12th International Conference on
Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis
ICTAC-12

 

25-29 June 2008, Varna, Bulgaria

 

CONFERENCE GUIDE

 

Location

Sunny Day Resort, Varna

Sunny Day Co.

Address:      St. Constantine Resort, 9006 Varna, Bulgaria

Tel.:             + 359-52-36 19 65, 36 27 69, 361143

Fax:             + 359-52-36 13 76

Web-site:    www.sunnydaybg.com

e mail:          sunnyday@sunnydaybg.com

 

                   

Marina Hotel

  • Conference hall and poster session area

  • Conference registration desk

  • Coffee breaks

  • Lunches and dinners of all participants
    during the meeting

Palace Hotel 

  • Welcome cocktail
Mirage Hotel

  • Accommodation of the participants

 

 

Contact details:

G. N. Vayssilov    +359 889 558 023

G. P. Petrova        +359 888 660 453


 

Presentations

Oral presentations

А beamer with laptop will be provided for oral presentations. The available presentation programs are MS PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat. Keynote lectures are scheduled for 40 min. and the oral presentations (both invited and contributed) are 20 min.

Poster presentations

Since the size of each poster board is 2.00/0.90 m (portrait), the recommended size of the posters is 1.20/0.90 m (portrait).

Publication of the materials

The authors of the contributions accepted for presentation at the conference are invited to submit their papers in full text (in English) for publication in a book with Proceedings of the ICTAC-12 conference. The submitted manuscripts will be accepted for publication after a peer review. Technical information about the full text paper requirements is provided on the conference web site (http://www.ictac12.bg-conferences.org/).

The manuscripts should be submitted electronically as MS Word file in doc format to the following e-mail address: ictac12@bg-conferences.org.

For additional information concerning the Proceedings, please, contact Ms. G. P. Petrova: gpetrova@chem.uni-sofia.bg.

 

 

Transport Information

Public transport: from Varna airport to city center and to Sunny Day Resort: bus 409. Map of the public transport in Varna is attached where the important bus stations in Varna are pointed.

 

Taxi: There are various taxi companies in Varna. Standard prices inside the city are about 1.00 lv. per km (the price could be checked at the side window of the taxi). Please, check in advance the price per km since some of the taxi companies have much higher prices. Some recommended companies: Astra 688888; Varna 555555; Lyki 300 000; Lasia 500 000; Pontea 335 335; Moment 696 666; Stil 682 222; Maksa 30 30 30; Vento 640 000. Varna area code is +359 52. The taxi from the airport is usually 4 times more expensive and a drive from the airport to the Sunny day resort is about 50-60 lv.

 

 

Registration

The registration desk of the conferences will be arranged on the second floor of Marina Hotel from 16:30 to 18:00 h on June 25th and in the coffee breaks during the conference.

 

Social Program

The welcome party (starting at 21:00 h) will take place on the Summer Terrace of Palace Hotel after the dinner on Wednesday, June 25th.

The official Conference dinner will be on Saturday, June 28th, from 20:30 h.

 

An excursion to the Botanical Garden in Balchik is planned for the afternoon on Friday, June 27th.

The Balchik Botanical Garden was established in 1955 in the park of the Balchik Palace, which was constructed between 1926 and 1937 to serve as summer residence to Queen Marie of Romania during the Romanian rule of the region. The garden accommodates 2 000 plant species belonging to 85 families and 200 genera. One of the garden's main attractions is the collection of large-sized cactus species arranged outdoors on 1000 m2.

 

 

Additional information

Weather forecast for Varna (25.06 - 29.06)

Temperature: 23-29oC (day), 15-18oC (night)

Water temperature: 22-24oC

Insurance

The organizing committee of the conference does not provide insurance and do not take any responsibility for accidents or illnesses that might occur during the conferences or in the course of travel to or from the meeting place. It is therefore the responsibility of participants to check their health insurance requirements.

Extra Expenses

All additional expenses, e.g. drinks and snacks from the in-room bar, telephone calls, tours, etc. are at participants’ own expenses.

Currency exchange

The most suitable exchange rates are provided by the bank branches, ca. 1.945 – 1.950 lv. for 1.00 Euro. The bank working hours are between 9.00 and 16.00 in weekdays, but there are several bank offices in the center of Varna working this 18.00 in the weekdays and between 10.00 and 14.00 on Saturday. Currency could be also changed in the hotel or change bureaus but usually at unfavorable exchange rates. We strongly recommend you to change currencies in bank branches and to avoid any exchange at the street.

Places of interest

Information about the city of Varna can be found at http://www.varna-travel.com/.

The Varna Archaeological Museum (http://www.amvarna.com/) is one of the largest museums in Bulgaria outside the capital. It features objects from the prehistoric, Thracian, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman periods of the region's history, as well as from the times of the medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires, the Ottoman rule and the Bulgarian National Revival. The most famous exhibit of the Varna Archaeological Museum is the Gold of Varna, the oldest gold treasure in the world, excavated in 1972 and dating to 4600-4200 BC. Till the end of September this year a special temporary exhibition “Gods, Masks, People” is also displaced in the Archaeological Museum. It includes exhibits from 12 Bulgarian museums with selected displays of beliefs, worship and ways of life of ancient Thracian rulers, as well as Hellenic and Roman civilisations on Bulgarian land.

 


The museum also manages two archaeological objects: the large Roman baths in the city and the nearby medieval Aladzha Monastery.