2015 RASNZ Conference and TTSO9
The next conference of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (RASNZ) will be held at Lake Tekapo from 8th-10th May 2015. The guest speakers will be Professors Gerry Gilmore (University of Cambridge) and Edward Guinan (Villanova University), and the Fellows Lecture for 2015 will be delivered by Associate Professor Karen Pollard of Canterbury University. Titles and abstracts for these talks will be released when they are available. For further information on the RASNZ conference and registration please visit the conference website at http://www.rasnz.org.nz/Conference. The conference will be preceded by a two day symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mount John Observatory. See http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/mtjohn50/ for registration information and other details of this meeting. Following the conference, the Ninth Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations (TTSO9) will be held at the Godley Hotel, Lake Tekapo on 11th-12th May. For details see http://occultations.org.nz/meetings/TTSO9/TTSO9.htm. Note that registrations for TTSO9 must be made through the RASNZ Conference registration page. The RASNZ conference committee invites and encourages anyone interested in New Zealand or related astronomy to submit papers for the Conference, with titles and abstracts due 1st April 2015. The link to the paper submission form can be found on the RASNZ conference website given above. Please note that you MUST be registered for the conference to make a presentation. Even if you are just thinking of presenting a paper please submit the form, and we can follow up with you at a later date. A separate Call for Papers for TTSO9 will occur shortly.