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The Boulder LC2CAM Workshop will bring together both prominent and junior scientists. Participation of students & postdoctoral fellows is strongly encouraged, and up to 20 fellowships will be awarded tosupport travel of early-career scientists, minority students, and faculty at minority serving institutions. The presentations will be webcasted in real time and, in addition to the on-site audience, registered participants around the World will have an opportunity to ask questions. The workshop has no registration fees. The meeting website is at http://i2cam.org/conference/lc2cam08/
This year’s lecturers and topics of instruction are:
Graduate students may apply through the website: http://courses.umass.edu/ssphys/ Expenses for students (which include lodging, breakfast, lunch and afternoon refreshments) will total approximately $300 for the five days. More details about the program and format of the school are available at the website.
Publication in e-LC is rapid; documents, submitted in pdf format, are sent out the associate editors who assess the suitability of publication in e-LC . Documents are either accepted as is, or rejected without explanation; accepted documents are online within seven days of submission. Publication in e-LC does not preclude publication in regular journals. e-LC has negotiated agreements journals such as Physical Review, Nature, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, European Physical Journal E, etc. according to which documents published in e-LC may subsequently be published in these regular journals. The process of negotiation with scientific journals is ongoing. Accepted documents, posted on e-LC, are time-stamped to establish priority. They are also stamped with a watermark identifying publication in e-LC. Publication in e-LC is free; documents published in e-LC are also freely available to everyone with web access. Documents may read online or downloaded. The number of hits on the abstract and on the full text of each document is recorded and displayed on line to indicate interest in the document. In addition, comments on individual documents may be posted on line; these are forwarded to the corresponding author, who may, in turn, respond online. Interestingly, this feature of e-LC is not as popular as might be expected. Over 60 papers have been published on e-LC to date; many with thousands of hits on the full document. In light of the popularity of e-LC, it was expanded in 2006 to include Ph.D. dissertations, and in 2007, to include pdf versions of power-point oral presentations at seminars and conferences. Presently there are about 50 presentations posted, which can be browsed by the event or aurthors name. e-LC is accessible at: e-LC.org. |
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