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IERS Message No. 299                                       June 21, 2016
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Workshop "Understanding the Earth core and nutation" in Brussels, 2016


Dear Colleagues,
 
The Royal Observatory of Belgium organizes a workshop entitled
"Understanding the Earth core and nutation" with the objectives to bring
together specialists of the core and of the Earth rotation in order for
them to share their views and discuss the possible ways to better
understand the role of the core in the rotation of the Earth. The
workshop is in September 19-20, 2016. Veronique Dehant and her team (in
the frame of the ERC RotaNut) would like to invite all interested
participants to give a talk or a poster in Brussels during that
workshop.

In addition, you might know about the existence of the Journees Systemes
de Reference (JSR) organized by Nicole Capitaine from the Observatory of
Paris previously. The purpose of this series of conferences was to
discuss problems ranging from the concepts and realizations of space and
time reference systems to the scientific interpretations of precise
observations referred to these systems. Nutations are part of them. This
year is a pivotal year as next year these JSR will be organized by the
young generation at Observatoire de Paris and there is nothing this
year, except our workshop. We will take the opportunity of our workshop
to thank Nicole Capitaine for her work in the field of precession,
nutation, and Earth rotation and her dedication in the frame of the JSR.
In parallel, for all her career and her work in the Scientific Council
of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, we will take the opportunity to
thank her and nominate her "Astronome correspondant" of the Royal
Observatory of Belgium. The ceremony will be held on Monday 19
September, first day of the workshop, in conjunction with the nomination
of 3 other "Astronomes correspondants".

The registration to the workshop can be found at
<https://register-as.oma.be/rotanutWS/>.

As this is a workshop sponsored by the IAG (International Association of
Geodesy), young researchers not older than 35 years may ask for
financial support at "IAG Travel Award for young scientists"
(http://iag.dgfi.tum.de/fileadmin/IAG-docs/
IAG_Travel_Award_interactive.pdf).
 
Thank you very much for your consideration,
We hope to hear from you soon.
 
Veronique Dehant and the RotaNut staff: Raphael Laguerre, Jeremy Rekier,
Attilio Rivoldini, Santiago Andres Triana, Antony Trinh, Tim Van Hoolst,
and Zhu Ping


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