| SatCom_Middle_East_2004 Satcom Middle East 2004 is a director level conference that tackles all the strategic issues, from satellite business applications to process management strategies. |
| Small_Satellite_Conference Annual AIAA/Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites. |
| Space_Foundation_Space_Symposia Presentation of upcoming Space symposia. |
| Space_Generation_Congress_-_Vancouver_2004 The Space Generation Congress (SGC), Vancouver 2004, will be held in October 2004 to support the world's youth in space exploration. |
| Space_Mission_Challenges_for_Information_Technology The SMC- IT Conference, held in Pasadena, California, will focus on current IT practice and challenges with applicability for future space missions. Sponsored by JPL. |
| Space_Week Offers overview and details of this worldwide yearly event (Oct. 4-10) supported by the United Nations. |
| SpaceOps_2004 Eighth International Conference on Space Operations, hosted by the Canadian Space Agency, May 17 - 21, 2004, in Montréal, Canada. |
| 35th_Lunar_and_Planetary_Science_Conference Official site of the 35th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) to be held in Houston in 2004. LPSC yearly attracts over 1000 planetary scientists to present the latest results of world |
| Yuri\'s_Night Annual worldwide party to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space--as well as to promote space exploration. |
| Animal_Enumerations Enumeration on regular tilings of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes. |
| Anna\'s_Pentomino_Page Anna Gardberg makes pentominoes out of sculpey and agate. |
| Arnab\'s_Pentominos_Puzzle Fast Pentominos puzzle solver, works on DOS/Windows platform. Free downloads. |
| Blocking_Polyominos Rodolfo Kurchan searchss the smallest polyomino such that a particular number of copies can form a blocked pattern. With solutions. |
| Canonical_Polygons Ronald Kyrmse investigates grid polygons in which all side lengths are one or sqrt(2). |
| Christopher_Monckton\'s_Eternity_Puzzle Rules, the solution by Alex Selby and Oliver Riordan, other resources and links. The puzzle is made up of 209 pieces of polydrafters, each one is a combination of 12-30/60/90 triangles. |
| Counting_Horizontally_Convex_Polyominoes Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 2 (1999), Article 99.1.8. Defines and counts horizontal convexity. |
| Cynthia_Lanius\'_Lesson__Polyominoes_Introduction From tetris to hexominoes, Cynthia explains them in color. |
| Dancing_Links Don Knuth discusses implementation details of polyomino search algorithms (compressed PostScript format). |
| A_Dissection_Puzzle T. Sillke asks for dissections of two heptominoes into squares. |
| Equilateral_Pentagons Jorge Luis Mireles Jasso investigates these polygons and dissects various polyominos into them. Animations show cases of infinite solutions. |
| Eternity_Page Alex Selby's page with a description of his solution method, with illustrations in .png and .pdf files. |
| Flexagons Conrad and Hartline's 1962 article on Flexagons. |
| Flexagons Folded paper polyiamonds which can be unfolded to show hidden faces. Make interesting school projects. |
| Gamepuzzles Polyomino and polyform games and puzzles manufactured by Kadon Enterprises Inc. |
| The_Geometry_Junkyard__Polyominoes Numerous links, sorted alphabetically. |
| George_Huttlin\'s_Puzzle_Page George Huttlin shares some ramblings in the world of polyominoes. |
| Gerard\'s_Pentomino_Page Illustrates the 12 shapes. symmetrical combinations. |
| Golygons Harry J. Smith's explains polyominoes with consecutive integer side lengths. |
| Golygons_by_Mathworld What they are, and how to find them. |
| Harold_McIntosh\'s_Flexagon_Papers Including copies of the original 1962 Conrad-Hartline papers. Abstract, html-pages, or .pdf documents. |
| Henri_Picciotto\'s_Geometric_Puzzles_in_the_Classroom Polyform puzzle lessons for math educators to use with their students, including polyominoes, supertangrams, and polyarcs. |
| Hepto Some packings of the 108 heptominoes (with unit thickness) into various blocks. |
| Hexiamonds George Huttlin explains and illustrates these shapes composed of 6 equilateral triangles, which in turn tiles different forms. |
| Hyperbolic_Planar_Tessellations Don Hatch's page on hyperbolic tesselations with numerous illustrations. |
| Information_on_Pentomino_Puzzles At the Combinatorial Object Server. |
| Isoperimetric_Polygons Livio Zucca tiles polygons of equal perimeter, or isoperiploes. |
| Java_pentominoes Thery families web site with pentomino solver. (English/French)[Java]. |
| Knight\'s_Move_Tessellations Dan Thomasson looks at tesselations with numerous unexpected shapes traced out by knight moves. |
| Lego_Pentominos Eric Harshbarger. This puzzle maker says that the hard part was finding legos in enough different colors. |
| Livio_Zucca\'s_polyomino-covered_cube Colorful illustrations demonstrate how closed surfaces could be covered by polyominoes. |
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'Earth & Space Week (12-20 February 2005) was a European Commission and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative aimed at showing how Earth Observation (EO) and Space improve quality of life on our planet. The Week included cultural, recreational and educational activities, a major public exhibition, and high-level policy-related events.This website is now closed and not updated any more(30 March 2005)'
Our next challenge: a human on Mars (21/02/2005)“The European Space Agency will be the first space agency to reach all planets in the inner solar system.” That was the assurance of Piero Messina, speaking for ESA’s Aurora Exploration Programme at the last Earth & Space Expo lunchtime seminar in Brussels.
Co-operation in space gets major boost (18/02/2005)Over 40 nations and more than 20 international organisations came together at the ‘Winning through co-operation’ conference in Brussels, on 17 February 2005. High representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, the Russian Space Agency and the European Union, and many others, discussed past, present and future international space endeavours.
EO Business Summit highlights GMES at Earth & Space Week (18/02/2005)On 16 February 2005, private sector and public officials at the Earth Observation (EO) Industry Summit cited GMES, the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative, as a prime example of successful co-operation. GMES will provide better environmental analysis and will strengthen the Union's ability to carry out foreign and security responsibilities.
Living legends join Earth & Space Week at CSIS conference (18/02/2005)The Human Space Exploration Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a major conference on 16 February 2005 in Brussels. Speakers included Buzz Aldrin, the man who accompanied Neil Armstrong on the Moon. Other American and European astronauts joined a stellar cast of world space personalities.
WMO to host GEO Secretariat in Geneva (18/02/2005)On 15 February 2005, Co-Chairs of the ad hoc Group on Earth Observations (GEO) toasted a new Standing Arrangement between the GEO and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Under the arrangement, the WMO will provide office facilities for GEO Secretariat staff.
When our living planet shakes, coughs and splutters (18/02/2005)World leaders meeting during Earth & Space Week have pledged support for an ambitious but necessary plan to mitigate the effects of natural and man-made disasters, as well as monitoring the overall health of our planet. At the Earth & Space Expo lunchtime seminar on 17 February 2005, delegates heard that geological hazards are high on the list of threats facing populations worldwide.
Third EO Summit – global co-operation in Earth Observation steps up a gear (17/02/2005)Comprehensive, global co-operation in Earth Observation (EO) moved from discussion to implementation with the launch of a Ten-Year Implementation Plan. Delegations from almost 60 countries around the world as well as more than 40 organisations came together in Brussels on 16 February to lend their support to the plan. The establishment of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) over the next decade will underpin coordinated use of earth observation data for sustainable development across the globe.
Europe in the solar system (17/02/2005)“Today, Europe has satellites in all corners of the solar system” is how Marcello Coradini opened his Earth & Space week lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 16 Februar2005. “The US and Soviet space programmes put them ahead in the field, but since Europe launched the Giotto satellite in 1986 we have been catching up.”
Galileo helps Europe find its place in satellite navigation (16/02/2005)The European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) held a special lunchtime seminar on the Galileo satellite navigation system on 15 February 2005. Journalists at the Earth & Space Expo found out how the ambitious system works, and about its political, commercial and social benefits.
GEO Co-Chairs say ‘imagine if’ at Earth & Space Expo (16/02/2005)On 15 February 2005, Co-Chairs of the ad hoc Group on Earth Observations (GEO) sat down to lunch with reporters. Their message: imagine if we lived in a world with a comprehensive 'Global Earth Observation System of Systems'.
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