Dear Colleague,

Announcement and Call for Papers: COSPAR Session on 
¡ÈSources of Galactic Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy¡É

COSPAR event E1.6 and joint E1.6/E1.4 event
Abstract Deadline: Feb. 15, 2004

The COSPAR meeting for 2004 will be held in Paris on July 18-24. 

I would like to call your attention to the COSPAR sessions titled 
"E1.6 Sources of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy". This event will focus on 
the observational and theoretical evidence from recent work that bears on 
the sources and acceleration of cosmic rays in the galaxy. It will include 
measurements of elemental and isotopic composition, measurements of energy 
spectra, and measurements of electrons and antiparticles. 
It will also include observations of supernova remnants at X-ray and 
gamma-ray wavelengths with specific relevance to Galactic Cosmic Rays in 
a joint session with E1.4 (Young Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants), 
and it will cover recent theoretical models of particle injection, 
acceleration, and galactic propagation.

We would like to encourage you to submit contributed oral and poster papers 
for this 
conference. Important deadlines are:

Deadline for receipt of COSPAR abstracts: 15 February, 2004
Deadline for Financial Support Application: 15 February, 2004.
Early Deadline for Pre-Registration: 15 May, 2004
Late Deadline for Pre-conference Registration: 16 May-10 July, 2004
Deadline for Hotel Registration: 1 July 2004

For additional information, go to the COSPAR website at
 http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

Solicited papers that will be presented in the E1.6 sessions are:
1. The Superbubble Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays - J. Higdon 
                                                    (Claremont College, USA)
2. Cosmic Ray Abundances and Energy Spectra at High Energy: KASKADE and 
   TRACER Results - J. Horandel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
3. Propagation of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy - V. Ptuskin (ITMIRP, Russia)
4. Antiprotons in the Cosmic Radiation: BESS Results - A. Yamamoto 
                                                       (KEK, Japan)

Solicited papers that will be presented at the joint E1.6/1.4 session are:
1. X-ray Synchrotron Emission from Shell-type SNR's - J. Ballet 
                                                      (CEA-Saclay, France)
2. Gamma-Ray Astronomy and the Cosmic Ray Origin Problem - E. Berezhko 
                                                           (ICRA, Yakutsk)
3. Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in SNR Shocks - D. Ellison 
                                       (North Carolina State University, USA)
4. Composition of Galactic Cosmic Rays - M. Wiedenbeck (JPL, USA)

Organizing committee members for the E1.6 cosmic ray sessions are:
Main Scientific Organizer--Robert Binns, Washington University in St. Louis
Deputy Scientific Organizer--Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago
Editor--Robert Streitmatter--Goddard Space Flight Center
Luke Drury--Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Richard Mewaldt--Caltech 
Vladamir Ptuskin--Institute for Terestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave 
Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
Marco Ricci--INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Andrew Strong--Max-Planck Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik (Garching)
Shoji Torii--Kanagawa University 

Sincerely,

COSPAR Event E1.6 Organizing Committee