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IAA Academy Day Saturday, July 14, 2012 Mysore, India
On the occasion of the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
Registration:
IAA Academy Day Mysore Registration Form .
Secure online payment for the Lunch and the Dinner are now available:

If you intend to participate without lunch and dinner please return the registration form by fax to IAA. If you will not register to the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, please also send your registration form by fax or email (even if you register and pay online, in order to let us organize the transportation and the meal preferences).
Venue:
Global Education Centre 2, Infosys Training Center B1 015 (Upper basement, room 015)
Program:
Chairs: Gregg Vane and Jitendra Goswami
09h00 Program Presentation, by Gregg Vane, Jitendra Goswami
09h07 Welcome addresses, by Madhavan Nair, President and Byrana N. Suresh, Chair, Engineering Sciences Section
09h15 The IAA and Space Science, by Dr. Jean-Michel Contant, Secretary General IAA
09h45 Megha-Tropiques : A satellite for the Tropics, by Prof. J. Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
10h30 Coffee Break
10h45 The role of clouds in Earth's climate: New results of the Cloudsat mission, by Dr. Todd Ellis, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
11h30 The New Moon as seen from NASA's GRAIL mission, by Dr. Gregg Vane, JPL, USA
12h15 IAA Luncheon (in advance registration required) Food Court
13h30 Heoliophysics in the US: The findings of the US National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey, by Daniel Baker, Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics; Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences; and Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA
14h15 The ASTROSAT mission: Understanding of the universe by Prof. P. C. Agrawal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
15h00 Summit Follow-on Round Table on Robotic Space Exploration: - International collaboration with space emerging countries: science teams, science instruments, small satellite missions, etc. - Ways to apply robotic explorers to pave the way for expanded human exploration;
17h00 Adjourn Plenary Session
19h00 Inductions of Newly Elected Corresponding Members and Full Members 19h30 IAA Dinner, (in advance registration required) Silent Shores Resort, Island Restaurant Off Hunsur Road, Hootgalli, Mysore 22h00 End
More information on 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 15 - 20 July 2012, Mysore, India, available at
http://www.cospar-assembly.org (Scientific Programme)
http://www.cospar2012india.org (Registration)
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