PROCEEDINGS

for the 19th International CODATA Conference
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
NEW HORIZONS FOR SCIENCE
Berlin, Germany — 7-10 November 2004

Scientific Advisory Committee

CODATA 2004 Proceedings Index
Keynotes
Plenaries
Data Archiving
Data Quality
Data Visualization
E-Learning
Environmental Informatics
Gas Hydrates
Infoscience Today
Interoperability
Knowledge Discovery
Multi-disciplinary Data Projects
Open Scientific Communications
Publication and Citation of Scientific Data
Scientific Data for Economic Development
Scientific Informatics in EurAsia
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Posters

Submission/Publication Guidelines

Organization Committees
The International Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee
The Local Organization Committee

Scientific Program
Program at a Glance
Final Detailed Program Book [large pdf file - you may want to right-click and save to your computer]
General Information About the Program

Ana María Cetto

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1946; married, with one daughter.

M.A. in Biophysics from Harvard University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), with honours. Area of research: theoretical physics, with emphasis on the foundations of quantum mechanics and matter-light interactions, and a substantial contribution to the theory of stochastic electrodynamics.

Author of 70 research articles in physics, 100 articles and essays on science education, popularization and policy, and a dozen textbooks, research monographs and science popularization books. 35 years experience as a lecturer in theoretical physics and electron microscopy.

Former head of the Department of Physics and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, and of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Institute of Physics, UNAM. Coordinator of the project for the Museum on Light (UNAM, inaugurated in 1996). Former editor-in-chief of Revista Mexicana de Física, member of the ICSU Press Committee, of the Board of INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications), and of the editorial boards of various scholarly journals. Founding president of LATINDEX, comprehensive online information system for Iberoamerican and Caribbean scientific periodicals.

Former Vice-President of the Commission on Physics for Development of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), Vice-President of COSTED (Committee on Science for Developing Countries), Vice-President of Interciencia Association and TWOWS (Third World Organization for Women in Science). Elected fellow of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences), the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Council on Ideas (1998-2000), and fellow of the Mexican Physical Society and the American Physical Society. Member of the External Evaluation Team of IFS (International Foundation for Science). Member of Council of UNU (United Nations University) and the Board of IFS, and Secretary-General of ICSU (International Council for Science). Former member of Council and President of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences (Nobel Peace Prize 1995).

Received the Golden Award of the International League of Humanists in 1998, and the Prize for the Development of Physics in Mexico of the Mexican Physical Society in 2000. Was appointed Woman of the Year in Mexico in 2003.

At present, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA) and Head of the Department of Technical Co-operation, Vienna, Austria.