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I. The Dirk Brouwer Award
1. The Dirk Brouwer Award, hereafter referred to as the Brouwer
Award, shall be an honorarium of $2000 plus an appropriate Certificate
containing a citation from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the
American Astronomical Society.
2. Posthumous awards may be made within five years after the death
of a candidate. In such event, the Award shall consist of the
Certificate alone.
3. The Brouwer Award shall be made no more than once per year,
nor more than once to a given individual.
4. The Brouwer Award shall be made in accordance with the Bylaws
of the AAS and the policies of the Council of the AAS.
II. Basis of the Brouwer Award
1. The Brouwer Award shall be granted on the basis of any, or all,
of the following criteria:
(a) excellence in scientific research
(b) impact and influence in the field
(c) excellence in teaching and training of students
(d) outstanding advancement and other support of the field
through administration, public service or engineering
achievement.
2. The selection of a worthy recipient for the Brouwer Award shall
be made from a wide range of candidates differing in age, sex,
nationality, occupation, field of interest, aspect of contributions,
quantity of contributions and other relevant factors. Because of the
multiformity of factors differing in fundamental nature, determination
of the relative strength of each factor or contribution will, of
course, be a very difficult and complex matter. However, the following
approximate relative weights shall serve only as a guide:
(a) excellence in scientific research
(b) impact and influence in the field
(c) excellence in the teaching and
training of students
(d) outstanding advancement of the field
through administration, public service
or engineering achievement
3. The Brouwer Award may be given in any branch of Dynamical
Astronomy which is represented by the membership of the Division on
Dynamical Astronomy including celestial mechanics, astrometry,
geophysics, stellar systems, galactic and extragalactic dynamics.
III. The Brouwer Award Selection Committee
1. The Brouwer Award Selection Committee (BASC) shall consist of
three regular members not currently serving on the Committee of the
Division on Dynamical Astronomy at the time of their selection, who are
knowledgeable in this field as well as other fields of Astronomy or
Science. After each annual meeting, the member with the longest tenure
will be replaced by a new BASC member, to be selected by the Committee
of the Division.
2. There shall be two ex officio members of the BASC, with vote:
the current Chair of the Division, and the previous Award recipient
(that is, the one named a year ago, who will begin tenure on the BASC
at the time the award is received, irrespective of membership on the
Committee of the Division. If the previous Award recipient is unable,
or declines, to serve, or if no award was made in the last year, the
current Chair of the Division will appoint a member from former
recipients.
3. In selecting regular members of the BASC, the Committee of the
Division shall attempt to maintain, if possible, the following balance:
(a) one senior scientist, (b) one junior scientist, and (c) three
different branches of dynamical astronomy.
4. The regular committee member with the longest tenure shall
serve as Chair. In addition to leading the BASC, the Chair shall
report to the DDA Committee at its annual meeting, to present the slate
of candidates selected, discuss the general status of other
nominations, and make recommendations for any changes in the award
selection procedure.
5. The BASC should actively seek to assure a good range of high
quality nominees for selection. This includes making nominations, re-
nominating candidates who previously have been regarded favorably by the
committee, and completing partial nominations. Nominators should be
kept informed of the status of their nominations, so that they can seek
to complete documentation as necessary.
IV. The Award Selection Process
1. Public announcement through appropriate media, including the
DDA Newsletter and the AAS Newsletter, shall be made that the BASC will
consider the selection of a recipient for the Brouwer Award. These
shall be published between six months and one year before a meeting of
the DDA Committee at which a recommendation is to be made.
2. Anyone may submit a name for consideration for the Brouwer
Award. A candidate's documentation must include a letter of nomination
by a member of the AAS or DDA, the curriculum vitae, a list of
publications of the nominee, and at least three letters of
recommendation, by experts in the field of the nominee, attesting to
the long term impact and influence of the nominee's various
contributions. If these documents are provided by the nominator, the
candidate must be given full consideration by the committee.
Otherwise, the committee may choose to complete the documentation
itself, or leave the nomination incomplete. Complete nominations should
reach the Chair of the BASC at least three months before the meeting
of the DDA. Previous nominations from the past 5 years shall be
automatically considered without renomination. A nomination shall be
considered current if the letter of nomination and at least three
letters of support have been received within five years of the
prospective award. A re-nominator may, include or remove material from
the earlier documentation. An incomplete nomination shall be retained
(but circulated by name only) for five years from the receipt of the
letter of nomination.
3. The Chair of the BASC shall circulate to the BASC copies of
all documentation for each complete, current nomination, and the names
of any proposed candidates for which complete documentation has not been
received. The Chair shall also assure that all committee members have a
copy of these rules for selection, and provide any further guidance
needed to complete the selection process.
4. The BASC shall prepare an ordered slate of two or more choices
for the Award. The BASC can recommend that no award be made, as either
its first or second choice, and such recommendation shall count as one
of the required minimum of two choices. A letter containing the names
of the selected candidates and the reasons for their selection, based on
the criteria outlined in Section II, shall be distributed to the members
of the DDA Committee at least three weeks before the next meeting of the
DDA Committee. Complete documentation (curriculum vitae, bibliography,
and letters of nomination and recommendation) of the selected
candidates shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the DDA and made
available to any Committee member who requests it. The Chair of the
BASC, or another member designated by the Chair , should present the
slate of candidates to the DDA Committee at its annual meeting, and
participate in the discussion, but not in the vote.
5. The final selection, or choice not to have a recipient, shall
be made by the Committee of the Division in secret ballot. A majority
vote shall be required for the final selection. In the event an
absolute majority for one candidate fails to exist, there shall be a
runoff between the two candidates receiving the largest number of votes.
In the event of a tie vote, the ranking of the BASC for those two
candidates shall be used for selection.
6. The name of the candidate thus selected shall be transmitted
to the Council of the AAS for its information.
7. The outgoing Chair of the BASC shall transmit to the incoming
Chair the original documentation on all current nominations, including
incomplete nominations. Documentation on awardees, and out-of-date
nominations, should be transmitted to the Secretary for archiving.
V. Notice of the Brouwer Award
1. Each Brouwer Award shall be announced at a meeting of the AAS.
2. Notice of the Brouwer Award shall also be given to appropriate
bulletins and journals including: (a) the AAS Newsletter, (b) Physics
Today.
VI. Brouwer Award Lecture
1. The Committee of the Division shall decide at the time of
selection of the Awardee whether or not there shall be a lecture, and
if so, whether it should be the Division Lecture at a meeting of the AAS
or a lecture to the Division.
2. In the case of a posthumous award, the Committee may choose a
person to give a memorial lecture in place of a regular Brouwer Award
lecture. The Committee may set an amount to be paid, from the Brouwer
Fund, to the invitee to cover travel and subsistence expenses.
3. If there is to be a Dirk Brouwer Award Lecture, it should be
published as soon as feasible after delivery in one of the astronomical
journals, such as Celestial Mechanics or the Astronomical Journal.
VII. Brouwer Award Fund
1. Funding of the Brouwer Award shall come from the Brouwer Award
Fund administered by the Committee of the DDA.
2. The Treasurer of the DDA shall monitor the balance of the Fund
and make recommendations for its replenishment when appropriate.
VIII. Amendment procedure
1. The DDA Committee shall be the instrument through which
amendments to these rules are made.
2. The outgoing Chair of the BASC, when reporting to the DDA
Committee, should transmit any suggestions for revisions to the DDA
Committee.
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