THIRD SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION

SPACE, ECOLOGY, NANOTECHNOLOGIES, SAFETY

SENS’2007

On 27-29 June 2007, at the Recreation House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Third Scientific Conference with International Participation се проведе Третата научна конференция с международно участие SPACE, ECOLOGY, NANOTECHNOLOGIES, SAFETY (SENS 2007) took place. It was organized by the Space Research Institute (SRI) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and the Bulgarian Astronautical Association (BAD) (БАД). Over 3 days, more than 130 scientific reports were delivered, distributed in 9 sessions: Space Physics and astronomy, Aerospace Engineering and Technologies, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Systems, Ecology and Risk Management, Space Materials Science and Nanotechnologies, Space Biology and Medicine, Space and Warfare, Space Education, and BalkanSat Small Satellite.

At the opening of the Scientific Conference, welcome addresses were delivered on behalf of the President of the BAS, Acad. Ivan Yuhnovski, the Space Research Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the European Commission, the Technical University in Sofia and more.

The participants in the Conference represented a number of BAS institutes, civil and military higher academic establishments, administrative research institutes, State and private companies. The youngest researchers – post-graduate students from the BAS and higher academic establishments, made a good presentation, too.

Foreign participation was very good – authors or co-authors of the filed reports from 20 countries could be found on the agenda: Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine etc. For the first time, there were participants from USA, Egypt, Israel, Sweden, Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia.

The abstracts of the scientific reports were published in a Book of Abstracts SENS’2007. The publication of the reports’ full texts is underway.

During the Conference, an artistic exhibition was organized entitled «Palm Sunday» with works of Sen. Res. Petar Stoyanov, researcher from the SRI-BAS.

We are glad to report on the successful performance of SENS’2007 marked by the enhanced prestige of the Conference, the higher level of the participants and their works, the greater number of foreign participants. We would like to pay our acknowledgment to the Organization Committee in the face of its Honoured Chairman, Acad. Nikola Sabotinov, Vice-President of the BAS, its Chairman, Prof. Petar Getsov, Director of the Space Research Institute of the BAS, and all other organizers and participants.

The Fourth Scientific Conference with International Participation SPACE, ECOLOGY, NANOTECHNOLOGIES, SAFETY (SENS 2008) will take place in June 2008.

Prof. Garo Mardirossian, DSc