Thank you for returning the first questionnaire concerning the Erice School on "Radioactive Beams, Nuclear Dynamics and Astrophysics", September 16 - 24, 2006.
Please return the "DEFINITE COMMITMENT TO PARTICIPATE", if it applies (including also Lecturers and invited Seminar Speakers).


Here are some important details concerning the School:
 

• Fee

The fee of 800 EURO covers costs in Erice including full board and lodging from dinner on September 16th to breakfast on September 24th. Drinks and beverages, after-dinner coffee, telephone calls, personal laundry, etc. are not covered by the fee.

The fee of 800 EURO (if you are not an EPS or Erice fellow or a lecturer) should be paid (also by participants who have a DFG fellowship)
either in EURO or in US-Dollars (the sum equivalent to 800 EURO) to:

 
Direttore Centro di Cultura Scientifica
 "Ettore Majorana"
 Banco di Sicilia - Agenzia di Erice
 ABI 1020 CAB 81850
 Account No. 410041 482
 I-91016 Erice, Italy.


at least THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE to be sure that the payment is in Erice at the start of the School. The Centre will charge you 800 Euro in cash in Erice if your transfer has not arrived in time. Bring the bank confirmation of your payment with you.


Since July first 2003 there exists within the European Union a cheap way to transfer money at the same rate as inside the country. You need for the bank and the account of the Centro Ettore Majorana the BIC-code (Bank Identification Code) and the IBAN-code (International Banking Account Number). The full bank information is:

 
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
Banco di Sicilia - Agenzia di Erice
IBAN: IT40T0102081850000410041482
BIC: BSICITRRTPN

Payment in cash is possible in Erice but IT IS ADVISED TO USE BANK TRANSFER at least three weeks in advance, because to pay in cash in Erice has turned out to be time consuming since only one person, who is not regularly present, can give a receipt. It is often so that it is extremely hard to get a receipt, especially for those, who do not pay at the beginning of the school (in some cases when participants payed during the last days it took months to get a receipt via mail).

When the payment is made the course ("Nuclear Physics, 28th Course") must be identified. An evidence of the payment must be provided at the registration time in Erice. The bank statement should also be used for refunding your travel expenses at home. The centre has always difficulties to prepare a receipt before you leave.
 
 

Accommodation

Participants will be accommodated in rooms with one or two beds, the majority with shower or bath. Rooms are allocated in the office at San Rocco upon your arrival to Erice. Please, do not try to make reservations directly in hotels in Erice. Priority in the room allocation, as far as comfort is concerned, will be based on age. If you intend to bring member(s) of your family with you, please inform Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu by fax at the address given at the end of this letter as soon as possible (each family member pays the fee of 800 EURO).
 
 

Arrival and Departure

You should register upon arrival on September 16th at the secretariat of the School ("San Rocco", Via Guarnotta 26, Erice) not later than 5 p.m. There the room will be allocated to you.
The working program of the school will start on September 17th at 9:00 and will close on September 23rd in the evening, with departure on September 24th.
 
 

Arrangements of the Course

The lectures and seminars will be given in three blocks: September 17th and in the morning on 18th;  September 19-20 and September 22-23. The afternoon of September 18th and the full day of September 21st are free days on which excursions will be arranged (on 18th to the beach in San Vito Lo Capo for swimming and on 21st to a touristic site).

There will be lectures and seminars each day in the morning and in the afternoon so as to leave plenty of time for the free discussion that is an important part of the Erice system. The early afternoons are for private activities, special seminars, working groups, workshops, etc. 

A computer with a beamer are provided in the lecture hall. So it is enough if you bring to Erice your talk on a memory stick as a PPT or PDF file. Naturally, it is also possible to connect your personal laptop with the beamer. In any case you should prepare the presentation of your talk with Alberto (who is the person responsible for the presentations in the lecture hall) during the break before your talk.
 
 

Mail

All mail for you while you are in Erice should be sent to:

Care: ETTORE MAJORANA
          International Center for Scientific Culture
          Via Guarnotta 26
          I-91016 Erice (Trapani)
          ITALY

Several personal computers are available for using your e-mail at the Centro Ettore Majorana. It is often difficult to use pay phones. If you must rely on phone calls, it is better to have a mobile phone with a contract which allows you to phone in Italy. American mobile phones do not normally work in Europe unless you have a rather special one and the corresponding contract.
 
 

Weather

In September the weather is warm in Erice, but cooler than in the rest of Sicily since it lies at 750 metres above sea level. During the excursions you have the possibility to swim in the sea.
 
 

How to reach Erice

By car there are two possibilities:

(a) 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);

(b) 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.  For arrival and departure at normal times (September 16th and September 24th) the School will make local transport arrangements (till about 15:00 on September 16th) from the airport in Palermo (100 km to Erice), but not if someone arrives or leaves at different times.

Special Information etc.

Operations in Erice are in the hands of Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu to whom you should apply for any specifically-local need and whom you should also inform about your arrival time at the airport in Palermo on September 16th at least two weeks in advance.
 

Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu
Ettore Majorana
International Centre for Scientific Culture
Via Guarnotta 26
I-91016 Erice (Trapani)
ITALY

Telephone:  00390/923/869107
Telex:          910366 CCSEM
Fax:             00390/923/869226
WWW:       http://www.ccsem.infn.it
                    http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/erice/
e-mail:         hq@emcsc.ccsem.infn.it
 

Confirmation

We will hold a place open for you if you have filled out and returned to erice2006@uni-tuebingen.de the "DEFINITE COMMITMENT TO PARTICIPATE". Use the LaTeX version to fill in your information, translate it into a PS or PDF file and send it to erice2006@uni-tuebingen.de. You may also give the form to a collaborator or a colleague of yours who would like to participate.  We prefer that you use e-mail to contact us (erice2006@uni-tuebingen.de). In July you will receive the last circular with the program and the list of participants.
If unexpected circumstances prevent you from participating, please, inform us immediately.

The European Physical Society gives a very limited number of EPS-fellowships, preferentially to East-European applicants, which pay the 800 EURO for food and lodging but no fare. To apply you should send the accompanying form "Application for an EPS Scholarship" before February 10th, 2006 to:
 

European Physical Society

Mrs. Patricia Helfenstein

34, rue Marc Seguin

F-6808, Mulhouse, France

email: p.helfenstein@eps.org   &nbsp

together with a letter of reference. A copy should also be sent before February 10th, 2006 to us in Tübingen, e-mail: erice2006@uni-tuebingen.de, or a hard copy to:

Dr. Vadim Rodin

Universität Tübingen

Institut für Theoretische Physik

Auf der Morgenstelle 14

D-72076 Tuebingen

GERMANY

I hope to see you in Erice in due course.

With best regards

Amand Faessler