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8th International Workshop On Anomalies In Hydrogen / Deuterium Loaded Metals Opening Address William Collis Mobile Tel: 3491095167 Local 0rganizing Committee: William Collis (Chair), Sebastiano Truglio Antonio Spallone, Xingzhong Li 1 Statistics 68 Presentations and Posters! 53 Abstracts received 56 Hotel Rooms (many doubles) 87 Participants 2 Participants 3 29 Italy 5 France 2 UK 1 Romania 1 Belarus 9 Russia 1 Kazakstan 4 Israel 1 Norway 4 Finland 29 USA 3 Japan 4 China 94 Total (Accompanying persons included) Workshop Fees €750 for residents including meals and coffee breaks, hotel accommodation. €600 for early registrants (before July 2007) €1200 for double room €200 for non-residents (coffee, lunches & gala dinner included). Half the price of other conferences! If you haven’t paid, please do so (in Euros!) at reception. Fees waived for 23 participants (including staff). 4 Ask for a Receipt! If you pay anything to the Workshop or Hotel do ask for a written receipt! All receipts should be stamped. 5 Bank & Cash Machine 6 Excursion to Mount Etna 7 Departure by coach Wednesday 07:30 am for Piano Provenzana (north face) at 1850m. Guides provided by “Volcano Trek” Take walking shoes. Sun cream. Warm clothing. Picnic lunch €12 extra. Weather permitting! Choice of Itineraries 20€ Hike to 1923 & 2002 craters. 3.5 hours walking. Medium difficulty. 2. 34 € Jeep ride to the Valle del Bove (spectacular caldera) and visit lava cave (lights & helmets provided). 1.5 hours easy. 3. 44 € 4WD mini-bus drive to 2800m. 4. 60 € Like 3. then hike to 3200m to crater. 2.5 hours. Book your itinerary toay in Sala Sestante! (1st & 2nd choices) 1. 8 9 Companions’ Program If you are interested in participating again ask reception (Sala Sestante) Possible shopping trip, Taormina etc. There is also a free hotel bus to the city centre. 10 Transport back If you inform the conference office (Sala Sestante) well in advance, we will endeavour to find transport for you to the airport or railway station. A flight timetable is available. 11 Getting to Catania City Centre The Sheraton operates a free mini-bus service into the city centre. Ask at the hotel reception. Don’t forget to take a phone number in case you get lost! Tel 3491095167 12 Meals Conference fee for residents includes meals. Meals are be served in the “Il Timo” restaurant near the swimming pool. Please inform reception of any special dietary requirements. Be punctual. 13 Gala Dinner Monday 15th October 19:00 Served in Pegaso 3 Music & dancing after dinner Presentation of Giuliano Preperata Medal 14 ICCF-11 & ICCF-12 Proceedings On sale at €50 All proceeds to ISCMNS of course. 900 pages 15 Asti Proceedings 1997 Reduced clear! Only 97 16 €10 pages to DVDs and USB Memory Keys on sale! 17 Work with Windows XP without drivers. Bootable. Contains www.iscmns.org & www.lenr-canr.org + 2 Gbytes €25 Own Medium free Free DVD! 18 Ask at reception as quantities are limited. You must hand in your Questionaire Contains all ISCMNS site + LENR-CANR + FIC DVD Contents 19 Conferences including this workshop. Entire ISCMNS & LENR-CANR sites. Fusion Information Center 89-99 Fusion Facts, Journal of New Energy, New Energy News New Energy Times Newsletters. Software: PCNUDAT, ENSAP, OPEN OFFICE, ACROBAT reader 8.1, Rescue BNL Nuclear wallet Cards 20 Free of charge to ISCMNS members in good standing. 80+ pages of nuclear data Ask at Registration Desk Workshop Poster You can find an A3 version of the poster linked from www.iscmns.org/catania07 The registration desk (Sala Sestante) will print you an A4 version on request. 21 Workshop Attendance Certificate Ask at reception. Free 22 ISCMNS Membership Certificates Ask at the Registration Desk Free! 23 No Smoking in buildings open to the public! 24 If you need to smoke, please do so out of doors! It’s not just a courtesy, it’s the law in Italy! Gala Dinner Tuesday 15 October 19:00 Sala Pegaso 3 Entry by invitation. Bring it with you! 25 Giuliano Preparata Medal to be presented at the Gala Dinner on to George Miley Medal winners are chosen by the ISCMNS Executive Committee 26 Bronze Medal for Best Poster Paper 27 To be awarded at dinner on 17th Your vote counts! Why not put your oral paper as a poster? Oral Presentations 25 minutes + 5 for questions Presenters and moderators may allow interruptions Overruns come out of Coffee breaks and meal times! Keep your phones off please! 28 Electronic Presentations Please ensure that all papers and presentations are copied to the Workshop PC (Medion Laptop) USB Memory key or CD-ROM or DVD Ensure all pages are numbered! Filename rules! (see Abstract book) 29 Workshop Publications Any material left on the PC may be edited and published after 16th October (unless withdrawn or amended). PPTs will be converted to PDFs Please contact reception to order Contribute your digital photos too! (We can read most cameras) 30 Workshop Proceedings Jed Rothwell & Peter Mobberley Editors. Detailed announcement later. Hardback Proceedings with <400 pages. To be distributed at ICCF14? 31 Feedback on Workshop Organization Any comments, suggestions, complaints? Speak up privately or publicly at the closing discussion. Or fill in the questionaire. 32 Acknowledgements 33 Local Organizing Committee Fondazione Fulvio Frisone Regione Siciliana Infinite Energy Magazine Japan CF Research Society ISCMNS Lucia Frisone Colletta Thank you all!