Latin American School of Physics "Marcos Moshinsky" 2017
ELAF 2017
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
ABOUT PRESENTATIONS
The program of the school, the book of abstracts and information about the poster sessions can be downloaded from the following links:
The format for each type of presentation is:
-- Invited talks: the duration is 50 minutes + 10 extra minutes for questions.
-- Short talks: the duration is 25 minutes + 5 extra minutes for questions.
-- Posters: must have portrait format with maximum dimensions of Width = 90 cm and Height = 120 cm.
Conference Fees*
The conference fees include a printed version of the book of abstracts and the electronic version of the proceedings when they are available. The fees should be paid during the conference. Cash and credit cards will be accepted.
Student - USD$100.00 Researchers - USD$200.00
* The resources collected through the conference fees will be used exclusively to finance the Latin American School of Physics "Marcos Moshinsky" 2017. These resources will not be transferred in whole or in part, in any way, to El Colegio Nacional.
HOTELS
The conference hotels are:
Best Western Hotel Majestic
Located at the heart of Mexico City downtown and few steps away from El Colegio Nacional.
+52 (55) 5521 8600
Hotel Lisboa
To reach El Colegio Nacional from Hotel Lisboa, we advice to use the Metro. The hotel is located next to the Metro station Hospital General (line 3). Take this station and head to station Hidalgo. Once in Hidalgo station you need to change to line 2 and go to either Allende or Zocalo stations, both are at few minutes walking to El Colegio Nacional. This route will take about 35 minutes.
+52 (55) 5574 7088
The map below shows the location of El Colegio Nacional and hotels.
The following link shows these locations in Google Maps
There are several options for getting around Mexico City. The metro system is very large and there is a metro station close to almost any tourist place. Online services like Uber and Cabify are also available and are very functional.
If you want to visit any part of the city or need any advice, please contact any member of the Local Organizing Committee, we will be happy to assist you.
July 24th to August 4th, 2017 : El Colegio Nacional : Mexico City
Several of the contributions to the School will be published in a Proceedings volume edited by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). We have signed a perpetual online access contract with AIP that provides online access to proceedings that will be permanently free-to-read and available to researchers worldwide without any fee to access or download the papers.
Authors that we have invited to prepare a Chapter for this volume have already received an e-mail providing all the information concerning the preparation of the manuscript. In any case, we would like to provide here where to find the important information.
Deadlines:
The deadline for the authors to send their manuscript is September 17th, 2017.
Guidelines:
AIP has very specific guidelines concerning the contents and ethics, which can be consulted in the links listed below.
-- Ethics Policy:
The proceedings papers must comply with the ethical standards as described at: https://publishing.aip.org/authors/ethics
-- General guidelines:
The general guidelines to prepare the manuscript can be consulted here: http://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/preppapers
-- Rules for re-use of proceeding articles:
Authors that want to re-use the content of their manuscript in further publications must fill a permission format that is included at:
http://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/proceedings
-- License to Publish Agreement
AIP Publishing will copyright the published Volume in the name of the AIP Publishing LLC as copyright holder; AIP Publishing has exclusive rights to the reproduction and sale of the Volume worldwide in any media in perpetuity. Rights of individual authors for their papers are detailed in the copyright release form. This copyright release form can be found here.
FORMAT:
The manuscript can be prepared as a TeX or as a word file. Detailed information regarding the format and manuscript preparation is available in the following link, where you can download the template in each format:
http://aip.scitation.org/apc/authors/download
Concerning the length of the article although we do not accept contributions with less than four pages we suggest the maximum extension to be 50 pages.
Additional useful information concerning the manuscript preparation can be found here.