Dear colleague,

we’d like to draw your attention to the next General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, taking place in Beijing, China on 20-31 August, 2012 (http://www.astronomy2012.org).

Four meetings that bear strong relevance to Solar Physics will take place during the General Assembly, as detailed below. This is the first time that so numerous events related to Solar science occur in a single GA. Further, within the current schedule these events have limited temporal overlap, allowing participants to attend more than one of them during the duration of the GA, as well as the usual host of complementary activities provided by the IAU.

Deadline for abstract submission and IAU travel grants request is Feb 29, 2012. Further details will be provided in the webpages of the various meetings, which are being developed.

Best regards,

A. Kosovichev, L. van Driel Gesztelyi, G. Cauzzi, J.L. Bougeret

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IAU Symposium 294 “Solar and astrophysical dynamos and magnetic activity”
27-31 August
Contact: Alexander Kosovichev, sasha@sun.stanford.edu
http://sun.stanford.edu/IAUS294/

IAU Joint Discussion 3 “3-D views of the cycling Sun in stellar context”
20-22 August
Contact: Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi, Lidia.vanDriel@obspm.fr
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/iau_c10/iau28ga_jd03.html

Special Session 6 “Science with large solar telescopes”
22-24 August
Contact: Gianna Cauzzi, gcauzzi@arcetri.astro.it
http://www.arcetri.astro.it/IAUSpS6

Special Session 10 “Dynamics of the star-planet relations & Public Outreach”
27-30 August
Contact: Jean-Louis Bougeret, jean-louis.bougeret@obspm.fr
http://lesia.obspm.fr/IAUSpS10 (available soon)

Note that there will be several SpS10 associated activities:
- joint IAU-WISER Advanced School on Space Environment (3 days)
- two Public Forums at Peking University and Tsinghua University