ELSA conference 2010

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• Table of contents

  28 January 2011, by Catherine Turon

  EAS Publications Series, Volume 45, 2010
  The table of contents is available below:

• Scientific Programme

  30 June 2010, by Catherine Turon

  Monday 7 June

• Second and final announcement

  2 June 2010, by Catherine Turon

  Meudon, 27 May 2010
  Dear Colleague,
  Please find below the second, and final, announcement of the
  ELSA conference 2010
  Gaia at the frontiers of astrometry
  Sèvres, France, 7-11 June 2010
  1- Final programme and list of posters
  2- Proceedings
  3- Visits organised during the Symposium: registrations due *before* Friday 4 June.
  All informations are available from http://wwwhip.obspm.fr/gaia2010/.
  Apologies if you receive this message more than once.
  Best wishes, I am looking (…)

• Instructions for preparing papers

  15 April 2010, by Catherine Turon

  Number of pages:
  – 6 pages per invited talk
  – 4 pages per contributed talk and poster.
  For consistency, please, use British spelling.
  – The editor has to compile the contributions with latex (as opposed to pdflatex). Therefore all figures have to be in eps format.
  – To avoid potential collisions, it would be safer to adopt the following nomenclature for your files :
  — author.tex
  — author_fig1.eps
  — author_fig2.eps
  — etc...
  [rouge]Deadline for reception of manuscripts: 10 (…)

• Aim of the meeting

  15 April 2010

  The Symposium "Gaia: at the frontiers of astrometry" was the closing conference of the European Marie Curie Research Training Network "ELSA". It has been held in Sèvres (near Paris and Meudon) from [rouge]7 to 11 June 2010[/rouge]. The network started on 1 October 2006 for a duration of four years. Its overall objectives were to develop the theoretical understanding and practical analysis tools of importance for the European Space Agency’s astrometric mission Gaia (to be launched in 2012) (…)

• Payment

  16 February 2010, by Catherine Turon

  Payment of registration fees
  – either electronically by credit card: go to payment
  [rouge]In some cases, e.g. when the system prevents you paying twice, some debug data appears and the amount (Montant_Transaction) is given in cents (not in euros!!). Don’t worry, this is expected ![/rouge]
  – or by bank transfer, in euros, to the bank of the Observatoire de Paris :
  Recette Générale des Finances
  94, rue Réaumur
  75009 Paris
  IBAN FR76 1007 1750 0000 0010 0507 390
  BDFEFRPPXXX (…)

• First announcement

  8 February 2010, by Catherine Turon

  Meudon, 3 February 2010
  Dear Colleague,
  Please find below the first announcement of the
  ELSA conference 2010
  Gaia at the frontiers of astrometry
  Sèvres, France, 7-11 June 2010
  Registration is now open and you are kindly invited to register and submit abstracts for contributed posters or talks before 16 April 2010. Early registration closes on 16 April 2010. All abstracts will be reviewed by the SOC and the selection will be announced by 30 April 2010.
  Apologies if you receive (…)

• Scientific Rationale

  3 February 2010, by Catherine Turon

  The Symposium "Gaia: at the frontiers of astrometry” will be the closing conference of the European network ELSA (European Leadership in Space Astrometry), a Marie Curie research training network supported by the European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The network started on 1st October 2006 for four years. It is a coordinated action between 14 European institutes involved in the preparation of the European Space Agency mission Gaia. The objectives of this network are the (…)

• Registration form

  3 February 2010

  Please, fill up very carefully the registration form.
  – all participants should register
  – participants with a grant should fill up all parts of the registration form with the exception of "proceed to payment"
  The registration form includes
  – registration to each day of the Symposium
  – registration for accommodation at CIEP
  – registration to dinners at CIEP. Please, note that a Welcome Dinner and a "dessert talk" by E. Høg are programmed on Monday evening
  – registration to the social (…)

• Accommodation

  1 February 2010, by Catherine Turon

  [rouge]Deadline for modifications to abstracts and registration forms: 18 May 2010[/rouge]
  About 100 rooms offering two-star comfort are available at Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques within the 18th-century former Royal Porcelain Works of Sèvres: 76 single rooms 6 rooms with twin beds 8 rooms with double beds
  All rooms are with en-suite bathroom, internet connection, cable television, telephone, tea/coffee making facilities, available.
  Dinners are possible at CIEP (…)