On December 22, 2003 Piet van der Kruit was appointed on a new honorary chair: the Jacobus C. Kapteyn professorship in Astronomy. This conference is a tribute to his life long interest in the properties of disk galaxies. The goal of the meeting is to take inventory of our current knowledge of the structure and content of disk galaxies, to present models of formation and evolution leading to disk galaxies, and to bring together observers and theorists to investigate paths for future research.
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The meeting will be held on the beautiful island of Terschelling in the north of the Netherlands on July 3-8, 2005. The location of the meeting is hotel and conference center Schylge, overlooking the harbor of the charming village of West-Terschelling. Next to a stimulating science program with a lot of time for discussions, there will be ample time set aside to enjoy the beautiful environment and the broad spectrum of facilities.
The program of the conference will consist of eight sessions. Each
session will have a review speaker, and invited and contributing
speakers. The review talks will be 30 minutes plus 10 minutes for
questions. All other talks will be 20+10 minutes. Furthermore, we plan
to have several poster sessions.
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The registration fee covers 5 nights of hotel accommodation, full board, from 3rd to 8th July at Hotel Schylge, the conference venue. Dinner on Sunday July 3rd is not included. That evening there will be a welcome reception from 6:00-7:30 with drinks and snacks.
During the reception the registration desk will be open. You will be provided with a receipt for the money you have paid, and any amount outstanding before the beginning of the conference should be paid in cash at the conference.
Those who would like to come earlier or leave later should arrange this directly with the hotel. Telephone number +31562442111, fax +31562442800, e-mail schylge@westcordhotels.nl.
The list of participants can be found here.
If you are giving a talk, you can provide us with a copy of your talk either before or during the meeting to be placed on the conference laptop. If you send it before the conference we will try to check it out for you, although of course we cannot make any guarantees. So you should also bring backup material. If we can have as many talks on the conference laptop as possible this will facilitate accurate swaps from one presentation to the next. Please let us know if you are NOT intending to use a computer based presentation (there will be an overhead projector of course), or if you have special requests.
If you are planning to present a poster, the size of poster board is 100cm wide × 225cm high. This can be put up on Sunday evening. Please do bring along an overhead, or figure which may be used in the poster review sessions to represent your poster.
The raw (unformatted) abstracts of the presentations (posters and talks) can be looked up here.
Important new information for planning your trip to the Island of Terschelling can be found on a separate page.
If you have some hours to spare when leaving or arriving Terschelling we can recommend a visit to the Frisian village of Franeker (which is on the train line from Leeuwarden to Harlingen). As well as being the birth place of Jan Oort (there is a sign on the house), there is also the oldest working planetarium in the world. The Planetarium Eise Eisinga, built between 1774 and 1781, and all the working mechanisms are on display. For more information: http://www.planetarium-friesland.nl/engels.html