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Subject heading: MG12 brief update
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12th Marcel Grossman Meeting MG12
Paris July 12-18, 2009 

Sunday through Saturday
Opening Monday morning at
  UNESCO Headquarters
Tuesday afternoon free (Bastille Day)
Banquet Wednesday
Closing midday Saturday

Web: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/
Email: mg12@icra.it

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MAY 20 DEADLINE:
Hotel reservation through conference
with paid registration fee
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JUNE 1 DEADLINE: 
Early registration fee payment at 350 Euros
        (450 Euros after deadline)
Student registration fee payment at 150 Euros 
        (no change after deadline)
Final abstract submission
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Dear colleague,

A number of additional parallel sessions have been recently
added:
- APT5 Galactic gamma ray sources:
       steady vs transient sources (Marco Tavani)
- GRB6 Multiwavelength observations (and theory) 
       of gamma ray bursts (Michel Boer, Massimo Della Valle)
- MGAT10 Chaos in rotating systems 
       (Thierry Dauxois, Vahe Gurzadyan)
- GRB4 Observations vs theory in the Swift era 
       (Sergio Campana, Filippo Frontera)
For more information see the website, where a provisional date 
grid for the parallel session schedule will soon be available.

Hotel reservation through the conference is possible
only at the time of fee payment before May 20. For hotels available
through the conference organization, see the Hotel link 
at the website. Most if not all of the parallel sessions
will be held at UNESCO.

For those on a tight budget we suggest reserving one of 
the 100 newly renovated student dormitory single rooms with 
shared bathroom facilities just across from  the Ecole Normale 
Superieure in the heart of the Latin Quarter available on a 
first come first serve basis. The cost for one person is 200 Euros 
for Sunday arrival and Saturday departure.
For information and to reserve such a room with full payment, contact
Pina Barbaro [Pina.BARBARO@unice.fr, tel: +33.6.8068.8150].

Limited financial support may be available but in this global economic 
climate less funding will be available for MG12 than past meetings. 
Unfortunately we cannot make final decisions on a limited number of 
grants for partial local expenses or reduced fees or waivers
until early June when we have a better idea of the meeting finances
from registration fees received by the June 1 deadline. Given the
circumstances, in most cases of support requests, participants must 
be able to finance their own travel to Paris, and only partial 
contributions in a few a strongly scientifically motivated cases 
can be awarded to help their local expenses and registration fee.

We look forward to a successful meeting this July.

With our warm greetings,

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