INP Greifswald - Cavity Ring-Down User Meeting 2007

2007, September 18 – 19
Greifswald, Germany

Second Announcement

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7^th Cavity Ring-Down User Meeting 2007

Organized by the INP Greifswald and the IfP, University of Greifswald
Greifswald, Germany, September 18 – 19 2007

Dear Colleagues,
With this 2^nd announcement, we would like to invite you to attend the 7^th Cavity Ring-Down User Meeting and to submit a presentation of your current research in the field of optical cavity based spectroscopy. The Workshop is organized by the INP Greifswald in cooperation with the Institute of Physics (IfP), University of Greifswald, and will be held from Tuesday, September 18 to Wednesday, September 19, 2007 in the Alfried-Krupp-College in the centre of the old university town of Greifswald, Germany.

Scientific Program
The meeting will be the 7^th in a series of very successful short annual meetings following Heeze, Lille, Düsseldorf, Eindhoven, Oxford and Cork. It will cover all aspects of modern optical cavity based experiments and theory. It is an important and fruitful opportunity to meet and discuss with the leading scientists in the field.
The meeting will take place over two days with sessions of talks before and after lunch and a poster session with industrial exhibition on Tuesday the 18^th in the afternoon. The schedule starts with a guided city tour and a welcome reception at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, 17^th and ends at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 19^th.
Four invited speakers have agreed to present their recent work at this meeting:

Joseph T. Hodges (NIST Gaithersburg, USA)
Harold Linnartz (Leiden Observatory, Laboratory for Astrophysics, The Netherlands)
Christa Fittschen (CNRS Lille, France)
Markus W. Sigrist (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Call for papers
Participants who plan to present their scientific results in a short talk or a poster at the meeting are requested to send an abstract of not more than 300 words to the LOC via the abstract submission form on the workshop’s web-site. The Scientific Advisory Board will select speakers from the submitted abstracts for talks of 25 minutes. All participants may present their work in poster form on the workshop. The display panels provided for the poster presentations are 1.0 m wide and 1.5 m high. All participants will receive a copy of the printed book of abstracts. For publishing an article it is necessary that at least one of the authors is registered.
The deadline for abstract submissions is June 29, 2007.

Events
The 7^th Cavity Ring Down User Meeting will start on Monday the 17^th in the afternoon with the registration in the Alfried-Krupp-College, followed by a guided city tour at 6:30 p.m. and the welcome reception. A conference dinner is planned for Tuesday evening.

Timetable

The actual schedule can be found in the attached pdf-document

download: schedule-crds2007.pdf

Bus transportation will be available in the morning, after the Welcome reception, and for the Conference dinner. More details on the schedule you will find in the final announcement.

Venues
The 7^th Cavity Ring-Down User meeting will be held in the Alfried-Krupp-College, situated in the city centre of Greifswald. The conference site is about 10…15 minutes on foot from the main railway station. The address is:

http://www.wiko-greifswald.de/

Deadlines

Online abstract submission:	29.06.2007
Regular registration, payment and room reservation:	27.07.2007
Final Announcement:	31.08.2007

Registration fees and accommodation

Regular (before 27.07.2007):	190 Euros
Late (after 27.07.2007):	240 Euros

The registration fee for the 7^th Cavity Ring Down User Meeting includes participation in the workshop, a copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, guided tours, bus transfers, conference dinner, workshop breaks and buffet lunches (all incl. food and drinks). Please contact us for details on the fees for accompanying persons.
Registration is considered after payment. Please use the online registration.
Accommodation is not included. For room reservation please use the link on our web-site. Please note that September is still in the main holiday season on the Baltic Sea. Therefore hotels and other accommodations should be booked early.

Method of Payment
Payment is requested either by bank transfer or by credit card. For bank transfer please send the total amount before July 27, 2007 in Euro to:

Account holder:	Institut fuer Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik
Account:	100008038
BLZ:	150 505 00
IBAN:	DE22 1505 0500 0100 0080 38
BIC:	NOLADE21GRW
Bank:	Sparkasse Vorpommern
Bank Address:	Hans-Beimler-Str. 1-3
	17489 Greifswald
Transfer code:	CRD 2007, name of participant

Transfer charges have to be paid by the participant. Unfortunately we are unable to accept personal checks or bank drafts.
For payments by credit card, we accept MasterCard and Visa. Please fill in the credit card form with the number of your credit card and the expiry date and send the signed form either by fax or ordinary mail to the LOC. Following receipt your credit card will be charged.
Please make your payments as soon as possible to ensure that your registration is completed successful before the deadline.

Industrial Exhibition
The Industrial exhibition will take place in the Alfried-Krupp-College on Tuesday afternoon (September 18^th 2007) in parallel with the afternoon and Poster sessions.

Travel Information
Conference participants arriving by air should fly to Berlin or Hamburg. From there Greifswald can be reached by car via the motorway A11/ A20 (from Berlin) or A1/ A20 (from Hamburg). Detailed train timetables can be obtained from the Travelservice of the Deutsche Bahn.
If you come from Scandinavia or the Baltic states there are several ferries to Rostock and Sassnitz (Isle of Ruegen).

Please bring this announcement to the attention of other colleagues who may also be interested in this meeting. We are looking forward to seeing you in Greifswald.

Sincerely yours,

Jürgen Röpcke
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of CRDS 2007

Scientific Advisory Board