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           \              ESO/MPA Workshop on              /
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             \      Spiral Galaxies in the Near--IR      /
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               \           Garching, Germany           /
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                 \          June 7--9, 1995          /
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   Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts
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The ESO/MPA Workshop ``Spiral Galaxies in the Near--IR'' will be held
in Garching, Germany from June 7--9, 1995. The meeting will take take
place at the ESO headquarters.  The meeting will start at 9:00 on
Wednesday June 7, and end at 17:00 on Friday June 9.

This Workshop will assess the broad impact which the rapid development
of Near-IR detector technology, and the ensueing wealth of new data,
has had on theoretical and observational studies of spiral galaxies.
In particular, it will be discussed how these data have furthered
our understanding of the dynamical structure, the stellar content,
the dust distribution and star-burst activity of spiral galaxies.


Scientific Organising Committee

E. Athanassoula (Marseille), K. Freeman (Australia), R. Genzel (Garching),
D. Minniti (Garching), A. Moorwood (Garching), M. Rieke (Arizona),
H.-W. Rix (Garching), S. D. M. White (Garching)


Contributed Papers

The SOC would like to solicit abstracts for contributed papers. These may 
be presented as either oral or poster papers -- please indicate your
preference on the attached Registration form. Abstracts should be 
submitted by electronic mail to cstoffer@eso.org. Please indicate the
title, the authors, and limit the size of the abstract to half a page.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is March 31. If the demand 
for oral presentations is too high (given the available time) the SOC may
ask some participants to present poster papers instead.

Based on the abstracts submitted, the SOC will prepare the program for 
the meeting which will be distributed to participants, along with 
confirmation of accommodation arrangements, at the beginning of May.


Publication of Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.  Instructions for
the preparation of manuscripts will be distributed at the Workshop. 


Registration

In order for us to make all the necessary arrangements, prospective 
participants are requested to fill out the attached Registration and 
Accommodation Forms and return them to the address indicated before March 31. 

A registration fee of 150DM will be charged to help cover the cost of 
buses provided during the meeting, the Welcome Reception on the first 
evening, and a copy of the Workshop Proceedings for each participant. 
This fee will be payable at the meeting, in German currency only.


Welcome Reception

An informal Reception for the participants and accompanying persons will
be held at the MPA in the evening of Tuesday June 6. 


Local Information

The meeting will be held at the ESO headquarters and MPA which are located
in Garching, approximately 13km north of the centre of Munich.  During
the workshop there will be a shuttle bus transport from the hotels in 
Garching (2km) to the meeting.  Travel and local information can be 
obtained through our Web pages at:

http://http.hq.eso.org/garching-info/travel.html

http://http.hq.eso.org/garching-info/internal-garching.html \\

Usually, participants travelling from overseas need to arrive a day in
advance in order to recover from jet lag.  Note that Monday June 5 is
a holiday in Bavaria.  People should stay more days to enjoy the beautiful
city of Munich, and the Bavarian region with its many castles.


For all inquiries about the arrangement of accommodations please contact
Christina Stoffer at ESO via email at 
				      cstoffer@eso.org 

For all other inquiries about the Workshop please feel free to send us
email at 
          dante@eso.org or rix@mpa-garching.mpg.de

Deadline for Abstracts, Registration and Accommodation forms: 
							      March 31