EWASS 2014 : European Week of Astronomy and Space Science

EWASS 2014 : Conference Announcement

The European Astronomical Society (EAS) is pleased to announce you the conference EWASS 2014 to be held for the first time in Geneva from 30 June to 4 July 2014.

The program of EWASS 2014 is very rich with 10 symposia, 4 special sessions, 3 special meetings in addition of numerous plenary talks, prize awards, exhibitions, etc.

Symposia

1. Star formation in galaxies: from small to large scales
2. The outer regions of extrasolar planetary systems
3. Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training: GREAT network science symposium
4. Origin of Cosmic Dust
5. Digging deep into the extragalactic infrared sky: current status and the European road to the JWST
6. From local galaxies to the reionisation epoch: the Universe as seen in Lyman a
7. Fast outflows in massive stars: from single objects to wind-fed and colliding-wind binaries
8. Testable solutions to the dark matter problem: theory & observations
9. Exploring the low-frequency radio sky in the SKA era
10. mm/submm astronomy in the ALMA era

Special Sessions

1. What powers anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters ?
2. Helios and Helium: what is wrong with them ?
3. Tidal disruption events around Sgr A* and beyond
4. Cluster lensing and distant sources

Special Meetings

1. ASTRONET meeting
2. Myths and facts about women in astronomy
3. Inter-, multi-and transdisciplinarity in astronomical education