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The Dublin National Astronomy Meeting and UK Solar Physics Meeting 2003 was the largest astronomy meeting ever held in Ireland with the exception of the IAU General Assembly in 1955. A record number in excess of 530 participants attended more than 65 formal and less formal sessions from 7-11 April 2003. The meeting was noteworthy not only for the quality of the presentations but the strong interaction between participants. In part this was no doubt due to the excellent venue, Dublin Castle, at which the meeting was held. Not only was a lot of science communicated, but opportunities to network, exchange ideas and collaborate were maximized. The Armagh Observatory played a leading role in the arrangements for the meeting together with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and five universities through the island of Ireland.
In determining the programme for the NAM, a conscious effort was made to encompass the interests of the whole UK and Irish astronomical communities, including solar system astronomy, star and planet formation, space science, stellar astrophysics, solar physics and solar-terrestrial relationships, the interstellar medium, galaxies, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, particle physics and cosmology. In addition, the meeting provided a forum for an excellent history of astronomy session as well as sessions on astronomy education, archaeoastronomy, and the usual, and some not so usual, lunchtime and evening events. One of these, sponsored by the British Council, was the highly successful `Science in the Gravity Bar' event, in the Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, where upwards of 200 conference participants joined Mark Bailey (Armagh Observatory) and Duncan Steel (University of Salford) to discuss the `asteroid threat' (see Figure 11). Master of ceremony for the evening was the Irish media presenter Eanna Ni Lamhda. A full report and summary of the meeting is available from the Armagh Observatory web-site at: star.arm.ac.uk/preprints/AAG44307.pdf and star.arm.ac.uk/preprints/AAG44313.pdf.