February 2, 2005

  We are sorry to announce that starting from February 2, 2005, registrations are 
  closed because there is no space enough at the Trieste Astronomical Observatory
  for further participants. Later registrations will be put in a waiting list.


                             March 30, 2005 

  The registered participants who know that they will not be able to attend
  the Workshop are kindly asked to inform us as soon as possible so that we can 
  give their place to people in the waiting list. 
  If you can not come, please, send an e-mail to castelli@ts.astro.it 
  or to bonifacio@ts.astro.it. Thanks! 


                    March 30, 2005   Second Announcement  

* The Workshop programme  has been finalized and it is now available at
  http://wwwuser.oat.ts.astro.it/castelli/at12workshop/program.html
  We have allocated quite a lot time for general discussions so that
  everybody among the participants can contribute to dissect the workshop topics.

* Presentations
  We expect most of the speakers to use their laptops to make a presentation
  with their preferred software (KeyNote, OpenOffice, PowerPoint, 
  AcrobatReader...). Speakers will have a chance to test the connection with
  the projector. 
  If any speaker does not carry a laptop then the best thing would be to put
  the presentation on a CD-ROM or USB key so we can transfer it to our computers.
  Alternatively presentations can be sent by email before the meeting.
  In this case the preferred format is OpenOffice or PDF.
  We also plan to have an overhead projector in the case that somebody wants 
  to use it. 

* Laptops
  For the participants who will carry a laptop, please make sure that you have 
  an adapter which will allow you to plug into italian standard socket. Have a 
  look at http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm to find more on 
  this issue. A few sockets will take also Schuko standard plugs. 
  The voltage is 220 Volts at 50 Hz, please make sure your transformer may accept 
  this input. 
  The building where the conference will take place is covered by a wireless access 
  point and in fact we expect the majority of you to connect in this way, although 
  a few ethernet cables will be available. If your laptop is not yet equipped with a 
  wireless card, please consider buying one before the workshop. In Italy the cost of 
  a card is 30 to 50 euros. If, for some reason, you cannot use a wireless access 
  please inform us as soon as possible, we shall try to arrange other kinds of access 
  for you. 
  Our LAN offers a DHCP service, which will assign you a dynamic IP when you connect, 
  however we need to register your MACaddress in order to allow you to use this service.
  For Linux users you may find the MACaddress by issuing the command 
  /sbin/ifconfig 
  The MACaddress is the string which follows the letters HWaddr In order to arrange 
  everything smoothly please send us via e-mail your MACaddress as soon as possible.

  You will be able to connect to our Linux cluster (TRIWULF), where ATLAS 12 and
  related codes will be installed and available for use. If your laptop uses 
  an operating system different from Linux, make sure you have an X-Server,
  for Macs it can be downloaded freely from the Apple site
  (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html), for Windows there
  are several commercial servers. If you do not have an X-server you will be able
  to connect only in terminal mode, and will not be able to use the GUI of our
  queue system.

* Virtual Posters: 
  Due to space limitations we cannot display traditional posters, however we invite 
  participants to present VIRTUAL POSTERS. These will be posted on a dedicated 
  web page of the conference. Authors of the posters will also be asked to produce a 
  4 pages article for the Workshop Proceedings, to be published on Memorie della Societa' 
  Astronomica Italiana Supplementi, indexing and abstracting on ADS is guaranteed. 
  When the Proceedings are published the virtual poster will be available through the site 
  of the Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana Supplementi and linked to the 
  related article. 
  We expect these virtual posters to be far more visible than traditional posters. 
  If you wish to present a poster please send title and abstract by  June 15th.
  A virtual poster may be organized as a traditional poster on a single page of 
  format A0 or similar, or it may be organized in several pages, like an article. 
  The authors are free to choose their preferred typographic format. There is 
  no size limit, however consider that a poster that is of smaller size may be 
  more easily downloaded and thus is more likely to be read. 
  The poster MUST be supplied in one of the following electronic formats:
  PS, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or HTML. No other format is acceptable !. 
  
  We are looking forward to meet you in Trieste ! 

  The SOC