"I find myself spending more and more time here," noted SETI League executive director H. Paul Shuch during a visit to Germany earlier this month, "in part due to the kind hospitality of my European friends, and partly because Europe is emerging as a real hotbed of SETI science." Dr. Shuch was recently made a member of the Starkenburg-Sternwarte e.V. in Heppenheim, one of the oldest private astronomical observatories in Germany, and host to the last three triennial European Radio Astronomy Congresses, of which The SETI League was co-sponsor. One of his first acts as a member of the Observatory was to secure their Board's approval to schedule there a SETI Science and Technology Workshop, tentatively titled EuroSETI04.
As a recently inducted member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and an active participant on their SETI Permanent Study Group, Shuch is seeking official IAA sanction for The SETI League's planned workshop, which has been tentatively scheduled for the weekend of 26 to 28 March, 2004. Academic papers will be presented on a variety of topics related to the scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, a formal Proceedings will be published, and various social events are planned, to encourage further collaboration between SETI League members throughout Europe.
"Given the success of the three SETICon Technical Symposia we held in the US over the past three years," says Shuch, "it seems most appropriate to begin hosting similar events at various other SETI Centers of Excellence around the world. I am hoping the March meeting will be the first of many, held wherever SETI League members may care to congregate."
SETI League members should watch the organization's website at www.setileague.org/seticon for further details on the upcoming meeting, as they become available.
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