==================================================== = = Plenary Speaker Notice = = MG11 = 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting = on General Relativity = July 23-29, 2006 = Freie Universitaet = Berlin, Germany = = http://www.icra.it/MG/mg11 = mg11@icra.it = ===================================================== Dear Plenary Speaker, This is just a program update.
1) PLEASE REGISTER. It is important that all plenary speakers perform the first registration step to be inserted into the participant database. This is done on-line at the Meeting website.
2) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. The second step in registration is to submit talk titles and abstracts using the MG11 Identification Number issued in the first step of the registration process. Please submit these on-line yourself. [This material may be updated later by email to the Meeting email address with Subject Heading "MG11 Abstract Update".]
3) APPROXIMATE DATES of arrival and departure. Please be sure to include your expected dates of arrival and departure in the first step registration process so we can arrange for your hotel stay during the Meeting. If you need to change these later, you can do so by an appropriate email to the Meeting email address.
4) WEB LINKS and RELATED PARALLEL SESSIONS. Please send us web links to your own work and possibly other sources that support the topic on which you will be speaking, to be included on the plenary program web pages. A link to your academic home page, provided it has research links, could serve this purpose. [This may be sent to the Meeting email address with Subject Heading "MG11 plenary talk links".] It is also important that you coordinate your topic with the relevant parallel session chairperson so that the parallel session program can reinforce the plenary program as much as possible. If you think an additional parallel session is necessary, you may suggest a title and chairperson (including yourself) who might organize it.
5) TRAVEL, REGISTRATION FEE and HOTEL Being an invited plenary speaker entitles you to a waiver of the registration fee and/or payment of your local expenses and/or transportation costs. However, if you can find a way to partially fund some of these expenses through your own institution or travel funds, this would be greatly appreciated due to the need to support young and senior scientists from Eastern European and developing countries. The Max Planck Society has already generously agreed to pay the registration fee and expenses for all of its own members who are invited speakers in order to help support the meeting. Please let us know at your earliest convenience your estimated expenses that will require our funding commitment, so that we can plan our budget. If indeed you will contribute by paying the registration fee, please pay on-line by May 31. We are looking forward to seeing you in July. Our best regards, Hagen Kleinert [mg11@physik.fu-berlin.de] chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee Remo Ruffini [ruffini@icra.it] chairperson of the International Organizing Committee Robert Jantzen [robert.jantzen@villanova.edu] chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee