On 22-25 June 2010 IAG Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2010) was held by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation - Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC, supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

       The Symposium was headed by the International Program Committee consisting of the leading specialists from Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, from Argentina, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Russia, and USA.

       The Symposium languages were English and Russian.
       Simultaneous translation was provided from English into Russian and from Russian into English.

       The Symposium was attended by 207 specialists from 37 foreign companies and 22 Russian organizations coming from 20 countries: Austria, Belgium, China, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, and USA.

       The Symposium slogan read: Measuring gravity, measuring the Earth.

       Symposium sessions included

Terrestrial, shipboard and airborne gravimetry,

Absolute gravimetry,

Relative gravimetry, gravity networks and applications of gravimetry,

Atom interferometric gravimetry and gravitational experiments.

       68 presentations, among them 41 plenary and 27 poster, were made during the three Symposium days.
       The authors of the poster papers at the plenary session presented the main idea of the paper with 1 or 2 slides within 3 min, further discussion continued at the posters.

All speakers have received the Certificate of Attendance.

       The Symposium Program is available at http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru/cnf/tg-smm2010/enfrset.html
       On the last Symposium day, June 25, 2010, the cultural program including the city tour and visit to the Peter-and-Paul fortress and the Savior on the Spilt Blood Cathedral was offered to the participants.

       The Symposium was held at high scientific and organizational level and was highly estimated by the attendees.

       By the beginning of Symposium a book of abstracts, "IAG Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements, 22-25 June 2010, Saint Petersburg, Russia" (ISBN 978-5-900780-89-4) was published.
The texts of all presented plenary and poster papers will be published in Symposium Proceedings to be issued in the fourth quarter of 2010 (only in English) and sent to all participants.
       Instructions for preparing plenary and poster papers for the paper submission and the template are available at http://www.elektropribor.spb.ru/cnf/tg-smm2010/enfrset.html
       If you did not attend the Symposium but would like to buy the Proceedings please write a letter to the following address:

30, Malaya Posadskaya St., St. Petersburg, 197046, Russia
Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC
Attn. M.V. Grishina, Head of Scientific and Technical Information Department

Contact
Phone: (812) 499- 8118 - translators' group
E-mail: onti@eprib.ru,
         tgsmm2010@eprib.ru
Fax: (812) 232-3376