The AIP will award the 2022 Johann Wempe Prize to Dr Roland Bacon of the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, France, on June 14. The ceremony and keynote lecture will be a hybrid event and in English language. Only AIP members and invited guests may attend.

• Opening by Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Scientific Chairman of AIP; Foundation Advisory Board
• Welcome by Dr. Inge Schlotzhauer, Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg; Chair of the Board of Trustees of AIP; Foundation Advisory Board
• Laudation by Prof. Dr. Lutz Wisotzki, Section head of Galaxies and Quasars at AIP
• Award ceremony
• Reception
• Ceremonial lecture by Prof. Dr. Eric Emsellem “Early-type galaxies: climbing to the top of the mass ladder”,ESO (Garching)/CRAL (Lyon)

• Date:
  June 14, 2022, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.