This is a reminder that the early Conference Registration deadline is the 25^th June.
To benefit from the reduced registration fee and guaranteed hotel prices, please register before this date. This deadline will NOT be extended.
Please note that hotel prices will change after this date.

There has been a tremendous response to the Call for Abstracts with more than 450 having been received in total. These are currently being reviewed by the Programme Committee and notifications of assignments in the programme are now being sent to authors.

With such a large number of submissions, not all contributions can be presented orally. At CHEP’04 special emphasis is therefore being given to the poster sessions which will contain a large number of high quality scientific contributions. Three poster sessions of 1 hour have been allocated in the programme during three mornings of the conference, during which time authors will be requested to be present to discuss with conference delegates. Each poster will be allocated to 1 of the 3 sessions according to topic i.e. authors will be required to attend only one of the three sessions.

All scientific contributions, whether in form of a talk or a poster presentation, will be eligible for publication in the proceedings. The next bulletin, expected in July, will contain detailed guidelines for the preparation of talks, posters and papers.

The detailed final structure of the programme can be found on the CHEP’04 website (http://www.chep04.org/CHEP04prog.pdf).
The basic structure is as follows:

• Mornings: Plenary and Poster sessions. The plenary programme will include invited talks from industry and from the HEP community. Several excellent speakers have already accepted invitations.

• Afternoons: The programme comprises 7 tracks which will be organised in 6 parallel sessions. The only change with respect to the previous Bulletins is that the original track on Distributed Computing has been split in two to accommodate the proportionally large number of abstracts it received.

The final list of tracks is as follows:

• Online Computing

• Event processing

• Core Software

• Distributed Computing Services

• Distributed Computing Systems and Experiences

• Computer Fabrics

• Wide Area Networking

Registration

To help you with your registration, you may find the following links useful:

 

Travelling to Interlaken; Special offers: Swiss International Air Lines  is the CHEP’04 official carrier and is offering special fares; The Interlaken Congress Centre is offering a special rail ticket (cheaper than with Swiss Railways half price card!) – book via registration form – details below;
Hotel Review for Interlaken; Excursions offered (for Tuesday afternoon); Partner programme (for Monday and Thursday).

 

Conference Fees:

            525 CHF for payment BEFORE 25th June 2004

            590 CHF for payment AFTER this date.

 

Price includes: full conference participation; proceedings on CD/DVD; welcome cocktail on Sunday 26th; three lunches; conference banquet on Wednesday; coffee breaks.

 

Registration Times:

            Sunday 26^th September 2004, from 15:00 until approximately 20:00; then any morning during the conference.

 

Registration Form:

            Please use: http://www.chep04.org/Registration/

            Registration is only confirmed upon receipt of the corresponding payment.

 

Industrial Programme

The CHEP'04 Industrial Programme, comprising an exhibition and a series of technical seminars featuring firms of relevance to HEP computing, will be held from Monday afternoon until Thursday afternoon.

Complete information for conference participants as well as exhibitors can be found at http://ess.web.cern.ch/ESS/CHEP04/index.html.

End of Early Registrations – 25^th June

Fourth Bulletin – End July – Conference Programme and presentation guidelines