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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Cheers,</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Chenzhou</div>
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<td>Re: Preparations for IAU B2 Commission elections - vice
president</td>
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<td>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:29:37 +0200 (SAST)</td>
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<td>Anja Schroeder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:anja@hartrao.ac.za"><anja@hartrao.ac.za></a></td>
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<td>Arnold Rots <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arots@cfa.harvard.edu"><arots@cfa.harvard.edu></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arnold@rots.net">arnold@rots.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:seaman@lpl.arizona.edu">seaman@lpl.arizona.edu</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu">aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu</a></td>
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<td>Chenzhou CUI <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ccz@bao.ac.cn"><ccz@bao.ac.cn></a></td>
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Dear OC members,<br>
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The closing date for nominations for the IAU elections is near
(8th March) and so far we have only one nomination for the OC and
none for vice-president.<br>
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I'd like to encourage you, being experienced OC members, to stand
for election for the new vice-president (with the option to become
president in the 2024-2027 term). The link for application is<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.iau.org/submissions/commission_candidacy/">https://www.iau.org/submissions/commission_candidacy/</a><br>
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.<br>
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Cheers, Anja<br>
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On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Anja Schroeder wrote:<br>
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Dear B2 OC members,<br>
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It is time for us to prepare for the next elections on the
vice-president and Organising Committee members for the IAU B2
commission.<br>
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First, I need information on who of you will continue to serve
on the OC: the usual term is 2 trimester.<br>
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Second, I'd like to ask our vice-president, Chenzhou, if he is
willing to serve as president for next semester. If not, we need
to nominate at least one person for election.<br>
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We need to nominate one or two persons to serve as the new
vice-president. Ideally, the nominations should come out of the
OC.<br>
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We also need to open elections for the new OC members, replacing
those who leave. Since we only have three OC members, but a
commission of our size should ideally have 5-6 OC members, I
suggest to go for 6 members. There are two ways to nominate
people: we can ask the commission members for
(self-)nominations, of nominate members ourself. I should remind
you that we need to keep an eye on the IAU's gender and
geographic equality recommendations, that is, we should take
care to have people form various countries/continents and both
genders on the OC.<br>
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Let me know your thoughts on how to construct the new OC. As to
the information on who of you will continue and hwo many OC
members we should have, please answer me within the next two
days since the IAU needs that information as soon as possible.<br>
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Cheers, Anja Schroeder<br>
B2 Commission President<br>
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