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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PL">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PL">We would like to draw your attention to the IAG03</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PL"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PL">”Earth
Rotation and Geodynamics” session at the IAG-IASPEI Joint Scientific Assembly in Kobe, Japan. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 8 February. The objectives of the session are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">“The Earth is moving and deforming in response to forces acting on the Earth from outside or inside of our planet. Geodynamics, studies of motion and deformation
of the Earth, includes the entire range of phenomena associated with Earth rotation and Earth orientation such as polar motion, Universal Time or length of day, precession and nutation, the observation and understanding of which are critical to the transformation
between terrestrial and celestial reference frames. It also includes tidal processes such as solid Earth and ocean loading tides, and crust and mantle deformation associated with tectonic motions and isostatic adjustment etc. During the last couple of decades,
research of geodynamics significantly advanced owing to rapid development of measurement and computation technologies, understanding of the Earth's dynamics and kinematics were deepened. Many geoscientists have come to use the fruit of geodynamics in a more
restricted sense to address processes such as plate tectonics and postglacial rebound. Because the Earth as a mechanical system responds to both internal and external forces, and because these responses are sometimes coupled, this session covers studies on
the entire range of physical processes associated with the motion and the deformation of the solid Earth. We saw the significant progress of observation in Earth rotation exploiting newly developed observation/measurement technologies, besides traditional
VLBI/SLR/LLR/GPS/DORIS, including Super-conductive laser gyroscope measurement, GRACE date on hydrological contribution to earth rotation, Galileo/BeiDou, etc. VGOS will be put into work next year. Studies on developments of new theories or computational techniques,
new observation/measurement techniques using emerging technologies are also welcome.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Please visit http://www.iag-iaspei-2017.jp/ for more details.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal">Convener:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#444444"><a href="mailto:hashimoto.manabu.7e@kyoto-u.ac.jp"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Manabu Hashimoto</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444"> (Kyoto
University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal">Co-Conveners:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444">Chengli Huang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China),
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444">Janusz Bogusz (Military University of Technology, Poland),
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444">Matt King (University of Tasmania, Australia),
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#444444">Jianli Chen (University of Texas, Center for Space Research, USA)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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