Subject: MG12 Sunday Registration Urged

http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12

Dear MG12 participant,

We apologize for the lack of information that has been made 
available to you in this period preceding the meeting next week, 
but the problems of dealing with a large fraction of late 
registrations and adjustments to the program have made it 
difficult. We also appreciate your patience in dealing with 
eventual problems which surface at the meeting.
We strongly urge all participants who are able to do the 
on-site registration completion picking up conference materials 
on Sunday between 10-12 and 14:30-19:30 
at the Ecole Normale Superieure, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75230 Paris
http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/conf_location.htm

This is because UNESCO has a security screening and only people 
with the conference badge will be allowed into the two buildings 
and only a limited number of MG12 participants can be accommodated 
arriving directly to the main entrance of the main UNESCO building 
at 7, place de Fontenoy 
75352 Paris before having picked up their badges off site on Sunday
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6427&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

On Monday morning even if you registered on-site Sunday, it is 
crucial that you be at the main UNESCO building by 8:00 with 
your MG12 badge to try to get admission for the 9:00 start of 
the opening ceremonies because a large fraction of 1000 people
 must pass through tight UNESCO security control. Please bring 
a passport or proper ID. If you were unable to do on-site 
registration Sunday, you can register at our desk outside 
the security check but this should be the exception. This 
applies to each day of plenary sessions. Come early to pass 
through security in time for the beginning of each plenary 
session.

If you arrive at later times and later days, you will have to be 
patient in gaining entrance to the main UNESCO building (Fontenoy) 
for the plenary sessions where our registration desk can be accessed 
before the security check. You will always need proper ID to confirm 
your identity to UNESCO security to gain entrance.

The full program (2MB PDF) of plenary and parallel sessions is 
online under both the plenary and parallel session pages, while 
the detailed time schedules for each parallel session are on-line 
in the list of parallel sessions, available by left clicking on 
the session abbreviation for unbroken sessions, and on A or B or C 
for split sessions. Please check the locations page below for the 
location of your talks and how to move between locations which 
are in 3 different general areas: two UNESCO buildings, then the 
adjacent IAP and OP are a metro ride away, and then ENS is a 
healthy walk from these last two institutions, with IHP/AL a 
few more minutes farther. See the conference location page for 
instructions. There will be wireless access at UNESCO for access 
to the detailed time schedule of talks in each parallel session 
but these will not be printed in the main program. Bring your 
netbooks and laptops if you have them for the best access to this 
information, but please print out the program information that 
pertains to your parallel session talk delivery before you 
arrive at the meeting.

UNESCO sessions will have computers available for attaching 
memory sticks for projecting talks. Please bring your talks 
on such devices. The situation for nonUNESCO sessions is not 
yet resolved, so bringing netbooks or laptops may help should 
we come up short in providing such devices for every room, 
although there will be projectors available.

Thanks,
the usual suspects