| Sunday, 24 February | ||
| 19:00 | Welcoming cocktail & inauguration of the art exhibition Cosmic Perspectives | |
| Monday, 25 February | ||
| Professional journals and circulars | ||
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration | |
| 8:45-8:55 | Welcome by IAC Director | Francisco Sánchez |
| 8:55-9:00 | Announcements | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Information obtainable from bibliometric studies | Helmut Abt |
| 9:45-10:15 | Scientific productivity of large telescopes | C. R. Benn |
| 10:15-10:30 | Counting publications in astronomy | L. J. Corral |
| 10:30-10:45 | Bibliometry or bibliometrics: a librarian's viewpoint | Monique Gómez |
| 10:45-11:00 | Peer reviewing | Helmut Abt |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30-12:00 | The peer review process in modern astronomical professional publishing | John E. Beckman |
| 12:00-12:30 | Possible threats from rapid publication | Derek McNally |
| 12:30-13:00 | The IAU Working Group on Publishing | Michelle C. Storey |
| 13:00-15:00 | LUNCH | |
| 15:00-15:30 | The Astrophysics Data System: discovery tool and literature archive | Guenther Eichhorn |
| 15:30-16:00 | Editing Astronomy and Astrophysics | Peter Schneider |
| 16:00-16:30 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | TBA |
| 16:30-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Pluses and minuses of electronic publishing | Gerry Gilmore |
| 17:30-18:00 | PASA an electronic astronomy journal | Michelle C. Storey |
| 18:00-18:15 | The Information Circular of Commission 26 of the IAU | Josefina F. Ling |
| Tuesday, 26 February | ||
| Conference proceedings and academic book publishing | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Editing conference proceedings | Terry Mahoney |
| 9:30-9:45 | Genre conventions in astrophysics poster presentations | Anna Fagan |
| 9:45-10:00 | Web-based submission of conference proceedings papers | Johan H. Knapen |
| 10:00-10:30 | From final draft to publication: what do astronomers need to know? | J. J. Blom |
| 10:30-11:00 | Building and maintaining book series for a learned society publisher | Tom Spicer |
| 11:00-11:30 | Astronomy textbooks | Jay M. Pasachoff |
| 11:30-11:45 | Astronomy in the Spanish pre-university educational system: the particular case of the Canary Islands | Cristina Silvia Hansen Ruiz |
| 13:30 | BUS LEAVES FOR EL PORTILLO | |
| 14:30 | LUNCH AT RESTAURANT EL PORTILLO | |
| 16:00 | VISIT TO TEIDE OBSERVATORY | |
| Wednesday, 27 February | ||
| Professional journals and circulars (continued) | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Communicating Heaven and Hell: handling the impact hazard on the Net | Benny Peiser |
| Conference proceedings and academic book publishing (continued) | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | Editing the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Paul Murdin |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dictionaries: what the art of the lexicographer can do for astronomy | Terry Mahoney |
| Educating for astronomy | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | The creation of distance-learning material | Barrie Jones |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30-11:45 | The Contribution of students to astronomical research | Miquel Serra-Ricart |
| 11:45-12:15 | Internet astronomy: a new form of education | J. E. F. Baruch |
| 12:15-12:45 | Teaching astronomy in the modern classroom | Margarita Metaxa |
| 12:45-14:45 | LUNCH | |
| Popular astronomy | ||
| 14:45-15:15 | The human factor | Heather Couper |
| 15:15-15:45 | Outreach from research centres: a luxury or a necessity? | Luis Antonio Martínez Sáez |
| 15:45-16:15 | Eavesdropping on the Universe | J. E. F. Baruch |
| 16:15-16:30 | Communicating astronomy from the observatory: the ING experience | Javier Méndez |
| 16:30-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Developing and implementing a strategic communications plan | Chales Blue |
| 17:30-17:45 | The Web: a new frontier in scientific outreach | Angel Gómez Roldán |
| 17:45-18:00 | The IAC and its observatories: a natural platform for outreach | Begoña López Betancor |
| 19:00 | Video conference to celebrate 45 years of Sky at Night | Sir Patrick Moore, Pieter Morpurgo and Ian Russell |
| Thursday, 28 February | ||
| Popular astronomy (continued) | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Bridging the gaps | Richard Tresch Fienberg |
| 9:30-9:45 | Which science concepts appear in popular science magazines? How do they interrelate? A particular case: stars | Jesús Pérez Ceballos |
| 9:45-10:15 | Communicating astronomy through the Internet | Mark Kidger |
| 10:15-10:30 | Developing the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG): using a heritage site to inspire interest in modern astronomy | Robert Massey |
| 10:30-10:45 | Amusing astronomy | Ignacio García de la Rosa |
| 10:45-11:00 | Astronomy in a science museum | Erik Stengler |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Hands-on experiments on the planets: a tour of some museum experiments | Museum staff |
| 12:00-12:30 | Outreach and the professional astronomer: a survey of attitudes | Luis Díaz vilela |
| 12:30-12:45 | Amateur astronomy in Europe | Anastasia Pappa |
| 12:45-15:00 | LUNCH | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Science or nonsense: the role of TV graphics | Nigel Henbest |
| 15:30-16:00 | The making of SPACE | Richard Burke-Ward |
| 16:00-16:30 | Writing for TV | Hugh Mason |
| 16:30-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Time for Space: five minutes a week for astronomy | Inés Rodríguez Hidalgo |
| 17:30-17:45 | Achieving mind control: how SF writers use astronomy | Sheila Crosby |
| 20:30 | CONFERENCE DINNER AT TABERNA "LOS MOSQUETEROS" | |
| Friday, 1 March | ||
| Campaigning astronomy | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Communicating lost libraries | R. Elizabeth Griffin |
| 9:30-10:00 | Radio pollution the unseen threat to astronomy | Ian Morison |
| 10:00-10:30 | Fighting light pollution in the Canaries: a success story | Javier Díaz Castro |
| Astronomy and the news media | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | An observatory's links with the media | Ian Morison |
| 10:45-11:00 | A cosmic trip: from press release to headline | Carmen del Puerto |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30-11:45 | How important are scientific criterio in EPO? | Luis Cuesta |
| 11:45-12:15 | Conference summary | TBA |
| 12:15-13:30 | Round-table discussion | TBA |
| 13:30 | END OF CONFERENCE | |
| 19:30 | PUBLIC LECTURE: ET - please phone Earth! | Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest |