Brief summaries are given on the following subjects: Radial velocities and
exoplanets (Toward Earth-mass planets; Retired A stars and their planets;
Current status and prospects); Toward higher radial velocity precision; Radial
velocities and asteroseismology; Radial velocities in Galactic and
extragalactic clusters; Radial velocities for field giants; Galactic structure
-- Large surveys (The Geneva-Copenhagen Survey; Sloan Digital Sky Survey;
RAVE); Working groups (WG on radial velocity standards; WG on stellar radial
velocity bibliography; WG on the catalogue of orbital elements of spectroscopic
binaries [SB9]).Comment: 11 pages, to appear in the IAU Transactions Vol. XXVIIA, Reports on
Astronomy 2006-2009, ed. Karel van der Hucht. Editor: G. Torre