Co-Sponsored Meetings

The IAU and the COSPAR Capacity Building Workshops

The IAU is pleased to have been co-sponsor of COSPAR Capacity Building Workshops. Workshops in this series were:

2nd COSPAR-IAU Capacity-Building Workshop
Regional Workshop for Latin American Astronomers on Data Processing from the Chandra and XMM-Newton Space Missions:
An Advanced School for Astronomers working at all Wavelengths
São José dos Campos, SP - Brasil, 4-13 December 2001
SOC chair: A.P. Willmore
LOC chair: F. Jablonski

3rd COSPAR-IAU Capacity-Building Workshop
Regional Workshop for Asia-Pacific Astronomers on Data Processing from the Chandra and XMM-Newton Space Missions:
An Advanced School for Astronomers working at all Wavelengths
Udaipur, India, 13-24 January 2003
LOC chair: H.S.S. Sinha

4th COSPAR-IAU Capacity-Building Workshop
Regional Workshop for African Astronomers and Space Scientists, Data Processing from the Chandra and XMM-Newton Space Missions:
An Advanced School for Multi-wavelength Astrophysics
Durban, South Africa, 28 June - 9 July 2004
SOC chair: A.P. Willmore (UK), A.R.W. Hughes (SA)

7th COSPAR-IAU Capacity Building Workshop
Regional Workshop for Planetary Scientists from Latin America
COSPAR Workshop on Planetary Science
23 July - 3 August 2007, Montevideo, Uruguay
Contact: Gonzalo Tancredi  (gonzalo@fisica.edu.uy)
URL: http://www.astronomia.edu.uy/cospar2007

8th COSPAR-IAU Capacity Building Workshop
Regional Workshop on Space Astrophysics with the Swift, Chandra, and XMM/Newton Missions - A High-Energy Data Processing Workshop for Young Physicists and Astronomers from North Africa and the Middle East
19 January - 1 February 2008, Alexandria, Egypt
Contact: Alaa Ibrahim (alaa@gwu.edu)
URL: http://cais.cu.edu.eg/astro

9th COSPAR-IAU Capacity Building Workshop
in Space Optical and UV Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region
1-14 June 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contact: Asillam, Mohd Fairos (fairos@angkasa.gov.my)
URL: http://www.angkasa.gov.my/cospar2008/

10th COSPAR-IAU Capacity Building Workshop
Lunar and Planetary Surface Science
September 6 ~19, 2009 — Harbin, China
Contact: cospar2009@astro.hit.edu.cn ; cospar2009@gmail.com
URL: http://astro.hit.edu.cn/cospar2009workshop/

11th COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop
Data Analysis of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
8-19 February, 2010
Contact: Biswajit Paul (bpaul@rri.res.in)
URL: http://www.rri.res.in/fermi_cospar_2010/