General Information . Conference Timetable . ... The meeting starts at 9:00 on Wednesday 2 September, however on Tuesday 1 September we will have an early registration desk at the Observatory, plus a welcoming reception consisting of drinks and nibbles. ... On the social front, we have arranged on Friday evening a visit to the Navan Centre which is two miles west of the city and is situated close to the great mound of Navan Fort, stronghold of the kings of Ulster from 700 BC. ...

Professor Yurij Shokin, born 1943, has been many years with the Computer Center and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (during the directorship of Academician N N Yanenko ) in Novosibirsk's scientific campus Akademgorodok and was director of the computer centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, in Krasnoyarsk. ... He is an affiliate member of IFIP WG 2.5 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Russian Academy of Sciences . Siberian Division . ...