The conference will be held in Hotel't Zuiderduin
address:
Zeeweg 52, 1931 VL Egmond aan Zee,
Tel. 072-5065000, Fax 072-5063440.

The village of Egmond aan Zee, where good food and pleasant shops can be found, is surrounded by kilometres of broad sand dunes - these in turn lead to an impressive polderland that, at a distance of 8 kilometres is crowned by the city of Alkmaar. This city is well known for its cheese market held every Friday, with carriers dressed in traditional guild costumes, and for its demonstrations of old trades. From Alkmaar the famous city of Amsterdam can be reached by the intercity train in about 35 minutes.

The Web pages of Schiphol will give you information about the airlines servicing Amsterdam and about the facilities of the airport.

The journey from Schiphol to Egmond consists of the following steps:

• Buy a single journey to Heiloo (NLG 14.50) and a train-taxi ticket for Heiloo (NLG 6.00)
  or
  buy a single journey to Alkmaar (NLG 16.50) and a strippenkaart (NLG 11.25) for the bus to Egmond aan Zee.
• Take the train to Amsterdam Central Station (Amsterdam CS). There are 4 trains per hour in both directions between 06.00 and 24.00; between 00.00 and 06.00 there is at least one train per hour in both directions.
• Change at Amsterdam CS to the Inter City train to Den Helder (departure xx.22, traveling time 26 minutes) or the local train (stop trein) to Alkmaar (departure xx.06 and xx.36, traveling time 38 minutes), Note 1: the Inter City to Den Helder departing at xx.52 does not stop at Heiloo.
  Note 2: 06 < xx < 24.
• Get out at Heiloo and take a "trein taxi" (a collective service for 3-4 persons). Tickets for train taxis can be bought at the ticket counter of the destination station (showing your train ticket) or at the station where you buy your train ticket. The fee of the train-taxi to "Zuiderduin" is only NLG 6,00 a head (but beware of normal taxis which cost about NLG 30,00.)
  (Telephone taxi: 072-5331313)

  OR

  Proceed to Alkmaar and take the bus to Egmond aan Zee.

  See time tables of train and bus.

By train:
See the time tables of the international trains to and from the Netherlands.
Proceed from Amsterdam CS as described above.

See also:

• NS - The Dutch Railways
• International Travel Planner (in Dutch)

By car:
From Amersfoort, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague take motorway A9 direction Alkmaar.
From Amsterdam take the ring road called "Ring" (A10) and proceed in the direction Alkmaar via motorways A8 and A9.
At the (southern) entry of Alkmaar : take 'Ring-West', direction 'Den Helder'. After 3 km take exit in the direction 'Egmond'. After 5 km follow 'Egmond aan Zee'. In the town Egmond aan Zee follow the direction "Centrum" than follow direction "Strand-Zuid". Now you are on the Admiraal de Ruyterweg, after a few curves this becomes the "Zeeweg". Hotel 't Zuiderduin is then on your right side on Zeeweg 52.

Passport and visa:
Please make sure your passport is not expired and you have your visa (if required).

Do not hesitate to contact the local organizing committee if you have any question.

Some remarks about public transport in the Netherlands

• Return tickets for the train are valid for one day only.
• On metro, tram and bus you have to use a strippenkaart. These cards can be bought at railwaystations, post offices, bookstores and tobacconists. Cards bought in tram or bus are more expensive than cards bought in advance.

On the afternoon of Wednesday May 14, a choice of two excursions will be available. A party will visit the "Keukenhof". A beautiful park of 80 acres with 6 million tulips, narcissi, daffodils, hyacinths and other flower bulbs, ancient trees, flowering shrubs, ponds, fountains and works of modern art. One of Holland's most famous attractions. Another group will have the opportunity to visit in Amsterdam the "Rijksmuseum", with the famous 17th century Dutch paintings. Think about "Rembrandt, Steen, Vermeer". The "Rijksmuseum" is situated in the Museum Square Area, where you also find the "Van Gogh Museum and "The Stedelijk Museum" , one of the world's major museum of modern art.

At the end of this day the two groups will meet in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, a picturesque town near Amsterdam, for the conference dinner.

As in previous years, the proceedings will be published by World Scientific Publishing and sent to all participants. The deadline for submission of the text for the proceedings is June 15, 1997.

The page allocation is five pages per twenty minutes of presentation (including discussion). The theoretical and experimental contributions thus have five pages each, the introductory and summary talks 10 pages each, and the presentation on cosmic muons 15 pages.
Papers which have been submitted to the conference, but were not presented orally, receive one (1) page in the proceedings.

We strongly urge you to use LaTeX for the preparation of your entry in the proceedings. The appropriate style file is sprocl.sty. An example of how to use this style file is in sprocl.tex.

Please send the LaTeX file, together with possible encapsulated postscript files, to photon97@nikhef.nl, before June 15.

For registration, please fill out the registration form on WWW or the registration form (postscript) and send it to:
Fransje Backerra,
NIKHEF,
P.O. Box 41882,
1009 DB Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.