EMS Newsletter 22, May 2008

Abstract

Things are moving rapidly now for our colleagues in Aachen being in charge of organizing EMC 2008. With a short extension of the abstract submission deadline, the count of abstracts has gone past 1000, thus exceeding the number of contributions received at EMC 2004 in Antwerp. Now the program committee together with the appointed session chairs has to make sure that all these abstracts are properly assigned and incorporated into an exciting, well-structured program for participants and organizers alike. The Eveni on-line submission system has worked very well (less than 1% of the submissions have caused some minor problems) and will now also be used for the reviewing process by the session chairs. The next deadline is that of the early bird registration set to June 30, until which you can take advantage of reduced registration rates. The deadline for hotel reservation is July 31. Registration and accommodation are handled by a local PCO assisting the local organizing committee - it can be reached via the general congress website www.emc2008.de.