LESC is funding 16 ESF Exploratory Workshops in 2009:

1. EW08-070
   co-funded by EMRC

   Indoor Contamination With Persistent Organic Compounds: An Important Exposure Pathway For People?
   Dates and location: 23-25 March 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
   Convened by: Cynthia De Wit (SE), Stuart Harrad (UK)
   

2. EW08-080
   co-funded by PESC

   Modularity For Versatile Motor Learning: From Neuroscience To Robotics And Back
   Dates and location: 8-11 April 2009, Certaldo, Italy
   Convened by: Andrea D'Avella (IT), Etienne Burdet (UK), Auke Ijspeert (CH)
   

3. EW08-069

   Improving Ecological Forecasts By Integrating Feedback Mechanisms
   Dates and location: 14-18 April 2009, Potsdam, Germany
   Convened by: Ursula Gaedke (DE), Francisco De Castro (DE), Florian Jeltsch (DE), Frank Schurr (DE), Richard Walters (DE)
   

4. EW08-101

   Synoptic-Scale Climate Dynamics Over The Last Millennium: A Case Study For The Mca-Lia Transition
   Dates and location: 17-20 May 2009, Kippel, Switzerland
   Convened by: Valerie Trouet (CH), Andy Baker (UK), Jan Esper (CH), Eduardo Zorita (DE)
   

5. EW08-064
   co-funded by PESC

   Frontiers In European Research On Liquid Crystalline Soft Matter
   Dates and location: 26-30 May 2009, Bandol, France
   Convened by: Jan Lagerwall (DE), Sven Lagerwall (FR)
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6. EW08-055

   Defining The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Beneath Continents (DefLAB)
   Dates and location: 2-6 June 2009, Dublin, Ireland
   Convened by: Alan G. Jones (IE), Sergei Lebedev (IE), Lothar Viereck-Götte (DE)
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7. EW08-115
   co-funded by PESC

   Biosignatures On Exoplanets; The Identity Of Life
   Dates and location: 22-26 June 2009, Mulhouse, France
   Convened by: Nigel Mason (UK), Ewa Szuszkiewicz (PL)
   

8. EW08-142

   Ways To Reduce Carbon Foot Print Of Portland Cement Production And Cementitious Products.
   Dates and location: 22-23 June 2009, Coventry, United Kingdom
   Convened by: Eshmaiel Ganjian (UK), Mark Tyrer (UK)
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9. EW08-063
   co-funded by PESC

   Exploring The Interactions Between Carbon And Organic Chemical Cycling In Terrestrial Ecosystems
   Dates and location: 24-26 June 2009, Lancaster, United Kingdom
   Convened by: Luca Nizzetto (UK), Andrew Jarvis (UK), Kevin C. Jones (UK)
   

10. EW08-005
    co-funded by PESC, EMRC

    Bionanotechnology: Development And Application Of Principles Of Nano- and Bio-Sciences To Sensing, Diagnostics & Therapy
    Dates and location: 31 August-2 September 2009, Sintra, Portugal
    Convened by: Iseult Lynch (IE), Ricardo Franco (PT)
    

11. EW08-073
    co-funded by SCH

    Interdisciplinary Water Management In European Agricultural Landscapes
    Dates and location: 8-10 September 2009, Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Convened by: Gilles Pinay (UK), Julian Clark (UK)
    

12. EW08-068

    Improved Quantitative Fire Description With Multi-Species Inversions Of Observed Plumes
    Dates and location: 14-16 September 2009, Farnham, United Kingdom
    Convened by: Johannes Kaiser (UK), Martin Schultz (DE), Martin Wooster (UK)
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13. EW08-057

    Diurnal- to Century-Scale Controls On Soil Respiratory Fluxes. Towards A New Generation Of Integrated Experimental And Modelling Approaches
    Dates and location: 20-23 September 2009, Innsbruck, Austria
    Convened by: Michael Bahn (AT), Ivan Janssens (BE), Markus Reichstein (DE)
    

14. EW08-013

    GPCR Signalling Systems: A New Avenue For Drug Discovery?
    Dates and location: 24-25 November 2009, Paris, France
    Convened by: Eric Reiter (FR)
    

15. EW08-085
    co-funded by PESC

    Observation, Characterisation And Evolution Of Habitable Exoplanets And Their Host Stars
    Dates and location: 29 November-1 December 2009, Bairisch Kölldorf, Austria
    Convened by: Arnold Hanslmeier (AT), Helmut Lammer (AT), Jean Schneider (FR)
    

16. EW08-058

    Diversity And Function In Ectomycorrhizal Communities
    Dates and location: 6-9 December 2009, Nancy, France
    Convened by: Jean Garbaye (FR)
    

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