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

4. Participants all categories Armenia1Indonesia1 Netherlands2 Austria1Iran1 Turkey6 Belarus1Israel4 UK16 Belgium2Italy41 USA114 Brazil6Japan26 Uzbekistan1 Canada5Korea9 Vietnam2 China8Mexico5Taiwan1 Colombia1 Morocco1--------------------- Czech Rep.1 Norway1Sum402 Denmark2Russia10 Estonia2Slovenia2Acc. Persons86 France22Spain3 Germany31Sweden49 India4Switzerland15

5. Speakers Belgium1 China1 Denmark2 France4 Germany2 India1 Israel1 Italy3 Japan2 Russia1 Sweden2 Switzerland5 UK1 USA20 --------------------- Sum46

6. Conferece fee waivers 320 Euro (housing 165 Euro) Argentina1 Armenia1 (1) Brazil3 Colombia1 India3 (1) Iran2 (1) Mexico3 (1) Pakistan1 Turkey3 Uzbekistan1 Vietnam2 ---------------------- Sum21 (4)

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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 www.uu.se/lp2005 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.

10. Sponsors International Union of Pure and Applied Physics 14 000 EURO Royal Academy of Sciences22 000 EURO Swedish Research Council 5 500 EURO City of Uppsala 3 300 EURO Elsevier 2 700 EURO Current status Sailing with good wind