November 11, 2006

Dear MG11 participant,

This is the second mass emailing regarding the proceedings of our 
Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Berlin last July. We hope it 
is able to break through the increasingly hostile email environment 
and spam interceptors to arrive in your mailbox.

The details of submitting a contribution to the proceedings are given 
on the web page:
  http://www.icra.it/MG/mg11/Mg11proceedings.htm
The current deadline is December 31, 2006.

The Marcel Grossmann Meetings are somewhat unique among the 
conferences with 500 to 1000 participants in that we try to give
everyone a voice, both at the conference itself and in the proceedings
afterwards. In order to maintain the 3 volume size that has
characterized the past 3 meetings, which is the economically feasible 
limit, we have to observe somewhat strict page limits on the 
contributions. Plenary speakers are allowed up to 20 pages, 
while ordinary participants are allowed 3 pages on the other, 
intended to give space for a summary of the main ideas of the 
contribution and complete references to the work. In between, parallel
session chairpersons have the option to contribute a rapporteur 
article themselves or designate someone else to do so, summarizing
the current state of the topic of the parallel session, also with a 
page limit of 20 pages. If there is a compelling reason to have more 
than one longer contribution in a given session, this can be discussed, 
but there were roughly 80 parallel sessions, so in the interests of
fairness, this freedom must be used sparingly or it will open up the 
possibility of exceeding our total feasible page count.

The chairpersons as a final task will check over the contributed papers 
with the Editors, once the final deadline for submission has passed. 
Where necessary the contributions will be submitted to independent
referees.

We owe all the chairpersons a debt of gratitude for their volunteer
service to the Meeting before, during and after that week in Berlin.
Similarly we thank the participants for their contributions to the
success of the meeting.

Greetings,

Remo Ruffini
  Chair of the International Organizing Committee
Hagen Kleinert
  Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
Bob Jantzen
  Chair of the International Coordinating Committee