Transactions IAU, Volume XXVIIIB Proc. XXVIII IAU General Assembly, August 2012 Thierry Montmerle, ed. c  International Astronomical Union 2015 doi:10.1017/S1743921315005505 DIVISION I COMMISSION 8 ASTROMETRY (ASTROMETRIE) PRESIDENT Dafydd Wyn Evans VICE-PRESIDENT Norbert Zacharias PAST PRESIDENT Irina Kumkova ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alexandre Andrei, Anthony Brown, Naoteru Gouda, Petre Popescu, Jean Souchay, Stephen Unwin, Zi Zhu. PROCEEDINGS BUSINESS SESSION, 27 August 2012 1. Business session (Chair D. W. Evans) The business meeting was opened by the President, Dafydd Evans, who presented the agenda, which was approved. It was agreed that Norbert Zacharias should be the secretary of the meeting and take the minutes. This session was attended by about 20 participants. 1.1. Commission Members Evans reported that the Commission has 251 members from 36 countries as of August 14, 2012. A total of 3 new members joined the Commission over the last triennium from existing IAU members and 50 new IAU members chose to join Commission 8 for the next triennium. With a minute of silence, Commission 8 paid tribute to 4 members who had died since the last General Assembly: Lyssimachos Mavridis Ernst Raimond Klaus Guenter Steinert Hans Walter 1.2. New Commission Officers The result of the selection procedure for the next triennium was: N. Zacharias (USA) President A. Brown (Netherlands) Vice-president D. Evans (UK) Ex-officio N. Gouda (Japan) 2009–2015 J. Souchay (France) 2009–2015 S. Unwin (USA) 2009–2015 L. Chen (China) 2012–2018 V. Makarov (USA) 2012–2018 O. Shulga (Ukraine) 2012–2018 R. Teixeira (Brazil) 2012–2018 87 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921315005505 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 54.163.42.124, on 18 Jun 2020 at 09:31:21, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at