National Astronomy Meeting 2005

Welcome to the website for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2005, which will be held from Monday 4 to Friday 8 April 2005 at the University of Birmingham, in conjunction with the UK Solar Physics Meeting. RAS-NAM 2005 is supported by the Royal Astronomical Society, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and the University of Birmingham

10/05/2005	The online proceedings are now available.
02/05/2005	Talk/poster submission is now closed.
12/04/2005	Please upload your talk/poster for the online proceedings, only zip, gzip, bzip2 and pdf files are accepted.
08/04/2005	NAM Press Releases 16, 17, 18 amd 19 now available.
07/04/2005	NAM Press Releases 13, 14, 15 and 20 now available.
06/04/2005	NAM Press Releases 8, 9, 10, 12 and 22 now available.
05/04/2005	NAM Press Releases 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 21 now available.
04/04/2005	Talk/poster submission is now closed. NAM Press Release 11 now available.
01/04/2005	The upload of talks/posters has been extended until 5pm on Monday 4th April 2005.
22/03/2005	The talk/poster submission page is now available.
21/03/2005	The full science programme has now been made available here, along with a complete list of abstracts for talks and posters here.
17/03/2005	Second NAM Press Release.
15/03/2005	Registration has now closed. The total number registered is 421.
01/03/2005	The deadline for talk and poster abstract submissions has now passed. Session chairs will be in contact in due course to advise you of the status of any abstract submitted. Although we have closed for abstracts, registrations for the meeting can be made until Monday 14th March 2005.
14/02/2005	Many parallel sessions still have some free slots, and further talk abstracts will be considered until these are full.
11/02/2005	First NAM Press Release.
06/12/2004	Registration open.

Some of the main features of NAM / UKSP 2005, which differ in some cases from earlier meetings, are

More plenary sessions (two on most days) covering the following broad "interface" themes
- Star formation and galaxy evolution
- Cosmology and structure formation
- Extreme environments and and the laws of physics
- Planetary formation and the prospects of life
- New astronomy from novel analysis techniques
- Fundamental physics and the early Universe
- The solar-stellar connection - joint UKSP/NAM session
A high profile for posters - including a plenary poster session, poster trailers in parallel sessions, RAS poster competition, and 50% discount on the conference dinner to postgraduate students presenting posters or talks
Over 30 parallel sessions, including UKSP sessions
Jobs fair - jobs can be advertised via the conference web site, and on a dedicated poster board at the meeting. Rooms can be booked for interviews and informal job discussions
Introductory reception in the Barber Institute Art Gallery on campus, sponsored by the University of Birmingham
Conference dinner at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Public lecture: "Big Bang" by Simon Singh, at "ThinkTank", Birmingham's Science Museum
The Allison-Levick Public Lecture: "When telescopes go bad" by Fred Watson of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, more details here
Special UKSP/NAM lunchtime session on the up coming International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Women In Astronomy, Young Astronomers and Astronomy in Schools lunchtime sessions
Splinter Meeting, UKIRT: Future Science and New Instrumentation, more details here.

RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2005

& UK Solar Physics Meeting

University of Birmingham

Monday 4 - Friday 8 April 2005