Deadlines & Milestones
| Date | Public |
| December 2008 – January 2009 | Call for Sessions |
| mid-February 2009 | Call for Papers (with - almost - full session program) |
| 29 May 2009 | Receipt of abstracts |
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30 May – 12 June 2009 Transfer of abstracts until 05 June 2009 |
Convener Part 1: conveners communicate wishes and requirements regarding room size, time blocks etc. to the conference committee |
| 06 – 12 June 2009 | Convener Ranking of Support Applications |
| 13 – 19 June 2009 | Support Selection Committee decides on the granting of the bursary taking the ranking of the conveners into consideration |
| 22 June 2009 | Letter of outcome of Support Selection |
| 13 – 19 June 2009 | Scientific Organizing Committee Part 1: evaluation of rejected and unassigned contributions; |
| 20 – 26 June 2009 | Scientific Organizing Committee Part 2: assigning of time blocks, rooms, days and exact session times to each session, on the basis of convener requests and consistency for the program |
| 27 June – 04 July 2009 | Convener Part 3: Now conveners select oral/poster presentations and assign the order of presentations and assign the ordering of presentations, according to allotted time slots |
| 05 – 09 July 2009 | Scientific Organizing Committee Part 3: finalize program |
| 20 July 2009 | Letter of schedule to authors Uploading meeting program on web |
| 22 July 2009 | Draft Programme Book to Scientific Organizing Committee |
| 31 July 2009 | Program Book / Abstract CD-Rom to printer |
| 28 August 2009 | Deadline for Daily Program |
| 13 – 18 September 2009 | European Planetary Science Congress 2009 |