History of The Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar AstrophysicsThe first conference was held in Bejing, China 1985. The name of the conference was 'Critical Observations versus Physical Models for Close Binary Systems'. It was the first international conference in Astronomy held in China with the People's Republic...
.... The Conferences in China, Korea and Thailand were very successful in attracting international researchers to Asia. Many Asian colleagues were interested in having more conferences in Asia. As a result, we renamed the conferences the Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics and shortened the frequency of the series from every five years to about three years. .... The 11th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics was held in Hong Kong, December 14-17, 2015. from Kam-Ching Leung 2016 |