================================================== Subject heading: MG12 on-line fee payment ready, partial plenary list ================================================== 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting MG12 Paris July 12-18, 2009 Sunday through Saturday Opening Monday morning at UNESCO Headquarters Web: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/ Email: mg12@icra.it Dear colleague, On-line registration and conference fee payment are now ready: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/registration.htm for the Marcel Grossmann Meeting next summer in Paris at the UNESCO headquarters. A partial list of confirmed plenary speakers is also available at the website: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/invited_speakers.htm Optional on-site registration will take place Sunday afternoon at the UNESCO headquarters. Plenary sessions will take place Monday through Saturday mornings there, with the closing of the meeting at the end of the last morning session. Tuesday afternoon will be free to enjoy the Bastille Day celebrations. The conference banquet will take place Wednesday evening at the UNESCO headquarters. Parallel sessions will take place on four afternoons: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in five rooms at UNESCO headquarters and at some of the most outstanding scientific institutions nearby (by metro) which have witnessed fundamental discoveries in physics and mathematics, including the Ecole Normale Superieure, l'Observatoire de Paris, the Collège de France, l'Institut Henry Poincaré, all within walking distance of the Pantheon (Foucault's pendulum) in the Latin Quarter. See: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/conf_location.htm The preliminary poster is: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/images/poster.pdf The current list of parallel session titles and chairpersons is: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/parallel_session.htm By registering on-line, participants will be able to take advantage of special discounted Air France air fares with a coupon code. With our warm greetings for the Chinese new year, Remo Ruffini, chair of International Organizing Committee ruffini@icra.it Robert Jantzen, chair of International Coordinating Committee robert.jantzen@villanova.edu Pierre Coullet, chair of Local Organizing Committee Pierre.COULLET@unice.fr