Persons wishing to attend the course should apply online.
General closing date for registration: July 1st, 2024.
There will be a fee, which covers the local costs in Erice, including full board and lodging.
Lunch and dinner will be provided at local restaurants.
Drinks, beverages, and after-dinner coffee at the restaurants,
telephone calls, personal laundry, etc. are not covered by the fee.
The amount of the fee will be e-mailed to the participants after registration.
Please note that each accompanying person has to pay the fee as well.
The fee can be paid in advance by bank transfer or upon arrival by credit card or in cash.
The details will be e-mailed to the participants in due course.
There is a limited number of fellowships, which cover part of the expenses.
Deadline: May 31, 2024.
The scientific program starts on September 17 in the morning and ends on September 21 in the evening. Lectures and seminars will be held in the morning and late afternoon so as to leave plenty of time for free discussion, which is an important part of the Erice school. The early afternoons are reserved for private activities, special seminars, working groups, workshops, etc.
Stand-alone capabilities for projecting powerpoint or pdf talks are available at the lecture hall. The presentations should preferentially be uploaded via memory stick. It is also possible to use personal laptops.
The talks will be made available online. There will be no proceedings.
We will have an excursion to the Cloister and the Duomo in Monreale with the largest and perhaps the nicest mosaics and with the tombs of the Normanic kings Roger I and II and William I and II. In Palermo we will visit the Palazzo dei Normani with the Capella Palatina. Those who like may also visit the catacombi of the Convento dei Cappuccini with about 2000 preserved dead persons standing and sitting. It is also a must to visit the Cathedral in Palermo with the tombs of Federico secondo (Frederick II; stupor mundi), Holy Roman Emperor and king of both of Sicilies (1194 to 1250) and his father Henry VI, his mother Constance and his first wife.
Operations in Erice are managed by the Director of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu to whom you should refer for any specific needs
Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu
Director of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
Via Gian Filippo Guarnotti 26
I-91016 Erice (Trapani)
ITALY
| Telephone: | +39 0923 869133 |
| Fax: | +39 0923 869226 |
| WWW: | http://www.ccsem.infn.it |
Participants will be accommodated in rooms with one or two beds, the majority with shower or bath. Local registration and room allocation is upon your arrival on September 16 in the office at "San Rocco", Via Gian Filippo Guarnotti 26, Erice, see Map of Erice.
On the arrival day, September 16, there will be busses and cars from the airports in Palermo and Trapani to Erice. These busses will be arranged according to your arrival information (see below).
If you arrive on a day other than September 16 you must come to Erice at your own cost. A taxi from Palermo airport costs about 120 to 180 Euros.
Transportation to the airport on September 22 will be organized during your stay in Erice. Transportation on other days is in your own responsibility.
In order to reserve the rooms in Erice and to arrange the transportation from the airport in Palermo or Trapani to Erice, the "Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture" needs your exact arrival and departure information (times and flight numbers, accompanying persons, etc.). To provide this information we ask you to use the following web link, which will be open until August 20, 2024 (deadline).
Please, do not try to make reservations directly at hotels in Erice.
Important note:
In recent years some participants got phone calls or e-mails from persons claiming that they are responsible for hotel reservations
in Erice and asking them for their credit card number. Please be aware that such calls or e-mails are fraud!
The accommodation is entirely arranged by the local staff of the "Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture" in Erice, based on the data you specified in the arrival and departure information form.
They will never approach you directly (neither by phone nor by e-mail) and they will not ask you for your credit card number.
Several personal computers as well as WLAN access are available at the Centro Ettore Majorana.
Upon arrival you will receive a badge, which allows you to have lunch and dinner in about 10 restaurants in Erice. A list of these restaurants will be provided by the Centro Ettore Majorana. Drinks and beverages are not included. Lunch is typically between 1 and 3 p.m. and dinner between 8 and 10 p.m.
Breakfast for the participants staying in one of the three former monasteries (San Rocco, San Francesco and San Domenico) is between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m in San Rocco. Participants in hotels have breakfast there.
During the whole day you can find food, coffee, fruits, and mineral water in the breakfast room in San Rocco.
By car there are two possibilities:
By train:
From Milan-Rome via Messina you can reach Trapani directly.
By plane:
To Palermo or Trapani airports. For arrival and departure at normal times (September 16 and September 22, resp.) the School will make local transport arrangements, see above.
In September the weather is pleasant in Erice, but cooler than in the rest of Sicily since it lies at 750 metres above sea level.
Last change by Michael Buballa on 29.02.2024 at 17:37
