Significant parts of Final Announcement

Second European Conference on

'PHYSICS TEACHING IN
ENGINEERING EDUCATION'

PTEE 2000; 14-17 June 2000

Budapest, Hungary

Organised by the

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST

under auspices of

and

 

SPONSORS

Technical University of Budapest

OMFB, National Committee for Technological Development

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

SCOPE

The Second European Conference on Physics Teaching in Engineering Education 2000 follows the first conference PTEE 1997 held under the auspices of Societé Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI) and European Physical Society (EPS) at the Engineering College of Copenhagen, attended by over 150 participants. The scope of the PTEE 2000 conference will include all aspects of physics teaching in engineering education. The aim of the conference is to bring together people working in this field from different parts of Europe, to provide them with a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences. Participants are welcome from other continents as well.

TOPICS

VENUE

Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is an economical, financial, cultural, scientific and educational centre with about two million inhabitants. The city, beautifully situated on both sides of the River Danube, has about 2000 years old history. There are ruins from the time of the Roman Empire and buildings from the Middle Ages, however the city is mainly reflecting the atmosphere of the end of the last century when the millennium of Hungary was celebrated. Cultural life of Budapest is renowned throughout the world with more than 20 arts theatres, 2 opera houses, numerous concert halls, museums and folk-art centres. Many baths offer the pleasure of thermal waters and spas, there are plenty of restaurants and other places of amusement.

The conference will take place on the campus of the Technical University of Budapest, founded in 1782. The campus is situated in the Buda part of the city on the River Danube close to the city centre; the dominant part of it is between the bridges Szabadság and Petőfi. It is a part of world heritage, declared by UNESCO.

The plenary and parallel sessions, the poster sessions and the exhibition will take place in the central building ("K" building, address: H-1111 Budapest, Műegyetem rkp. 3.), the workshops in other buildings of the University. The main entrance of the central building is from the Danube bank. The parking lot is in front of the main entrance.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Participants wishing to submit a paper are initially requested to send a 200 word abstract to the Conference Chairman by 17th March 2000. All contributions will be reviewed by the Paper Committee and the authors will be notified about acceptance of submitted abstracts and the selection for oral or poster presentation by April 1 (or within 14 days). Abstracts are expected to be sent in form of an HTML file as an attachment to an e-mail to ptee2000@phy.bme.hu (MS Word or WordPerfect files are accepted as an exception only and will be converted. Even then please do not send doc file, but Rich Text Format (rtf ) file.) Please indicate the title, author(s) name, author(s) institution/company name, mail address for correspondence, telephone, fax and e-mail contact numbers, the preferred form of presentation (poster or oral) in the body of the letter as well and the requirements for any special equipment needed for the presentation (video projector, LCD panel, slide projector, etc.). Those who need a computer for the presentation are kindly requested to use their own laptops. As an alternative the abstract may be sent by mail on a diskette.

Authors are requested to present the paper in person and participate in the discussion. It is therefore required that at least one author of each accepted abstract be registered prior to 1 May 2000. In fail of this, the contribution will not be printed in the abstract booklet and will be excluded from the program of the Conference. Each participant is eligible for one presentation. Each registered participant will receive the printed abstract booklet at registration.

Guidelines for abstracts

Abstracts must be written in English, paper size A4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm), top and bottom margins 2.54 cm (1”), left and right margin 3.17 cm (1.25”), font size 12 pt, single spaced lines. Use Times New Roman (or similar font) for typing the text. Abstracts must include the title of the paper (in capitals, bold, left aligned), name(s), affiliation and address of author(s) including e-mail (bold, italics, left aligned). References should be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text with square brackets and listed at the end. The length of abstracts should not exceed one page. The template can be downloaded from the conference web site.

PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will contain the manuscripts of the plenary and contributed (oral and poster) presentations. Authors will be required to submit their manuscripts prior to 1 May 2000. Detailed instructions for preparing the manuscript will be sent to the authors together with the notification about acceptance of abstracts. The acceptance of the paper for inclusion in the Proceedings will depend on the quality, language and technical layout of the manuscript. The Proceedings will be available in electronic form and will contain the papers in platform independent Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will last for four days. The scientific program will consist of plenary talks, contributed talks, posters and workshops. The plenary talks (45 min.) will cover topics of general interest and importance. The contributed talks (15 min.) will be presented in the parallel sessions. The majority of contributed papers will be presented in form of posters on the poster sessions. The oral and poster forms of presentations are considered equivalent. Workshops of duration of about 3 hours will be organised on Thursday and Friday afternoons, five parallel on each day.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English, no translation will be provided.

TENTATIVE TIMETABLE

Wednesday, 14 June

Thursday, 15 June

Friday, 16 June

Saturday, 17 June

DETAILED PROGRAM
 

Wednesday, 14 June

 8.00 –   9.30 Registration
 9.30 –   9.40 Opening Ceremony (Ceremony Hall)
 WELCOME ADDRESS by vice rector Prof. Dr. Horvai György

 9.40 – 10.30 Plenary session (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Tamás Keszthelyi)
PROGRAMMED SPATIOTEMPORAL PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AS ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS IN A NEW COMPUTING   PARADIGM – IMPLEMENTATION IN A VISUAL MICROPROCESSOR WITH TERAOPS SPEED
Tamás Roska, Analogic and Neural Comp. Lab., MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.20 (Ceremony Hall)
IMPROVEMENT OF DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS COURSES TAUGHT IN ELECTRONICS DIVISIONS FROM BUCHAREST POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Laurentiu Fara, Nicoleta Eseanu, Doina Manaila

11.20 – 11.40 (Ceremony Hall)
APPLICATION OF SIMULATIONS IN THE EDUCATION OF IT ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRON AND PHOTON PHYSICS
László Méray

11.40 – 12.00 (Ceremony Hall)
EUROPEAN PHYSICS EDUCATION – A COMPARATIVE STUDY BY EUPEN.  PART I: UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Amalia A. Konsta, Eamonn Cunningham

12.00 – 12.20 (Ceremony Hall)
 SMALL EXHIBITION OF SOME INTERESTING PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS
Rastislav Baník, Ivan Baník

12.20 – 14.00 Lunch (Stoczek Restaurant, site 1 on TUB map)

14.00 – 14.20 (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Erik Oehlenschlaeger)
TEACHING ENGINEERING MECHANICS COURSES USING ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT METHODS
Jonte Bernhard

14.20 – 14.40 (Ceremony Hall)
VIRTUAL MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY IN THE EDUCATION OF PHYSICISTS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS
Zoltán Gingl and Zoltán Kántor

14.40 – 15.00 (Ceremony Hall)
EXPERIENCE OF FORTY-YEAR EDUCATION OF SOLID STATE ENGINEERS
Drahoslav Barancok, Július Cirák, Ivan Cerven

15.00 – 15.20 (Ceremony Hall)
TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH PACKAGE MASTER ON CONTINUUM MECHANICS
E. Tchekhounov, V. Roudenko, M. Chabourov

15.20 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 16.20 (Ceremony Hall)
CONCEPTUAL EXPERIMENTS WITH ROTATING CLOCKS
 M. H. Marçal

16.20 – 16.40 (Ceremony Hall)
GRATING COUPLERS – MODERN OPTICS AT THE BORDER BETWEEN PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING
Stefan Stankowski

19.00 WELCOME RECEPTION (Ceremony Hall)

Thursday, 15 June

  9.00 –   9.50 Plenary session (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Victor A. Aleshkevich)
 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND EDUCATION IN PARTICLE PHYSICS AT CERN
Horst Wenninger, CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Switzerland

10.00 – 10.20 (Ceremony Hall)
 PROBLEM SOLVING IN FREQUENTLY CHANGING SMALL GROUPS
S. Feiner-Valkier and M.G.M. Ferguson-Hessler

10.00 – 10.20 (room K I 46., Chairman: Eleonora Adlerova)
 PERSONAL TUTORING IN THE AUTONOMOUS STUDY OF PHYSICS VIA INTERNET
N. Van Deynse, P. Vandevelde

10.20 – 10.40 (Ceremony Hall)
 PHYSICS TEACHING FOR STUDENTS WITH DEFICIENT PHYSICS GROUNDING
Ilze Klincare

10.20 – 10.40 (room K I 46.)
SUPPORTING PHYSICS COURSES WITH AN INTERNET SITE
Imme de Bruijn

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.20 (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Noel Van Deynse)
 REACTIVE POWER: A STRANGE CONCEPT?
R. Fetea, A. Petroianu

11.00 – 11.20 (room K I 46., Chairman: Horst Wenninger)
COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOLVING STATIONARY ONE–DIMENSIONAL SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION
Wlodzimierz Salejda, Marcin Just

11.20 – 11.40 (Ceremony Hall)
AN EXPERIMENT WITH THE PROJECT-BASED APPROACH TO PHYSICS TEACHING AT WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Piotr Magnuszewski

11.20 – 11.40 (room K I 46.)
THE INPACT OF HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY ON PHYSICS TEACHING FOR ENGINEERS
George Adie, Bogdan Zoltowski

11.40 – 12.00 (Ceremony Hall)
SELECTED TOPICS FROM MODERN PHYSICS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON B.SC. LEVEL
Béla Palásthy

11.40 – 12.00 (room K I 46.)
 TRAINING MATHEMATICAL SKILLS FOR PHYSICS BY MEANS OF A WEB–BASED
Cristina Martín i Batlle, Kees Rinzema and Imme de Bruijn

12.00 – 12.20 (Ceremony Hall)
 OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ON PHYSICAL ENGINEERING TEACHING
P. S. André, A. N. Pinto, J. L. Pinto

12.00 – 12.20 (room K I 46.)
SIX WAYS TO SOLVE A "SIMPLE" PROBLEM: FITTING A STRAIGHT LINE TO MEASUREMENT DATA
E. Lagendijk

12.20 – 14.00 Lunch (Stoczek Restaurant, site 1 on TUB map)

14.00 – 17.00 Poster session (Ceremony Hall)

COMPUTER BASED VISUAL AIDS IN TEACHING PHYSICS
V. Ambrasas, T. Giedrys, A. Grigonis, V. Minialga

COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CALCULATIONS OF DEBEY AND EINSTEIN TEMPERATURE OF SOLIDS
Wlodzimierz Salejda, Ryszard Poprawski, Marcin Just

C.U.P.S. SOFTWARE IN UNDERGRADUATE GENERAL PHYSICS COURSES
Bruestlova Jitka, Dobis Pavel

GENERAL COURSES OF PHYSICS AND INTERNET
Dobis Pavel, Bruestlova Jitka

 INTELLIGENT GENERAL PURPOSE DATA ACQUISITION UNITS FOR STUDENT LABS
Zoltán Gingl and Zoltán Kántor

MEASUREMENTS OF YOUNG’S ELASTIC MODULUS BY MEANS OF CONNECTED REVERSE PENDULUMS
M. Kubliha, K. Kvetan, M. Ozvoldová, M. Nad

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND DATA PROCESSING
Dan Iordache, Enrica Ruffino-Onorato, Laurentiu Fara, Vladimir Iancu

SHORT STORY OF THE SEFI PWG
Sona Haluskova, Eleonora Adlerova

SIMULATIONS AND VISUALIZATIONS IN THE EDUCATION OF COHERENT OPTICS
J. Kornis, P. Pacher

VIRTUAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY OF THE PACKAGE MASTER
V. Roudenko, E. Tchekhounov, M. Chabourov

WAY FROM QUANTITATIVE CHAOS TO METHODOLOGY AND QUALITY
Bohuslav Bušov, Milada Bartlová

14.00 – 17.00 Workshops

 W1 (building F, staircase III, 2nd floor, room 2)
 W4 (building R, 4th floor, computer laboratory, room C)
 W8 (Professors’ Guest House, seminar room, (site 3 on TUB map))
 W10 (building R, 4th floor, computer laboratory, room A)

17.00 – 17.50 SEFI Working Group on Physics meeting

Friday, 16 June

  9.00 –   9.50 Plenary session (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Coren Richard)
IMPROVING ENGINEERING PHYSICS TEACHING – LEARNING FROM PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
Jonte Bernhard, Eng. Sc. ITN, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University, Sweden

10.00 – 10.20 (Ceremony Hall)
PHYSICS IN A COMMON FIRST YEAR FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS OF MECHATRONICS, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Martin Sternberg

10.00 – 10.20 (room K I 46., Chairman: J. Lemos Pinto)
 MecFunNet: MECHANICS FUN IN INTERNET
J. M. Diaz de la Cruz; L. Seidel; A. M. Sanchez Perez

10.20 – 10.40 (Ceremony Hall)
 PROBLEMS OF TEACHING PHYSICS TO FRESHMEN ENGINEERING STUDENTS
E. Aydiroglu and A. Bilsel

10.20 – 10.40 (room K I 46.)
 STUDENT-ASSISTED TEACHING IN PHYSICS: FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION
Michael Peeters, Irina Veretennicoff

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

 11.00 – 11.20 (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Amalia A. Konsta)
 FROM LINEAR TO NONLINEAR AND CHAOTIC SYSTEMS
Ioan Grosu

11.00 – 11.20 (room K I 46. Chairman: Imme de Bruijn)
DIGITAL SIMULATION OF THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE IN A FRICTIONARY ENVIRONMENT
Guillermo Becerra, Marcos H. Giménez, Jaime Riera and Ana Vidaurre

11.20 – 11.40 (Ceremony Hall)
 ACTIVE LEARNING IN PHYSICS LABORATORY
Zuzana Ješková, Ludmila Onderová

11.20 – 11.40 (room K I 46.)
COACH 5 PROJECTS IN LEARNING PHYSICS
 Pavel Pesat

11.40 – 12.00 (Ceremony Hall)
PRACTICAL TEACHING OF FLUID MECHANICS FOR FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
Miguel Celemín

11.40 – 12.00 (room K I 46.)
EM WORKSHOP : AN INTERACTIVE TOOL TO BUILD WEB–BASED ELECTROMAGNETICS COURSES
Jean-Michel Dricot and Philippe De Doncker

12.00 – 12.20 (Ceremony Hall)
APPLICATION OF CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS FOR DETERMINATION OF MATERIAL PARAMETERS (FROM LECTURE “OMH’S LAW").
Arthur Medvid’, Aija Kalnacha

12.00 – 12.20 (room K I 46.)
PHYSICS TEACHING AT DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN STUDIES OF RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Juris Blums

12.20 – 14.00 Lunch (Stoczek Restaurant, site 1 on TUB map)

14.00 – 17.00 Poster session (Ceremony Hall)

ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
 J. Lilja, E. Mäkinen and M. Dyer

A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
C.J. Carpenter, Richard L. Coren

ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION THEORY IN PHYSICS MEASUREMENTS
M. S. Glowacki

EUROPEAN PHYSICS EDUCATION – A COMPARATIVE STUDY BY EUPEN.  PART II: DOCTORAL STUDIES
Eamonn Cunningham, Amalia A. Konsta,

PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT IN MEDICINE
Elena Kukurová, Elena Ferencová, Katarína Kozlíková

PHYSICS EDUCATION FROM THE VIEW OF THE POSSIBLE STRUCTURAL CHANGES
Elena Ferencová, Elena Kukurová

PHYSICS FOR FRESHMEN IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
M.G.J. van Noord;  P.H.F. Morshuis; A.M. van Voorden ;  M.D. Verweij;  van der Sluis;  J.A. Ferreira;  J.J. Smit

PHYSICS FOR SPECIALITY MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMS AT RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
M. Knite, J. Blums

PROJECTILE MOTION IN REAL LIFE
Michael Österlund, Örjan Nilsson

USING LABVIEW IN PHYSICS SIMULATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
Devaraj Van Der Meer, Imme De Bruijn

14.00 – 17.00 Workshops

 W2 (building R, 4th floor, computer laboratory, room C)
 W5 (building F, staircase III, 2nd floor, room 13)
 W7 (building R, 4th floor, computer laboratory, room A)
 W9 (building F, staircase III, 2nd floor, room 2)

18.25 CONFERENCE DINNER (Meeteing at the main entrace of building “K”, sightseeing aboard a
boat, dinner in Margaret Island Casino.)

Saturday, 17 June

  9.00 –   9.50 Plenary session (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Pavel Pesat)
 THE MODERN PHYSICS EDUCATION AT MOSCOW LOMONOSOV UNIVERSITY
Victor A. Aleshkevich,  Dept.of General Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

10.00 – 10.20 (Ceremony Hall)
 SELF MADE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM APPLIED IN PHYSICS LAB
Slavko Kocijancic

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee break

10.40 – 11.00 (Ceremony Hall, Chairman: Ulrich Harms)
 STUDENT EXERCISE IN OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY
T. Baier, H.G. Walther

11.00 – 11.20 (Ceremony Hall)
 HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY IN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS LABORATORY
George Adie, Bogdan Zoltowski

11.20 CLOSING CEREMONY

PLENARY SESSIONS

Plenary sessions will be held in the Ceremony Hall of the University. The invited plenary talks are:

Technology Transfer and Education in Particle Physics at CERN
Horst Wenninger, CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Switzerland


Programmed spatiotemporal physical phenomena as elementary instructions in a new computing paradigm - implementation in a Visual Microprocessor with TeraOPS speed
Tamás Roska, Analogic and Neural Comp. Lab., MTA SZTAKI, Hungary


The modern physics education at Moscow Lomonosov University
Victor A. Aleshkevich, Dept.of General Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia


Improving engineering physics teaching - learning from physics education research
Jonte Bernhard, Eng. Sc. ITN, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University, Sweden

POSTER SESSION

Poster Sessions will be held on Thursday (15th June) and on Friday (16th June) afternoons on the first floor of the central building around the Assembly Hall of the University. Each author will be provided with a board of height 1.5 m and width 0.8 m. Posters should be put on the allocated board no later than 3 hours before the sessions. Each poster will be on display for one day. Post deadline papers may also be presented on Poster Sessions.

WORKSHOPS

The workshops outlined below will be offered at the conference on Thursday (15th June) and Friday (16th June) afternoons, five each day. The duration of a workshop is about 3 hours. Participation in the workshops for registered participants is free-of-charge. Space for workshops is limited and enrolment will be processed on a "first come, first served basis". Please indicate on the registration form the number(s) of workshop(s) you wish to attend in order of preference.

Global Positioning System in Science Education (W1)

Marina Caporaloni, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bologna and Roberto Ambrosini, Istituto di Radioastronomia, CNR, Bologna, Italy

 

Computer Based Measurement Systems and Sensors in Engineering Physics Applications (W2)

Kari Vierinen, EVItech/Physics, Espoo, Finland

 

The Use of MatLab in Physics (W3)

Jaakko Pikkanen, EVItech/Physics, Espoo, Finland

Not available yet.

The Use of LabVIEW in Physics Student Laboratories (W4)

Piet J. Blankert and J.M. Mulder, Department of Sciences, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

Selected Examples from Coherent Optics (W5)

János Kornis and Zsolt Papp, Department of Physics, Technical University Budapest, Hungary

 

Non-linear Dynamics for Chemical Engineering Students (W6)

Mária Wittmann, András Volford and Norbert Kirschner, Department of Chemical Physics, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

 

Didactic Aspects of the Use of Simulations in Physics Education (W7)

Kees Vergouwen and Ad de Hartog, Faculty of Education, School of Science and Technology, Utrecht, the Netherlands

 

Teaching Electromagnetism in Terms of Potentials Instead of Fields (W8)

C.J. Carpenter, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Bristol, UK and Richard L. Coren, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

 

Open and Distance Learning using Lotus Learning Space (W9)

Gerrad P. Beukema, Fontys University of Professional Education, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

 

Virtual and Remote Labs in Physics Education (W10)

Ulrich Harms, German Institute for Research in Distance Education, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany

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CONFERENCE EXHIBITION

An exhibition area for both academic and commercial institutions (manufacturers of physics laboratory equipment and teaching aids, publishers) will be established for the duration of the conference on the first floor of the central building of the University. Interested parties should contact the organisers.

REGISTRATION DESK

The registration desk will be open in front of the Ceremony Hall (on the first floor of the central building of the University (XI., Műegyetem rkp. 3.). Participants are required to register and receive their conference documents, badges and tickets. Participants are kindly requested to register on Wednesday (14th June) morning from 8.00, possibly before the opening ceremony.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation has been reserved at reduced price for the participants of the conference at hotels close to the conference venue. Special demands will also be met as long as possible. A limited number of cheap hostel rooms is also available. You are asked to arrange your booking as soon as possible. Hotel reservation will be made on the first come first served basis. If the hotel requested is fully booked an other hotel will be suggested.

SOCIAL EVENTS AND MEALS

The scientific program of the conference will be completed with social events leaving some time for informal discussions. Social events are free for registered conference participants and registered accompanying persons. Lunch will be provided in one of the university cafeterias on campus. For registered participants lunch for three days (from 14 till 16 June) is included in the conference fee. Lunch can also be ordered during the conference at the registration desk the day before.

Welcome reception

On Wednesday, 14th June at 19.00 in the Ceremony Hall of the Technical University of Budapest.

Sight-seeing tour in Budapest

You will be informed about the date and time later.

Conference Dinner

On Friday, 16th June at 19.00. Bus transportation from the hotels (Gellért and Griff) to the banquet place will be provided.

ACCOMPANYING PERSONS’ PROGRAMME

Participants are encouraged to bring their spouses to Budapest. Registered accompanying persons are invited to the welcome party, sightseeing tour in Budapest and conference banquet. In addition, accompanying persons have a choice of the optional programmes:

REFUND POLICY

Cancellations of hotel or hostel reservations notified in written form (letter or fax) prior to 15th May 2000 and cancellations of participation notified in written form prior to 1st June 2000 will be entitled to an 80% refund to be processed after the conference. No refund is possible for cancellations received after these dates. Substitutions will be accepted at any stage. All requests, changes or cancellation should be directed to the address of the Conference Office.

WEATHER

The climate in Hungary is continental. In June mostly sunny weather is expected, the average daytime temperature is around 22 ° C. Showers, however, may occur; it is advised to have an umbrella.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme as my be necessary. For up-to-date and additional information please contact the conference site: http://www.bme.hu/ptee2000