with wide-field ground-based facilities, as well as six Working Group Meetings, the Division Days and the Institutional Meetings of the IAU Offices.

A registration is not required to participate in the GA Satellite Event, however, we ask you to check out the detailed programme of the GA and vote below for the parallel sessions you would like to attend at least one day in advance. Due to limited capacity, only up to three sessions can be transmitted in parallel. The selected sessions and rooms where the sessions will take place will be announced in the HdA each day.

Programme of the GA Satellite Viewing Centre Heidelberg

Tuesday, 6 August
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel Sessions: IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Auditorium) and FM 3 Follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System in the era of large discovery surveys (Seminar Room 1)
12:00-13:30 CEST Shaw Prize talk (Auditorium)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel Session: IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Auditorium) and FM 3 Follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System in the era of large discovery surveys (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel Session: IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Auditorium) and FM 3 Follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System in the era of large discovery surveys (Seminar Room 1)
17:15-18:15 CEST Opening Ceremony (Auditorium)

Wednesday, 7 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel Sessions: IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium) and IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Seminar Room 1)
12:00-13:30 CEST ODE Prizes (Auditorium)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel Sessions: IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium) and IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel Sessions: IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium) and IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Seminar Room 1)

Thursday, 8 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary IAUS 390 A Multi-Point view of the Sun: Advances in Solar Observations and in Space Weather Understanding (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel session: FM 7 New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data (Seminar Room 1)
12:00-13:30 CEST Gruber Prize (Auditorium)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium) and FM 7 New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 389 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Auditorium) and FM 7 New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data (Seminar Room 1)
17:15-18:15 CEST Invited Discourse: Dr Bernie Fanaroff (SKA) "Innovating at the Periphery: the Development of SKA and MeerKAT"

Friday, 9 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary IAUS 391 The first chapters of our cosmic history with JWST (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Division Poster sessions (Auditorium)
10:30-12:00 CEST Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (Spiral arm east 1st floor)
13:30-15:00 CEST Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (Auditorium) and Division G Stars and Stellar Physics (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-15:30 CEST Division Poster Sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Joint Offices Meeting (Seminar Room 1)
17:15-18:15 CEST Invited Discourse: Joop Schaye (Leiden University) - "Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations" (Seminar Room 1)

Monday, 12 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Offices Plenary: Brian Schmidt - How to build an impactful career (and perhaps even win a Nobel prize): or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Astronomy
10:00-10:30 CEST Division Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Division A Fundamental Astronomy (Auditorium), Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (Seminar Room 1) and Division J Galaxies and Cosmology (Seminar Room 2)
13:30-15:00 CEST Division A Fundamental Astronomy (Auditorium), Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (Seminar Room 1) and Division J Galaxies and Cosmology (Seminar Room 2)
15:00-15:30 CEST Division Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Division A Fundamental Astronomy (Auditorium), Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology (Seminar Room 1) and Division J Galaxies and Cosmology (Seminar Room 2)

Tuesday, 13 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary: IAUS 392 Neutral hydrogen in and around galaxies in the SKA era (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and FM 9 Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time (Seminar Room 2)
12:00-13:30 CEST Kavli Prize (Auditorium)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and FM 9 Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time (Seminar Room 2)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and WG3 Women in Astronomy (Seminar Room 2)
17:15-18:15 CEST Invited Discourse: Natalie Batalha (UC Santa Cruz) - "A Front Row Seat to Exoplanet Discovery with Performances by Kepler, TESS, and JWST" (Auditorium)

Wednesday, 14 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium) and IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-14:45 CEST WG3 Women in Astronomy (Seminar Room 2)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium) and IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN Posters (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:00-17:00 CEST WG3 Women in Astronomy (Seminar Room 2)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium) and IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1)

Thursday, 15 August
8:30-10:00 CEST Plenary: IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Auditorium)
10:00-10:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
10:30-12:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and WG4 Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion (Seminar Room 2)
13:30-15:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and WG4 Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion (Seminar Room 2)
15:00-15:30 CEST Poster sessions (Seminar Room 1)
15:30-17:00 CEST Parallel sessions: IAUS 393 Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of James Webb Space Telescope (Auditorium), IAUS 394 All-inclusive AGN (Seminar Room 1) and WG4 Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion (Seminar Room 2)
17:15-18:15 CEST Closing Ceremony (Auditorium)