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An international workshop in honour of Agnès Acker:

Legacies of the Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Hα Planetary Nebula project

February 16-18th 2009, Sydney, Australia

Macquarie University
Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Anglo-Australian Observatory
Halpha survey
Australian Academy of Science
Astronomical Society of Australia
Donovan Trust
International Year of Astronomy 2009

Major Topics Covered: PN Surveys, the Galactic distance scale and
PN luminosity functions in our Galaxy, the Magellanic clouds and beyond, PN morphology, The PNe population of the Galactic Bulge and CSPN binarity

Confirmed invited speakers include:

Agnès Acker, Robin Ciardullo, Romano Corradi, Martin Cohen, Orsola DeMarco, David Frew, George Jacoby, Warren Reid, Dick Shaw, Letizia Stanghellini, Albert Zijlstra

Latest News - 23/3/9

The deadline for submitting papers to PASA is the 17th of April so get cracking! The PASA Instructions to Authors page may be helpful as you prepare your manuscript.

Congratulations all on a great workshop! We hope you had a marvellous time. The photos and the powerpoint presentations are now up.

conference photo
Group photo available in low resolution (1.5 MB) or nicely high res (11 MB)

soccer photos synchronized falling team photo


Early registrations have now closed, although one may still register for the workshop until early February. Please email cathieb @ physics.mq.edu.au if you have any difficulties.

The workshop poster is now available for printing (.tiff image).

Registrations

Registration information for the workshop is here. The participants list is here. The early registration deadline was January 15th, 2009, however places are limited to 70 registrants, so please get in early.

PN1

SOC:

Quentin Parker (Chair, MQ)
Agnès Acker (Strasbourg)
George Jacoby (NOAO)
Orsola DeMarco (MQ)
Sun Kwok (Hong-Kong)
Dick Shaw (NOAO)

PN2

LOC:

Paul Dobbie (AAO)
Anna Kovacevic (MQ)
Quentin Parker (MQ)
David Frew (Perth)
Alan Vaughan (MQ)
Simon O'Toole (AAO)

For further information (and additions or corrections), contact: qap@physics.mq.edu.au, fax +61 9850 8115

 

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