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Topics and Sessions
The Germany-UK NAM 2012 covers a wide range of astronomy and solar system science, as listed below.
Each topic contains one or more specific sessions, listed below with their main organizer.
1. COSMOLOGY
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| COS1 |
Cosmology and Structure Evolution with Wide-Field Optical and NIR Imaging Surveys |
| Joe Muhr |
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| COS2 |
Future wide-field massive spectroscopic surveys with 4m-telescopes |
| Will Percival |
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| COS3 |
Simulations of the formation of galaxies and larger structures |
| Carlos Frenk |
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| COS4 |
Models and observations of dark energy |
| Richard Battye |
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2. GALAXIES
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| GAL1 |
Dust and Molecular Gas in the High-redshift Universe / Star formation over the last 12 billion |
| Axel Weiss/Steve Eales |
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| GAL2 |
Galaxy formation and evolution. |
| Magda Arnaboldi |
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| GAL3 |
The nature of satellite and dwarf galaxies |
| Noam Libeskind |
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3. HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS AND TRANSIENTS
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| HE1 |
Extragalactic Transients. |
| Carole Mundell |
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| HE2 |
The Gamma-ray/radio connection |
| Ian Browne |
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| HE3 |
Multi-wavelength observations of compact objects |
| Roberto Mignani |
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4. GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY
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| GW1 |
Dawn of Gravitational Astronomy |
| B. S. Sathyaprakash |
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5. INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
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| ISM1 |
The formation of molecular clouds and their condensation into stars and stellar clusters |
| Matthew Bate |
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| ISM2 |
Cosmic carbon |
| Mikako Matsuura |
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| ISM3 |
Star Formation: Wide-angle and up-close |
| Melvin Hoare |
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6. STARS
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| STA1 |
Massive stars: From the Milky Way to beyond the Local Group |
| Chris Evans |
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| STA2 |
Binary Stars: Duplicity is Everywhere |
| Rob Izzard |
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| STA3 |
Galactic Archaeology with the Local Group |
| Eva Grebel |
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7. THE MAGNETIC UNIVERSE
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| MAG1 |
Magnetospheres throughout the Universe |
| Chris Arridge |
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| MAG2 |
Structure and Dynamics of Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields |
| Gunnar Hornig |
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8. EXOPLANETS AND PLANETARY SCIENCE
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| PL1 |
Small bodies in Our Solar System |
| Colin Snodgrass |
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| PL2 |
Exoplanets |
| Peter Wheatley |
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9. COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS
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| CP1 |
Current Developments in Numerical astrophysics |
| Chris Wareing |
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10. TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION
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| INS1 |
Evolution with ALMA - first science results on the cool universe |
| Anita Richards |
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| INS2 |
The European Extremely Large Telescope |
| Chris Evans |
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| INS3 |
First Science from SCUBA-2 |
| Ian Robson |
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| INS4 |
LOFAR, the LOw Frequency ARray: Ongoing Developments and Early Results |
| Mario Bisi |
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| INS5 |
Radio to sub-millimeter technology developments for receiver arrays. |
| Bruno Maffei |
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11. HISTORY
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| HIS1 |
Kepler and his discoveries |
| A. Davis |
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12. OUTREACH
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| OUT1 |
Public Astronomy |
| Alison Boyle |
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13. SOLAR PHYSICS
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| SP1 |
Interplanetary observations of the solar wind |
| Chris Davis |
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| SP2 |
Solar coronal magnetic fields |
| Stephane Regnier |
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| SP3 |
SP/MIST Heliospheric Missions Forum 2012 |
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| SP4 |
Solar Orbiter mission - How does the Sun create and control the heliosphere? |
| Andrzej Fludra |
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| SP5 |
Waves in the solar atmosphere |
| M. Mathioudakis |
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| SP6 |
General session |
| Philippa Browning |
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14. MIST
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| MST1 |
Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas |
| Clare Parnell |
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| MST2 |
New exploration of the geomagnetic field: opportunities with the ESA SWARM mission |
| Mike Hapgood |
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| MST3 |
Vertical Coupling through planetary atmospheres and ionospheres |
| Andrew Kavanagh |
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| MST4 |
Recent results in MIST science |
| Robert Fear |
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| MST5 |
Particle acceleration and transport at the Sun and in the heliosphere |
| Mykola Gordovskyy |
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