LP2005 in Uppsala Status report to C11 at its meeting during the LP2005 Symposium 1 juli 2005 Tord Ekelöf, Uppsala university

Participants all categories Armenia1Indonesia1 Netherlands2 Austria1Iran1 Turkey6 Belarus1Israel4 UK16 Belgium2Italy41 USA114 Brazil6Japan26 Uzbekistan1 Canada5Korea9 Vietnam2 China8Mexico5Taiwan1 Colombia1 Morocco Czech Rep.1 Norway1Sum402 Denmark2Russia10 Estonia2Slovenia2Acc. Persons86 France22Spain3 Germany31Sweden49 India4Switzerland15

Speakers Belgium1 China1 Denmark2 France4 Germany2 India1 Israel1 Italy3 Japan2 Russia1 Sweden2 Switzerland5 UK1 USA Sum46

Conferece fee waivers 320 Euro (housing 165 Euro) Argentina1 Armenia1 (1) Brazil3 Colombia1 India3 (1) Iran2 (1) Mexico3 (1) Pakistan1 Turkey3 Uzbekistan1 Vietnam Sum21 (4)

Submitted contributions Number of submitted papers~450 Available on the web – 1 hardcopy each exposed in the Symposium Library at Upper Gallery Number of posters 41 Exposed on the Upper Gallery Number of exhibitors 3 Elsevier, World Scientific and Scandinova – exposed in Lower Gallery

Organizational work Good interaction with the 25 members of the International Scientific Advisory Committee Distributed tasks among the 16 members of the Local Organizing Committee – many graduate students not on the committee have been very helpful Efficient collaboration with the University Conference Bureau Akademikonferens Computer connections Computer Room A 9 PC’s, 11 Mac’s Computer Room B 17 internet cables Wireless connection more than 500 (till now max usage 92)

Proceedings, broadcasting and video record Proceedings will be published by World Scientific with a hard copy with CD to each delegate - cost per copy 15 USD for first 400 copies, then 7.50 USD including postage – open access on All talks broadcasted with VRVS with a capacity of order 100 lines – supported by VRVS organization - on average 20 lines have been in use at any time and sofar in total ca 100 persons have followed part of the conference over the internet. A premier – no cost. This time only one-way – next time two-way? All talks video recorded and now accessible on the web and eventually possibly on a DVD.

Sponsors International Union of Pure and Applied Physics EURO Royal Academy of Sciences EURO Swedish Research Council EURO City of Uppsala EURO Elsevier EURO Current status Sailing with good wind