[AAA] Fwd: IAU GA 2024

[Beatriz Garcia]

Hola
Este intercambio puede ser de interés para todos y todas los que deseen
participar en la IAU GA 2024 en Sudáfrica de manera virtual.
Kevin Govender (chair de la GA) autoriza a difundirlo.

saludos
B

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De: Kevin Govender <kg en astro4dev.org>
Date: jue, 21 dic 2023 a las 16:52
Subject: Re: IAU GA 2024
To: Beatriz Garcia <beatriz.garcia en iteda.cnea.gov.ar>


Dear Beatriz
I completely agree with you. The cost for registering for the IAU GA is
indeed very high for many of the people we want to be part of it. Our
decision to make the meeting open access (i.e. all talks will be live
streamed) will be a start towards getting more people involved. However, we
do want people to be able to fully participate virtually. The mechanism we
have for the target audience you mention is the grant application which one
can complete when completing the abstract submission. Those grants can be
used to waive the fees for virtual participation. Please advise anyone you
know who is looking to access the meeting to please submit a grant
application and request in that application that their fees are waived for
virtual participation.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Kevin


On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 14:51, Beatriz Garcia <
beatriz.garcia en iteda.cnea.gov.ar> wrote:

> Dear Kevin,
> this is a formal email to share some thoughts about the next  IAU GA in
> South Africa and the attendance possibility for some people on the planet.
> It is clear that the organization has a lot of needs about funds to carry
> out with success the encounter.
> However, I consider that the inscription for onlite participants is very
> high. The situation right now is such that many astronomers on the planet
> will not assist to Assemble in person, because of the costs of flights and
> allocation and the economical, social, political,  situation in each
> country.
>
> The online participation is one of the inclusive decisions from some
> organizing committees of scientific activities, beautiful the inscription
> is high, the inclusion and equity automatically are going down.
>
> For this, this message is to ask about the possibility to include between
> all the organization topics, the chance to ask for a free online
> participation in the GA, mainly for PhD students, young astronomers and
> marginalized populations, who will be happy to participate but their
> rights are reduced for economic or other reasons. Of course, we are not
> talking about exempting everyone, just analyzing special cases.
>
> Thank you very much for taking into account this message
> with my best regards
> Beatriz
>


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Kevin Govender
IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
www.astro4dev.org
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