Chemistry International
Vol. 22, No. 1
January 2000
Conference
Announcements
33rd
COSPAR Scientific Assembly
16-23 July 2000
Warsaw, Poland
This meeting of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR),
also known as COSPAR 2000, will be held at the Warsaw University of
Technology. The conference will be hosted jointly by the University
and by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). It is supported by the
State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) as the main sponsor and
by numerous local institutions and science societies.
Approximately 80 meetings and symposia at the assembly
will cover the following topics:
- Earth's surface, meteorology, and climate
- Earth-moon system, planets, and small bodies of the solar system
- upper atmospheres of the Earth and planets, including reference
atmospheres
- space plasmas in the solar system, including planetary magnetospheres
- research in astrophysics
- life sciences as related to space
- materials sciences in space
- fundamental physics in space
- space debris
- satellite dynamics
- scientific ballooning
- radiation belts
- space weather
- integrated global observation system-role and benefits for developing
countries
- public understanding of space science
Conference manuscripts will be published in Advances
in Space Research.
For more information, contact COSPAR Secretariat,
51 bd de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France; E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +33 1 45 25 06 79; Fax: +33 1 40 50 98 27; Web site: http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html.