Posted through the URSI-Commission-G Mailing List: 50 Years after IGY International symposium

[hanuise at cnrs-orleans.fr]

We are organizing an International Symposium: Fifty Years after IGY - Modern
Information Technologies and Earth and Solar Sciences" through the
collaboration with national committees of Science Council of Japan for
IPY, eGY, IYPE, IHY, CODATA and SCOSTEP. This symposium will be held in
Tsukuba, Japan, on 10-13 November 2008, and consists of three parts; (1)
New knowledge and information of Earth and solar sciences based on
observation/modeling,
(2) Application of Information and Communications Technologies, and (3)
Data sharing beyond "IGY+50" and our Mission.

A goal of this symposium is to share our experiences and opinions on how
we have been handling very varied and huge amounts of data and
extracting/expanding the knowledge, and on current and future plans for
international collaborations. Details can be found at the home
page below.

http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/igy50/index.html