REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

The 6th European Mars Society Convention (EMC6), organized by Association Planète Mars, will be held
from Friday, October 20, 2006 (6:00 PM)
to Sunday, October 22, 2006 (5:00 PM)

on the premises of IPSA, an engineering school specialized in aeronautics and space:

24 rue Pasteur, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (5 minute walk from subway stop Porte d'Italie, Southern Paris)

With the support of IPSA, the European Space Agency, Espace Magazine, the city of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Register now to get the full update on the next great adventure of human exploration, to meet specialists in the field, and fans of the red planet: this is an opportunity not to be missed!

Since this is an international convention, the official language will be English, except for the Saturday evening session, open to the general public.

• What is our current knowledge of Mars? (Saturday morning)
• Mars and the search for life (Saturday morning)
• The robotic exploration program (Saturday afternoon)
• Man on Mars: technology, challenges and project status (Sunday morning)
• Exploration and society (Sunday afternoon)

Opening debate (Friday Oct 20, 6:30 PM) : Exploring Mars: what is at stake? What role can play European science and technology?
followed by
Parisian Soirée, dinner and cruise on the Seine river (reservation needed)

Special evening open to the public animated by Gilles Dawidowicz (Saturday Oct 21, 8:30-11 :00 PM, in French, free admission, limited seating) :

• Mars, from fiction to fact
• Break : Martian cocktail
• Mars on Earth : The Mars Society's research stations. The MDRS 43 mission: meet the crew and hear their story

Throughout the Convention : there will be an exhibit of art posters, educative displays, scale models, Martian artwork by artist Manchu, as well as book, T-shirt and poster sales and

display of the SQYMER robot (by "Magnitude 78" association) on a simulated martian terrain

Renown speakers: will address the Convention: space agency officials, engineers, and scientists involved in Martian exploration. We will hear the point of view of astronauts, political analysts, philosophers, and explorers of remote sites on Earth. The following have already agreed to give talks:
A. Chicarro, B. Gardini, G. Gianfiglio (ESA) ; Jacques Arnould, Jean-Jacques Favier (to be confirmed), François Spiero, Francis Rocard et Michel Viso (CNES) ; the planetologists François Costard, François Forget and Philippe Lognonné ; Olivier de Goursac, Charles Frankel, Olivier Sanguy (Espace Magazine), Patrick Baudry (to be confirmed) ; Robert Zubrin (Mars Society), Bo Maxwell (Mars Society UK) et Heines Griebel (Mars Society Germany)

Attendees who wish to make a presentation fitting one of the Convention themes, should send an abstract to : emc6paris@voila.fr
The abstract should be sent in electronic form only, as a doc, rtf or txt file (no pdf), without figures or illustrations; limited to 500 words. Submission deadline: July 31, 2006. Each presentation will be limited to 30 minutes (Q/A period included).