Dear Organizers,

RULES FOR ORGANISING MINI-SYMPOSIA OR SPECIAL SESSIONS
(updated with respect to the previous circular letters of July 13 and October 1st, 2003)
(1) Each Chairman and Organiser should organise a minimum of one Special Session (five presentations of 20 minutes each), whereas the maximum is not defined. Each organizer will be Co-Editor of the Transactions volume where his solicited contributions are contained.

(2) Each Chairman and Organiser could have Co-Chairmen selected by himself. In that case, on the other hand, the number of Special Sessions should be at least equal to the number of Co-Chairmen.

(3) A minimum of four Special Sessions could constitute a Mini-Symposium, with an independent Transactions volume.

(4) The possibility of scheduling one or two official Invited Lectures (40 minutes each) is given only to Mini-Symposia Organisers.

(5) Second Announcement and Call for Papers were sent in the last November (both in the paper version and on the ICF11 Website <www.ICF11.com>).

(6) As in the ICF tradition, both a Short Abstract (1 page) for a conference book and an ExtendedAbstract (4 to 6 pages) for a conference CD-ROM are requested within April 30, 2004, by our ICF11 Organising Secretariat in Torino. Of course, you are free to ask your invited Lecturers for a complimentary copy.

(7) A uniform series of Transactions volumes should be produced after ICF11. Negotiation with different Publishers is under way.

(8) The Organizing Committee selected 45 different areas of interest (Topics) that you can find in the Call for Papers and in the Website.

(9) Within your general area of expertise (Topic), you should select a specific title for each Special Session and a more general title for the Mini-Symposium (in the case you intend to organise one of them). Also the names and affiliations of your Co-Chairmen should be provided together with the above tentative titles, within February 15, 2004. You should communicate the final ones with the final list of contributors only after April 30, 2004. The review process is scheduled between April and October 2004.

(10) What we intend to realize is a process where you are in charge only for the scientific organization of your sessions and not for other more practical problems. In other words, the Authors solicited by you should officially send the abstracts only to our ICF11 Organising Secretariat in Torino, within April 30, 2004. We will redistribute them to the related Organisers, maybe together with further unsolicited contributions.