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February 9, 2002

Houston, Tex. -- The 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly/The Second World Space Congress will meet in Houston, Texas, on 10 - 19 October 2002 and among the sessions is "Session H0.2/E0.2: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: from Quarks to the Cosmos" from Friday Oct. 11 through Saturday Oct. 12.

Event Information

This event is co-sponsored by COSPAR Commissions E and H, as well as the IAC. The symposium will try to address the scientific questions recently posed by the Phase 1 report of the Committee on Physics and the Universe, commissioned by the US National Academy of Sciences (and chaired by Prof. Michael Turner.) This committee's second phase is expected to conclude shortly before the symposium, with a set of recommendations for scientific initiatives that cut across discipline (and funding agency) boundaries, in an attempt to connect "physics at the most microscopic scales to the properties of the universe and its contents on the largest physical scales." Four half-day oral sessions will address: What is the Universe made of ?, Fundamental Physics at High Redshift, What is the Nature of Space and Time? and the Fundamental Physics of Compact Objects.

The web site for the COSPAR meeting is at: http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html. Information on the session H02/E0.2 is available at http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/houston2002/programme/SCE.program.htm.

The abstract deadline is May 1, 2002. Instructions for preparing abstracts may be found at:
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/houston2002/abstract-format-general.htm.

Send one copy to cospar@copernicus.org and a second copy also to the Main Symposium Organizer, Lynn Cominsky, at lynnc@charmian.sonoma.edu

Organizing Committee

Lynn Cominsky (USA), Elliott Bloom (USA), A. M. Cruise (UK), A. Hansson (UK), M. Turner (USA), T. Kamae (USA), P. Caraveo (Italy), M. Jacob (Switzerland)

Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers

M. Turner (USA), A. Morselli (Italy), S. Perlmutter (USA), C. Dermer (USA), Ruth Daly (USA), B. Schaefer (USA), C. Churchill (USA), N. White (USA), P. De Bernardis(Italy), A. Fabian (UK), W. Cash (USA), M. van der Klis (The Netherlands), G. Madejski (USA), G. Smoot (USA)

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