The conference will be held in the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the country's capital Budapest from September 10 - September 13, 2008. The conference is sponsored by governmental, academic, and private organizations that are active in agriculture, health care, and environmental protection.
The Conference Chair is Tamas Komives from the Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The conference will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of ragweed infestation. Basic research together with field applications will be emphasized, along with laboratory, pilot, and modeling studies leading to innovative approaches. Platform and poster presentations were selected by the technical program committee from abstracts submitted for consideration.
Although the official deadline for abstract submissions has expired, and the final program has already been set up, we are still receiving inquiries from colleagues interested in participating. Good news: HAS made available its large lecture hall for our conference. Thus, we are happy to announce that we may receive further participants with or without poster presentations.
A sample abstract is readable here.
A Registration Form is downloadable here.
The final program of the conference is available here.
An updated circular of the meeting is downloadable here.
Invited speakers of the conference are
Christian Bohren, ACW, Nyon, Switzerland
Lorenzo Cecchi University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Bruno Chauvel, INRA, Dijon, France
Anna Erdei, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Chantal Dechamp, AFEDA, Lyon, France
Rachel McFadyen, CRC, Brisbane, Australia
Sergey Ya. Reznik, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Baruch Rubin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Hyeon-Dong Shin, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Jacqui A. Shykoff, University of Paris/CNRS, France
Edita Stefanic, J.J. Strossmayer Unversity, Osijek, Croatia
Michel Thibaudon, RNSA, Lyon, France
Alan K. Watson, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Lewis H. Ziska, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA
Toby Yaacoby, PPIS, Bet Dagan, Israel
Registration fees are
€ 350.- Registration€ 400.- On-Site Registration
€ 120.- Accompanying Person Registration
€ 250.- Student Registration
Registration fee includes get-together party, three luncheons, list of participants, and book of abstracts.
If you have any questions or comments or would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact the conference organizers at lkiss@nki.hu or call +36-1-487-7566.|
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