The International Astronomical Union was formed in 1919 in order to facilitate the relations between astronomers of different countries and promote the study of astronomy. IAU Commission 19 was originally established as "Latitude Variation", and later renamed "Rotation of the Earth".
Term 2009-2012
President: Harald Schuh (Austria)
Vice-President: Cheng-Li Huang (PR China)
Secretary:
Florian Seitz (Germany)
Organizing Committee:
- Past-President: Aleksander Brzezinski (Poland)
- Christian Bizouard (France), 1st term
- Ben Chao (Taiwan), 1st term
- Richard Gross (USA), 1st term
- Wieslaw Kosek (Poland), 1st term
- David Salstein (USA), 1st term
- IVS representative: Oleg Titov (Australia)
- IERS representative: Bernd Richter (Germany)
- IAG representative: Zinovy Malkin (Russia)
