Information for Participants

International School of Nuclear Physics
31st Course
Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2009

Fee

The fee of 800 EURO covers the local costs in Erice including full board and lodging. Lunch and dinner will be provided at local restaurants. Drinks, beverages, and after-dinner coffee at the restaurants, telephone calls, personal laundry, etc. are not covered. Note that each accompanying person has to pay the fee as well.

The fee can be paid by bank transfer or in cash. No credit cards are accepted!

Bank transfer:
The fee should be paid to the following payee and account:
When the payment is made, you have to indicate "ISNP- 2009-your_name" (e.g. "ISNP- 2009-Smith"; ISNP="International School of Nuclear Physics") as the purpose of the transfer.

Please make the transfer at least three weeks in advance to be sure that the payment is in Erice at the start of the School. Evidence of the payment (a bank confirmation) must be provided at the registration time in Erice. Otherwise the Centre will charge you 800 Euro in cash. The bank statement should also be used for refunding your travel expenses at home because the centre has often difficulties to prepare a receipt before you leave.
Payment in cash
Payment in cash is possible, but it is advised to use bank transfer. To pay in cash in Erice has turned out to be very time consuming because only one person, who is not regularly present, is allowed to sign a receipt. It is therefore often extremely difficult to get a receipt, especially for those, who do not pay at the beginning of the school.

Room Reservation and Transportation from and to Palermo Airport

In order to arrange the transportation from the airport in Palermo to Erice and to reserve the rooms in Erice, the "Centro Ettore Majorana" needs the following information:

If you bring along accompanying persons, you should indicate that as well.

Please, send this information by fax to

The fax should be send before the middle of August 2009. The center is not reading e-mails and does not confirm faxes. Therefore do not send an e-mail and do not expect an answer to your fax.

The bus will leave Palermo airport on September 16th at 15:00. We will have a car or a bus also later on this day. This bus will be arranged according to your fax.

If you arrive on a day other than September 16 you must come from the airport in Palermo to Erice ( 100 km) at your own cost. A taxi costs about 110 to 120 Euros. (Ask for the price!)

Registration and room allocation is upon your arrival on September 16th at the secretariat of the School ("San Rocco", Via Guarnotta 26, Erice, see Map of Erice) not later than 5 p.m. Please, do not try to make reservations directly in hotels in Erice. Participants will be accommodated in rooms with one or two beds, the majority with shower or bath.

Transportation to the airport on September 24 will be organized during your stay in Erice. You can catch the planes departing after 7 a.m. on September 24. Transportation on other days is in your own responsibility.

Local Information

Operations in Erice are managed by Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu (telephone: 00390/923/869107) to whom you should refer for any specific needs.

Internet Access

Several personal computers as well as WLAN access are available at the Centro Ettore Majorana.

Scientific Program

The scientific program of the school is now online:

If you want to correct the title of your talk, please contact us via e-mail to erice2009@physik.tu-darmstadt.de.

Presentations

Stand-alone capabilities for projecting powerpoint or pdf talks are available at the lecture hall. The presentations should preferentially be uploaded via memory stick. It is also possible to use personal laptops.

Excursions

On Tuesday, September 22 we will visit the church and the monastery in Monreale with probably the nicest and largest mosaics worldwide. We will also go to the cathedral in Palermo with the tombs of the German emperors and Sicilian kings Henry the VI. (the son of emperor Barbarossa) and his son Frederick the II. (Federico secondo, "stupor mundi", i.e., "The wonder of the world") and the newly renovated Cappella Palatina in the palazzo dei Normani. Some of you may prefer to visit the catacombae of the Capuchin monastery in the south of Palermo (about 20 minutes to walk; Convento dei Cappuccini), where about 8000 mummified persons can be viewed.

In the afternoon of Saturday, September 19 we will go the nicest sand beach of Sicily in San Vito lo Capo. Umbrellas and beach chairs will be available at no cost.

Food and Restaurants in Erice

Upon arrival you will receive a badge, which allows you to have lunch and dinner in about 10 restaurants in Erice. A list of these restaurants will be given to you by the Centro Ettore Majorana. Typically you have the choice between three menus with pasta or antipasti, main dish and desert. Afterwards you must sign in a list. Drinks and beverages must be paid by yourself directly to the restaurant. Lunch is typically between 13 and 15 h and dinner between 20 and 22 h.

Breakfast for the participants staying in one of the three former monasteries (San Rocco, San Francesco and San Domenico) is between 7:30 h and 9:00 h in San Rocco. Participants in hotels have breakfast there.

During the whole day you can find food, coffee, fruits, and mineral water in the breakfast room in San Rocco. So if a full lunch and dinner is too much for you, you can take something there. Also during the coffee breaks you can get mineral water, fruits and rolls. Free mineral water with and without gas is also in the refrigerator in your room in the three former monasteries. Do not drink water from the tap.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the School will be published as volume 65, issue 1 of "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics" (by Elsevier). The manuscripts have to be prepared as a LaTeX file with EPS figures inserted according to the template file ppnp_style.tex (please, download and use it). The ps or pdf file of the contribution along with LaTeX source file and EPS figures should be sent to vadim.rodin@uni-tuebingen.de.

Length of the contributions:

Invited lecturers (on the yellow poster, also see list of lecturers for an update): 12 pages
Seminar speakers (in the scientific program) 3 pages

Deadline: November 20th, 2009

How to reach Erice

By car there are two possibilities:

drive along the Autostrada del Sole from Milan-Bologna-Florence-Rome-Naples-Villa San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria). Then take the ferry-boat from Villa San Giovanni to Messina and drive on to Erice (350 km from Messina);
take the ferry-boat either from Genova or from Naples to Palermo, and then drive on to Erice (about 120 km from Palermo). The places on the ferry-boats from Genova or Naples should be booked in advance.

By train:

From Milan-Rome via Messina you can reach Trapani directly.

By plane:

To Palermo. For arrival and departure at normal times (September 16th and September 24th) the School will make local transport arrangements, see above.

Map of Erice

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