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The International Astronomy Meetings List 

Help Searching for a Specific Astronomy Meeting

Form Summary

Most "fields" in the query form consist of three parts: a label, a check box, and a text box or selection box. First, enter any parameters in the appropriate text boxes or select desired options in the selection boxes. The more entries you make, the more restrictive is your search of the database.

To include a field in the resulting tabular output from the submitted query, click on the check box beside that field. Several of these are selected by default. "Deselect" the check box if you do not want these items listed in the output.

After submitting your query, a table of returned records is produced (assuming the search was successful).

Constraining a Query

  • Specifying your query constraints.
  • Specifying dates and range of dates.
  • Submitting your query
  • Want more info on each retrieved records?

  • Specifying Query Constraints.

    The query form contains entries like this:

    Meeting number:

    The following operators are available to constrain the content of the fields:
    <
    Less than.
    >
    Greater than.
    <=
    Less than or equal to.
    >=
    Greater than or equal to.
    !=
    Not equal to.
    =
    Equal to (=NGC will be translated to *NGC*, i.e. wild cards before and after )
    ~
    As = but ignoring case.
    ==
    Exact match (No wild-cards)
    *
    Wild-card in strings ( A*B will match AB, AxB, AxxxxB, etc. ).
    ..
    A range of values (ex.: 234.56 .. 678.9 ).
    |
    Will match any of the specified expressions. e.g. "=123 | > 5000 | < 1" and "==partnerCal | ==progCal"

    For example, to select all meetings with meeting numbers greater than 1200 you would enter:

    Meeting number:

    The default (no operator) will be interpreted like '~*your-text*'

    Some fields have a fixed set of possible values from which you can choose.
    Sort by:


    Specifying dates and range of dates

    Dates can be specified in several formats. Examples include "MM/DD/YY" or "Day Month Year". If a range is desired, two dates can be separated by two single dots (..). For example, to select all meeting that started between the 1st of January and the 5th of February 2007 you could enter :

    Starting Date:


    Submitting your query

    To get the result of your query you have to submit it. At the top and at the bottom of the query form you will see a set of buttons like this :

    In order to to submit your request press the "Search" button. If you want to reset all of the fields back to their original values simply press the "Reset" button.


    Want more info on each retrieved records?

    For each dataset retrieved from the meetings database table, clicking on the "M" under the "More" column enables the user to retrieve additional information for this particular entry in the archive.