Bulletin 2: Minerva-Gentner Symposium 2009: Experiment confronts String Theory

1 Introduction

The Minerva-Gentner Symposium 2009 is jointly organised by H.Abramowicz (TAU) and R.Klanner (Hamburg University). It is supported by the Minerva foundation, DESY and MPI-Munich. It takes place from October 12 - 15 2009 at the Harnack House, Berlin, Germany.

Participation is by invitation only. Costs for travel from the home institution to Berlin and back (cheapest reasonable ticket) and housing at the Harnack House will be covered by the conference.

This 2nd Bulletin gives some information about the conference venue and schedule and should help you to organise your trip to Berlin. A list of contacts is also provided in case you need assistance.

2 Venue and Accommodation

Please refer to web page of the Harnack House,

http://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/eng-index.htm,

where you find also information about its location in Berlin and how to reach it by plane and train (www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/eng-wegweis.htm). Accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner will be at the Harnack House. If you have special food requirements, please contact the secretariat.

In the Harnack House, there are rooms with 1 and 2 beds, and suites with 2 bedrooms. The organisers will make a proposal for the allocation.

If you need to contact the organizers on the way to the symposium, please use the telephone number +49 (0) 30 8413 3912 and we will try to help you.

3 Secretariat

Magdalene Hack Franziska Rudert

Inst. f. Experimentalphysik Max Planck Inst. f. Physik

University of Hamburg Werner Heisenberg Institut

Luruper Chaussee 149 Foehringer Ring 6

22761 Hamburg Germany 80805 Munich Germany

Magdalene.Hack@desy.de and frudert@mppmu.mpg.de

(Please send EMails to both addresses – link below)

Secretariat email

4 Tentative Program

The draft of the program can be found at

http://adweb.desy.de/~klanner/Minerva-Gentner-2009/Program.pdf

5 Web page and list of participants

A web page has been prepared http://physics.tau.ac.il/epp/symposium09.html

In which you find all relevant information, including updates of the program and the list of participants. The latter is password protected and the password will be mailed to you in a separate mail.