13 October 2005

Academy Palace (Hertogstraat-Rue Ducale).

Organized by the Belgian National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics

Contact Forum sponsored by the:

“Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten”

 “Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique”.

PROGRAM

            Welcome: E. Arijs

            President of the Belgian National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics

            Introduction: Prof J. J. Van Landuyt ,

President of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België and the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB)    

            Invited lecture:

Modeling sustainable development

Prof. J. Nihoul (Université de Liège)

            IAG lecture:

International and national Geodesy and its three pillars: (1) geometry and kinematics,

(2) Earth orientation and rotation, and (3) gravity field and its variability

Prof. V. Dehant (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

            IAPSO lecture:

Data assimilation and data analysis in operational ocean models

Prof. J.M. Beckers (Université de Liège)

            IAHS lecture:

Integrated modeling of hydrologic processes on basin scale

Prof. F. De Smedt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Presentation of posters

            IAGA lecture:

The Earth System: living in space – A Cluster perspective

Dr. J. De Keyser (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)

            IAMAS lecture:

The climate of the XXIst century: What we know and what we do not know

Prof. A. Berger and Dr. M.-F. Loutre (Université catholique de Louvain)

            IASPEI lecture:

The Seismology and Physics of the Earth in the prevention of earthquakes: intra-plate seismicity in NW Europe

Prof. Th. Camelbeeck (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

            IAVCEI lecture:

Volcanic lakes and their use for monitoring volcanic activity

Prof. A. Bernard (Université Libre de Bruxelles)                                                                               

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