Late Breaking News on IAU Colloquium 156 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 26-April-1995: The meeting is now less than 2 weeks away! IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO IMMEDIATELY. The registration dealine is May 1st. You can register by contacting Cheryl Schmidt (e-mail:schmidt@stsci.edu; phone: 410-338-4404). All abstracts have now been posted online and will appear in an "abstract book" that will be distributed at the meeting. There are a total of 131 posters. We will accept some LATE posters on a first-come, first serve basis (depending on space availability). If you want to submit a late paper, please send your abstract electronically to Hal Weaver (weaver@stsci.edu). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 20-April-1995: The registrants list has been updated. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 18-April-1995: There are now 119 abstracts online. Note that the "titles and authors" list for the abstracts is NOT current. We will not update the latter until all abstracts have been put online. PLEASE REGISTER WITH CHERYL SCHMIDT BEFORE MAY 1ST. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 17-April-1995: There are now 116 abstracts online. An updated program, including specific times for all events, is now available in both ASCII and Postscript versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 14-April-1995: The number of online abstracts is now 79. We have paper copies of another 42 and hope to have those translated into electronic form and posted by next week. Zdenek Sekanina is replacing Hans Rickman as the Invited Speaker for the talk on the tidal breakup of SL9. Sekanina's abstract is now online. We have updated the abstracts for the invited talks and the charters for the workshops. If you have not yet registered for the meeting, then you must do so before May 1st. We need to get an accurate head count for planning purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 27-March-1995: We have received 23 abstracts for poster papers, and they are now available online via this WWW page. We will be updating the abstract catalog periodically as new abstracts are received. Please note that the catalog of poster abstracts is not necessarily consistent with the catalog of titles and authors, since these documents are updated separately. In general, the document containing the full abstracts will be more current. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 21-March-1995: The order of the workshops has been re-arranged in order to provide a closer correspondence with the related invited talks. All workshop "convenors" have been specified, so the program is now complete. There has been some discussion about whether the afternoon workshops should be held in parallel or in series. We have tentatively decided on the latter. Serial sessions will only be productive, however, if the groups don't become too large. Thus, we hope that people will keep this in mind when they are trying to decide whether or not to attend a particular workshop. If you truly want to participate, please don't hesitate to do so. But if there is a large crowd and you are only mildly interested, then it might be better if you visit the poster session or take the opportunity to chat with other colleagues who are not participating in the workshop. We are starting to receive poster abstracts, so the WWW page now provides links to these abstracts. If you plan to submit an abstract, please send it ASAP via e-mail to both Hal Weaver (weaver@stsci.edu) and Cheryl Schmidt (schmidt@stsci.edu) as either a Latex file (preferred) or a plain ASCII file. The submission deadline for abstracts is April 1st. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 16-March-1995: We have already received invitation requests from 248 people, and we can only accomodate 325. So if you have not yet requested an invitation, please do so immediately. Approximately 74 people are formally registered for the meeting at this time, so a lot of people with invitations have not yet registered. These latter folks should get a moveon if they want to secure their places!
