under the auspices of

Conference Co-chairmen

Claudio Nicolini - Fondazione EL.B.A. and Biophysics Department, University of Genoa

Wolfgang Knoll - Max Planck Institute For Polymer Research, Mainz


Max Planck Society

Official Conference Language: English

Abstract: not more than one A4 page, containing the title, author's names with surname first, authors affiliation and contact details of the corresponding author. Use Times or Arial-type characters of not less than 10 and not more than 12 points, use side margins of not less than 2 cm.

Papers: not more than 20 pages including tables, graphs and references. Authors are encouraged to make preprints of their papers available on the WEB. The Forum Web Pages will provide a link . The papers will be published as a special issue for international recognition edited by Professor Claudio Nicolini as a continuation of Elba Forum Series.

Posters: not more than 120 cm x 80 cm

There will be oral presentations and poster session during the Forum. Abstracts are due by July 15, 2000 to:

Fondazione EL.B.A.

Via del Babuino n.181 - 00187 Roma (Italy)

Tel. +39-06-32651429 or +39-06-57992570

Fax. +39-06-32651429 or +39-06-57992575

e-mail: fondazione.elba@infinito.it

WEB: www.fondazione-elba.org

Notification of acceptance will be made by July 30, 2000.

Abstracts accepted by the Program Committee and Key-note contributions will be selected for publication in the Proceedings.

Programme Committee:

Charles Cantor, Jim Gimzewsky, Wolfgang Knoll, Federico Capasso and Claudio Nicolini

Proceedings: Special Volume of the Elba Forum Series published by Plenum since 1996.



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