Subject: SPT2004 - First circular Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:47:23 +0100 From: Giuseppe Gaeta To: spt@sptspt.it SPT2004 - First Circular The conference SPT2004 (Symmetry and Perturbation Theory) will take place in Cala Gonone on 30 May - 6 June 2004. See the web site www.sptspt.it for this series of conferences. The first and last day of SPT2004 are arrival (and registration) day and departure day; the conference itself will start early in the morning of 31 May and end up late in the afternoon of 5 June. The web page of the conference, http://www.sptspt.it/spt2004.html , has been recently updated and contains now a pre-registration form as well as relevant informations. See below for some of these. Cala Gonone is a small and pleasant village on the eastern coast of Sardinia; it is near the larger village of Dorgali in the Nuoro area. Information about travelling in Sardinia to reach Cala Gonone is available on the conference web page http://www.sptspt.it/spt2004.html . The conference will take place in Hotel Villaggio Palmassera. Participants wishing so will be lodged in the same hotel at discount full board rates; this will be at 266 E in double room and 316 E in single room for the whole week in three stars rooms, with higher category rooms also available on request; see the conference web page for details. Participants will have to take care of their reservations; details will be communicated in due time. A conference fee will be levied; this is fixed at 100 E for standard participants (faculty and postdocs) and 50 E for students and unemployed. Proceedings of the conference will be published by World Scientific; a copy of the volume will be distributed to all participants. Details about contributions to the proceedings volume will be communicated later on. With the preregistration form you can also propose a contribution to the conference and/or the proceedings. Please note there is a deadline for this, and that the Scientific Committee will select proposed contributions (we expect to have more proposals than available slots for oral presentation). We would appreciate if you could preregister only once you are reasonably certain you intend to take part in the conference. On the other hand, once you decide you do intend to be with us, it will be helpful to have your registration as soon as possible. It is expected that each participant will fully cover his/her expenses, as for previous SPT conferences. In case some funds become available to partially cover local expenses of some participants, a form to apply for financial support has been included in our web page; prospective participants may note that as of now, no such funds are available. In previous SPT conferences, priority for the (little) available funds has been given to support participants from developing countries, unemployed, and younger ones. Finally, please note that if you receive this circular, you have subscribed to the SPT2004 mailing list, and you will receive further ones -- unless you ask to be dropped from the list: to do so, send a message with subject:UNSUBSCRIBE to spt@sptspt.it Giuseppe Gaeta 24 january 2004