EUCO - CC6

6^thEuropean Conference on Computational Chemistry, September 3-7, 2006

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EUCO-CC6 is organized by Working Party for Computational Chemistry WPCC in cooperation with Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia and supported by European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences - EuCheMS.

Deadline for oral contributions: May, 31, 2006, deadline for posters: June, 30, 2006. Abstracts should be e-mailed before deadlines in Word, PDF or Postscript formats (top/bottom margins 2.5cm, left/right margins 3cm, justified text, font Times New Roman, size 12.) You can download the Word template from here. Proceedings of the conference will be published in International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. Participants are encouraged to bring the manuscripts of their contributions to EUCO-CC6.

EUCO-CC6 is a satellite conference to the First European Chemistry Congress 27-31 August 2006, Budapest, Hungary.

EUCO-CC6 Venue: Low Tatras, Tale [ta:le], Central Slovakia

You are welcome to visit also subsequent WPCC event (a sattelite meeting to EUCO-CC6) in Wroclaw: Modelling and Design of Molecular Materials 2006 (Wroclaw, Poland, September 10-15, 2006)

General information

Arrival day is September 3rd, 2006. Registration at the conference site begins at 10 a.m. in Hotel Partizan. The first lecture will take place on Sunday, 4 p.m. Last lecture is scheduled on Thursday, 7th, before noon. We still work on the detailed time-table, it will be displayed later.

The Conference will be held in the conference halls of Hotel Partizan at Tale tourist resort. It is placed in a beautiful region of Low Tatras mountain range where the nature with its genuine beauty welcomes visitors at any time of the year. The splendid tranquility of the resort and high quality services provided by the hotel create a unique place for a scientific meeting. The Hotel Partizan is equipped with a wide range of conference facilities and offers comfortable lodging and boarding for more than 200 persons.

Language

The official language of the conference will be English.

Visa and Passport

Citizens of EU countries, Switzerland and some other European countries can enter Slovakia with a valid national ID card. For citizens of the remaining countries a passport valid at least 6 month after the entry to Slovakia is required. Please check with your travel agent or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia (www.foreign.gov.sk) whether you need entry visa for Slovakia or contact Academia Tours travel agency (E-mail: service@academia.sk).

Letter of Invitation

Upon request an official invitation letter can be sent to you by the Organizing Committee of the EUCO-CC6.

Climate

Slovakia has a continental climate with quite hot summers and cold winters. Average summer temperatures are over 20^oC, but can be as warm as the mid-30's. Winter temperatures usually hover around 0^oC, but can plummet to 15 degrees below zero.
The beginning of September is still considered as summer weather, with temperature between 17^oC and 25^oC. In the Low Tatras mountains the weather is somewhat colder, especially during nights.

Time Zone

1 hour ahead of GMT, the summer time, which lasts from March to October is 2 hrs ahead of GMT, as in all EU countries.

Currency

Slovak Crown (SKK) - Slovenska koruna = 100 halier. Notes are in denominations of Sk 5000, 1000, 500, 100, 50 and 20. Coins are in denominations of Sk 10, 5, 2, 1 and halier 50. Exchange rates are daily published by banks (see Slovak National Bank). Foreign currency (including travellers cheques) can be exchanged at exchange offices, main hotels and banks, road border crossings, as well as major travel agencies.

Credit Cards

major credit cards (American Express, Diners Club, Visa and MasterCard/Eurocard) and debit cards (Maestro and Visa Electron) may be used to withdraw cash from automatic dispensers (teller machines) of major banks (Tatra Banka, CSOB, Ludova banka, Slovenska sporitelna, ...) and for payments in hotels, restaurants, shops and petrol stations. Credit cards can also be used to obtain currency. Check with your credit card company for details of merchant acceptability and other services which may be available.

Shops Opening Hours

Most shops are open on Mondays-Fridays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smaller shops may close for lunch break. Big storehouses and shopping centers are open to 7 p.m. or to 9 p.m. The hyper-markets TESCO (Banska Bystrica, Bratislava, Kosice, Nitra, Trnava) are open non-stop.

Gastronomy

Gastronomy shows the influence of a close contact with the neighboring countries. European meals, home specialities and foreign meals are widely available. In Bratislava the restaurants offer unlimited choice of international cuisine, including kosher and halal food as well as vegetarian food. Slovak restaurants and Slovak shepherd's huts present all kinds of regional specialties i - from Slovak cooking in the north of the country to Hungarian and fish meals in the Danubian region in the southern part of the country.

Telephone

Direct international telephone calls can be made to many countries in the world. IDD is available. Country code: 421, area code for Bratislava is 2, area code for Tale is 48. Outgoing international code: 00 + country code + area code + telephone/fax number. Home and foreign calls are enabled by public telephones working on coins or cards. Telephone calls on significant numbers (see lower) are free of charge. Emergency centers offer permanent service including aid on car accidents and repair on practical all types of vehicles.

Insurance and Liability

The Academia Tours and the Organizers of Conference as well as hotels are not taking any responsibility whatsoever for injury or damage involving persons and property during the Conference. Participants are advised to arrange for their own personal, travel and health insurance for the trip to Slovakia.