General Information

International School of Nuclear Physics
44th Course
From quarks and gluons to hadrons and nuclei
Erice-Sicily
September 18-24, 2023

Registration

Persons wishing to attend the course should apply online.

General closing date for registration: July 1st, 2023.


Fee

There will be a fee, which 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 by the fee. The amount of the fee will be e-mailed to the participants after registration. Please note that each accompanying person has to pay the fee as well.
The fee can be paid in advance by bank transfer or upon arrival by credit card or in cash. The details will be e-mailed to the participants in due course.


Fellowships

There is a limited number of fellowships, which cover part of the expenses. The online application will open soon.


Course Structure

The scientific program starts on September 19 in the morning and ends on September 23 in the evening. Lectures and seminars will be held in the morning and late afternoon so as to leave plenty of time for free discussion, which is an important part of the Erice school. The early afternoons are reserved for private activities, special seminars, working groups, workshops, etc.


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.

The talks will be made available online. There will be no proceedings.


Excursion

We will have an excursion to the Greek temples and the Akropolis in Selinunte, and to the temple and Greek theater in Segesta. We also visit the quarries were the stones for the temples of Selinunte were broken. It is today still in the same state (with half finished columns) as 409 BC, when Selinunte was destroyed by Carthage (Carthago). One can nicely see the technique how the columns are broken from the rock. After lunch there will be the possibility to swim in the sea.


Local Information

Operations in Erice are managed by the Director of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu to whom you should refer for any specific needs

Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu
Director of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
Via Gian Filippo Guarnotti 26
I-91016 Erice (Trapani)
ITALY

Telephone:+39 0923 869133
Fax: +39 0923 869226
WWW:http://www.ccsem.infn.it

Accommodation:

Participants will be accommodated in rooms with one or two beds, the majority with shower or bath. Local registration and room allocation is upon your arrival on September 18 in the office at "San Rocco", Via Gian Filippo Guarnotti 26, Erice, see Map of Erice.


Transportation:

On the arrival day, September 18, there will be busses and cars from the airports in Palermo and Trapani to Erice. These busses will be arranged according to your arrival information (see below).

If you arrive on a day other than September 18 you must come to Erice at your own cost. A taxi from Palermo airport costs about 120 to 180 Euros.

Transportation to the airport on September 24 will be organized during your stay in Erice. Transportation on other days is in your own responsibility.


Room Reservation, Arrival and Departure Information

In order to reserve the rooms in Erice and to arrange the transportation from the airport in Palermo or Trapani to Erice, the "Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture" needs your exact arrival and departure information (times and flight numbers, accompanying persons, etc.). To provide this information we will ask you to fill out a webform. To provide this information we ask you to use the following web link, which will be open until August 20, 2023 (deadline).

Please, do not try to make reservations directly at hotels in Erice.

Important note:
In recent years some participants got phone calls or e-mails from persons claiming that they are responsible for hotel reservations in Erice and asking them for their credit card number. Please be aware that such calls or e-mails are fraud! The accommodation is entirely arranged by the local staff of the "Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture" in Erice, based on the data you specified in the arrival and departure information form. They will never approach you directly (neither by phone nor by e-mail) and they will not ask you for your credit card number.


Internet Access

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


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 provided by the Centro Ettore Majorana. Drinks and beverages are not included. Lunch is typically between 1 and 3 p.m. and dinner between 8 and 10 p.m.

Breakfast for the participants staying in one of the three former monasteries (San Rocco, San Francesco and San Domenico) is between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m 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.


How to reach Erice

By car there are two possibilities:

  1. 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);
  2. 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 or Trapani airports. For arrival and departure at normal times (September 18 and September 24, resp.) the School will make local transport arrangements, see above.

Map of Erice


Weather

In September the weather is pleasant in Erice, but cooler than in the rest of Sicily since it lies at 750 metres above sea level.

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