Local Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the call for session proposals for the IGU Thematic Conference to be held in Moscow, Russia on 04-06 June 2018. Sessions could be organized by IGU commissions or group of scholars on relevant interdisciplinary themes. The deadline for submitting your session proposals is 1 December 2017. Please download the submission form here. You can also download the List of accepted sessions (pdf).

Since 1 December we kindly invite you to submit your abstracts via our registration system. Each participant can submit two abstracts. Abstracts will be reviewed and selected for oral or poster presentations by the session organizers and/or Commissions’ Chairs. Preference for oral or poster presentation should be indicated upon submission. When submitting, first select the category and the specific session in which you wish to place your abstract (see the List of accepted sessions on the main page). Please note that the session’s organizers reserve the right to decide on the final assignment of abstracts.

IMPORTANT: Please clearly indicate the presenting author. You can include the names of up to 15 co-authors as well (using “et al.” or a team name is also permitted). At your choice you can submit a standard or an extended abstract. A standard abstract should contain a maximum of 2,200 characters including spaces (approximately 350 words). An extended abstract should contain up to 8 standard pages. The titles should consist of no more than 20 words. No abbreviations are to be used in titles. All abstracts should be written in English and formatted as in this example You can choose from the following presentation types: oral, poster or no preference. In cases of no preference, the convener will decide on the presentation type. Please send your submission via the registration system in .doc or .docx format.