Every speaker of the School should have received a file with our tentative composition of the scientific program (Preliminary Program). Also, it can be found at our www home page. Please, check title(s) of your presentation, institutions, and other details related. The Program is already issued in the version presented there, and its printed form will be distributed over the participants by registration. Any further changes and corrections can be made in the course of the School, just in an `interactive regime' at the hotel "Wolfram", the 12th Baksan School residence in the upper Baksan Valley. If necessary, please, contact Valery Rubakov and/or Khazret Nirov there.
We would like to stress again that somebody assigned for the purpose by the Organizing Committee will meet you at the Sheremetyevo airport (SVO-2) upon your arrival in Moscow. The receiving person will carry a copy of the School poster, and so, we hope you will be able to recognize him (her) at the meeting point, even if the airport is crowded. In cases of any problems arising there, please, phone us by the numbers: 133-65-33, 135-77-60.
We have arranged for your accommodation at the hotel "Sputnik" (Leninsky Prospect, 38; placed in some 10 minutes on foot from our Institute) for your staying in Moscow. The Organizing Committee paid for the night before and the night after the School, and made necessary reservation prepayment. These payments are included in the sum of 500 USD/EUR of the total organization fee. When it was requested, we also paid for additional days/nights of your staying in Moscow before or after the School. The corresponding expenses of the Organizing Committee must be reimbursed additionally. A night at this hotel costs about 1350 roubles, equal approximately to 40-45 USD/EUR (depending on time and place of exchange, as especially during the last month).
The total cost of local expenses is 500 USD/EUR (see also the Bulletin # 2). This sum must be paid to the Organizing Committee upon registration at "Wolfram", the School residence. We will accept US dollars, EUR, Russian roubles, cash only. We do not have any possibility to take into account the slight difference between USD and EUR.
We strongly recommend to exchange currency for your pocket money just in Moscow. Current ratio USD/RR and EUR/RR are approximately 1/32 and 1/33, respectively.
We have arranged for a bus transportation from the hotel "Sputnik" to the internal flight airports (planes for Mineralnye Vody take off from Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo).
The buses leave from the hotel "Sputnik" at 8:30 a.m. for those who follow with Aeroflot planes (SVO-1), both on Sunday, April 20. The participants should gather in 15 minutes in advance before that time at the hotel entrance and make sure that accompanying persons (INR staff-members in charge) are aware of their presence at place.
The participants of the School will be met at the Mineralnye Vody airport upon their landing and transported further to the hotel "Wolfram" in the upper Baksan Valley.
The weather in Moscow is presently very changeable: pretty cold, about 12-15 C Grad, windy, the air is humid, but sometimes it gets warm and sunny. Usually, exactly this week of April one faces unstable weather in Moscow. It is up to you to decide what kind of clothes is most appropriate to such conditions. However, closer to the end of April, it will be much warmer here, nice days with just more sun can be anticipated.
In the upper Baksan Valley the temperature is about +15 degrees Celsius, varying from +10 to +20, greatly sunny. (Of course, certain changes in such conditions can happen at all of a sudden.) It is absolutely nice time for alpine skiing at Cheget and Elbrus slopes. Good luck!
XII-th Baksan School - 2003, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, 117312 Moscow, Russian FederationTelephone: 7-(095)-133-65-33 Fax: 7-(095)-135-22-68 E-Mail: school@ms2.inr.ac.ru
URL: http://www.inr.ac.ru/~school/
Telephone at the School site: Baksan Neutrino Observatory: 7-(866)-24-77-475 (Head Office) 7-(866)-24-05-443 (SAGE) 7-(866)-38-78-608 The tourist hotel "Wolfram": 7-(866)-39-71-422 7-(866)-39-71-308 7-(866)-39-71-311