There will be a registration and an evening ice-breaker on Sunday, July 7^th, 2002. The conference is scheduled to run from Monday morning July 8^th to Friday afternoon July 12^th. There will be plenary sessions of oral presentations on each day of the week in the mornings and afternoons up to 15h00 with the exception of Thursday July 11^th that will consist of only one morning session. Poster sessions will be held on Monday through Wednesday from 15h00 to 19h00. The afternoon and evening of Thursday July 11^th will be devoted to a choice of excursions and an evening banquet.

Oral presentations

Each contributed talk will last 13 minutes with an additional 2 minutes for discussion.  A computer screen projector, facilities for electronic presentation from a CD ROM, an overhead projector, a 35-mm slide projector, and a video projector will be available.

There will be three 4-hour poster sessions, namely Monday to Wednesday from 15h00 to 19h00. Each author will be provided with a poster board ( width x height - 2.4 m x 1 m ) on which to display his or her figures. Authors must remain in the vicinity of their presentation during the official poster hours to answer questions from attendees. However, the room will be available all day and the program committee encourages the authors to set up their paper early in the day. To help publicize the poster papers, the authors will be asked in the acceptation notice to submit one or two MS Power Point slides that will be organized in a slide show for projection in the main conference room during coffee breaks and periods preceding and following oral sessions.