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The National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) is an annual scientific conference of astronomers, usually held in the British Isles. It is sponsored and coordinated by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and functions as the primary annual meeting of the society. NAM is one of the largest professional astronomy conferences in Europe,〔 with typically around 600 delegates attending.〔 The meetings began when the RAS decided to hold some of its scientific meetings outside London, where the society is based. The first such 'out of town' meeting was held in 1948. The meetings ran in most years until 1966, when the series was discontinued.〔 It was resurrected in 1976 and has been held every year since (except 2000).〔 They assumed the National Astronomy Meeting name during the 1990s. Each NAM includes a variety of plenary and parallel sessions discussing the latest research in astronomy (and related fields), public lectures, community sessions and a press office to promote the results presented at the meeting to journalists and the public.〔 == History == The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) was formed in 1820, and from the very beginning one of its major activities was to host scientific meetings. Typically eight meetings each year were held at its headquarters in London. The growth of astronomical research throughout the UK and concurrent increase in the number of Fellows beyond the London area lead to a demand for meetings outside the capital. Although occasional meetings were held in other locations to mark special occasions, no regular programme of meetings outside London was instituted until after the major disruption to RAS activities caused by the Second World War. The solution was to move one of the society's meetings outside London each year, terming them 'out of town' meetings. The first of these was held in Edinburgh in 1948.〔 There was reluctance to move any of the regular eight annual meetings, which ran from October to May, so the 'out of town' meetings were held as an additional ninth meeting during the summer break. They were held in the summer or early autumn in most years until 1966, when the RAS Council decided to stop asking groups to host them.〔 The subsequent lack of meetings outside London〔The only 'out of town' meeting during the period 1967-75 was actually held in London, albeit in a different location to usual, in 1969.〕 was unpopular with Fellows, so the meetings were reintroduced in 1976, but moved to April.〔 They replaced the usual monthly RAS meeting for that month,〔 and were usually held during universities' Easter holidays. The meetings were originally held over a single day, but during the 1960s some lasted three days.〔 They were expanded to four days during the 1990s, at the same time as being renamed "National Astronomy Meeting" (NAM).〔 The meetings continued to be held around Easter until 2012; from 2013 NAM has been held in late June or early July.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Astronomy Meeting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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