Procedings of the symposium

Proceedings book will be published from Springer probably in early 2007. Editors are Keiichi Wada and Francoise Combes. All participants will received a copy of the book with a CD-ROM (it is included in the registration fee).

Our FAQ will help you to write your draft.

You can confirm reception of your manuscript through our web page linked from here.

1. Page limit

2. Figures

All figures should be black/white or grayscale. If you include color figures, you can submit a pdf file with color figures for a supplementary CD-ROM. All files for figures should be EPS format, and named like 
 author_name_fig*.eps (e.g. wada_fig1.eps, wada_fig2.eps, ...).

3. Deadline

September 30, 2006

4. LaTeX source template

You can download a tar-gzipped file which contains a LaTeX source file (auther.tex) as a template and associated files from this page.

Link to all-in-one tar-gzipped file

For your convenient you can see an example of the final PDF written by one of the LOC members by clicking here.

5. What you have to send

All files (author_name.tex, author_name_fig*.eps, etc.) should be tar-gzipped to one file, and send author_name.tar.gz (e.g. wada.tar.gz) to

If the file size exceeds 1MB, please let us know the web site from where we can download the file.

6. PDF file for posters

If you did not hand a PDF file of your poster to LOC at Ishigaki, please send it to

If the file size exceeds 1MB, please let us know the web site from where we can download the file.

7. FAQ

Remark In a Japanese language OS the ASCII character '\' is shown as the "Japanese yen sign". But these two fonts are the same character for the TeX compiler.


Q0. I hope to confirm submission of my manuscript.
A0. You can confirm reception of your manuscript through our web page linked from here.


Q1. How can I write the abstract in the tex manuscript?
A1. Just below \maketitle, insert 

 \begin{abstract}
   Write your abstract here.
 \end{abstract}
If your contribution was a poster, you do not need to write abstract.


Q2. I presented a poster. Do I have to submit the tex manuscript as well?
A2. Yes. You have to submit
1) one page tex manuscript
AND
2) a pdf file of your poster.


Q3. How should I give names to the files?
A3. Please use the following style: 

    your_last_name.tex
    your_last_name_f1.eps 
    your_last_name_f2.eps
    ...
All files should be archived to one file your_last_name.tar.gz


Q4. My file seems to be too big for enclosing an email. How should I do?
A4. Please put them to a web page, and let us know the URL. I will download them.


Q5. What style should be used for citations ?
A5. Please use the recommended style, which is contained in 'referenc.tex', and use \cite{}. For example, 

    \bibitem{wada} Wada, K.: PASJ \textbf{111}, 222 (2006)