Sixth announcement

The planning of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007 (CAP 2007) conference in Athens, Greece, 8 - 11 October 2007 is now concluding.
The main web site is: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org

We some final things to pass on to you.

Travel information

Instructions on how to get from the airport to the hotels and from the hotels to the conference venue and back will be available in the practical info web page at http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2007/info.html

 Shuttle transportation

Shuttle buses will be available for the CAP2007 participants departing from: 

1. Omonia Square (next to the Grand O, Acropol and near Baby Grand and Polis Grand Hotel)
2. Best Western Museum Hotel

Every morning departure time 08:00

 There will be some “bus stops” in the way, to serve participants staying in other hotels. Please contact the LOC for arranging picking you up.

 Registration

The registration will open at 8:00. The buses will arrive roughly at 08:30. Upon arrival to the Planetarium, participants who have paid beforehand only need to pick up their badge and conference bag.

 WiFi Internet access

Wireless internet access is available in all premises of the Conference venue, provided that you have a wireless network enabled laptop.

 Talks and Posters Presentations

 Please take a look at the Talks and Posters tab and verify that your presentation’s abstract is included and it is correct.

 The accepted talks and posters are listed at: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2007/talks_posters.html     

We have assumed that the submitted oral talks that we have not been able to accommodate will be given as posters. Please contact the CAP2007 Conference LOC at cap2007@academyofathens.gr if this is not the case.   

Internet access will be available for the presenters.

Presenters in Session 1.4 who wants to present fulldome material should contact Glenn Smith smith@skyskan.com

Presentations Web cast: We will not have a live web cast, but we will try to put a video of each presentation online, linked from the programme, as quickly as possible after the talk. In the best case, this will be near-live. In the worst case, the videos will come online the week after the conference.

Proceedings:

The conference proceedings will be available as an online version and in print.

The proceedings will be published by either Eugenides Publishing or Springer.

The contributions for the proceedings should be submitted within two weeks from the end of the conference, by October 28. In order to get the material out when it is still fresh, we will have to keep you firmly to this deadline.

The submitted manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word format. A Microsoft Word template file will be available shortly on the Proceedings tab on the website.

Pictures should be submitted as separate files in high resolution TIFF, JPG, PDF or EPS format.

Article length:

8 pages for oral presentations longer than 15 minutes

4 pages for oral presentations 15 minutes or shorter

2 pages for the posters

Social events

Tuesday’s night dinner will take place at a roof garden overlooking Acropolis, at the Divani Palace Acropolis Hotel. In case of bad weather (rain – not likely but…) indoor dining has been arranged as alternative. 

*** If you want to cancel your participation please send an e-mail to CAP2007 Conference LOC at cap2007@academyofathens.gr  ***

Best regards,

The LOC and SOC of CAP2007