The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, 22-27 June 1997, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

MG8 conference proceedings.

Dear colleague,

We would like to thank you for participating in MG8, and to thank you in advance for your cooperation in preparing the Proceedings. The Proceedings Volume will be published by World Scientific. This page describes the preparation and submission of a paper to the MG8 conference proceedings. We are keen to get the volume into circulation as quickly as possible. Therefore we set an early deadline:

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROCEEDINGS ARTICLES IS OCTOBER 15, 1997.

Please follow the instructions below closely as most of the processing of submitted papers will be automated.

Page limits

• Up to 20 pages for a plenary talk.
• Up to 20 pages for a summary by a parallel session chairperson.
• Up to 3 pages for a contributed paper.
  
  Submissions that are longer than these page allocations will be automatically rejected by our proceedings daemon. If your contribution is shorter than the allocated space, you will earn the demon's eternal blessing!
  

A Quick Summary

The submission process is fairly similar to the submission to gr-qc but several restrictions apply: your contribution should be a Latex file using the World Scientific style with (possibly) encapsulated postscript (EPS) files for figures. You must get the updated style file from the MG8 ftp site. All files must be tared, compressed and uuencoded (using uufiles) and mailed to mg8short@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il (or to mg8long@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il for 20 page papers) with a subject heading indicating the name of the relevant session. If you think that this information is sufficient you can skip the rest -- BUT please look at the relevant titles for the parallel sessions below.
More specific instructions follow.


Preparing Your Contributions

I) Latex style:

The contribution should be prepared in plain LaTeX, using the WORLD SCIENTIFIC conference style macros. Use only the style files available from MG8, as the page size and other details are slightly different than the usual. The relevant files are:

• mplread.1st contains basic instructions.
• mprocl.tex is an example and it also includes typesetting guidelines.
• mprocl.sty is a latex macro that MUST be used (without any modifications) by including the following line at the beginning of your LaTeX file:
  \documentstyle[mprocl]{article}
• mprocl.tar.gz all of the three files mentioned above in one tarred, gzipped file.

The files are also available by the following methods:

1. anonymous ftp to shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il viz:
   % ftp shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il
   Name: anonymous
   Password: your email address
   ftp> cd pub
   ftp> get mplread.1st
   ftp> get mprocl.tex
   ftp> get mprocl.sty
   

   or in one tarred, gzipped file viz:

   % ftp shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il
   Name: anonymous
   Password: your email address
   ftp> cd pub
   ftp> binary
   ftp> get mprocl.tar.gz
   

2. In uuencoded form via email: send an e-mail message to mg8short@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il, with the relevant file-name as the subject.

II) Preparation of the latex and encapsulated postscript (EPS) files for submission:

Your contribution must be compressed (by "gzip") and uuencoded (by "uuencode") before mailed to MG8. This will prevent possible mail problems. If the contribution contains more than one file (probably a LaTeX file and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file(s) for the figures), then all files MUST first be packed together (by "tar"), then gzipped and finally uuencoded.

This may be best done using the "uufiles" csh script, that package up files into uuencoded, compressed, tar files. "uufiles" is available as a macro from:
ftp://xxx.lanl.gov/macros/
It can also be obtained from our ftp site:
ftp://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/pub/
Specific instructions regarding the usage of uufiles can be found at:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/faq/uufaq.html
Further instructions and help about all these wonders can be found, for example, on the web in the utilities section of the xxx Help directory:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/help/utilities



Sending Your Contributions

Contributions can only be accepted by e-mail and must be sent as one uuencoded, compressed, tar file.

1. Mail a plenary talk or a summary of parallel session to:


mg8long@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il

2. Mail contributed papers to:


mg8short@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il

The subject line of your mail message must include the name of your parallel session (see the following list). The automated processing procedure will return files without a proper subject that can identify the session. Please choose the appropriate title from the following list. To prevent typos, we strongly advise you to copy the title from the list provided in this message. Messages with an unidentified subject will be automatically rejected.



Session Titles:

Plenary	ExactSolutionsI	ExactSolutionsII
ConservationLaws	InertialForces	HairyBH
AltTheoriesI	AltTheoriesII	AltTheoriesKK
TimeMachines	Chaos	BosonStars
EMSystems	MassInflation	CriticalPhenomenona
NumericalRelativityI	NumericalRelativityII	AlgebraicComputations
GWBars	GWInterferometers	GWSources
GWFuture	GRSpace	ExperimentalTests
ObservationalCosmology	EquivPrinciple	TimeQuantumGravity
QuantumFieldsI	QuantumFieldsII	CanoncalQG
Strings	CasimirEffect	Inflation
BHThermodynamicsI	BHThermodynamicsII	QuantumCosmology
EarlyUniverse	NonsingularCosmology	TopologicalDefects
AstroParticles	CMB	DarkMatter
GravLenses	ExtragalacticSources	AstrophysBH
GRBs	QPOs	BinaryNS
Microlenses

A Final word...

Your contribution will be automatically rejected if:
1. We cannot uudecode/gunzip/un-tar your message.
2. We cannot LaTeX your file.
3. Your contribution is too long.
4. Your subject line is wrong.

In any case you will receive an automated reply, indicating whether your contribution has been digested successfully. If for some reason it is rejected, then please read carefully the message you receive from us and try again. Authors who submit successfully at the first go are promised by the Editors that special attention will be given to insure that their names are spelled correctly.

Once your contribution is accepted successfully (it does happen, now and again) you will receive a message acknowledging this. This message will also contain your contribution's identification code. REMEMBER THIS CODE, as you will be required to quote it the unlikely event that further human intervention will be required in order to handle your contribution.

Thanks for your cooperation,
The MG8 LOC

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