NIC-IX

  25-30 June 2006

CERN, Geneva

NIC-IX venue

NIC-IX will be held on the campus of CERN, the International Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Geneva, Switzerland. Information on how to get to CERN are posted on the CERN user's website (map of the area here. Google's way to get to CERN is here).

The lectures, poster sessions, and all other scientific events related to NIC-IX will take place in the CERN main building.

The registration to NIC-IX will start on Sunday, 25 June from 17:00 at the CERN main building, cafeteria 1. Please be aware that on Sundays, only the "Entrance B" gate is open. You will be allowed to go in from this gate and reach the main building and the cafeteria 1 where the registration desks will be located. From Monday, June 26, the registration can be done at the tables of the Secretariat, set up next to the Main Auditorium, in the main building.

The deadline for early-registration has passed already and therefore the fee to be paid for participation in NIC-IX is of 450.- CHF. The payment of the fee can still be done by bank transfer, but this form of payment can only be accepted till 1 June, 2006. After this date, the payment of the fee can only be done at the registration desks, where it can be paid only in cash. The Swiss UBS bank has a branch office inside CERN, on the ground-floor of the main building. All basic banking operations can be performed there, including money exchange. Two ATMs are normally on service on the ground-floor of the main building.

IMPORTANT: all registrants must submit this form to provide some additional infos that is required by the organizers for arranging the details of their registration, including transportations to events, and others. A list of registered participants is available and kept up-to-date at this link.

Additional information for the general public and for scientists can be found on the CERN website: www.cern.ch.

The NIC-IX Program

The scientific program of the symposium includes oral presentations and poster displays. The program layout is posted and kept updated at this link.

All oral presentations will be given in the CERN Main Auditorium, located in the main building. The organization has kept the tradition of NIC symposia and has planned only plenary sessions for oral presentations. Details with the timetable are posted and kept updated on the NIC-IX main website.

A tribute to John Bahcall and Alistair Cameron, the two outstanding scientists recently passed away, will be organized during the opening session of the NIC-IX Program.

Poster sessions are held on each day at different times and are one-hour long. An extra "big" poster session will take place on Tuesday, immediately after the end of the last oral presentation. At this special poster session, refreshments will be served.  Posters will be displayed in the areas immediately next to the Main Auditorium. The size of the poster must be such as to fit into a 118cm(height) x 84cm(wide) A0-portrait format. Posters can be put on display from Monday, June 26 in the morning, and can stay on till the end of NIC-IX, on Friday, June 30, at 18:00.

All the speakers of oral presentations are requested to make available the electronic version of their presentation (in any of the commonly used format). The files can be uploaded into the InDICO system on the NIC-IX website (instructions posted there). You can hand in the file of your presentation at the time of your registration. An overhead projector will be available for display of hand-written slides.

Other important events which will take place during NIC-IX are:

- the reception on Monday, June 26 at 19:00 at the CERN Globe of Innovation
- excursions, to take place on Wednesday, June 28, in the afternoon
- the NIC-IX banquet, on Thursday, June 29, in the evening (cruise on the Lac Léman)

An extended program for accompanying persons is posted here.

The programs and related infos on the NIC-IX School, Satellite events, and Outreach Event are posted on a specific page on the NIC-IX server.
 

Proceedings

In order to have the proceedings of the conference published in the most timely manner, we request all the contributors to submit their papers within

June 30, 2006

This is a strict deadline and it means that you are warmly invited to send in your paper before NIC-IX or, at the latest, to bring your contribution with you at the Conference (electronic format is OK).

The NIC-IX proceedings will be published by PoS - Proceedings of Science organized by SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies based in Trieste. PoS is using the Open Access concept of online publishing, creating and running electronic journals like JHEP, JCAP, JSTAT and JCOM. All participants who will make the request will receive a printed copy of the proceedings. However, the most important feature of the Open Access concept is that all the papers will be freely accessible over the network at the PoS web site.

Detailed instructions for authors on how to prepare the papers (including LaTeX and Microsoft Word macros) are available. In principle, there is no page-limitation for online publishing. However, our suggestions for the contributions to NIC-IX is of 5 pages for contributed papers (including oral and poster presentations) and 10 pages for invited contributions.

All the contributions will be refereed. The NIC-IX Editorial Board is composed of the members of the NIC-IX Local Organizing Committee and will supervise the refereeing process. Members of the International Advisory Board and other participants to NIC-IX will be asked to act as referees for the papers submitted to NIC-IX. These persons will be contacted during NIC-IX and instructed on how to perform the refereeing.
 

Travel to CERN: VISA information
NIC-IX will take place on the CERN Swiss side. Participants needing visa to enter Switzerland are invited to consult the CERN web page for information. However, please note that CERN is located both in Switzerland and France. In case participants intend to join technical visits at CERN, or their companion to join some of the excursions (e.g., hiking in the Jura on Wednesday afternoon will be in France), they may need to apply for a visa for both countries. The prerequisite to obtaining such visa is a valid national passport - please check its expiration date! Information on how to obtain visas for Switzerland and France are posted on the CERN website, at this link.

At CERN: how to register your portable computer
The web form to be filled is at this link (for visitors bringing their own computer and not having a CERN computer account). They need to know the hardware Address for the network card in order to register. Please contact Jennifer Weterings for any inquires on this matter.

The data needed beforehand is basically the hardware address of the network card. The info you need is posted here and in this handout.

The NIC School, Satellite workshops, the Outreach event, and the "Scientists in the Cosmos" initiative

The Symposium will be preceded by a school (The NIC School), in which all major topics of the symposium will be introduced by specialists. Students and young participants in NIC-IX, who are just entering the field of Nuclear Astrophysics, will have the opportunity to be tutored and prepared for the Symposium presentations and discussions.

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A Mengoni (CERN-n_TOF/IAEA) - Conference Chair
M Lindroos (CERN-ISOLDE) - Scientific Secretary
P Butler (CERN-ISOLDE)
J D'Auria (CERN/Simon Fraser University)
LM Fraile (CERN-ISOLDE)
M Hass (CERN-ISOLDE/Weizmann)
M Hjorth-Jensen (Oslo/CERN-ISOLDE/MSU)
F Käppeler (FZK, Karlsruhe)
K-L Kratz (Mainz)
G Meynet (Geneva Observatory)
K Riisager (Aarhus/CERN-ISOLDE)

 Generic postal address:

NIC-IX

c/o A Mengoni / M Lindroos

CERN

CH-1211 Geneva 23

SWITZERLAND