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The 24th
Rencontres de Blois, entitled «Particle Physics and
Cosmology» will be held at the Château Royal de Blois, France, from May
26th to May 31st, 2013. The postal address of the conference when in session
is:
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The
picturesque old French town of Blois, famous for its XIV-XVIIth century
chateau, is about 170 km (100 miles) from Paris in the beautiful region of the
«Châteaux de la Loire».
1.
Welcome and registration
Participants
are expected to arrive on Sunday afternoon, May 26th. Registration at the
conference office in the Château de Blois will start at about 15:00. A welcome
cocktail will be offered to the participants and their families at 19:00. It
will be followed by dinner at the Château.
2.
Conference schedule
The
conference will start on May 27th at 9:00 and will end at about 16:00 on May
31st.
The
conference room will be located at the Château Royal de Blois itself.
The conference
organisers hope and trust that participants WILL stay for the entire
conference. That is the spirit in which this meeting is organised, in order to
maximise the opportunities for scientific exchange. We regret, but the
conference expenses cannot be reduced for partial attendance.
3.
Conference facilities
The following equipment: a
slide projector for 5 cm x 5 cm slides, an overhead-projector for
transparencies, and a video projector for computer presentations will be
available. Please bring a copy of your talk on a USB key.
Speakers are also asked to
come with a good photocopy of their presentation: it is customary at these meetings
to leave a copy "lying around" for consultation.
If you
wish to participate in the conference, you should register as soon as possible
using the on-line registration form which is on this web site.
The deadline
for registration and hotel reservation is April 15th, 2013.
The
registration fee for participants will amount to 370 Euros; this does not include the meal package.
The meal package will
amount to 280 Euro; this is independent of the
registration fee.
Accompanying persons will be charged 150 Euros.
The registration fee covers
the conference banquet and the programmed conference social activities, i.e.
travel to and tours of the Chateaux at Chenonceau,
the Clos Lucé (the last residence of Leonardo da
Vinci) and of course a guided tour of the Blois Chateau itself
. In the case of participants, it also covers a copy of the conference
proceedings.
Payment of
the registration fee can be made as follows:
- payment on line
for Participants and for Accompanying Person is available
here
- by personal
cheque in euros drawn on a French
Bank only to the order of Rencontres de
Blois, sent to the conference secretariat (if you wish, but prepayment of
the registration fee is not obligatory) or on arrival at the conference.
To avoid ruinous bank fees which are beyond our control, we WILL NOT accept foreign currency personal
cheques, or any personal cheques drawn on a non-French bank
- or by
traveller's checks in euros ONLY on arrival
at the conference
- or by cash
in euros ONLY on arrival at the conference
- or
prepayment (if you wish, but prepayment of the registration fee is not
obligatory) by bank transfer (please remember to add 23 Euros for bank fees if transferring from outside
the European Union) to the following account:
RENCONTRES DE
BLOIS – Crédit Mutuel – Bures sur Yvette, France
Bank Code 10278 Branch n° 06009 Account
n° 00020416101 Key 62
Full details of our bank account (which you may need if
transferring from abroad) and which include de BICS and IBAN numbers, are given
in the "Relevé d'Identité bancaire" below:
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Within the European Union, transfers take just a few
days, but can be somewhat longer from outside.
In any case, bring proof of the transfer and give it
to the conference secretariat during registration in Blois.
5. Meals (other than the conference banquet, which is covered by the
registration fee)
In order to enhance the interaction and exchange
between participants, all participants are requested to have lunch and dinner
together. The conference has arranged with a caterer to serve lunch and dinner
in the Château Royal de Blois.
For participants, the package cost for 5 days
will be about 280 euros (the exact amount will be posted here as soon as it is
known) and should be paid to the caterer on the conference site; since this is
a specially negotiated "package deal" for the conference, it cannot be reduced for partial attendance.
For accompanying persons, there are two possibilities only (in either case, payment should be made
to the caterer on the conference site at arrival):
- either: lunch and dinner at the
castle, with the participants - the package cost for 5 days will be about
280 euros, (again, the exact amount will be posted here when available),
- or: just dinner at the castle -
after some negotiation, the caterer has agreed that accompanying persons (only) need not return to
the castle for lunch; in this case the package cost for 4 dinners will be
about 130 euros (the exact amount will be posted here later; note that the
conference banquet is covered by the registration fee).
Hotel accommodation will be available in 3 categories :
one star (*), two
stars (**) and three stars (***), all rooms having either a shower or a bath.
Participants
are asked to arrange their accommodation themselves, in order to reduce the
workload on the conference secretary. A certain number of hotels have agreed to
hold rooms for the conference until April 15, 2012; the list, together with a
link to an interactive map, can be found by clicking on, the hotel list link in
the left hand column.
Only if for some reason you are unable to do this, should you indicate on the registration
form that you would like the conference secretary to do this for you,
indicating your requirements. In any case, if you
prefer to stay in a three star hotel, you must make the reservation
yourself, since those hotels require a credit card number to guarantee payment.
Various social activities are planned during the
conference for participants, their families and guests : this will include
tours of the Châteaux of Blois , and Chenonceau, the Clos Lucé
(last home of Leonardo da Vinci) and a "Son et Lumiere" show at the
Chateau de Blois (in English on Wednesdays only). An additional program for the
accompanying persons (cost not included in the above) will be organized
in collaboration with the tourist office of Blois.
The
most convenient way to reach Blois is to arrive in Paris and take a train
(SNCF) from the Austerlitz railway station to Blois. There are frequent trains
from Paris to Blois; the following schedule (just a few particularly convenient
trains are indicated) is, for the time being, only indicative, being based on
last year's schedule. A valid time-table will be put up when available. In any
case you are strongly advised to check with your travel agency!
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Sunday,
May 26th, 2013 |
Friday, May 31st, 2013
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Departure
from Paris-Austerlitz |
Arrival
in Blois |
Departure
from Blois |
Arrival
in Paris Austerlitz |
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11 h 41 |
13 h 37 |
13 h 25 |
15 h 11 |
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13 h 35 |
15 h 29 |
15 h 39 |
17 h 34 |
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15
h 47 |
17
h 28 |
17 h 28 |
19 h 59 |
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17 h 36 |
19 h 02 |
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For
participants arriving by train, a conference bus will be waiting at the station
at the following approximate times (again, a more exact schedule will be put up
here when available):
17h30-17h45
19h00-19h15
Blois can also easily be reached by car. Take the exit
"Blois" on the Motorway ("autoroute'') A10 connecting Paris to
the Chateaux de la Loire area (about 2 hours drive). Once in Blois, follow the
signs "Centre".
III. SCIENTIFIC
ORGANIZATION
The conference will
consist of plenary sessions for invited talks and for oral contributed papers,
and oral sessions for contributed papers. Parallel sessions for short oral
contributed papers will be organised.
There
will be a coffee break in the middle of the morning and afternoon; lunch and
dinner will be served at the Chateau to all participants in order to enhance
opportunities for contact and exchange of ideas.
The
organisers hope and trust that participants stay for the entire meeting, in
order to benefit fully from the multidisciplinary nature of the conference.
The
scientific programme is currently being developed: it can be consulted by
clicking on the "tentative programme" button on the left hand side
panel of the display.
Abstracts for the papers to be read at this conference (invited and
contributed, oral and poster) are posted up (in alphabetical order of presenter
or author) on this site as they are received (deadline April 15th, 2013); they may be consulted by clicking on the abstracts link below
(currently inactive):
The abstracts received can be consulted by clicking on the abstracts
link in the left hand column
Proceedings
The
proceedings will be edited and published
Deadline
for submitting the manuscript: September 15th, 2013.
Instructions
for submitting the manuscripts will be up on the web site in due course.