Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2011
Updated: Feb 11, 2012
Official publication February, 2012:
PDF
table of contents of final proofs;
backmatter of final proofs (participant list, author index)
Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General
Relativity
Paris, France 2009
Edited by T. Damour, R.T. Jantzen, R. Ruffini
World Scientific, 2012 [Amazon
link]
[World
Scientific eProceedings]
The 3 volumes of proceedings (approximately 2500 pages) are being sent to all those for whom the full registration fee was paid.
This page will be updated during the evolution of the proceedings towards publication with current announcements given below in the News section. If you paid full registration fee and have moved since the meeting, send your updated postal address (to receive your copies) to the meeting email mg12@icra.it.
These proceedings will be published by World Scientific as has the previous series.
Submission for LaTeX source zipped files will be on-line, while MS Word document submissions (in the appropriate World Scientific template) must be submitted via email. In both cases each submitting author must first go on-line to correct information (title, author name spelling) about the submission, especially including listing all coauthors in the appropriate long name format described below.
[Note that on-line LaTeX submission is preferred, with MS Word seen primarily as an exceptional case for long documents with many graphics not so easily converted to the .eps format required for site-independent LaTeX documents.]
Final submission deadline: May 1, 2010
Any questions can be addressed to bob: robert.jantzen@villanova.edu with a very specific subject header including the string "MG12 proceedings". When in doubt, email bob.
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July 9, 2010. Email sent to all chairpersons requesting them to review the submissions in their session and to contact the editors in questionable cases.
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June 17, 2010. The final plenary talk submissions are in progress.
Chairpersons may check over their sessions for quality control. An official notice will be sent out soon.
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March 2, 2010.
It is human to procrastinate. We again postpone the deadline for submission to May 1, 2010 but please do not wait until the last moment again.
Does anyone read these news items or the instructions? Your article title and author list in your document must be in UPPERCASE (you can use \uppercase{...}) and should include the full first name as in the examples below and on the submission webpage. Your author list on the webpage is used to create the author index for the proceedings, so you must enter the full list correctly there and check the correctness of your title independently of your document. If you have inline citations you need something like "see Ref.~\citen{...}" and you must put punctuation immediately after superscript citations as in "\cite{...}." Please don't load any nonstandard latex style files that the robot will not have, or include them in your zip if they are necessary. Please make your references conform with the WS example file.
Once you have submitted a latex document, you can immediately log in again to check the PDF or PS to make sure it compiled correctly. You may resubmit files to correct them.
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January 22, 2010.
Every LaTeX submission file prepared with the World Scientific class macros compiles with warnings related to their use of the style files psfig.sty, epsfig.sty which you can see if you read the log file sent with the robot confirmation of your upload, look near the beginning for the lines starting with "Warning". These warnings are irrelevant. If you can read the log file, good, otherwise just examine the uploaded PDF or PS file by logging in again to the upload server and checking them.
I tried using the MS Word template on a participant's submission and gave up because the unseen formatting characters of Word nearly always eventually screwed up my intentions so that I had to start over, eventually I gave up. If you are not an MS Word expert, you should be using LaTeX, which is the default document preparation software for math and physics worldwide.
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December 29, 2009. Examining a submitted MS Word .doc file, I see that it also has the extra 1 inch of white space above the title on the title page, which should be removed not only for consistency but to have that much extra space available for 3 page contributions. Here is a new template [click here to download a corrected version].
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October 30, 2009. There is extra white space above the title that is too precious to waste.
[In the latex class file ws-procs975x65.cls [click here to download a corrected version], in the title macro definition the following two lines must be commented out:
%\vspace*{-14pt} % MG12 remove white space
%\vskip 79pt % MG12 remove white space
Even if you don't do make this change on your copy of the file directly from World Scientific, the robot will typeset your document without that extra white space. If you need more space, it is up to you to take advantage of it.]
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During October, 2009 these detailed submission instructions were posted for submitting contributions by all participants who appeared in the official program, to whom an email with a new username/pwd for the upload process was sent. [If you email changed or was incorrect in the database, you did not get an email. Inquire.] The on-line robot went on-line for LaTeX submission, coauthor and author full name checking, title checking, and to view the compiled submitted compuscripts.
Page limits are as follows:
- Plenary speakers have a page limit of 20 pages.
- Chairpersons or invited parallel session speakers who are designated by
their chairperson to fulfill the rapporteur role of reporting on the state of the field
for the topic of their parallel session are to have a long contribution with a
page limit of 20 pages.
There will nominally be 1 such long contribution per session.
[Chairpersons must contact the editors by emailing mg12@icra.it to arrange acceptance of longer contributions for their session.]
It is optional and not required. - Parallel session participants have a page limit of 3 pages
(this is an extended abstract containing the main idea and complete references).
Author Compuscript Preparation Instructions
Articles must be prepared with the World Scientific proceedings macros/templates for 9.75" x 6.50" trim size (second row in the table) in LaTeX2e or with MS Word.
1) LaTeX
Use the LaTeX macro .cls "class" file ws-procs975x65.cls
[click here to download
a corrected version].
The instruction file ws-procs975x65.tex that comes with the
proceedings macros is a sample file which also describes the package
and can be used as a template. Please follow this style.
WARNING: The titlepage material formatted with the commands \title \author \address is slightly nonstandard in this package, with no \maketitle command, but instead a \bodymatter command preceding the body of the article. Email addresses are put inside the \address command on a new line (after "\\"). If you do not use the \section commands, you can begin with just \bodymatter\bigskip after the abstract environment \begin{abstract}...\end{abstract}. The article title should be in UPPERCASE letters (you can use \uppercase{...}). Authors should be listed by full name in normal word order in UPPERCASE letters (like "ROBERT T. JANTZEN and TED JOHNSON"), see the World Scientific example instruction file explaining the macros; titles should also be in UPPERCASE. Use "Ref.~\citen{...}" or "Refs.~\citen{... , ...}" for explicit in line references to the unformatted reference number instead of a superscript. Do not use ties "~" after "\cite{...}" and before punctuation (comma, semicolon or period), since this macro moves punctuation found immediately after it to before the superscript citation number. For acknowledgements use "\section*{Acknowledgements}". Use \begin{thebibliography} for references. Journal names (abbreviated) should be in italics: "{\em Phys.\ Rev.} {\bf D40}, 345 (1990)."
2) MS-Word
MS Word has a template and instructions which must be downloaded and used.
MS Word submissions cannot be accepted by on-line upload but MUST be emailed to mg12@icra.it with SUBJECT heading:
MG12 Proceedings MS Word submission: Session XXX
where XXX is PLS for a plenary contribution or the parallel session abbreviation given
in the parallel session list for a parallel session contribution.
AND in all cases the BODY of the email message contains:
- Submitting Author: in format: FamilyName_for_Indexing, RemainingNames where the LastNames = family names are appropriate for an alphabetized index entry beginning with the single dominant family name when multiple family names exist
- Full Author list: in format: FamilyName_for_Indexing1, RemainingNames1; FamilyName_for_Indexing2, RemainingNames2; etc
- Title
- Abstract (for plenary or long contributions, optional for short contributions)
- Session
Your cooperation with careful FamilyName_for_Indexing, RemainingNames designation is essential for a
proper author index of the proceedings. We need your full name! Please comply.
Example:
Calcio Nuovo, Sebastiano; Jantzen, Robert T.; Fang, Li-Zhi
You may correct your on-line author listing, article title and abstract on record at the submission website with the username/password emailed to you. Please check your registered talks at the website even if you are submitting a Word document. If the PDF and PS file links do not appear within several days, send an email of inquiry. Check to make sure your Word file was processed correctly.
Author LaTeX Submission Instructions
All participants who delivered a talk at the meeting will be emailed a username and password
for web upload in early October 2009, with a link to the conference proceedings site:
http://robot.icra.it:8080/menu.html
Once you enter the site, go to the upload article link at the top center of the webpage to upload your article. Once there you will see a list of your contributions, if more than one, identified by session. Click on the upload icon to the left of each item to insert the required information for each contribution and upload the file for it.
Note: the name of the TEX file to be LaTeXed must be "main.tex", even if you are submitting a single file, and even a single file must be zipped with the file extension .zip to be processed by our server robot.
When submitting your article, it is extremely important that the suggested Authors entry format
be followed so that the proceedings author index can be alphabetized correctly,
separating multiple authors by a semicolon ";".
Example:
Calcio Nuovo, Sebastiano; Jantzen, Robert T.; Fang, Li-Zhi
Please correct the author list, article title and abstract supplied by the robot if necessary.
Your uploaded file will then be processed and converted into pdf and ps formats for you to check that it has compiled correctly. You will receive an email with the latex log file when complete (usually only minutes). You may then return to the same upload page, reload it, and see links to the pdf and ps files. You may check them with the free Abobe Acrobat Reader (http://www.adobe.com) or Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost) software. [Note that Adobe Distiller converts PS into PDF files.]
It is important that the submitting author verify that the PDF and/or PS files look correct when initially generated by the robot at submission time since glitches can occur in the robot typesetting process.
You may continue uploading corrected files until the submission deadline. Once the submission deadline has passed and your article is reviewed by the editors and accepted, it will then be viewable to the world from the link 'published proceedings' to the webpage for the search engine for the on-line proceedings.
It is very important that when entering your data for each upload, you type your name and coauthor's names and session talk title correctly, since discrepancies with the data base lead to problems that are very labor intensive to correct. Your own name should already have been supplied from the data base in the correct form. If it needs correction, please email the conference mailbox mg12@icra.it with the subject heading "MG12: author upload name correction" to alert us to this problem with the database information.
LOST USERNAME/PASSWORD:
If you accidentally lose the email with this information, or did not receive such an email by
September 15, send an email to mg12@icra.it with the subject heading:
"MG12: need username/password". Be sure to document the session name and abbreviation to
which your talk was submitted, and the chairperson's name if possible.
Submission of a manuscript does not mean that it will automatically be included in the proceedings. After the final deadline, chairpersons will receive instructions to review the papers submitted to their session; certain papers may be sent to referees at the discretion of the editors and/or chairpersons. When your file is successfully typeset initially, a confirmation will be sent to the e-mail address used to submit it. Otherwise a request for a corrected electronic version of your paper will be made to that e-mail address.
Once articles have been released to the public by the chairpersons and editors ("published on-line"), they may be viewed by anyone in PDF or PS format at the "published proceedings" link at: http://robot.icra.it:8080/menu.html.
Once released to the public, contributions may be searched by author name, title, keywords, or the parallel session abbreviation (see the parallel program for these abbreviations) or by the plenary session abbreviation PLS which produces the list of all plenary sessions. To access the PDF or PS files one clicks on the "open folder" icon in the leftmost column of the desired listing from the search results and selects either one or the other. [Shift clicking allows saving of the file locally to view full screen without the browser banner and webpage frame reducing the available window.]
Chairpersons may release contributions at any time after submission. If a participant wishes his or her contribution to be made public, the chairperson can be contacted and requested to check it for release.
