Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting to Be Held in Japan in Summer 2023

APRIM (Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting) (※1), an international meeting of the IAU(※2), will be held in Koriyama, Fukushima(※3) Prefecture in the summer of 2023.
The announcement was made on May 26, 2021 at a meeting of the IAU subcommittee under the Committee for Physics, Science Council of Japan(※4).
This will be the third APRIM held in Japan following those held in 1984(Kyoto) and 2002(Tokyo).

WATANABE Junichi, Vice-Director General (on General Affairs) of Inter-University Research Institute Corporation,
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Visiting Professor, Deputy Center Director of ARC-Space)(※5),
Professor DEMURA Hirohide (Director of ARC-Space), Professor NAKASATO Naohito, Senior Associate Professor HIRATA Naru, and Associate Professor KITASATO Kohei of the University of Aizu made an effort that the conference would be held in Fukushima Prefecture.

The details of the conference will be decided from now on.
These faculty members of UoA, Koriyama City Fureai Science Museum, the College of Engineering, Nihon University and others will prepare for it.

• ※1　APRIM (Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting) : It is the largest regional conference organized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and has been held every three years since 1978. It is the second largest international astronomy conference after the IAU General Assembly, with 500 to 1000 participants each time.
• ※2　International Astronomical Union（IAU）
• ※3　BIG PALETTE FUKUSHIMA
• ※4　National Astronomical Observatory of Japan　Press Release
• ※5　Aizu Research Center for Space Informatics (ARC-Space)

(Publication date: May 26, 2021)