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The 20th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics (GK08) will be held at 
the University of Manchester from Sunday 20th July - Friday 25th July 
2008. 

The ISGK has historically proved to be a successful forum for the 
promulgation and discussion of laboratory, theoretical and modelling 
results relating to both heterogeneous and homogenous processes. The 
formal sessions consist of a series of plenary (40 minutes) and submitted 
(20 minutes) oral presentations including some time for lively discussion. 

Plenary Speakers:

Atmospheric Chemistry:
Roger Atkinson (University of California, Riverside), Dwayne Heard 
(University of Leeds) 

Energy Transfer:
Paul Dagdigian (Johns Hopkins University)

Combustion:
Shaun Carl (University of Leuven)

Reaction Dynamics:
Laurie Butler (University of Chicago),
Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania)

Extreme Environments:
Tim Softley (University of Oxford)

Heterogeneous Chemistry:
Reinhardt Zellner (University of Essen)
 
The Polanyi Medallist for 2008 will be Professor Piero Casavecchia.

Programme:
The scientific programme will take place in the School of Chemistry at 
Manchester University. There will be two poster sessions (Monday and 
Wednesday), during which time an exhibition area for manufacturers will be 
available. 
In the supporting programme: a civic reception at Manchester City Hall 
(22nd July) visits to either Quarry Bank Mill or the world-famous Jodrell 
Bank Radio Observatory (23rd July). The conference dinner, following the 
Polanyi Lecture (24th July), will be held at Old Trafford Stadium, the 
home of Manchester United Football Club.

Registration fee (including all conference fees, book of abstracts, 
conference dinner): £330. Accommodation: from £180 (Weston Hall) - £390 
(local 3-star hotel). Bursaries of £200 against these costs are available 
for bona fide PhD students and some limited bursaries will be available 
for early-stage postdoctoral researchers. 

1/2/08 Registration opens
4/05/08 Notification of presentations
11/04/08 Deadline for submission of abstracts for contributed papers and 
posters
20/07/08 Conference starts

11/04/08 Deadline for 'earlybird' registration Contributions (oral and 
poster) should be submitted via the conference website - www.gk08.org.uk

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