The Workshop will be hosted at the: 

 

Galindia Mazurski Eden Hotel

12 - 210 Ukta, Bartlewo 1

Poland

www.galindia.com.pl

 

 

Transportation: All participants are strongly recommended to come to Warsaw August, 22^nd for convenience. We recommend three taxi corporations: Merc Taxi, MPT Radio Taxi, Sawa Taxi from the Warsaw Fryderyk Chopin Airport. We do not recommend other non-corporate taxi services offered at the Airport.

You will stay in Warsaw in the Ibis Stare Miasto Hotel ul. Muranowska 2, 00-209 Warszawa, Polska tel.: +48 (0) 22 310 10 00 (where rooms for all participants have already been reserved), on August, 22^nd and go together to Galindia Mazurski Eden (Workshop site) by bus in the morning of the August, 23^rd.

Come back to Warsaw is planned afternoon August, 28^th. We strongly suggest that participants attend the entire Workshop to maximize information-sharing and collaboration-planning opportunities. We would like to inform you that rooms for all participants have already been reserved on August, 28^th.

 

The payment for the hotel in Warsaw is not included to the registration fee.

 

Guest/Spouse Participation:  Guest/spouse participation is welcome.  If your spouse or a guest will be joining you, please indicate his/her participation on the payment form.

 

Registration Materials: Your registration packet, which will contain your badge and the Meeting Program/Abstract Book will be provided upon your arrival at the Workshop Registration Desk on Sunday.

 

Technical Program: We are looking forward to an excellent technical exchange.  Drs. I. Grzegory, T. Suski, D. Ehrentraut are working on completing the program schedule, which will include the date and time of each presentation.  This schedule is already available on the web page.

 

Internet in Galindia Hotel: The internet in Galindia Hotel is available by Orange Hot Spot. In reception desk in Galindia Hotel one can buy special codes. The prices are as follows:

 

 For 24 h - 30 PLN

For 2 h/2 months - 20 PLN

For 2 h - 10 PLN

 

In Galindia Hotel one cannot pay by credit cards. Only polish zloty is acceptable. For your convenience you should have some polish zloty (100-200 PLN). Today 1 USD=~3 PLN.

 

Presentation Guidelines/recommendations: Informal presentations shall be limited to 10 minutes (20 minutes for scene-setters), followed immediately by a question/answer session lasting for approximately 10 minutes.  Lively discussion during and after presentations is strongly encouraged.  Please minimize introductory, acknowledgement, or conclusion overheads, and try to limit the number of slides  you present to ten (twenty for scene-setters). Important:  The final overhead you present should identify the major relevant challenge question for your discussion time.

 

Proceedings: We have negotiated with Elsevier Press to publish the proceedings in the Journal of Crystal Growth. All authors of presentations are encouraged to submit a paper detailing their recent work presented at the workshop. Manuscripts will go through the normal Journal review process but be published as a single volume.

 

Audio/Visual Equipment: computers, LCD projector, laser pointer and sound system will be available in the meeting room. 

 

Dress Code:  In addition to the excellent technical program, we hope that you will find the Galindia Mazurski Eden Hotel relaxing and enjoyable.  Please plan to be comfortable.

Since we are planning a kayaking by Krutynia River (~3 hours from Ukta to Galindia; see http://www.masuria-canoeing.com/krutynia_en/index.html) please take some sport wear with you.

 

The weather: Summer in Mazury Region turns out shorter than in other regions of Poland. It is not uncommon that first signs of fall can be noticed already at the end of August. After the 15^th of August the day shortens already by 2 hours vis-a-vis the longest day of the year - the 22 of June. Many sailboats are no longer on sail. You can easily see many boats anchored to a buoy or even moved out from the water. The average air temperature in Mazury does not surpass 17 degrees Celsius in August. Thus the weather can often freeze the most devoted tourists. The famous record cold summer was recorded in 1966, when the temperature fall to +0,9 degrees C in August. There are chances however that you could see hot days too as the max air temperatures in August do not diverge from maximal July temperatures. The maximum temperature in Suwałki of +34,8 degrees, for example, was recorded on the 10 of July 1992. These hot days happen less frequently though. The lower temperatures in August are compensated by more sunny days. In addition, August in Mazury is less rainy than July as the average rainfall level in this month ranges from 70 to 80mm. There are thunderstorms too, though less frequently than in July. During nights and early mornings often mist forms what makes many non-inhabited places seem to be enchanted.

 

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email: bocian@unipress.waw.pl 

We will be pleased to answer any questions you may have.

 

Sincerely,

 

Michał Boćkowski