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IERS Message No. 160                                      April 16, 2010
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Journees 2010 - Second Announcement


Dear Colleagues,

This is to inform you that registration and abstract submission is now
open on the web page of the Journees 2010 "Systemes de reference
spatio-temporels" that will be held at Paris Observatory from 20 to 22
September 2010.

The scientific programme will include the following sessions:

Session 1: The astronomical constants, SI units and future developments
in numerical standards

Session 2: Solar system ephemerides and their comparison

Session 3: Progress in astrometric catalogs in optical and radio
wavelengths

Session 4: Recent developments in theory and observation of Earth
rotation and related reference systems

Session 5: Pulsars timing, relativity and time transfer

Note that Session 2 will be a special session for presentating the
latest developments in the solar system ephemerides and comparing
details in those ephemerides; it will be organized in coordination with
IAU Commission 4.

Oral and poster presentations on the above topics are welcome. Note that
the deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2010.

For more details, registration and abstract submission, see at:
http://syrte.obspm.fr/journees2010/.

I hope that you will be able to participate in these Journees. Please
forward this message to any colleagues who might be interested.

Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.

Best regards

Nicole Capitaine
Chair of the Journees 2010 SOC


(The first announcement of the Journees 2010 was in IERS Message
No. 155, available at:
http://data.iers.org/products/2/13008/orig/message_155.txt.)


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