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                     THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT
                        Conference        
             PHYSICS OF NEUTRON STARS - 2001  
                        June 6 - 8
            Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
                 St. Petersburg, Russia

         URL: http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/astro/NS2001
               E-mail: ns@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru
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The program of the Conference is available at the web site.
It may be slightly changed. The conference will be held at 
the Big Hall of the Main Building of the Ioffe Institute 
(Politekhnicheskaya 26). All participants will be freely 
permitted at the Ioffe Institute by showing their passports
at the main entrance.

The participants will be accommodated at three hotels: 
ORBITA, AKADEMICHESKAYA (NAUKA-2), and at IOFFE INSTITUTE 
HOTEL. A list of Russian participants which 
presents accommodation place and arrival-departure dates is 
available at the web site. 

ORBITA, prospekt Nepokorennykh 4, is as far as one tram stop 
from the Ioffe Institute. To reach the hotel from the Moscow 
Railway Station, please use the metro line 1 to the station 
Lesnaya, and then nonstop free-of-charge bus No. 80 from the 
metro station Lesnaya to the metro station Ploschad Muzhestva 
(5 minute drive). Instead of bus No. 80 one can equally use 
route taxi No. 69 to the metro station Ploschad Muzhestva.
Prospekt Nepokorennykh starts from Ploschad Muzhestva
(cf. the scheme at our Web site).

AKADEMICHESKAYA (NAUKA-2), prospekt Engelsa 65, is the hotel
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To reach it from the Moscow 
Railway Station, please use the metro line 3 to the metro 
station Nevsky prospect - Gostiny Dvor, then change from 
line 3 to line 2 go to the metro station Udelnaya,
move to Engelsa prospekt (about 150 m) and cross it.
One can reach Ioffe Institute from NAUKA-2 in many ways 
(please consult the map available at the Web site). For 
instance, take any tram along Engelsa prospekt to 
Svetlanovskaya Ploschad and then tram 55 or 40
to the Politekhnicheskaya stop.

IOFFE INSTITUTE HOTEL (NOTs PTI) is located near the 
Politekhnichesky park (between the park and the Khlopina 
street), five minute walk from the Ioffe Institute. 
Every participant accommodated there has been informed about 
its location personally.  

Accommodation (hotel) expenses of Russian participants will 
be covered in accordance with their period of stay indicated
in the list of participants (see above). Living expenses 
(per diem) will be covered for the conference period 
(not larger than three days). 
Travel expenses will also be covered (at least partly). 

Although the weather is not predictable this year
the scientific weather is expected to be excellent -
hot, shining and stormy!

           WELCOME TO SAINT-PETERSBURG 

to enjoy beauty of NEUTRON STAR PHYSICS!

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