On March 23-24, 2003, the second in a series of international workshops on interstellar message design will be held in Paris.

The workshop will focus on two broad themes: first, the interface of art, science, and technology in interstellar message design; and second, how to communicate concepts of altruism in interstellar messages.

Papers addressing other topics related to interstellar message construction will be considered on a space available basis.

For detailed information, see http://publish.seti.org/art_science/2003

Participation is by invitation only. Each potential participant should send a 200-word abstract of his/her proposed paper and either a c.v./resume or a URL describing professional background to altruism @ seti.org no later than December 1, 2002.

The workshop is sponsored by:

• SETI Institute
• Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and TechnoSciences
• John Templeton Foundation
• International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
• International Academy of Astronautics Permanent SETI Study Group

Reproduced from the Newsletter of Commission VI of the International Academy of Astronautics, No. 5, September, 2002