ACAG-1

[El-Gabry Mohamed Nabil]

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of NRIAG conference 2008, is pleased
to invite you to participate in

The 1st Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics ACAG-1

Cairo, Egypt
October 20-22, 2008

Organized by: The National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
(NRIAG), Helwan, Cairo, Egypt.

Under the Auspices of:

H.E.Mr. Amr Mousa, Secretary General of the Arab league.

H.E. Prof. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Deadlines:

Deadline for sending abstracts: May 31, 2008.

Deadline for sending the full text of the paper of not more than 15 pages:
July 31, to

acag1 at nriag.sci.eg

for more details, please visit NRIAG website
http://www.nriag.sci.eg
http://www.nriag.sci.eg/acag/ACAG1_Eng.pdf

Topics of the Conference:



A- Astronomy:

Ø      Galactic and Extra Galactic Astronomy: galaxies, nebula, AGN,
quasars, star clusters, invisible astronomy, and light pollution.

Ø      Stellar and Theoretical Astronomy: variable stars, solar system,
celestial mechanics, cosmology, relativity, and model atmosphere.

Ø      Solar Research: solar physics, solar radiation, pollution, solar
energy; computational, islamic and archaeological astronomy.

Ø      Space Sciences: orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics and control,
aerospace engineering, SLR, space environment, and space geodesy, etc
.



B- Geophysics:

Ø      Seismology: seismotectonics, engineering seismology, seismic
hazards, seismic tomography, seismic methods, and volcanology.

Ø      Seismologic networks and online data exchange.

Ø      Potential geophysics: gravity, magnetic, geoelectric,
geoelectromagnetism, environmental and archaeological geophysics, and
groundwater.

Ø      Geodesy: crustal deformation, GPS for geodynamics and remote sensing.




N.P. please feel free to circulate to any other person/institution