Programme

Monday - November 18

08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome and general remarks
09:30 - 10:00	Introduction (Rothacher)
10:00 - 10:30	Break

Combination Strategies and Issues for TRF / CRF / EOPs

10:30 - 12:00	Part 1: Combination of station coordinates, velocities, local ties, datum definition, non-linear motion, ... (Altamimi / Boucher / Drewes / Ferland ) Summary and draft program Combination Strategies and Issues for TRF / CRF / EOPs - Combination of Station Positions and Velocities  (PDF, 547KB, Not barrier-free file.) (14 Nov 2002)
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:20	Part 2: Celestial reference frame issues (Souchay / Ma) Summary and draft program Combination Strategies and Issues for TRF / CRF / EOPs - Part 2: Celestial Reference Frame Issues (PDF, 175KB, Not barrier-free file.) (14 Nov 2002)
14:20 - 15:50	Part 3: Combination / comparison of EOPs (xp, yp, UT1/LOD, nutation), subdaily EOPs, impact of IAU Resolutions (Gambis / Vondrak) Summary and draft program Combination Strategies and Issues for TRF / CRF / EOPs - Part 3: Combination / comparison of EOPs (xp, yp, UT1/LOD, nutation), subdaily EOPs, impact of IAU Resolutions (PDF, 295KB, Not barrier-free file.) (13 Nov 2002)
15:50 - 16:15	Break
16:15 - 17:30	Part 4: EOP Alignment Campaign, IGS / IVS / ILRS combinations, systematic errors (Nothnagel / Dill) Summary and draft program Combination Strategies and Issues for TRF / CRF / EOPs - Part 4: EOP Alignment Campaign, IGS/IVS/ILRS/DORIS EOP combinations, systematic errors (PDF, 176KB, Not barrier-free file.) (08 Nov 2002)

Tuesday - November 19

Issues of a Rigorous Combination (Coordinates + EOPs (+CRF), and Other Parameter Types)

09:00 - 10:00	Part 1: Conventions and models for a rigorous combination, consistency aspects, systematic errors, ... (McCarthy / Petit) Summary and draft program Issues of a Rigorous Combination - Part 1: Conventions and Combinations (PDF, 134KB, Not barrier-free file.) (14 Nov 2002)
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 12:00	Part 2: Aspects of a rigorous combination, combination of several parameter types, different combination levels (Ray / Zhu) Summary and draft program Issues of a Rigorous Combination - Part 2: Aspects of a rigorous combination, combination of several parameter types, different combination levels (PDF, 116KB, Not barrier-free file.) (08 Nov 2002)
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Part 3: SINEX Combination Campaign (Angermann / Thaller / Rothacher) Summary and draft program Issues of a Rigorous Combination - Part 3: SINEX Combination Campaign (PDF, 508KB, Not barrier-free file.) (12 Nov 2002)
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:30	Final discussions / conclusions
Tuesday evening: Bavarian party

Wednesday - November 20

08:30 - 09:15	GGFC overview (Chao) Summary - The Global Geophysical Fluids Center (GGFC) of The International Earth Rotation Service (PDF, 166KB, Not barrier-free file.) (11 Nov 2002)
09:15 - 10:45	Special Bureau for the Atmosphere (Salstein) Summary and draft program The Special Bureau for the Atmosphere of the International Earth Rotation Service (PDF, 145KB, Not barrier-free file.)
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:30	Special Bureau for the Oceans (Gross) Summary and draft program The IERS Special Bureau for the Oceans: Past Progress and Future Plans (PDF, 307KB, Not barrier-free file.) (13 Nov 2002)
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 15:00	Special Bureau for Hydrology (Wilson) Summary and draft program The Hydrology Bureau of the Global Geophysical Fluids Center (PDF, 119KB, Not barrier-free file.) (08 Nov 2002)
15:00 - 16:15	Special Bureau for Gravity / Geocentre (Watkins / Gruber) Summary and draft program Position paper
16:15 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 18:00	Special Bureau for Tides (Richard Ray) Summary and draft program Position paper - Special Bureau for Tides (PDF, 46KB, Not barrier-free file.) (11 Nov 2002)

Thursday - November 21

08:45 - 10:00	Special Bureau for Mantle (Chao) Summary and draft program Position paper
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:50	Special Bureau for the Core (Van Hoolst) Summary and draft program Special Bureau for the Core (PDF, 137KB, Not barrier-free file.) (12 Nov 2002)
11:50 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:15	Special Bureau for Loading (Van Dam / Plag) Summary and draft program Solid Earth deformation and gravity changes due to surface loading: Status and scientific problems (PDF, 244KB, Not barrier-free file.) (11 Nov 2002)
14:15 - 15:00	Poster summary, remaining scientific discussions
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:00	Interactions and support (various, all) IERS Product Centres -- GGFC, CRC-GGFC (Chao / Rothacher / Zhu )
17:00 - 18:00	Business meeting (Chao)

Friday - November 22

08:30 - 13:00	IERS DB meeting (members only)

List of posters

(November 25, 2002)

• Angermann, D., Meisel, B., Krügel, M., Müller, H., Tesmer, V.:
  Analysis of VLBI, SLR, GPS and DORIS Site Position Time Series.
• Boehm, J.:
  IVS Pilot Project - Tropospheric Parameters.
• Bougeard M., Gambis, D., Carlucci, T.:
  Robust M-fit algorithms and EOP combination procedures.
• Carlucci, T., Gambis, D., Bizouard, C., Francou, G.:
  Comparative Study of EOP Series Derived for the IERS Alignment Campaign.
• Gambis, D., Carlucci, T.:
  Study of the long-term stability of IERS C04 with respect to the various techniques.
• Gennero, M.-C., Cazenave, A.:
  A global geofluids data base for hydrology and oceanography studies.
• Hugentobler, U., Schaer, S., Beutler, G.:
  Retrieving Free Solutions on the Basis of Constrained SINEX Results.
• Jean-Alexis, D., Gambis, D., Francou, G.:
  Combined EOP series derived from intra-technique solutions.
• Lambert, S.:
  Time variable cyclic processes in the polar motion excitation.
• Devoti, R., Luceri, V., Bianco, G.:
  Combination activities at the Matera Space Geodesy Centre, Italy.
• Malkin, Z.:
  IAA Combination Research Center activity in 2002.
• Malkin, Z.:
  IERS products from user's point of view.
• Messerer, E., Boehm, J., Schuh, H.:
  Comparison and combination of the EOP submitted to the IERS Alignment Campaign 2002.
• Nurutdinov, K.:
  Combination of terrestrial reference frames and ERP at University of Newcastle.
• Pavlis, C.:
  Temporal Gravitational Variations of the TRF and the SLR Contribution to IERS EOP series.
• Pavlis, C.:
  EOP from laser ranging to the LAGEOS and ETALON satellites.
• Kostelecky, J., Pesek, I.:
  Determination of station coordinates and EOP from combination of different techniques.
• Petrov, L.:
  SINEX File Implementation in the VLBI Calc/Solve Analysis System.
• Ponsar, S., Dehant, V., Van Hoolst, T.:
  Electromagnetic core mantle coupling.
• Titov, O.:
  Geoscience Australia - ICRF and ITRF solutions.
• Valette, J.-J., Soudarin, L., Altamimi, Z.:
  IDS analysis campaign: current combination activities.
• Zerbini, S., Romagnoli, C., Lago, L., Richter, B., Simon, D.:
  Environmental loadings: effects on height and gravity.

Guidelines for poster presentations:

• the dimension of the poster boards is 70cm x 100cm
• the poster format can be both: portrait or landscape
• posters can be delivered during registration (Monday Nov 18, 8-9 am) or can be handed over to the LOC not later than Monday Nov 18, 1:30 pm
• the posters will be set up by the LOC and will be displayed from Tuesday noon (Nov 19) till Thursday afternoon (Nov 21)

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