pdf SCAR XXVIII 14: Report of the Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (SSG/PS)

SCAR XXVIII 14: Report of the Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (SSG/PS)     

Introduction

This document presents a summary of activities carried out by the SCAR Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (SSG/PS) since SCAR XXVII in Shanghai, July 2002. It included:

• brief reports on the work of our Action, Expert and Programme Planning Groups,
• outcomes of the recommendations agreed at SCAR XXVII,
• new recommendations to SCAR and external organisations,
• budget proposals for 2005 and 2006, and
• an action timetable for the next two years.

Expanded reports on the work of the various sub-groups are in the minutes of the SSG/PS meeting held in Bremen, available from the SSG/PS web site. The web site also contains national and other reports on science that comes under SSG/PS.