The conference proceedings will be edited by João Alves and Mark McCaughrean and will be published in the Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia".
Oral contributions must be formatted with LaTeX using the LaTeX macros which are available from the ESO ftp host via the URL:
If you retrieve these files via a Web browser, please note that you need to use the browser's "Save As..." facility.
If you are not using a Web browser to obtain the files, please do the following:
Anonymous ftp to:
login in as anonymous and change to directory:
then "get" all of the files in this directory.
Remember to change to binary mode before transferring files with the extensions .PDF, .doc, .dvi.
The files 1readme.PDF (pdf format) and 1readme.doc (MS Word format) contain detailed instructions for authors.
The file author.tex contains a sample contribution, which can be used as a template for your own text. The files author.dvi and 2demo.ps are the .dvi and .ps files generated by running LaTeX and dvips on author.tex, and the file figure.eps is a sample figure.
If you include your own LaTeX command definitions, please keep these to an absolute minimum, and do not change the macros.
Figures must be provided as PostScript files and should be incorporated in your contribution using a package such as the "graphicx" package used in the demo file author.tex.
Please use the following naming convention for your files: The Latex file of your text should be called myname.tex, where "myname" (all in lower-case) is the name of the first author. Any figures should be named "mynameF1.ps" (or .eps), "mynameF2a.ps" etc, for figure 1, figure 2a, etc.
Poster contributions will be published in a CD-ROM companion to the book and authors can submit their actual posters. Please submit just one file per poster (as a compressed tar archive if necessary). The name of the file should be the name of the first author of the poster.
The page limits are:
| Review paper (40 min talk): | up to 8 pages |
| All other oral presentations: | up to 6 pages |
| Poster paper: | up to 8 Mb (plain Unix gzipped tar archive, if necessary). |
Please try to observe these limits. It is anticipated that some editorial overview will be exercised and authors may be requested to make changes to their papers.
Due to the high cost of colour plates only a very limited number of colour illustrations will be accepted, and only if there is a strong scientific justification.
Please ftp the LaTeX source file of your oral contribution (with PostScript files of any figures) or the file of your poster to:
Anonymous ftp to:
login in as anonymous and change to directory:
and "put" all your files in this directory using the naming convention explained above. Finally, let us know by sending a short message to:
For further information about the proceedings, please contact: