From: Bo Thide' <bt@hybrid.irfu.se>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: 3rd Volga International Summer School on Space Plasma Physics
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:03:19 +0100
Organization: Wave Group, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala,
Sweden


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THIRD VOLGA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS
ISS97
Nizhniy Novgorod/Volga River, Russia
22 MAY - 3 JUNE, 1997

WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU to participate in the Third Volga
International Summer School on Space Plasma Physics, May 22-June 3,
1997, onboard a comfortable cruise ship on the majestic Volga, the
biggest river in Europe.

THE STARTING POINT will be Nizhniy Novgorod (formerly Gor'kiy), an
800 year old city situated on the banks of the Volga and Oka rivers
400 km east of Moscow, and a Russian centre for higher education and
research. With a population of nearly two million, Nizhniy Novgorod
is the third largest and the most progressive city in Russia.

THE PURPOSE of these biannual Summer Schools, organised jointly
since 1993 by the Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI) Nizhniy
Novgorod, Russia, and the Uppsala Division of the Swedish Institute
of Space Physics (IRFU), Uppsala, Sweden, is to give an insight into
the common scientific problems of contemporary space plasma physics
and plasma astrophysics by bringing together experienced
researchers, young scientists and scholars in astrophysics, space
physics and plasma physics for a fruitful exchange of ideas across
interest, language, culture and age barriers.

THE TOPICS COVERED include linear and non-linear plasma physics,
waves and radiation phenomena in plasma, waves in random media and
turbulence, ionospheric, magnetospheric and heliospheric plasma,
solar and stellar coronal plasma, space and astrophysical plasma
under extreme conditions, space plasma radio emission, radio and
radar methods for investigating space, ionospheric modification, and
the use of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere as a space
plasma laboratory for model experiments which simulate phenomena in
other plasma environments.

THE REGULAR SESSIONS will be in the form of general lectures and
tutorial talks. In addition, participants are welcome to submit
abstracts if they so wish. Their accepted contributions will be
presented in special oral or poster sessions. Onboard we will have
a temoprary Radiofizika/Radio Physics and Quantum Electronics
editors office and a referee group, so that it will be possible to
have your paper submitted, reviewed, edited an accepted for
publication in Radiofizika by the time you disembark the ship.

DEADLINE FOR PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION is 15 March, 1997. The number
of participants is limited to about 200.

IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION, please contact the organising
committee by e-mail at iss97@nirfi.sci-nnov.ru. You may also
visit the Volga ISS97 WWW home page at
http://www.wavegroup.irfu.se/Volga97/
and look at some pictures from earlier Summer Schools at
http://www.wavegroup.irfu.se/Volga97/earlier.html.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Lev M Erukhimov Bo Thidé
Radiophysical Research Institute Swedish Institute of Space Physics
B. Pecherskaya st, 25/14 Uppsala Division
603024 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: [+7] 8312-36 01 88 Phone: [+46] 18-30 36 71
Fax: [+7] 8312-36 99 02 Fax: [+46] 18-40 31 00
E-mail: le@nirfi.sci-nnov.ru E-mail: bt@irfu.se