Dear Colleague, 

We are beginning the preparations for the Thirteenth Marcel
Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (MG13) to be held next year at 
the University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden during the week of 
July 1-7, 2012, Sunday though Saturday.
 website: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg13/
 email: mg13@icra.it
As information becomes available it will be posted on the
meeting website. 

Much of the success of this meeting, as for the previous ones, strongly 
depends on the collaboration and suggestions of the International 
Coordinating Committee. We invite you to join 
this committee: 
 http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/mg/mg13/

The International Coordinating Committee for the MG Meetings helps 
gather input for the planning of the scientific program and facilitates 
the attendence of participants from each nation where work in this broad 
field of science is done. Coordination of travel funding requests from 
the participants’ country of origin or making the local organizing 
committee aware of visa requirements appropriate to a given country are 
two country specific activities that members of this committee should 
handle. In countries with multiple members, these latter activities if 
necessary would of course be shared. In the USA for example, NSF travel 
fund application will be arranged through mutual agreement with the 
International Organizing Committee and a volunteer. It is also important for 
ICC members to let us know how we can help the scientists of their country in 
attending the meeting. 

In general for most ICC members, participation in this committee amounts to 
an organized way for us to gather input from you for scientific program 
suggestions via email. It also helps us distribute physical copies of the
meeting poster via ordinary mail to the members for posting in their institution
and in other relevant institutions in their country/region.

If you accept our invitation please let us know as soon as possible by return 
email to the reply email address of this message (mg13@icra.it) together with 
your contact information requested below.  If you decline, please let us know 
as well by email. 

Since our work relies on efficient email communication,
we must be able to contact you and get a reply via email.
That means if we are able to establish contact in the first place,
that you put the conference email address in your address 
book/contacts list or safe list or doing whatever it takes
to allow our incoming emails to pass through to your mailbox.
We also need the string "mg13" somewhere in the subject line so that
the forwarded email that arrives in our own mailboxes is clearly
identified, and we need a useful subject line so we can categorize
how to deal with it.

We look forward to hearing from you, 

Robert Jantzen, chair of International Coordinating Committee 

Kjell Rosquist, chair of Local Organizing Committee

Remo Ruffini, chair of International Organizing Committee

  [email to mg13@icra.it is autoforwarded to all three of us]

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