INAUGURATION OF EWASS 2015, ON MONDAY

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Next Monday, June 22nd  at 09.00 the inauguration will take place in the Great Hall of the “Aulario” of the University of La Laguna (ULL) in Tenerife, the biggest annual conference of European astronomers: EWASS (European Week of Astronomy and Space Science) with some 1,200 astronomers from over 50 countries. This edition of the EWASS, coordinated locally by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canries, (IAC) and organized by the European Astronomical Society (EAS) in collaboration with the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) the IAC, and the ULL will be celebrated on the Guajara Campus from 22nd to 26th June.

The inauguration will be attended by the President of the Cabildo (Island Assembly) of Tenerife, Carlos Alonso, the Director General of the Canary Agency of Research, Innovation, and the Information Society (ACISII) of the Canary Regional Government, Juan Ruiz Alzola, the President of the EAS, Thierry Courvoisier, the President of the SEA, Javier Gorgas, the joint Presidents of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Johan Knapen and Cathie Clarke, and the Director of the IAC, Rafael Rebolo. 

EWASS 2015 will take in several plenary lectures and some 40 parallel symposia at which researchers from all over Europe will share the latest advances in the different areas of astronomy and Astrophysics. There will also be time to debate European scientific politics in the field of astronomy, and to recognize, with a number of prizes, both professional astronomers with long service, and some of the best young European researchers. In addition there will be popular lectures in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos, of Museums of Tenerife: today Friday 19th June a lecture about red giant stars by the Australian astrophysicist Amanda Karakas, on Thursday 25th June about Space Science, by Álvaro Giménez, Director of Science of the European Space Agency (ESA), and on Friday 3rd July, about galaxies by the Canadian astrophysicist Stéphane Courteau. 

Further information:

http://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=938

http://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=946

ACCREDIATION:

Those from the news media who want to attend the inauguration or any of the conference sessions can be accredited at prensa [at] iac.es (prensa[at]iac[dot]es)

Contacts:

Carmen del Puerto: 922605208 y 650107957

Nayra Rodríguez: 922605371

Anna Boluda: 619774516

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