Astronomers hold meeting in Malta Forty professional astronomers and astrophysicists from eight countries recently gathered in Malta for the fourth annual meeting of the Multi-wavelength Analysis of Galaxy Populations (MAGPop), a Marie Curie research training network funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme that has been running since December 2004 and ends in December next year.
The Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAA), Dept. of Physics, University of Malta is organising the first professional astronomy conference to be held at the Corinthia Palace Hotel, Attard. MAGPOP (multiwavelength analysis of galaxy populations) is a Marie Curie Research Training Network funded under the sixth Framework Programme of the EU and runs from December 2004 to December 2008. The conference brings together about 40 astronomers/astrophysicists from various departments and institutes in Europe (Spain, France, UK, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Netherlands) and the USA (H.A. Rowland Dept of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland) and runs from Monday till Wednesday.