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THE IAU TODAY part II
Pre-MEETING of the XXXI GA Business Session II

Thursday August 26 2021, 13:30-14:50 pm CEST by Zoom/YouTube

Due to a technical problem the youtube recording consists out of the last three minutes of this meeting. Below you can click on each contribution to view a post-meeting recording of that individual contribution.

13:30: Welcome by the IAU President-elect

13:35: Kavli Prize Winner Andrew Fabian (Cambridge, UK): "AGN Feedback"

13:50: Meet the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education: Markus Pössel (Heidelberg, Germany)

14:00: PhD Prize Winner> Jane Huang (Michigan, USA): "The ALMA View of Planet Formation"

14:10: Meet the IAU Women in Astronomy Working Group: Dara Norman (NOIRlab, USA)

14:15: Meet the IAU Junior Members Working Group: Maria Drozdovskaya (Bern, Switzerland), Fatoumata Kebe (Paris,France)

14:20: Meet the IAU Dark and Quiet Sky Protection Working Group: Constance Walker (NOIRlab, USA)

14:25: Shaw Prize Winner Victoria M. Kaspi (McGill Univ., Canada): “Fast Radio Bursts"

14:40: Meet the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development: Kevin Govender (Cape Town, South Africa). PR video

14:50: End