Important Deadlines

Date Public Conveners PC/Copernicus
15 February 2008 Call-for-Papers    
16 May 2008 Receipt of Abstracts    
22 May – 04 June 2008

Transfer of abstracts until
28 May 2008
  Convener Part 1:

accept, reject, transfer, add abstracts (no oral/poster selection at this stage)

Convener Part 2:

convenors communicate wishes and requirements regarding room size, time blocks etc to the conference committee
 
05 – 17 June 2008

06 June: Programme Committee meeting
    Programme Committee Part 1:

- evaluate rejected and not assigned contributions

- assign  time blocks, rooms, days and exact session times to each session, on the basis of convenor requests and consistency of the programme
18 June – 29 June 2008   Convener Part 3:

Now convenors select oral/poster presentations and assign the order of presentations, according to allowed time slots
 
30 June – 06 July 2008     Programme Committee Part 2:

finalise programme
07 July 2008 Letter of schedule to authors 

Uploading meeting programme on web
   
18 July 2008     Draft Programme Book to Programme Committee
15 August 2008 Letter of Invitation    
22 August 2008     Programme Book/Abstract CD-ROM to printer
25 August 2008 Deadline for Exhibitors    
25 August 2008 Deadline for Pre-Registration    
12 September 2008   Deadline for Daily Programme  
29 September – 03 October 2008 8th EMS / 7th ECAC