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12\18 France - 6th Workshop on Catastophic Disruption 
                     in the Solar System
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MEETING: Sixth Workshop on Catastophic Disruption in the Solar System
PLACE: Cannes, France
DATES: June 9-11, 2003.
DEDICATION: Dr. Paolo Farinella

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Dan Durda (Chair), Erik Asphaug,Kevin
Housen, Patrick Michel, and Akiko Nakamura.

Patrick Michel will take care of local arrangements and gourmet 
feasting and will be the conference administrator.

The workshop will take place in the heart of the legendary French 
Riviera in Cannes with its unequalled bay, traditions, and surrounded 
by small typical villages. The Croisette Beach Hotel in which the 
meeting will take place is located only a short step from the beaches 
of La Croisette, and a few minutes by walk from the old town with its 
typical architecture, restaurants and local people.

A web site devoted to the workshop may be found at:
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/cd6/meeting.html. In addition to 
emailed announcements, additional information (links, PDF forms, etc.) 
will be placed on this site and we encourage participants to check 
this site for updates.

The Hotel itself has 50 rooms blocked for us, all with the modern 
confort of a four-star Hotel (maximum number of stars in France): 
soundproofed with air-conditionning, colour cable TV and filter power 
outlet for computer equipment (for further information, visit the 
Croisette Beach home page:  http://www.croisettebeach.com/).

To make their room reservation, participants are required to fill the 
form at the end of this announcement and fax it DIRECTLY TO the Hotel 
(note: the Hotel is closed until December 27th 2002, so the form 
should be faxed preferentially after this date BUT BEFORE March 17th 
2003); the dealines and cancellation penalties are well indicated and 
participants can also contact the Hotel by phone if any other details 
or requirements are still needed. An application form including other 
needed information (title of potential talk etc ..) is also situated 
at the end of this announcement and must be filled and sent by email 
to michel{at}obs-nice.fr

The format of the meeting, in keeping with the workshop spirit, will 
allow ample time for discussion. The Scientific Program includes 
invited reviews on the main topics and each session will be orgnized 
starting by an invited review and followed by talks on the same topics 
with as much time as necessary for discussions. The main topics and 
Invited Reviewers (IR) are:

I Confrontation laboratory experiments - observations - models

I-A Impacts in Strength Regime

I-A-1 Impact Experiments (laboratory and in-the-field) IR: A.NAKAMURA
I-A-2 Models of Impact Experiments (numerical and analytical
explanations/examinations) IR: E. ASPHAUG
I-A-3 Scaling IRs: K. HOUSEN/K. HOLSAPPLE

I-B Beyond the Strength Regime

I-B-1 Constraints from observations

I-B-1-a Asteroid Families IR: A. CELLINO
I-B-1-b Asteroid Observations (rotation, satellites, ...) 
   IR: A.W. HARRIS

I-B-2 Numerical models

I-B-2-a Numerical Models (hydrocodes) and simulation of small body
collisions IR: P. MICHEL
I-B-2-b BIG Collisions (Earth-Moon, Pluto/Charon, etc.) IR: R. CANUP

II Material Properties, Physical Structure

II-1 Porosity/Highly Compressible Materials 
 IRs: K. HOLSAPPLE/K. HOUSEN
II-2 Meteoritical Evidence/Constraints for Impacts/Disruption IR:
CONSOLMAGNO
II-3 Geological Properties of Asteroids from Spacecraft Observations 
 IR: to be determined
II-4 Rubble Piles and Monoliths IR: D.C. RICHARDSON

III Collisonal Evolution Models

III-1 Collisional Evolution Models/Size Distributions IR: F. MARZARI
III-2 Catastrophic disruption threshold and internal structure 
 IR: W. BENZ
III-3 Disruption/Splitting of Comets (tentative IR: P. WEISSMAN)

We anticipate the registration fees to be around 150 Euros at most, 
but the final amount depends on how much additional support we can 
obtain. The amount and payment will be asked later. The Workshop will 
start by a welcome buffet on the beach on Sunday June 8th in the 
evening and it will include a evening banquet on Tuesday June 10th in 
Mougins (one of the small villages surrounding Cannes). Every Lunch 
during the workshop will also consist in buffets (hot and cold) on the 
beach, including vegetarian plates. These social events are free for 
the participants.

Finally, the Proceedings of this workshop will be published in the 
Journal Icarus (to be confirmed).

We will let you know other details in the next annoucements. Given the
limited number of rooms, we encourage people willing to participate to
reserve their Hotel room as fast as possible by sending the form below 
by fax to the Hotel, and we thank you in advance for sending back also 
as soon as possible the application form placed after the room 
reservation form by email to michel{at}obs-nice.fr.

Patrick Michel
michel{at}obs-nice.fr

Dan Durda
durda{at}boulder.swri.edu

Donald R. Davis
drd{at}psi.edu

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