The Scientific Program of the XXVII IAU General Assembly has not been defined, yet. However, important information and dates to submission of proposals of Symposia, Joint Discussions, Special Sessions, etc. within the event can be found in the link Important Dates.
Below we present the list of Symposia approved by IAU to happen in 2008:
IAU Symposium No. 251 (Coordinating Division VI)
Organic Matter in Space
8-12 March 2008, Hong Kong, China
SOC chair: Sun Kwok <sunkwok@hku.hk>
IAU Symposium No. 252 (Coordinating Division IV)
Art of Modelling Stars in the 21st Century
10-14 March 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China
SOC chair: LiCai Deng <licai@boa.ac.cn>
IAU Symposium No. 253 (Coordinating Division III)
Transiting Planets
19-23 May 2008, Boston, MA, USA
SOC chair: Didier Queloz <didier.queloz@obs.unige.ch>
IAU Symposium No. 254 (Coordinating Division VII)
The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context
9-13 June 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
SOC chair: Birgitta Nordström <birgitta@astro.ku.dk>
IAU Symposium No. 255 (Coordinating Division VIII)
Low-metallicity Star Formation: from the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies
15-19 June 2008, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy
SOC chair: Leslie Hunt <hunt@arcetri.astro.it>
IAU Symposium No. 256 (Coordinating Division VIII)
The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies
28 July - 1 August 2008, Keele University, Stafffordshire, UK
SOC chair: Jacobus Th. van Loon <jacco@astro.keele.ac.uk>
IAU Symposium No. 257 (Coordinating Division II)
Universal Heliophysical Processes
5-9 September 2008, Ionnina, Greece
SOC chair: Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy <gopal@ssedmal.gsfs.nasa.gov>
IAU Symposium No. 258 (Coordinating Division IV)
The Ages of Stars
13-17 October 2008, Baltimore, MD, USA
SOC chair: David R. Soderblom <drs@stsci.edu>
IAU Symposium No. 259 (Coordinating Division II)
Cosmic Magnetic Fields: from Planets, to Stars and Galaxies
3-7 November 2008, Puert Santiago, Tenerife, Spain
SOC chair: Klaus G. Strassmeier <kstrassmeier@aip.de>
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