The official announcement Nicholas Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno and the B.R.N.O. - Variable Star Section of the Czech Astronomical Society are glad to invite you to INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VARIABLE STAR RESEARCH BRNO 1997 The conference will be held in the estates of Nicholas Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno, Czech Republic on November, 7 - 9, 1997. The international conference will be particularly concerned with all aspects of variable star astronomy - observation, data processing, astrophysics of variable stars. The organizers have had more than 30-year tradition of uninterrupted observational and publication activities in the field of variable stars, almost so long a tradition of holding national conferences and 10 years of international contacts. They have a nice hall of Brno Planetarium (190 seats) with its accessories to their disposal. Organizers hope they will be able to prepare the conference in corresponding standard, and thus to start tradition of international conferences on variable star research being held in Brno in two-year intervals. Furthermore, this year's conference will be preceded by 20th Conference on Stellar Astronomy of Czech and Slovak professional astronomers (November, 5-7), so it has a good chance to become a wide forum for the discussions among professional and amateur astronomers from many countries dealing with variable stars. Up to now organizers have received 40 preliminary applications for attendance of persons from 12 European countries. The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC): Zdenek Mikulasek - N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno, Czech Republic, chairperson Ivan Sergejevic Andronov - Astronomical Institute in Odessa, Ukraine Jiri Borovicka - Astronomical Institute CAS, Ondrejov, Czech Republic Drahomir Chochol - Astronomical Institute SAS, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic Petr Hadrava - Astronomical Institute CAS, Ondrejov, Czech Republic Chris Sterken - Faculty of Sciences, University of Brussels, Belgium Marek Wolf - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics FMP ChU, Prague, Czech Republic Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Miloslav Zejda - chairperson, Jiri Dusek, Petr Hajek, Jan Hollan, Iva Malisova, Jan Safar, Jindrich Silhan (all N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno, Czech Republic) Working language: English Admitted working languages: Czech, Slovak - always with English summaries Papers: The time allocated for an invited review paper is about 60 minutes, while the time allowed for oral presentation of a contributed paper on your results is about 20 minutes. We recommend to use the possibility of presentation of your contributions on poster displays. All read papers and chosen posters will be published in the special conference proceedings. A registration fee of Kc 300,- or $15 per foreign conferee will be due on the day of registration. Each participant of the conference will receive: all information material including English written summaries of papers, agenda and one issue of conference proceedings, that will be send him after its publishing. Accommodation, meals: Foreign conference participants will be accommodated at the nearby Hotel Kozak, Horova 30, Brno, where the price per one night in the double-room including breakfast is Kc 690,-. Single rooms are not available in this hotel. Lunches and evening meals will be ensured at the close restaurant Tivoli, the mean price of one main meal being about Kc 80,-. (Because of a declared increasing of price of energy at the second half of the year one may expect some increasing of all boarding and lodging expenses probably not exceeding 15 %). Applications: Kindly fill in the enclosed conference application form and send it to LOC of the conference as soon as possible. The remediless dead line for accepting of conference applications will be August 31st. Till this term remit to us please (preferably in electronic form) summaries of your contribution, which will become a part of conference information material. Contact address: N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium, Kravi hora 2, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic Phone: 420 5 41321287 E-mail: qzejda@fee.vutbr.cz (LOC), mikulas@dior.ics.muni.cz (SOC) We look forward to meeting you in Brno in November Miloslav Zejda Zdenek Mikulasek the Chairperson of LOC the Chairperson of SOC Please feel free to copy this form and to distribute it as you like. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE APPLICATION FORM ----------------------------------------------------------------- (Send please to e-mail address: qzejda@fee.vutbr.cz, or by standard mail on the address: Dr. Miloslav Zejda, N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium, Kravi hora 2, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic) Full Name: Address: E-mail address: Telephone: Fax: My attendance at the International Conference on Variable Star Research, (November, 7-9) I will attend Yes No I do not expect to attend, but send me the Final Announcement Yes No My attendance at the 20th Conference on Stellar Astronomy of Czech and Slovak professional astronomers (November, 5-7) I want to attend, send me further information Yes No I do not expect to attend, but send me further information Yes No ACCOMMODATION, MEALS, ORGANIZATION I want to arrange the accommodation in the Hotel Kozak Nov. 4./5. Yes No Nov. 5./6. Yes No Nov. 6./7. Yes No Nov. 7./8. Yes No I am going to choose the accommodation myself: Yes No I order provided lunch and evening meal: Nov. 5 lunch: Yes/No evening meal: Yes/No Nov. 5 lunch: Yes/No evening meal: Yes/No Nov. 5 lunch: Yes/No evening meal: Yes/No Nov. 5 lunch: Yes/No evening meal: Yes/No Nov. 5 lunch: Yes/No evening meal: Yes/No When do you intend to arrive to Brno? Date: Approx. Time: When do you intend to depart from Brno? Date: Approx. Time: The planned way of your transport to and back: Will you have a car throughout the meeting? Yes No If yes, do you need driving directions? Yes No Date: Communacation, suggestion to LOC: ----------------------------------------------------------------- The section for review/contributed papers only Will you be presenting a paper? Yes No If yes, please complete and return the attached summary form no later than August 31, 1997. I will be presenting (please check one): - an review paper Yes No - a contributed paper Yes No Would you like to present contributed paper as poster (size 85 cm x 60 cm) Yes No Would you like to present this paper orally? Yes No Name(s) of author(s): Preliminary title of paper (in English): Short summary (in English): Audio-visual equipment required for presentation: Overhead projector: Slide projector: Television and VCR: Personal computer: Other: Communication, suggestions to the SOC: