Global Hands-On Universe Workshop

August 1st to August 5th, 2005

National Astronomical Observatories of China
Beijing , China

The second Announcement

Hello Global HOU Collaborators,

Plans for the Global HOU Meeting in Beijing August 1 to 5 are converging rapidly. The web page is up now (and still growing):

( NOTE : One must use Internet Explorer to view these pages for now -

Mozilla does not display the pages properly)

Conference Home Page:

http://159.226.168.243/ghou/index.htm

Registration Page:

http://159.226.168.243/ghou/regiform1.htm

The Deadline for registration is July 1.

The Deadline for Abstracts is July 15 .

It is very important to register soon so you can obtain a

visa in time! Also, hotels and airlines become booked.

Hotel and Practical Information:

Rooms are being held for us at the hotels listed at:

http://159.226.168.243/ghou/practical.htm

There is a form to download and then fax to Swan International Tours

Instructions for paying with credit cards are listed. It is somewhat

urgent to hold rooms and make airplane reservations, as this is a

busy travel time for Beijing . Note that rooms of various costs

are being held.

Abstracts:

We have many afternoon sessions being formed and scheduled now. Please

feel free to contribute an abstract and we will try to find a place for

either a talk/activity or poster!

http://www.astronomy.csdb.cn:8090/hp/gfile.jsp

Agenda:

The preliminary Agenda is at:

http://159.226.168.243/ghou/preprog.htm

This agenda will evolve and further converge over the next

few months, so stay tuned.

This workshops is promising to be an important and eventful

meeting for HOU and the world, as our resources converge and our ability to

collaborate and share resources grows.

For the Organizing Committee,

Hongfeng Guo

NAOC, China

Roger Ferlet

Inst. of Astrophysics, Paris

Carl Pennypacker

UC Berkeley , USA