ALAGE Community

Dear Scientific Community

The COLAGE 2020 Local Organizing Committee, the COLAGE 2020 International Scientific Committee, and the ALAGE directive have decided to postpone the COLAGE 2020 that was organized for the week of December 14 – 18, 2020 in Pucon Chile. The same applies for the student workshop that was going to occur the week before.

The main reasons for this decision are the evolution of the coronavirus contagion in Chile and Latin America; the difficulty for traveling in many countries; the importance of having a face-to-face conference in which ALAGE members, students, and scientists can exchange ideas and start collaborations; and in general due to the unpredictable conditions at the programmed time of the conference. We waited as long as we could to make this difficult announcement, but at this point, it is now clear that things will not improve considerably by December as any relaxation of the quarantine measures, even if they were done today, will take time in a trial and error fashion as it is occurring in many countries.

The COLAGE meeting and student workshop will be held at a future time when the sanitary conditions allow a meeting of these characteristics and will be informed in due time.

However, we would like to inform you that during the time of the Eclipse we are organizing a dual mode (virtual and face-to-face) Space Geophysics workshop. If the conditions allow it, we will hold the workshop on the same site in Pucon, Chile. Everyone is invited to present their work in a face-to-face or virtual fashion. Information about this workshop will be communicated shortly.

Sincerely yours,

ALAGE directive, http://www.alage.org (alage.information@gmail.com)

COLAGE 2020 Local Organizing Committee (marina.stepanova@usach.cl)

COLAGE 2020 International Organizing committee