Future Meetings

Due to the increasing number of workshops and conferences related to subjects of interest to our commission, some degree of coordination of the meetings both in subject and dates would be highly desirable for the interested scientists. Several ideas for an improvement of the situation were discussed, i.e.,

• information exchange between the organizers well in advance of the meeting
• installation of a joint webpage for advertizing the meetings of interest
• keeping a fixed 3 years meeting cycle like IAU GA in year 1, ACM in year 2, other topics in year 3.

The discussion concluded that most likely any type of coordination of meetings is at present difficult to achieve since it may put unwanted constraints on the organizers of the meetings.

The president urged the incoming president to push for at least two sessions for the business meeting at the next General Assembly since it had been impossible to even get to potential new business from the floor at the present meeting which extended fully into the break.