For more registration details, see the <a href=http://www.cr.org/MSM2002/register.pdf>Registration Form.

Hotel Reservations

Special room rates for attendees

Rooms have been reserved for attendees at the following
special low rates (reduced from $288.00):

Single:	$170.00 per night, plus tax
Double:	$170.00 per night, plus tax


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Rooms must be booked directly with the hotel, and no later than April 1^st, 2002 to obtain the conference rate. To secure a room, fill out the <a href=http://www.cr.org/MSM2002/housing.pdf>GROUP RESERVATION FORM, and fax it in.



Early reservation is strongly recommended owing to high room demand during the conference period.






Instructions for Authors









<font color=red>Extended Abstract Deadline: October 10^th, 2001</font>





Instructions






Authors are invited to prepare abstracts, two pages in length,
including text and figures. Text should be placed on the first page,
figures occupying the second page. The abstract must explicitly
highlight the new aspects of the work and conclusions that can be drawn;
main results must be clearly indicated. The abstract shall be no more
than 500 words in length, using no smaller than 12 point type.






The abstract should include the paper title, author's name,
affiliation, address, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail.
Underline the presenting author and at the bottom of your abstract,
indicate the topic area (see list on <a href=http://www.cr.org/MSM2002/announce.html#topics>
announcement page) of your paper.






Abstracts will be reviewed and selected according to how well they
address the following questions:




<li>What are the significant new accomplishments? State
unambiguously whether modeling and simulation results have been
compared to experimental data, and provide details.</li>
<li>What is new in relation to previous work? Provide references to
relevant literature (including publications by the author's group).</li>
<li>What is the goal or motivation of the work?</li>
<li>What is the impact or significance of the results to the
semiconductor/sensor/actuator/microanalysis field?</li>
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Contributed papers will be considered for either oral or poster
presentation unless the authors specifically request the poster
session. Oral presentations will be allotted 20 minutes plus 5
minutes for discussion.






Electronic Formats for Abstract Submission





The following electronic file formats may be used for submission
of abstracts:






<li>PDF^TM</li>
<li>Microsoft Word^TM</li>
<li>Gzipped Postscript</li>
<li>Adobe FrameMaker^TM</li>
<li>text</li>
<li>HTML</li>
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Electronic Mailing address






Authors are invited to email their abstract to the conference
secretariat:



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<a href=mailto:wenning@cr.org>wenning@cr.org
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Persons unable to submit an electronic copy of their abstract,
may mail four paper copies to the conference secretariat using the
address listed in the navigation panel at top left.






Notification of Acceptance: <font color=red>November 12^th 2001</font>






Authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by November 12^th
2001. Instructions for preparing final papers, and document
templates will be posted online at that time.






Final 4-page manuscripts are due December 17, 2001, and will be
published in the conference technical proceedings distributed on site
and through the international book trade. Manuscript formatting
information will appear at this URL after the abstract submission date
has passed.