Scientific Organising Committee: Michael Dopita (Australia) & Sun Kwok (Canada) (co-Chair), Agnes Acker (France), Magda Arnaboldi (Italy), Bruce Balick (USA), Mike Barlow (UK), Shuji Deguchi (Japan), George Jacoby (USA), Walter Maciel (Brasil), Arturo Manchado (Spain), Mario Perinotto (Italy), Stuart Pottasch (Netherlands), Detlef Schönberner (Germany), Yervant Terzian (USA), Sylvia Torres-Peimbert (Mexico), Romek Tylenda (Poland) & Peter Wood (Australia)

Local Organizing Committee: Michael Dopita, Carole Jackson, Peter McGregor, Maartje Sevenster, Ralph Sutherland & Peter Wood
( pn_symp@mso.anu.edu.au )

Location: The conference will be held in the Dome of the Academy of Sciences, surrounded by gardens, adjacent to the ANU campus, and overlooking Lake Burley Griffin in the heart of Canberra Australia's "bush capital'' (try visiting www.act.gov.au). November is early summer in Canberra and the climate is very pleasant (17-25C during the day), with many flowers and the summer wattles blooming. The city has many cultural sites that merit a visit, such as the National Gallery, Parliament House and the High Court. For those with greenish interests, the Botanic Gardens, around Black Mountain Tower and close to the conference venue, are a must. Their collection consists exclusively of Australian-native plants, with a specimen of the famous Wollemi pine and beautiful views of the city.

Social program: The traditional symposium dinner and the always-succesful Australian wine-tasting evening will be organized, as well as a tour of Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. In and around the Australian National Capital, there are several interesting places to visit for those with more time on their hands, such as Lanyon Homestead, with the Nolan collection, Bungendore heritage village and the district wineries.

Around 4.24 am (local daylight saving time) on Monday 19 Nov, the Leonids shower will reach maximum, possibly storm level (2000 events per hour predicted). Check out SPACE.com or the IMO webpages for details !

Contact: The Local Organizing Committee pn_symp@mso.anu.edu.au

The conference will cover the following topics:

• PN surveys in our and in other galaxies
• Distances to galactic & extragalactic PN
• PN in the scheme of stellar evolution, including PN progenitors, nucleosynthesis and binary evolution
• Central stars and their atmospheres, Wolf-Rayet central stars and winds
• Multiwavelength observations at X-ray, UV, visible, infrared, submm, mm \& radio wavelengths
• Atomic Data, physical processes & identification of atomic, molecular and solid state species in spectra
• The physics and Chemistry of the nebula
• Morphology and microstructures
• Advances in Nebular Modelling and
• PN as probes of chemical evolution, as standard candles, and as tracers of dark matter in galaxies & clusters

Time schedule:

Dec 01, 2000 : First announcement
Mar 01, 2001 : Deadline for pre-registration PASSED
May 01, 2001 : Deadline for travel grant applications PASSED
May 15, 2001 : Second announcement and preliminary program PASSED



Please read this note on security issues and the information about the social program before registering.
Proceed to Registration here. Note that although you may of course change details later, it is much easier for us to process your registration if all information is received simultaneously. Also, you will not be able to provide us with payment details later, without going through the registration process again.



Sep 15, 2001 : Deadline for registration
Oct 15, 2001 : Deadline for abstracts
Oct 15, 2001 : Final announcement

Proceedings:

Proceedings papers will be electronically submitted, details on the procedure for submission are now available.

Further information :

• Program
• Abstract template
• Poster size limits: width 60cm, height 2m
• Audio-visual presentations: Powerpoint (on CD, 3.5-inch disk or personal laptop)
  Camera-projected images of talk on white paper; transparencies can also be used but the projected images are not as nice.
• Check your name in the list of 187 registrants (as of Monday, 18-Oct-2004 16:19:23 EST).
  Or you may wish to check the list of 222 pre-registrants .
• Accommodation
• Social events and suggested activities
• Maps of the Canberra region
• Map of Central Canberra with locations marked