The next (18-th) General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society will be held in Montreux, Switzerland from March 13 to 17, 2000, jointly with the Japanese and the Swiss Physical Societies (see http://www.eps-cmd18.ch for details). The Conference consists of plenary sessions, parallel sessions and 1/2 day mini-colloquia on specialised topics. A mini-colloquium (see abstract below) will be organized on ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY OF CONDENSED MATTER and will contain invited talks, contributed oral presentations and poster presentations. The invited speakers and the titles of their communications are: Jochen FELDMANN (Univ. Muenchen, Germany): Ultrafast spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles Soren KEIDING (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark): Far-infrared spectroscopy of solids and liquids using ultrashort THz-pulses Takayoshi KOBAYASHI (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): Sub-5fs real-time sectroscopy of polymers We strongly encourage you to submit abstracts for contributed papers and for posters. Abstracts should be submitted via the Web page of the conference http://www.eps-cmd18.ch before November 15th, 1999. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: 15 November 1999 Abstract submission 31 January 2000 Conference registration 21 February 2000 Hotel registration M. Chergui, V. Sundström ([log in to unmask]) Chairs of the mini-colloquium ________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ EPS CMD18 - 2000 18th General Conference of the CONDENSED MATTER DIVISION of the European Physical Society Montreux (Switzerland) 13- 17 March 2000 (in association with the Swiss Physical Society and the Japanese Physical Society) Dear Colleagues, Please find here the attached PDF files with the SECOND CIRCULAR containing information on the conference and the corresponding REGISTRATION FORMS: (See attached file: circular2.pdf) (See attached file: Registform.pdf)(See attached file: Hotelreg.pdf) (To open these files you need a version of ACROBATE READER which you can download for free from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html) Details on the submission of abstracts are given in the second circular and also in our web page (on-line form) http://www.eps-cmd18.ch note the important DEADLINES: (new) 15 November 1999: Abstract Submission 31 December 1999: Registration of corresponding author of abstract 31 January 2000: Conference registration 21 February 2000: Hotel registration. Contact address: Conference Secretariat CMD18-2000 Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik ETH Hönggerberg CH-8093 Zurich Switzerland E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web page: www.eps-cmd18.ch We apologize if you receive this note several times. Content-type: application/pdf; name="circular2.pdf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="circular2.pdf" Content-Description: Adobe Portable Document Attachment converted: HD-4GB:circular2.pdf (PDF /CARO) (00007C2B) Content-type: application/pdf; name="Registform.pdf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Registform.pdf" Content-Description: Adobe Portable Document Attachment converted: HD-4GB:Registform.pdf (PDF /CARO) (00007C2C) Content-type: application/pdf; name="Hotelreg.pdf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Hotelreg.pdf" Content-Description: Adobe Portable Document Attachment converted: HD-4GB:Hotelreg.pdf (PDF /CARO) (00007C2D) ***************************************************************************** Prof. Majed CHERGUI, Vice-chair Institut de Physique de la Matiere condensee, Faculte des Sciences, BSP Universite de Lausanne, Ch-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland tel.: xx-41-21-692 3678 (direct), (21) 692 3660/3625 (secr.) Fax.:xx-41-21-692 3635 or 3605 email: [log in to unmask] http://WWW.UNIL.CH/ipmc/ ***************************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%