About Seminar

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) and the Astronomical Society of Iran (ASI) organize an annual research seminar titled “Meeting on Research in Astronomy” to familiarize physics students with the latest research developments in astronomy and cosmology. Astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists are cordially invited to attend this conference and present their latest research findings.

    Important dates
  • First announcement: February 14, 2025
  • Start of registration: February 19, 2025
  • Registration and Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2025
  • Seminar start date: May 21, 2025

You can download the PDF versions of the Poster (Fa) and Poster (En) here.
You can view and download the time table of meeting below



Registration

Registration is done through the Google Forms.
By selecting the registration option, enter your information in the Google form and wait for the registration confirmation email to be sent after checking the documents. (Due to the limited capacity, the review of the documents may take until the last day of registration) After that, the payment link will be opened for those accepted and the possibility of paying the registration fee will be provided.

The deadline for registration and paper submission is April 8, 2025 (20 Farvardin 1404).

You can apply for a contribution in the form of a poster presentation. All posters are subject to a review process. A number of the accepted papers will be selected for oral presentation as short contributed talks. There will also be a number of invited talks.

    Registration fee to participate in this seminar

  • Participating students: 300 thousand Tomans
  • Members of the Astronomical Society of Iran: 350 thousand Tomans
  • Other participants: 550 thousand Tomans



Paper and Poster Templates

The article should be no more than 4 pages (A4), including: title, authors, affiliations, abstract, figures, tables and references by using the meeting template.
Posters should be printed on A1 paper (width 59.4cm x height 84.1cm; portrait orientation).

Lodging

Students stay in the student dormitory and guest house of the university.
The distance from the student dormitories to the lecture venue is about 5 minutes' walk. Similarly, for the route between the guest house and the university, which is longer, a shuttle service is planned, and the service schedule will be announced before the school starts.

Below is a representation of the distance from the place of residence to the venue of the lecture, which can be seen on the Google map by clicking on each image.


Boys' dormitory
Girls' dormitory
Student hostel

Invited Speakers

The list below shows the speakers. This list is being completed!

Golshan Ejlali

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

Nima Khosravi

Shahid Beheshti University

Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

Moein Mosleh

Shiraz University

Pooneh Nazari

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Mahmoud Roshan

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Mohsen Shamohammadi

Swinburne University of Technology

Mohammad Hossein Zholideh Haghighi

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

Scientific Committee

Sareh Ataiee

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Asiyeh Karami

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)

Kiumars Karami

University of Kurdistan

Mohammad Taghi Mirtorabi

Alzahra University

Motahereh Mohammadpour

Damghan University

Sohrab Rahvar

Sharif University of Technology

Somayeh Sheikhnezami (Chair)

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)

Fatemeh Tabatabaei

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

Saeed Tavasoli

Kharazmi University

Local Organizing Committee

Masoudeh Abedi

Maziar Dalili

Mehrdad Mansoury

Faezeh Saberi