Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • André Heck

   Pages 1-8

3. Strategies for Bringing a 19th-Century Observatory Up to the Standards of 21st-Century Astronomy

   • Marcel Golay

   Pages 9-28

4. IUCAA: A New Experiment for Indian Universities

   • Jayant V. Narlikar

   Pages 29-45

5. Background and Achievements of UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science 1991–2001

   • Hans J. Haubold

   Pages 47-64

6. Organising and Funding Research at a European Level

   • Anthony E. S. Mayer

   Pages 65-82

7. OPTICON: EC Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy

   • Gerard Gilmore

   Pages 83-102

8. Coordinating Multiple Observatory Campaigns

   • Karla Peterson, Beth Perriello, Peg Stanley, Jerry Bonnell, Evan Smith, Nancy Remage Evans et al.

   Pages 103-120

9. New Strategies in Ground-Based Observing

   • Ian Robson

   Pages 121-137

10. Large Surveys in Cosmology: The Changing Sociology

    • Ofer Lahav

    Pages 139-147

11. The ESO Observing Programmes Committee

    • Jacques Breysacher, Christoffel Waelkens

    Pages 149-162

12. Astronomical Software Strategies

    • Keith Shortridge

    Pages 163-178

13. Scientometrics: The Research Field and its Journal

    • András Schubert

    Pages 179-195

14. Comments on Refereeing

    • Helmut A. Abt

    Pages 197-205

15. Communicating and Networking in Astronomy Libraries

    • Uta Grothkopf, Marlene Cummins

    Pages 207-219

16. Editing the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

    • Paul Murdin

    Pages 221-228

17. Editing a Multilingual Astronomy Magazine

    • Noël Cramer

    Pages 229-238

18. Working with the Media: The Royal Astronomical Society Experience

    • Jacqueline Mitton

    Pages 239-256

19. Creativity in Arts and Sciences: A Survey

    • André Heck

    Pages 257-268

20. Updated Bibliography of Socio-Astronomy

    • André Heck

    Pages 269-280

Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon­ der about the mysteries of the universe. We might make the trip to Paris and ask him, in the Louvre, what precisely is on his mind. Unfortunately, there will be no answer. But we do know what his mind was not on. It was not on the approaching deadlines for the proposals he would have to write for getting funds and telescope-time, not on the meeting of the observing programs committee, not on his refereeing duty for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, nor on his university's tightening budget for science. In the Kapteyn Institute at Groningen I stand face to face with the im­ pressive portrait of J.C. Kapteyn, painted in the year 1918. Seated at his desk he is doing his calculations with pen, pencil and tables, perhaps check­ ing the work of his skilled staff of human computers. Early in his career he had completed his magnum opus, the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung in collaboration with his close friend David Gill at Capetown, South Africa.

• Nation
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• cosmology
• environment
• sociology
• space science

• Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

  André Heck

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