International Schools for Young Astronomers – ISYA

ISYA #	Dates	Country	Location	Duration (weeks)	Number of participants
					total	countries	foreign	female
1	1967 March	U.K.	Manchester	6.5	12	8	12
2	1968 June – July	Italy	Arcetri	8.5	10	8	10
3	1969	India	Hyderabad	8	23	5	5
4	1970 Oct – Nov	Argentina	Cordoba	8	21	5
5	1973 July – Aug	Indonesia	Lembang	4	8	4	3
6*	1974 May	Argentina	San Miguel	4	60	7	21
7	1975 Sep	Greece	Athens / Thera	4	74	16	35
8	1977 Nov	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	4	29
9	1978 Aug	Nigeria	Nsukka	3	28
10	1979 Sep	Spain	Tenerife	2	36	8
11	1980 Sep – Oct	Yugoslavia	Hvar	3	25
12	1981 Aug – Sep	Egypt	Cairo	3	28	9
13	1983 May – June	Indonesia	Lembang	3	21	5		5
14	1986 Aug	China	Beijing	3	52	6
15	1986 Sep	Portugal	Espinho	3	30	10	19	6
16	1989 Aug	Cuba	Havana	2	52	6	23	7
17	1990 May – June	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur and Melaka	2.5	27	8	12	6
18	1990 Sep	Morocco	Marrakesh	2.5	53	14	39	7
19	1992 Aug	China	Beijing and Xinglong Obs.	3	30	12	17	9
20	1994 Jan	India	Pune	3	35	13	25	11
21	1994 Sep	Egypt	Cairo and Kottamia Obs.	3	41	13	12	10
22	1995 July	Brazil	Belo Horizonte and Serra Piedade	3	38	11	20	15
23	1997 July	Iran	Zanjan	3	38	8	14	12
24	1999 Aug	Romania	Bucharest	3	41	8	18	22
25	2001 Jan	Thailand	Chiang Mai	3	36	9	17	19
26	2002 Aug	Argentina	Casleo, El Leoncito, San Juan	3	28	8	14	10
27	2004 July 2-23	Morocco	Al Akhawayn Univ., Ifrane	3	29	13	18	9
28	2005 July 25 – Aug 12	Mexico	INAOE, Puebla, Tonanzintla	2.5	47	10	20	17
29	2007 Mar 5-23	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur & Langkawi Island	3	38	12	28	9
30	2008 July 1-21	Turkey	Istanbul	3	35	12		14
31	2009 Dec 7-18	Trinidad and Tobago	Univ. West Indies, St. Augustine	2	31	12	25	16
32	2010 Sep 12 – Oct 2	Armenia	Byurakan Obs.	3	30

* three parallel schools

Notes

1) ISYA 1 and 2 resembled most summer schools, with local faculty. ISYA 3 onwards emphasized scientifically developing countries, participants from scientifically isolated sites, with about half or more faculty foreign.

1) UNESCO contributed to ISYA 1 through 20. The ISYA 3 through 19 were designated IAU/UNESCO schools. ICSU contributed, explicitly or via IAU, from ISYA 19 onwards.

2) The ISYA prior to 1992 were organized by Josip Kleczek (Czech Republic), from 1992 till 1997 by Don Wentzel (USA) and Michele Gerbaldi (France), and since then by Michele Gerbaldi (France) and Ed Guinan (USA). Since 2006, ISYA are being organized by Jean-Pierre de Greve (Belgium) and Kam-Ching Leung (USA).