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IERS Message No. 72                                       April 19, 2005
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Journees 2005 - First Circular


Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the first circular of the conference Journees 2005
which will be organized at the Space Research Centre of the Polish
Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, 19 to 22 September 2005. For the
MS-WORD version of this circular and other details concerning Journees
2005 please visit the website http://jsr2005.cbk.waw.pl. Information
about the previous conferences of the series "Journees" can be found on
the website http://danof.obspm.fr/journees2004/.

For the organizers,

Barbara Kolaczek    Nicole Capitaine       Aleksander Brzezinski
LOC, Chair          SOC, Chair           SOC, Member  LOC, Vice-Chair

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                       FIRST CIRCULAR

     Journees 2005 Systemes de Reference Spatio-Temporels
"Earth dynamics and reference systems: five years after the adoption
                of the IAU 2000 Resolutions"

               Warsaw, 19-22 September 2005

Objectives

The international conference entitled Journees 2005, with the sub-title
"Earth dynamics and reference systems: five years after the adoption of
the IAU 2000 Resolutions", will be organized at the Space Research
Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, 19 to 22
September 2005. Ten years after the Journees 1995, the conference
Journees "Systemes de Reference Spatio-Temporels" will be held again in
Warsaw. The conference will be organized in cooperation between the
Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and
the Department "Systemes de Reference Temps Espace" (SYRTE) of Paris
Observatory.

The Journees 2005 will be devoted to recent contributions and
developments in the fields of refence systems and modeling Earth's
rotation.

Preliminary list of sessions:

1. Celestial and terrestrial systems: implementation of the IAU 2000
resolutions
2. Precession, nutation and polar motion
  2.1. Recent developments of observation and modeling
  2.2. Discussion on the latest proposals of the IAU Working Group on
  "Nomenclature for fundamental astronomy"
  2.3. Presentations of progress in the "Descartes-Nutation" projects
3. Excitation of Earth rotation by geophysical fluids
4. Time and time transfer: recent developments and projects
5. Global reference frames and Earth rotation: impact of the
gravitational satellite missions (CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE), new techniques
(ring laser etc.), new international projects (IAG-GGOS, GALILEO)

The conference language will be English. Details about the program,
including list of invited papers, will be given in the next circular.

Scientific Organizing Committee

A. Brzezinski (Poland), N. Capitaine (France, Chair), P. Defraigne
(Belgium), T. Fukushima (Japan), D.D. McCarthy (USA), M. Soffel
(Germany), J. Vondrak (Czech Republic), Y. Yatskiv (Ukraine)

Local Organizing Committee

W. Baran, A. Brzezinski (Vice Chair), B. Kolaczek (Chair), J. Krynski,
J. Nawrocki, J. Nastula (Secretary), S. Oszczak, J. Rogowski,
M.Rutkowska, S. Schillak, J. Zielinski

Contact address

Space Research Centre of PAS - Journees 2005
Bartycka 18a, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
tel: +48 22 840 37 66; tel/fax: +48 22 8403131
e-mail: jsr2005@cbk.waw.pl

Registration

To attend the conference, please fill in:
- the pre-registration form and return it not later than May 8, 2005 to
the LOC;
- the registration form and return it not later than July 10 2005 to the
LOC.

Call for papers

Participants, who plan to submit an oral or poster contribution, are
kindly requested to send before 8 May the pre-registration form
including the title of presentation. The final title and abstract of the
contribution (maximum 300 words) should be submitted before 10 July
using the enclosed registration form. The SOC will decide about the
acceptance of contribution and inform the authors not later than
15 August 2005.

Proceedings

Papers presented at Journees will be published in the special volume of
the Proceedings of the Journees 2005.

Registration fee

The registration fee is 60 EUR. It includes abstract volume, daily
refreshments, and participation in the conference dinner and a copy of
the conference proceedings. The registration fee should be paid either
in cash at the seminar site or by bank transfer:
Bank Przemyslowo-Handlowy PBK S.A., Nowogrodzka 11, 00-950 Warsaw
78 1060 0076 0000 3800 0002 1899; Swift code: BPHK PLPK

Accommodation

The list of the hotels recommended by the LOC, information about their
prices and necessary arrangements is available on the website
http://jsr2005.cbk.waw.pl. If you need assistance please contact the LOC
jsr2005@cbk.waw.pl.

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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Journees 2005 - Systemes de Reference Spatio-Temporels
"Earth dynamics and reference systems: five years after the adoption of
the IAU 2000 Resolutions"

Warsaw, 19-22 September 2005

Please fill in and mail to: jsr2005@cbk.waw.pl before May 8, 2005

First Name:
Name:
Title/degree:
Organisation:
Address:
Code:
City:
Country:
Phone :
Fax:
E-mail:
I plan to present a paper          (      )
Title of presentation:

Author(s):

Type of presentation:     Oral     (      )
Poster (format A0)                 (      )
I do not intend to present a paper (      )

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REGISTRATION FORM

Journees 2005 - Systemes de Reference Spatio-Temporels
"Earth dynamics and reference systems: five years after the adoption of
the IAU 2000 Resolutions"

Warsaw, 19-22 September 2005

Registration Form

Please fill in and mail to: jsr2005@cbk.waw.pl before July 10, 2005

First Name:
Name:
Title/degree:
Organisation:
Address:
Code:
City:
Country:
Phone :
Fax:
E-mail:
Date of arrival:
I plan to present a paper          (      )
Title of presentation:

Author(s):

Type of presentation:     Oral     (      )
Poster (format A0)                 (      )
I do not intend to present a paper (      )

Abstract (maximum 300 words):


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