Information Booklet Welcome in Vienna ! We are happy to see you here, at the 2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation Fundamentals – Processing – Applications ¨ Location of Welcome Reception, Conference Auditory, Registration & Tourism Desks The conference starts with a Welcome Reception on Sunday, Dec. 27, 16:00, in Palais Strudlhof, a historic and prominent building from the time of Austrian Monarchy (its site is marked by number 2 in the map at the end of this booklet). Participants are asked to register and submit their manuscripts already there, in order to avoid a big rush in the morning of Monday when time and space will be quite limited. Moreover, participants are warmly recommended to attend this reception, with the high intention to allow for first and nice contacts among them. Sandwiches and good drinks will be offered for free to bring us closer to this goal. The conference will be held at the famous Boltzmann Center of the University Vienna where formerly Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger and Erich Schmid gave their lectures. This center hosting also the Materials Physics Institute are situated at Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090, Vienna; its location has been marked in the booklet’s map by number (1). The oral presentations will take place in the large auditory of the Materials Physics Institute in third floor. The desks for registration/information, and for tourism (travel agency “Der Schwentenwein”) will be arranged right of the entrance of auditory. The registration desk will be continuously open on Monday from 7:30 to 18:30, on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00 to 18:00, and on Wednesday and Friday from 8:00 to 14:30. The tourism desk will be open on Monday from 7:30 to 9:00, and all days from Tuesday to Friday from 8:00 to 9:00. Please do not hesitate to contact the organizing team (team members wear green badges) if you have some questions or problems. In case of very urgent needs, please contact the Conference Chairman (Prof. Michael J. Zehetbauer) via his mobile phone 06991-9464116. Accommodation The conference participants will be accommodated at several hotels and a youth residence which are quite close to our Institute. The locations of these hotels are marked in the map, too, by the numbers given in parentheses: · Hotel Regina ****, 1090 Wien, Rooseveltplatz 15, Tel. +43-1-408-83-92 (5) · ARCOTEL Boltzmann****, 1090 Wien, Boltzmanngasse 8, Tel. +43-1-316-12-0 (3) · Hotel-Pension Bleckmann***, 1090 Wien, Währinger Str. 15, Tel. +43-1-408-08-99-0 (4) · Jugendgästehaus (Youth Residence) Brigittenau, 1200 Wien, Friedrich Engels Pl. 24 (not indicated on the map). In order to reach the conference site from this residence you should take the tram with number 33. On Sundays or at late night, take tram line 31 and change to tram line 5. The tram stops are situated rather close to the Institute; the stops for both directions (arrival/departure) are marked in the map at the end of this booklet. All registered accompanying persons and students will receive a free week ticket for all kinds of public traffic in all Vienna. Daily lunches A three-course-lunch will be served by two turns at Arcotel Boltzmann. Additionally, a buffet with a selection of fine salads will be available. Participants can choose between lunch times either at 12:00 (green tickets) or 13:30 (red tickets). Reserved tickets are to be purchased at the conference desk (each lunch € 12,-- including salad bar and soft drinks), on occasion of the registration. Vegetarian menus will be available by request (light green tickets, first turn only). If you prefer to have lunch by your own choice you will find several nice cafés and restaurants in the environment of the conference site; a list of recommended inns is given below. For your convenience, we have marked these places at the map as well (see numbers in parentheses): · Cafe “SHOOTERS” (all-you-can-eat-buffet for € 4,50 for students) (7) · Pizzeria-Ristorante “GIULIANO 2” (pizzas, pastas and fish) (8) · Greek Restaurant “GRIECHISCHE TAVERNE” (lamb, fish; reduced price menus on working days) (9) · China Restaurant “GOLDENER DRACHE” (reduced price menus on working days) (10) · Viennese Restaurant “WICKERL” (local food, reduced price menus on working days) (11) Internet Café For your e-mail and web needs, an Internet café with 6 Personal Computers will be arranged at the fourth floor of the Materials Physics Institute. It will be continuously open at each day of conference from 7:30 till 19:00. From 7:30 to 8:30, from 18:00 to 19:00, and during all coffee breaks and lunch times, an expert of the Conference Team will be present. Because of social events of conference, and current computer education courses of the Institute, however, there will be some closing periods of the internet cafe: On Monday between 11:00-13:00, Tuesday after 18:00 (social evening event) , Wednesday after 14:30 (conference excursion), and Thursday between 14:00-16:00. Weather in Vienna in December Weather in Vienna at the time of conference may be both cloudy or sunny. In case of clouds, temperatures should be between 0° - 5°C during the day, and maybe some frost in the night. This type of weather is part of the one coming from the west, and is sometimes accompanied by rain or snow. In case of sunny weather, temperatures are expected to be not higher than about 0°C during the day, and down to –10° C in the night, being typical of an “east weather” situation. Presentations of Lectures & Posters Presentation of Oral Contribution For the preparation of your oral contribution, please take into account that the regular speaking time should not exceed 15 min for standard lectures, and 25 min for the keynote lectures, in order to have 5 min left for the discussion of your presentation. Lecturers will be given a sign by the session chairman after regular speaking time. You are free to present your contribution by means of transparencies via an overhead project or by means of a MS Windows Power Point file via a beamer. It is sufficient if you store this file on a CD and forward it to a person of our audio/video team, just before the beginning of the session for which your contribution is scheduled. Because of acoustic conditions, speakers are requested to use a microfon during their lecture which will be provided by our audio/video team. Presentation of Posters For the presentation of your poster, please consider that you have to design it in upright position. The outer dimension must not exceed European format A0 (118.9 cm in height, 84.1 cm in width), and the written area should be approx. 100 cm in height, and 70 cm in width. The whole middle part of third floor of Materials Physics Institute will be reserved for the poster presentation. The sites of posters are indicated by blue background and, on their top, by the number of your poster contribution (please see program). The posters are to be mounted by adhesive tape available at the conference desk. In order to provide an optimum publication time, the posters of Poster Show I should be mounted already in the morning of Monday, Dec. 9, that of Poster Show II in the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 11. All posters must be removed immediately after the related Poster Show. Tools for de-mounting can be borrowed from the conference desk team. Submission of Papers Standard and invited contributions will be peer reviewed and published in a hardcover proceedings booklet by Wiley-VCH, under patronage of the DGM (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Materialkunde e.V.). The keynote contributions will be also published in a regular issue of "Advanced Engineering Materials". The page limits will be 6 (six) pages for standard contributions, and 10 (ten) pages for invited contributions. Please submit one original and two copies of the complete manuscript (laser output) plus one electronic version of the manuscript. Your paper will be given a number which is identical with that shown in the program. Please use this number in all correspondence with the chairman and the editor. Laser output: In general, the higher the number of dots per inch (dpi) of your output, the better; we regard 600 dpi. Please use nontranslucent white paper and print on one side of the page only. Electronic version: Further to the laser output we need also an electronic version of your manuscript. We recommend the usage of Word or Word for Windows. Other programs should be discussed with the publisher before you start writing. The files can be provided to us on CD, 3 1/2 inch floppy (Mac or DOS) or ZIP disk. Please always specify which program you have used and if generated on a Mac or in Windows. Illustrations not integrated in the text should be sent as EPS- or TIFF files. More details of the necessary style of manuscripts can be read/downloaded from the conference homepage. You should forward your manuscript (original + 2 copies + diskette) to the organizing members during the following times: · on Sunday Dec. 8, from 16:00 till 20:00 during the Welcome Reception in Palais Strudlhof; · from Monday, Dec. 9, but latest till Wednesday , Dec. 11, 14:30 h, in the Internet Cafe to the expert of Organizing Committee who is present between 7:30-8:30 and 18:00-19:00, and during the coffee breaks and lunch times. Your manuscript will be forwarded to the chairman of that session where you gave your keynote, oral or poster contribution.