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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
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MOLEC XVII – 2008
European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems
August 23-28, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
Additional and updated information on MOLEC XVII is provided on the
conference web site:
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Please note the following DEADLINES:
- April 14, 2008 for sending "Application Form";
- June 2, 2008 for sending abstract of talk, or poster;
- June 9, 2008 for registration and payment of the "Reduced Registration
Fees" (later fees are increased to cover extra costs).
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International Scientific Committee:
V. Aquilanti, Italy
G. G. Balint-Kurti, UK
M. Brouard, UK
G. Delgado-Barrio, Spain
D. Dowek, France
D. Field, Denmark
K.-H. Gericke, Germany
F. A. Gianturco, Italy
Z. Herman, Czech Republic
R. McCarroll, France
H. Stapelfeldt, Denmark
S. Stolte, The Netherlands
J. P. Toennies, Germany
P. Tosi, Italy
A. J. C. Varandas, Portugal
O. S. Vasyutinskii, Russia
E. Yurtsever, Turkey
D. Zajfman, Israel
Local Organizing Committee:
A. Belyaev (Herzen State University, St.Petersburg)
A. Buchachenko (Moscow State University, Moscow)
V. Ivanov (Technical University, St. Petersburg)
K. Korovin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
I. Krassovskaya (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg): Secretary
A. Podlaskin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
A. Pravilov (St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg)
O. Rojdestvenskii (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
A. Smolin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)
O. Vasyutinskii (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia): Chair
The series of biennial MOLEC Meetings started in 1976, when the first
Conference was held in
Trento. Since that time the conference was held in Brandbjerg Hojskole
(Denmark), Oxford
(UK), Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Jerusalem (Israel), Aussois (France),
Bernkastel-Kues
(Germany), Prague (Chech Republic), Salamanca (Spain), Nyborg Strand
(Denmark), Bristol
(UK), Jerusalem (Israel), Istanbul (Turkey), Nunspeet (The Netherlands),
Trento (Italy), and now
comes to St.Petersburg.
European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems focuses on the
different
aspects of atomic and molecular interactions, with emphasis on both
experimental and theoretical
studies of the dynamics of elastic, inelastic and reactive encounters
between atoms, molecules,
ions, clusters and surfaces. The meeting deals in particular with:
• MC - Molecular collisions in different environments (plasmas,
atmospheric/interstellar/combustion processes, gas-surface processes,
biologically relevant
systems, etc.)
• CMD - Fundamental problems and ab-initio calculations on molecular
dynamics
• PMI - Photon-matter interactions: spectroscopy, photodissociation and
photo-induced reactions
including femtosecond dynamics.
• UC - Interaction between ultra-cold molecules and atoms, processes in
He droplets.
• VC - Steric effects and vector correlations in reactive processes and
in photodissociation.
The Conference format will include invited lectures, hot topics (some of
them will be also
invited), and poster sessions. The duration of an invited lecture is 35
min (including discussion)
and the duration of a hot topics is 25 min (including discussion). The
participation of young
researchers and students is particularly welcome. For a limited number
of students a cheap
accommodation will be available.
Preliminary list of speakers:
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Enrico Bodo, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Mark Brouard, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Simonetta Cavalli, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
Marcel Drabbels, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alberto Garcia-Vela, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Karl-Heinz Gericke, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Gregory Hall, Brookhaven Nat. Lab. New York, USA
Christophe Jouvet, PPM, Orsay, France
Toshio Kasai, Osaka University, Japan
Raphael Levine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Harold Linnartz, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Kopin Liu, Academia Sinica, IAMS, Taipei, Taiwan
Hiroki Nakamura, IMS, Okazaki, Japan
Daniel Neumark, UCB, Berkeley, USA
Eugene Nikitin, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Andrew Orr-Ewing, Bristol University, Bristol, UK
David Parker, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pierre Pillet, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Orsay, France
Albert Stolow, NRC, Ottawa, Canada
Arthur Suits, Wayne State Univesrity, Detroit, USA
Eberhardt Tiemann, Hannover University, Germany
Stanislav Umanskii, Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow, Russia
The Conference Residence will be held in the Education Center of the
Academy of Professional
Education in Pushkin, a beautiful suburb of St.Petersburg which is about
25 km from the
downtown St. Petersburg and has easy connection with the city by bus, by
train, and by taxi. The
conference site is a former palace of Kochubey, a Russian prince and
statesman of the 18-19
centuries, and is located a few hundred meters from the famous palace of
Empress Catherine the
Second (a Summer residence of Russian tzars). The day of arrival is
August 23. The scientific
program will begin in the morning August 24 and finished in the evening
August 28, 2008.
The conference center is accessible by public transportation, by taxi
and by car from all St.
Petersburg airports, bus and railway stations. The conference center
address is:
Kochubey palace, Radishcheva 4, 196602 Pushkin.
Tel. +7(812)4652155.
There will be a shuttle bus between the Pulkovo-2 International Airport
and the Conference
Residence in Pushkin during the day of August 23, which will operate
every hour. For
participants arriving before, or after or from another airport or
station, transportation information
can be found on the conference web site: http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/
Expecting many accompanying persons, the Local Organizing Committee
plans to organize for
them a special excursion program.
St.Petersburg is one of most important scientific, historic, and
cultural centers in Russia and one
of the most beautiful cities in Europe. An illustrated history of St.
Petersburg, points of interest,
and a virtual city tour can be found at the following web sites:
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/index.asp
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/index.asp
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
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IMPORTANT PASSPORT AND VISA INFORMATION
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If you wish the local organizers to help you for the visa application
then also send a copy of the
first page(s) of your passport to the local organizers, before April 14,
2006, together with your
Application Form. The same should be done for each accompanying person.
The children under
16 who come with you and are noted in your passport need not to be
mentioned in your
Application Form, and do not need an individual Visa Application form.
The Application form(s) should be sent as attached file(s) by e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
The copy of the passport can be either scanned and sent as an attached
file to the above e-mail
address, or faxed to the number +7(812)2471017 with the note:
"To the MOLEC-17 Organizing Committee".
Please note that a visitor to the Russian Federation must have a
passport valid 6 months beyond
the intended stay, a visa, and documents testifying return or onward
travel. You should bear in
mind that the Letter of Invitation (LOI) and the visa are two different
things. You must first
apply for a LOI and then send the LOI together with the visa application
to a Russian Embassy
or Consulate in the country of residence.
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) will supply each participant to
MOLEC-XVII with a "Letter
of Invitation" authorized by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
which is required for
business-type visas. A copy of the Letter of Invitation will be faxed to
you and the original will
be sent to you by regular mail, if necessary.
You may also apply for a Letter of Invitation or Voucher for
Accommodation by yourself; see
the information about visas to Russia on the web site:
http://www.visatorussiaonline.com/ or
http://www.russian-st-petersburg.com/5-russian-visa/index.htm.
In most countries your visa may be issued with a fax copy of the Letter
of Invitation or Voucher
for Accommodation, but we recommend you to check with the local Russian
Consulate office if
you need the original.
In order to get a Letter of Invitation in time from the LOC the
Application Form should be sent
by April 14, 2006.
Important: Russian law requires that you register your visa within 3
working days of your arrival
in Russia. This registration will be made at the conference desk.
If you wish to attend MOLEC-17 then please fill up and e-mail the
application form below to the
address: [log in to unmask] Each accompanying person should also
supply an Application
Form, however free of scientific data.
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APPLICATION FORM
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I would like to attend the European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular
Systems (MOLEC-
17) to be held at St.-Petersburg, Russia, on August 23-28, 2008.
Please mark:
I need a Letter of Visa Invitation
I do not need a Letter of Visa Invitation
VISA INFORMATION
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SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
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Research field: ____________________________________
Affiliation: _______________________________________
_______________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________
___________________________________________
Zip/Post Code: ____________________________________
City: _____________________________________________
Country: ___________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________________
Telefax: ____________________________________
E-mail: ____________________________________
If you would like to make a presentation at the meeting then please
complete the following:
I would like to give a talk entitled
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Author(s) (please underline the speaker)
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
I would like to give a poster entitled
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Author(s) (please underline the presentator)
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Comments or suggestions:
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Date:
Signature:
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Registration and the Conference fee
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The registration fees are as follows (in Euro):
Before June 9, 2008 After June 9, 2008
Regular participant 300 350
Accompanying person 100 150
Students 100 150
The fee covers the running costs of the Conference, visa support,
transportation from airport to
the Conference Residence, Welcome party, Conference dinner, but NOT the
accommodation
expenses.
Accommodation
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The participants will stay in the Conference Residence and in the nearby
Hotel Ekaterina located
directly in the Bolshoy Catherine Palace which is about 15 minutes walk
from the Conference
Residence through the Catherine Park. Single and double rooms are
available in the Conference
Residence. Only 20 double rooms are available in the Hotel Ekaterina,
therefore the participants
who would like to stay in this hotel should register well in advance.
Accommodation rates, (per person in Euro):
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Conference residence Single 540
Double 390
Hotel Ekaterina Double 450
The above rates cover the six nights stay in the hotel from the evening
Saturday August 23 till the
afternoon Friday August 29, 2008, including all meals.
For a limited number of students a reduced accommodation fee of 250 Euro is
available. Students wishing to apply should send a presentation letter (by
e-mail to [log in to unmask]) from their supervisor to the Local
Organizing Committee that will select successful candidates.
Additional nights at the Prince Kochubey Palace before and/or after the
symposium can be
arranged if requested early enough. The price is:
single room - 65 Euro/night, double room - 80 Euro/night, breakfast
included.
The above costs DO NOT INCLUDE accident or medical insurance: every
participant or
dependent should carry his / her own accident and medical coverage from
his / her home
institution or company for the whole duration of the meeting.
Registration&Payment:
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The Registration Form will be available at the Conference web site:
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/. The filled registration form should be
e-mailed to the address:
[log in to unmask], or faxed to the number +7(812)2971017 before June
9, 2008 with the
note “To the MOLEC-17 Organizing Committee”.
The payment of the Conference fee and the hotel should be done by bank
transfer (preferably), or
by cash at the registration desk.
Bank transfer:
The payment free of all banking and postal charges should be made in
EURO. On a bank
order, the abbreviation MOLEC-17 and the name(s) of participant(s) or
accompanying person(s)
must be specified. Payment should be made to: Company Business Visit, Ltd.
Bank account:
Bank VEFK
Correspondent Bank: Deutsche Bank AG
SWIFT: DEUTDEFF
Beneficiary Bank: EEFC Bank Plc.,
SWIFT: PETRRU2P
Account No: 100 9497918 1000
Beneficiary: “Company”Business Visit”, Ltd
Account No 40702978207119000013
Payment by cash at the registration desk will be available for a limited
number of participants, the
participants who would like to pay at the registration desk should
inform the Local Organizing
Committee well in advance.
Cancellation & Refund:
In the case of cancellation you must notify the General Manager N.
Kucherenko (Company
Business Visit, Ltd) by fax at: +7 (812) 740-71-43.
Refund will be made upon receipt of a written notice, less a service
charge. The service charge
is: 3% of the amount paid if the notification is received by August 23,
2008. After August 23,
2008, no refund is possible, due to our committments with the hotel and
other services.
Abstract Submission
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In your e-mail message please specify the authors and title of each of
your abstracts and if you
prefer an oral talk or a poster display. Most of the oral talks at
MOLEC-17 are 20 min long (+ 5
min for discussion). It is possible to present both an oral talk and a
poster display. Abstracts
should be e-mailed to the Local organizers at: [log in to unmask]
before June 2-nd and in
any case not later than in July 21 in the form explained below, in order
to be included in the
booklet of abstracts. The oral talks may not be guaranteed as they will
be selected by the
Organizing committee.
The abstract file name should have the format: topic-name.pdf; for
instance, PMI-Pravilov.pdf
would mean that participant Pravilov will present his abstract under
topic PMI (Photon-matter
interactions: spectroscopy, photodissociation and photo-induced
reactions including femtosecond
dynamics: see list above). If you intend to present more than one paper
in the same topic then put
sequential numbers in the file name: e.g., PMI-Pravilov-1.pdf,
PMI-Pravilov-2.pdf, etc).
If you cannot submit your abstract in PDF format then please provide us
with a PS, DOC, or
RTF file.
Abstracts should preferably be prepared along the following rules. Page
size: A4 (297x210 mm),
portrait display, margins of 25 mm all around. Title: single-spaced,
Times New Roman, 14
points, boldface. Authors: single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 points.
E-mail address of
presenting author: id. Affiliation: single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12
points, italic. Abstract
text: 1.5 spaced, Time New Roman, 12 points. The references in the text
should be given in
square brackets, e.g. [1]. Only black-and-white figures are allowed.
Authors should make sure
that the file does not include copyright fonts or other impediments for
reproduction. The abstract
should be no larger than one page.
An abstract template is given on our web site:
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/.
Further information can be found on the conference web site
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/ which we will keep updated with the most
recent news. Final
details of the Scientific program, arrival information, ets. will be
given in the Third Announcement in July 2008.
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On behalf of the MOLEC XVII 2008
Local Organizing Committee
Andrey Belyaev, Herzen State University, St.Petersburg
Alexei Buchachenko, Moscow State University, Moscow
Vadim Ivanov, Polytechnical University, St.Petersburg
Irina Krassovskaya, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
St.Petersburg
Anatoly Pravilov, St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg
Oleg Vasyutinskii, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
St.Petersburg
phone: +7(812)2972064
fax: +7(812)2971017
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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