Plans for Fourth LBA Scientific Conference in Belém, July 2007

19th LBA SSC – SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEEBrasília - 18-19 May, 2006 Ricardo Figueiredo

• First step

– Who can help in the organization?• Still waiting for a volunteer in Belém • LBA Central Office in Manaus• LBA Regional Office in Belém• “Temple Eventos” (experience with congress in Belém): take

care of everything (partner “Eventum”)

– Location?• “Temple” says that for a public > 500 there is only one place:

HANGAR • Other possibility: Prepare auditorium, rooms, etc. in a space

where some events has taken placeOBS: Despite of promisses of “Temple”, we have no budgets

until now, but only a proposal for the place (prepared by “Eventum”)

• Second step

– Define dates: • July 3-6 ? (need to avoid conflict of date with SBPC meeting

in Belém on July/2007)

– Approve the budget (SSC and Central Office?)– Look for financial support (Central Office?)– Define the scientific committee:

• Flávio Luizão ?• Paulo Artaxo ?• Mercedes Bustamante ?• Michael Keller ?• Others ?