Announcements

Second Announcement

This is the second announcement for the scientific meeting “Resolved stellar populations from photographic plates to large surveys. A celebration of Peter B. Stetson’s career in astronomy”, which will take place in Florence, Italy, on 7-11 October 2024. The conference will be held at the historical Blue Room of the Fuligno Montedomini Foundation Centre in the town center. 

Abstract submission is open until the 17th of May: Abstract submission form here

More information, including registration fees and important dates, can be found at the meeting webpage: https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/stellarpopulations2024 

Please feel free to circulate the email among interested colleagues. 

We look forward to meeting you in Florence.

The SOC

Elena Pancino (co-chair) Matteo Monelli (co-chair)

Giuseppe Bono

Annalisa Calamida

Patrick Cote

Laura Ferrarese 

Carme Gallart

Alan McConnachie

Nicoletta Sanna

Kim Venn

Manuela Zoccali

List of confirmed speakers

Santi Cassisi

Giuliana Fiorentino

Wendy Freedman

Rodrigo Ibata

Carmela Lardo

Clara Martinez-Vazquez

David Nidever

Evan Skillman

Ása Skúladóttir

Horace Smith

Alistair Walker

Code of conduct

The organizers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. All participants are required to abide by the following Code of Conduct to help us achieve a safe and positive workshop for everyone. Please follow these guidelines:

1. Be kind to and respect others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

2. Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.

3. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.

4. If participants wish to share photos of a speaker on social media, we strongly recommend that they first get the speaker's permission. Participants may also share the contents of talks/slides via social media unless speakers have asked that specific details/slides not be shared.

5. Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.

Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to the organizers (stelpop_FI2024@inaf.it)

We acknowledge Software Carpentry https://software-carpentry.org/conduct/ for the basis of this Code of Conduct, which is a modified version of that used by PyCon, which in turn is forked from a template written by the Ada Initiative and hosted on the Geek Feminism Wiki