From kyl@biaa.sinica.edu.tw Fri Dec 19 09:25 CST 1997 Return-Path: Received: from biaa3.biaa.sinica.edu.tw by biaa17.biaa.sinica.edu.tw (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02969; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:25:43 +0800 Received: from localhost (kyl@localhost) by biaa3.biaa.sinica.edu.tw (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA08939 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:35:47 +0800 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: biaa3.biaa.sinica.edu.tw: kyl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:35:46 +0800 (CST) From: "Dr. K. Y. Lo" X-Sender: kyl@biaa3 To: TANet Subject: URSI/USNC News 97.5 (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 7796 Status: R ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:37:38 -0800 From: don backer 415 campbell 510-642-5128 To: 107655.2457@CompuServe.COM, BOB-DIXON@osu.edu, CHeiles@astron.Berkeley.EDU, DBacker@astron.Berkeley.EDU, DCudaback@astron.Berkeley.EDU, HDC3@Cornell.edu, IDepater@astron.Berkeley.EDU, JDreher@astron.Berkeley.EDU, JTarter@astron.Berkeley.EDU, Jwebber@nrao.edu, KLang@Infonet.Tufts.Edu, LBlitz@astron.Berkeley.EDU, MWright@astron.Berkeley.EDU, Mark.Birkinshaw@bristol.ac.uk, Michael.J.Mahoney@jpl.nasa.gov, Peter.G.Wannier@cc2mhb.jpl.nasa.gov, Peter_Backus@SETIGATE.SETI-INST.EDU, RMPRICE@atnf.CSIRO.AU, RPlambeck@astron.Berkeley.EDU, Stephen.C.Unwin@jpl.nasa.gov, Thomas.W.Thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, WWelch@astron.Berkeley.EDU, abridle@nrao.edu, aclegg@comsearch.com, acr@astro.caltech.edu, 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Backer =================================== URSI/USNC Commission J News: 1997.5 =================================== 1. REPEAT from 1997.4 News -- last announcement: National Radio Science Meeting meets 1998 January 5-98. The program and registration information are now available at http://cires.colorado.edu/ursi/program We have an excellent meeting planned and I hope to see you there. If you have suggestions for new members, please contact Dick Sramek at dsramek@aoc.nrao.edu. If you have any business meeting agenda items, please send them to me. 2. Radio Astronomy news from WRC '97 is available on Willem Baan's IUCAF site at NAIC: http://www.naic.edu/iucaf/iucaf.html. See IUCAF documents dated 1997 November. This is wakeup call to continue strenuous effort in preserving the spectrum "natural wilderness" for radio astronomy; see Willem's paragraph about about lavish parties and receptions hosted by spectrum-deprived, commercial wanna-be's. Also, see list of conference trends with items about "peaceful coexistence" (reminds me of my cold warrior era youth); "mmwave spectrum" with implicit need for more involvement of mm astronomers in spectrum management issues; and "new allies" Earth Exploration Satellite (EES) community. Don't be put off by alphabet soup of WRC/IUCAF/... as this activity is extremely important to the future of our science. 3. Future meetings of interest: Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Confinement (Nanostructures) to be held in Boston as part of the 194th meeting of the Electrochemical Society (November 1-6, 1998). The deadline for submission of the abstract is June 1, 1998. Guidelines to prepare the abstract can be found at the following World Wide Web address: http://www.electrochem.org. COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Nagoya, July 1998 (in the week preceding the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting). Abstracts are due by 9 January 1998. Full details of the COSPAR meeting can be found in the COSPAR web pages at http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/COSPAR/COSPAR.html 4. Season's Greetings to all! I was just observing with the newly upgraded Arecibo telescope which is now coming back into operation.