Three announcements



dear friends and colleagues,

now that the elections for new members of our Massive Stars Commission is over, I would like to thank all those who ran for the election and congratulate Nidia Morrell, Lida Oskinova and Fabrice Martins for their election as new members of the Organizing Committee (OC). I would also like to congratulate Nicole St.-Louis for her election as vice-president of the Commission. The new OC will be formed by
Jorick Vink, president
Nicole St-Louis, vice-president
Jose Groh, 2nd. term
Asif ud-Doula, 2nd. term
Lida Oskinova, 1st. term
Nidia Morrell, 1st. term
Fabrice Martins, 1st. term

The new OC will take over after the General Assembly in Vienna. Gregor Rauw, You-Hua Chu and myself will then end our membership. I would also like to thank them and all members of the present OC for their dedication and work.

There are two more announcements of interest. The first one is that, after discussion in the OC, the next Massive Star Meeting supported by the Commission OC (the next "beach meeting") will be held in Ireland, organized by Dr. Jonathan Mackey. A LoI will be submitted to the IAU next September to begin the application process.

The second one is that you can find the summaries of the meetings of the OC since we turned from Working Group into Commission in our web page:
http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/massive_stars/oc_summaries.php.
We hope this initiative will increase the transparency and stimulate participation from the community.

with best regards,
Artemio Herrero
president of the Massive Stars Organizing Committee

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Email: ahd@iac.es