Siberian Center for Environment Research and Training (SCERT), Institute for Numerical Mathematics RAS (INM), Institute of Optical Monitoring SB RAS (IOM), Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics and Tomsk State University (TSU) with the support of EC INCO Programme and under the auspice of Russian National Committee of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme hold the International conference and young scientists school on computational information technologies for environmental sciences.
At first day of weekly school the leading Russian specialists working in this area will deliver lectures on the state and basic and practical problems of this branch of science to post-graduates and young scientists.
The following introductory hour and a half lectures are planned:

Three special courses will be delivered to school attendants:

These courses will be supported by practical assignments. The groups of 3-4 persons will be able to perform the tasks on modeling of concrete situations of environmental state of atmosphere in Tomsk city on the basis of information and computation resources of Siberian Center for Environment Research and Training. At the last school day each group will deliver a 15-minutes report on the results of their work to all school attendants. On finishing the school the participants will take part in the international Conference where they will be able to present their results and get new knowledge in the spheres of their interest. At the Conference several invited hour lectures of leading Russian and foreign specialists on modern problems of computational information technologies development and their application in environmental sciences are planned.
On finishing the event the school attendants are planned to receive certificates with the list of the courses taken and the results of the task performed.
The anticipated support from RFFR, INTAS and EC should allow us to cover completely/partially expenses for a number of young and experienced researchers from NIS countries.
The participants’ selection and determination of the support type will be based on the Requests for Participation sent to the Organizing Committee.

Four-days Conference on computational information technologies for environmental sciences will be devoted to the-state-of-the-art and usage of modern modeling tools and information technologies for Atmospherics Physics and Chemistry, applying to environmental research. It is aimed at filling a gap between basic science achievements and their practical applications in the domain of computational information technologies for environmental sciences as well as at dessimination of new knowledge and results among specialists and, in first place, among young scientists.
The Conference is planned as a set of consequent sessions with invited lectures, invited oral and contributed poster paper presentations.
One session will be devoted to monitoring of international environmental projects realized in NIS countries and sponsored by INTAS, EC and other donor organizations.
The official languages of Conference are Russian and English. The simultaneous translation is planned.
The Abstracts and the Conference Program will be published in the hard copy version and on the Conference site. Invited and recommended by the Program Committee contributed papers will be published at the Conference site and in peer reviewed Journal "Information Technologies". Other papers will be published on the Conference site and as a hard copy of the Conference Proceedings. Selection procedure will be done in course of the event.

Planned sessions:

Also the following questions will be discussed in framework of this domain: GIS: modeling and web- access; Modeling atmospheric & ocean optics; Local Area Network and web systems and portals for Atmospheric Sciences; Integrated information systems for environment assessment&management.
Those, who wish to suggest invited topics, please contact relevant session organizers.

Currently confirmed invited lectures and papers:

1. Climate and environment monitoring of Siberia. Michael Kabanov (Institute of Optical Monitoring SB RAS, Tomsk)

11. Methods of geoinformation modeling and application to atmospheric pollution tasks. Edige Zakarin (Space Research Institute, Kazakhstan)

12. Atmosphere and marine environments: their relationship in affecting climate changes. Antonio Palucci (ENEA, Italy)

13. Modeling of climates of the past. А.V.Kislov (Moscow State University)

14. The problems of transition from serial to parallel program in solving the mathematical physics problems on complex grids. A.N. Andrianov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow)

15. Basic Aspects of Lagrangian Stochastic Dispersion Models. Domenico Anfossi (C.N.R. Instituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, Torino, Italy)

16. Simulation of transport and diffusion in complex terrain by an integrated modelling system. Domenico Anfossi (C.N.R. Instituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, Torino, Italy)

17. Dispersion of Particulate Matter in Coastal Mountain-Girt Seoul Area. Hyo Choi (Kangnung National University, Korea)

19. Integrated information-space systems for studies of environmental problems. Yuri Polichtchouk (Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS)

Timetable