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Strangeness in Quark Matter 2007
21 – 27 June 2007 Levo_a, Slovakia
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Venue of the conference
Levo_a – a town in the Spi_ region of Slovakia with well-preserved medieval center
25 km from Poprad(local airport, railwaystation – IC trains)
80 km from Ko_ice(airport, regular flights to Vienna,Prague, Bratislava)
370 km from Bratislava200 km from Krakow330 km from Budapest
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All important places at walking distance ...
Conference facilities
HOTEL SATEL –conference headquaters
Hotel Arkáda
Hotel BarbakanHotel U leva
About 10 restaurants at the main square
L E V O _ A
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Conference hall – up to 200 seats
The conference dinnerwill be served here
Meeting ofpresidentsof centralEuropeancountries,January1998
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Other available facilities
Theatre with 180 seats
Blue lounge (poster session)for about 50 person
Several smaller rooms available (about 30 seats each)
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Hotel SATELNicely restored house from 14th century, neighbouring with the congress facility building
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Restaurant SATELcould accomodate all participants for lunches
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Accomodation
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OrganizationLocal organizing committee:Ladislav _ándor (Slovak Acad. Sci. Ko_ice) – co-chairKarel _afa_ík (CERN) – co-chairEmanuele Quercigh (CERN)Ivan Králik (Slovak Acad. Sci. Ko_ice)Jozef Urbán (_afárik University Ko_ice)Ján Pi_út (Comenius University Bratislava)Boris Tomá_ik (M.Bel University Banská Bystrica)Vojt_ch Petrá_ek (Czech Tech. University Prague)
Program structure :symposium of young scientists,three and half days of plenary sessions,one afternoon parallel sessions,half day excursion
Proceedings will be published in J.Phys.G.
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Financial matters
• accomodation (with breakfast): expected prices for single occupancy double room in 3 - 4 star hotels between 40 and 65 EUR, for one person in double room – 25 to 40 EUR, cheaper accomodation for students foreseen
• conference fee (including welcome reception, conference dinner, lunches, excursion, proceedings) not more than 350 EUR, smaller fee for students
• support for students foreseen • help with transport from/to airport (railway stations) foreseen
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Levo_a – cultural and formeradministrative center of Spi_ region
• Spi_ (Scepusium, Zips) – historic administrative county (comitatus) ofthe hungarian kingdom, region in north-eastern Slovakia
• German colonisation of region since mid of 12th century (CarpatianGermans), the last wave of Germans came in the 15th century. Densestructure of towns and villages with many historical monuments ofEuropean importance created. Pleasant multi-culture environment
• Very attractive region with beautiful mountains (High Tatras, Pieniny,Slovak Paradise), towns (Levo_a, Ke_marok,...) and monuments (Spi_castle, Stará _ubov_a castle, Spi_ská Kapitula with romanesque-gothicSt.Martin’s cathedral, The Holy Spirit church in _ehra,...)
The oldest preserved mapof Spi_ county is dated 1723
LEVO_A
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L E V O _ A – the pearl of Spi_
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Levo_a – St. James churchThe main altar – highest (18.62 m)gothic wooden altar in the world(finished in 1517) is the masterpieceof late gothic carver Master Paul
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High Tatra mountains
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Slovensk‡ raj –Slovak Paradise
A landscape of deep forests,canyons and waterfalls
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Spi_ castle,_ehra,Spi_ská kapitula(UNESCO worldheritage list)
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Pieniny, _erven‡ klá_tor (The red monastery)
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Welcome in Levo_a !The fingerprints if this small town one can find on
• Slovak banknotes
• children drawings
• postal stamps
We are going to do our best in preparing there
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Try yourself the pleasant environment of Spi_ region,you could maybe meet the mysterious Levo_a white lady …