Original Message
From: "Thierry Montmerle"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:36 PM
Subject: IAU Commission Reform
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I wish to draw your attention to an Announcement that has been released on
> the IAU web page (
www.iau.org), launching the IAU Commission
> Reform.
>
> This announcement (
www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann14008/)
> presents the main steps of a plan prepared by the Division Presidents as a
> follow-up of the new Division structure approved at the Beijing General
> Assembly in 2012 (Resolution B4:
>
www.iau.org/static/resolutions/IAU2012_English.pdf), recently
> endorsed by the Executive Committee.
>
> This plan includes a call for proposals and selection of new Commissions,
> a signing-up by individual members for these Commissions, a vote for their
> Organizing Committees, and the termination of all current Commissions,
> with the simultaneous creation of the new Commissions by the Executive
> Committee, at the Honolulu General Assembly in 2015.
>
> As a result of this plan, the scientific structure of the IAU will be
> renewed, expecting in particular that many new Commissions will address
> the most recent advances in astronomy and astronomical methods. We wish
> all individual members to be closely engaged in the reform process and in
> building the new Commission structure. To that effect we have opened an
> online Commission Reform Forum
> (
www.iau.org/science/commission-reform-forum/) for feedback to the
> Executive Committee and to the Division Presidents.
>
> The IAU Executive Committee believes this process for renewing the
> Commissions is a unique opportunity, never offered previously, to innovate
> and engage the future. The Commission reform aims at making the IAU, at a
> time when it turns almost 100, more responsive to its members, and in
> particular to its younger generation, as well as more effective and
> relevant in a constantly evolving scientific and societal environment.
>
> Thierry Montmerle
