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Minutes ILRS/AWG Workshop #8 April 3-4, 2003, Nice, France 1. Opening Welcome by Noomen. Thanks to SAO/ILRS/Pearlman for arranging location for meeting and services. Approval of agenda (Appendix 1). Brief introduction of participants; their names and e-mail addresses are listed in Appendix 2. 2. Minutes from previous AWG meeting Not discussed explicitly. Most of the issues of the meeting in Lanham 2002 will pass the floor again in the current workshop in Nice. Appleby briefly reported on the station/satellite specific center-of-mass corrections, previously presented at the International Workshop on Laser Ranging in October 2002 (Appendix 3). The results will be made more unambiguous for analysts, at least for the cannonball satellites initially, and then be made available on the ILRS web pages (action item Appleby/Otsubo/Torrence). 3. Actions since AWG Lanham The action items of the previous meeting in Lanham were reviewed. About half has been fulfilled; the remainder will appear on the action item list coming out of this Nice meeting. 4. Announcements 4.1. ILRS related presentations Two presentations that relate to the general activities and/or science results of the ILRS are mentioned here. The first one is a publication in Eos (Vol. 84, No. 6, February 11, 2003, p.51), entitled “Laser ranging workshop draws international research community”, by Noomen and Klosko. It is a summary of the International Workshop on Laser Ranging that was held in Washington DC in October 2002. The other one is a presentation “ILRS contribution to current and future IERS products” given by Gurtner (co-authors Appleby, Noomen and Shelus) during the IERS Retreat in Paris, on March 31 and April 1 2003. In addition, Exertier reported on a paper written by Barlier and Lefebvre, entitled “A new look at planet Earth: satellite geodesy and geosciences” (in: “The Century of Space Science”, p. 1623-1651, Kluwer, 2001). 4.2. IERS Retreat Noomen reported on the IERS Retreat, which