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This
meeting is the 6'th in a series of the International Astronomical Union
(IAU) Symposia on Astrochemistry, following the 1985 Goa, 1991 Brazil,
1996 Leiden, 1999 Korea and 2005 Asilomar Symposia. The main goal of the
meeting is to bring together observers, theoreticians, and
experimentalists from different communities to discuss the many different
aspects of our rapidly developing field. The Scientific Organising
Committee is formed by the IAU Working Group on Astrochemistry of IAU
Commission 34/Division VI (Interstellar Medium), whereas the Local
Organising Committee is led by the Department of Astrophysics at the Centro
de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA) and the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional (OAN-IGN) in Madrid.
Topics
include:
Star-forming regions from cold pre-stellar
clouds to hot cores
Protoplanetary disks
Exoplanets and their atmospheres
Solar system objects from comets to Kuiper Belt
Envelopes around evolved stars
Extragalactic astrochemistry out to high
redshift
Diffuse and dense interstellar clouds
Laboratory astrochemistry: gas and solid state
Theoretical studies of basic molecular data
New tools for the analysis of spectral data
Role of heterogeneity and dynamics in chemical
modeling
"Hot" results from Herschel and
promise of ALMA
This
meeting will be held on the beautifully renovated campus of the
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Toledo, close to the old city
walls. Toledo is about 1 hour travel from Madrid and it can
be reached easily by train or car.
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