Astronomical Society of Iran :: Introduction

7/31/2010

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Introduction to the Astronomical Society of Iran

The Astronomical Society of Iran is a non-beneficiary institute which has been established for the purpose of increase and improving the astronomy activities including improvement of educational quality, developing researches, having the cooperation and making more coordination among the scientific and technical centers of the country.

The association was registered on November 24, 1996 under Reg. No. 9226.

The board of founders of Astronomical Society of Iran are: Dr. Yousef Sobouti, Dr. Bahram Khaleseh, Dr. Nematollah Riazi, Dr. Ali Ajabshir Zadeh, Dr. Jamshid Ghanbari, Dr. Ahmad Kiasatpour, Dr. Reza Mansouri, Dr. Sadollah Nassiri Gheydari and Dr. Hossein Vakili Karimabadi.

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2010/07/19 : The Astronomy school of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (IPM) and The Sharif University of Technology announce an international workshop on formation, detection, dynamical evolution and habitability of extrasolar planets in Kish Island of Iran. (Jan. 29 – Feb. 11, 2011)

2010/07/06 : Dear colleagues

Im inviting you to submit observing proposals for the INT 2.5m optical telescope located at La Palma.

Those interested need to fill in the standard observing proposal form and forward it to habib [at] ...

2009/01/14 : Conference Aims
In International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) that highlighted by the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei, research institute of astronomy and astrophysics of Maragha (RIAAM) and ShAO observatory cooperate two conferences in ...

2008/12/05 : 13 th Meeting on Reasearch Astronomy 8-9 Bahman 1387 (January 27-28, 2009 ) and Meeting on Astronomy before and after Galileo 10-11 Bahman 1387 (January 29-30, 2009) more info: www.iasbs.ac.ir/astro2009 ...

2008/07/08 : On the occasion of 400-year human application of telescope which was invented by Galileo Galilei, the year 2009 was announced as International Year of Astronomy. The role of astronomy in history and culture of societies and its current scientific status is tried to be investigated and introduced to ...

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