Journees 2002
Systemes de reference spatio-temporels
"Astrometry from ground and from space"

25-28 September 2002, Bucharest (Romania)


The Journees 2002 will be organised in Bucharest (Romania) jointly by
the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, and Observatoire de
Paris. It will include an open meeting of the IAU Division 1 WG "Future
development of ground-based astrometry".


SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

The Journees 2002 "Systemes de reference spatio-temporels", with the
sub-title "Astrometry from ground and space", will be the fourteenth
conference in this series, organized in Paris each year from 1988 to
1992 and alternately, since 1994, in Paris and other European cities, as
follows: Warsaw (1995), Paris (1996), Prague (1997), Paris (1998),
Dresden (1999), Paris (2000) and Brussels (2001).

The purpose of this series of conferences is to discuss the problems,
from the concepts and realizations of space and time reference systems,
to the scientific interpretations of precise observations referred to
these systems.

The problems to be discussed within Journees 2002 are related to the
reference systems and also, more generally, to astrometry from ground
and space.

The Journees 2002 will thus include, as usual, sessions related to space
and time reference systems and Earth rotation and will moreover include
a special session devoted to an open meeting of the IAU Working Group
"Future developments of ground-based astrometry". This special session
will discuss the scientific programs that can still be successfully
performed with ground-based instruments. A session will also consider
the future space astrometric programs.


SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

 BRZEZINSKI Aleksander, Poland, alek@cbk.waw.pl
 CAPITAINE Nicole, France, capitain@danof.obspm.fr
 DEHANT Veronique, Belgium, Veronique.dehant@ksb-orb.oma.be
 KOVALEVSKY Jean, France, Jean.Kovalevsky@obs-azur.fr
 SOFFEL Michael, Germany, soffel@rcsl.urz.tu-dresden.de
 VONDRAK Jan, Czech R., vondrak@ig.cas.cz
 YATSKIV Yaroslav, Ukraine, yatskiv@mao.kiev.ua

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

 MIOC Vasile, vmioc@aira.astro.ro
 POPESCU Petre,petre@aira.astro.ro
 STAVINSCHI Magda (chair), magda@aira.astro.ro

For any problem please contact us:
 -by fax : +401 337 33 89
 -or by phone : +401 335 68 92, +401 335 80 10
 -or by e-mail: magda@aira.astro.ro
 -or by mail:
          JOURNEES 2002
          Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy
          Str. Cutitul de Argint 5, Bucharest, RO-75212, Romania


PROGRAM

TITLES OF SESSIONS

Session 1: Celestial reference systems. Realisation, maintenance,
            densification, links of reference systems. Determination of
            motions with respect to the reference frames. Earth
            rotation.
Session 2: Space astrometric missions
Session 3: Open meeting of the WG  "Future development in ground-based
            astrometry"
Session 4: Time and time transfer


                         PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

                To be sent back not later than 31 March 2002 to:

Magda Stavinschi: magda@aira.astro.ro

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More details will be given at:
http:www.astro.ro/journees2002.html