The website of the conference is http://www.ba.infn.it/~now2006. For any information, please contact the Local Organizing Committee at the email address now2006@ba.infn.it.

If you have not already done so, please send us your complete arrival information (date, place, hour, and flight or train number) as soon as possible. We need such information not only to ensure lodging, but also (for those not driving to Conca Specchiulla) to pick you up at the Brindisi airport or at the Lecce train station, which are both very far from Conca Specchiulla. Notify us immediately in case of last-minute changes (see the last paragraph for emergency numbers).

All the participants will be lodged in the Grand Hotel Daniela, which is also the site of the workshop. Please note the following points concerning your arrival, departure and payment. The workshop sessions will start on Sunday 10 and will end on Friday 15. The arrival day is expected on Saturday 9 and the departure day is expected on Saturday 16, in the morning. If you wish to extend your stay beyond these dates, you should make personal arrangements.

Hotel payment. You will pay for your stay directly to the Hotel. Any major credit card will be accepted. You can ask for specific forms of receipt, but you have to inform the Hotel in advance (one or two days before leaving).

There are four ways to reach Conca Specchiulla:

 

i)    By sea. We have not considered this possibility. However, it would be by far the easiest way, if you could only find a boat taking you to the shore of Conca Specchiulla. At that point, after a two-minute walk, you would have arrived.

 

ii)     By flight. The nearest airport is Brindisi (we exclude the Bari airport because it is too far). Since there are relatively few daily flights to/from Brindisi, it is advisable to book your flights at your earliest convenience. We are organizing our own shuttle service from the Brindisi airport, but we need to know at a high level of accuracy, day, flight code and time of arrival, otherwise we cannot ensure your transfer by bus to Conca Specchiulla. In order to avoid confusion with the regular bus service to and from Lecce, conference posters will be visible on the bus.

 

iii)    By train. The only practical railway station is Lecce (in principle you can reach Otranto, but it is not a practical choice). Also in this case we need to know at a high level of accuracy, day, train number and time of arrival, otherwise we cannot ensure your transfer by bus to Conca Specchiulla.

 

iv)    By car. A few indications for those who travel by car follow. You can reach Bari following the “Autostrada A14”, a very good highway, then take the exit in the direction “Brindisi – Lecce”. After ~150 km you will get to Lecce. From Lecce to Conca Specchiulla you may follow these directions:

 

     i.     The easiest way (~55 km): Before entering Lecce, take the “Tangenziale Est” up to the indication to Maglie and Otranto. The route is very good. Before entering Otranto, you turn left once more following the indications for S. Cataldo and “Laghi Alimini”. After 11 km you find on the right the indication for Conca Specchiulla and Grand Hotel Daniela.

 

    ii.     The shortest way (~45 km): Before entering Lecce, take the “Tangenziale Est” up to the indication to Melendugno. When you arrive to Melendugno, turn to the right in the direction of Torre dell’Orso. Follow this direction until you reach Torre dell’Orso, which is on the sea. Then turn right along the sea side (direction Otranto) and after 4 km you find on the left the indications of Conca Specchiulla and Grand Hotel Daniela.

 

A road map of Salento can be found on the web site of the conference. Parking in the Hotel Daniela is provided free of charge for the customers.

 

You can also find other useful information on the workshop home page.

 

You need to tell us in advance your return travel plans, in order to allow us to organize your transfer from Conca Specchiulla to Brindisi airport or to Lecce railway station. If you extend your stay after September 16, you must arrange the transfer by yourself.

 

The conference fee is 350 €. No conference fee is requested for accompanying persons. You are required to pay the fee of the workshop cash and in Euros at the arrival. We regret this point, which, however, cannot be avoided. So, you are advised to prepare your fee in advance, since is not easy to change money at Conca Specchiulla, and we expect the exchange rate of the Hotel to be not so convenient. Of course, you will receive a receipt of your payment.

 

 

Some desktop PC’s, printers, and wired connections will be provided to participants. Wireless connection will also be available in the hotel area, so it is a good idea to bring your laptop at the workshop.

 

Each plenary talk will be 30’ long (+ 5’ for discussion). Parallel talks will be 15’ long (+ 5’ for discussion). Both overhead and video projectors will be provided for the presentations. We will provide two laptops (one for MAC OS X and one for Windows users) for presentations. Participants may give electronic presentations with their own laptop if they wish. The preliminary scientific program is available on the workshop web page.

 

Copies of talks for plenary and parallel sessions will be posted on the workshop web site. For this reason, speakers who present their talk in electronic form should provide a copy of the talk, possibly in both PowerPoint and PDF format. Transparencies (discouraged) will be scanned. All presentations by plenary and parallel session speakers will be included in the published proceedings. The format for published papers and submission details will be forwarded directly to the speakers. A copy of the proceedings is included in the registration fee for each participant. The proceedings will be published by Elsevier (Nuclear Physics B - Proceeding Supplements). We recall that the proceedings of NOW 2000 and NOW 2004 have been published on Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), vol. 100 and 145.

 

 

Beware. Even though you will be in the South of Italy, the month of September is not hot, in general. The wind blows normally from the North, storms are not so rare and in the night the temperature decreases remarkably. So, clothing must be adequate. You can find weather information on http://www.kataweb.it/meteo/comuni.jsp?citta=OTRANTO (in Italian) or on http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/ITXX0124_c.html?force_units=1 (in English). See also the workshop web page. 

 

 

As you can see from the program, there is a break going from about 12.00 to 16.00 o’clock, which can be used freely. A small train is provided by the Hotel to reach the Hotel beach, where you can have, included in the Hotel facilities, the use of beach umbrellas, deck chairs, etc. Otherwise, you can reach easily the sea through the pinewood, which divides the Hotel from the sea. As a third possibility, you can swim in the large swimming pool of the Hotel. With regards to your lunch, you can either have it in the Hotel, or you can ask in advance (during breakfast) to have a take-away lunch prepared.

 

 

There will be a short excursion in Otranto on the evening of Monday 11. For the excursion day (Wednesday, September 13) we will propose you two alternatives tours. You are required to choose one of them in advance. This choice is not necessarily definitive, you can change it at the last minute (not all together, please!), but it will be very useful for our organization to know in advance your preference to a good level of approximation.

 

a)    South Coast tour. You leave Conca Specchiulla in the south direction. You will see, along the coast, Capo d’Otranto, Porto Badisco, Zinzulusa grotto, Castro and S. Maria di Leuca. We hope to make part of the tour by boat, if the weather and sea conditions will allow it. 

b)    Alberobello tour. You leave Conca Specchiulla in the north direction. Visit of Lecce with its baroque churches, Alberobello with its famous trulli, and Ostuni, the “White Town”. The lunch will be provided during the tour.

 

 

We have not organized additional tours for the accompanying persons. In principle, to stay in Conca Specchiulla is comfortable, and the accompanying persons can enjoy the beaches and the sea. However, you can ask the reception of Grand Hotel Daniela to organize or suggest for you tours of various kinds (visit to Lecce, to Otranto, tours by boat, etc.) at your own expenses.

 

 

If you have any kind of arrival emergency, please call the Grand Hotel Daniela, whose telephone number is 0836 806648, or directly Prof. Fogli, whose cellular phone number is 348 5114059. If you call from abroad, the Italy country code is +39.