14 DAY TRIAL // The latest in astronomy and space science will be discussed during the week of September 6-10 2010, at the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting – JENAM, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
At the event are expected nearly 600 astronomers from all around the world, who will discuss about the cutting edge topics of astronomy, space science and related technologies, going from the search and research of Earth-like planets to the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and the Universe.
The participants will attend technical sessions, approaching subjects like the latest progress in optical interferometry and the next big thing in radio astronomy, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
The President of the Portuguese Astronomical Society, André Moitinho de Almeida, is very excited about organizing JENAM for the second time in Portugal, and he gives some details about the conference:
“I think we will have some very interesting sessions, such as the lecture by Raymond Wilson, one of the fathers of active optics and who will receive the Tycho Brahe Award 2010 during JENAM and the special sessions of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) which will present recent results on the Rosetta Mission and Herschel Space Telescope, as well as an overview of future ESA missions within the Cosmic Vision Program.”
He points out the Special Session dedicated to the CERN – a first-time-participant at this conference- saying that “in this session we will discuss future results of high energy physics obtained with the Large Hadron Collider and the impact of these results on astrophysics.”
Joachim Krauter, the President of the European Astronomical Society says “we believe JENAM greatly contributes to promote the advancement of astronomy in Europe. It is also a good opportunity for scientists to meet and discuss their projects and results and, finally, it provides an important forum of discussion for the most pressing topics in modern astronomy.”
At the event will also take part the European Southern Observatory (ESO) which will present the E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope, made by the Director of ESO’s Office for Science, Bruno Leibundgut.
The ESO will also have a special session that will focus on ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, AlphaGalileo reports.
The Plenary Sessions will include the Highlight Talks by Young Outstanding Researchers, with Enric Pallé (IAC) talking about “The Earth as a distant planet” (Tuesday, September 7) as well as Catherine Heymans (ROE) who will talk about “Charting the dark Universe” (Thursday, September 9).
The JENAM is organized each year in one of the European countries with the support of the European Astronomical Society (600) and of one of the national astronomical societies.
The 2010 edition taking place in Lisbon, will be the 18th Annual Meeting of the European Astronomical Society and the 20th Annual Portuguese Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Details of the conference can be found on the official website: http://www.jenam2010.org