Márcio’s talk “Stellar Variability in the VVV Survey: Highlights and Current Status”

Cristóbal Petrovic at the IAU GA opening ceremony where he was awarded with the Gruber Fellowship

Javier Alonso and Dante

Rodrigo Contreras, Camila Navarrete and Joyce Pullen

At the MAS Booth

Dante, Giuliano Pignata

Dante with Francesca Matteuci

Dante, Igor Soszynski, Kris and Alekssandra Helminiak

Chien-Cheng Lin (Taiwan) Beijing National University and Dante

Malama Honua Parade (Take care of the Earth)

Dante, Alekssandra & Kris Helminiak, Rodrigo Contreras and Camila Navarrete

Somewhere around The Crouching Lion

Márcio Catelan at his Talk

The IAU Surfboard

The Convention Center

IAU XXIX General Assembly, Hawaii 2015

At the XXIX IAU General Assembly, 2015 in Hawaii, we were engaged in the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics Booth, where we were able to be seen by some of the 2500 assistants.

The way in which we represented some of our work was  through on-screen movies and slideshows, were some magnificent and unique images were displayed.

The astronomy-educated public was able to appreciate our work within seconds, wondered by images of galaxies seen through the other side of the Milky Way plane, by movies of Javier Alonso’s CMDs of the Milky Way Bulge’s tiles or Felipe Gran’s 851 RR Lyraes or Dante’s slides from VVV’s results.

Also Marcio Catelan’s book “Pulsating Stars” was very attractive to the audience, and Dante Minniti’s book “Vistas de la Galaxia” was greeted to remarkable visitors such as Silvia Torres-Peimbert, the new President of the IAU.