Due Date. Papers are due by June 1, 2012.

Submission format. Please use the following guidelines in preparing your paper.

• Paper Length. The SOC asks to send an EXTENDED abstract of the proposed paper. The length of the abstract should be no more than 4 pages and no less than 2 pages of A4 format.
• Abstract of a paper includes the following parts:
• Title;
• Author(s) (name or initials are given before family name);
• Institution, city, country. In case authors work in different Institutions, the reference to the number of corresponding line with name of Institution is given after each author;
• Main part of the text which can have different sections
• List of references (if needed). References in text are given to the numbers in square brackets and entries in the list are numbered in correspondence with these references. Every entry in the list should give full list of authors (initials are printed after names) (for collections – editor(s)), full title of book, collection and paper. For books or collections it is necessary to indicate publishing house, city and year of publication; for papers published in journals – title, year, volume and number of journal. The first and the last page of paper should be indicated wherever it was published.
• Basic Format. Abstracts should be prepared using MICROSOFT WORD of last versions in conformity with the following rules
• Paper sheets of A4 format;
• Margins: 30 mm left and 15 mm right, 20 mm above and below;
• Type - Times New Roman 12 pt (for the exceptions indicated below: title, list of authors, names of Institutions, names of sections should be printed in bold).
• Black and white figures only;
• Title of paper, list of authors, names of Institutions, formula, tables and pictures are centered. Tables and pictures are numbered and should have headings (tables on top, pictures – below), references are given in the text as Tab. 1 or Fig. 1.
• Example File. There is an example file, wpltn_abstract_example.doc, whose content offers basic instructions.

File names. Please name your source file according to the following conventions

Final Submission. To submit the final version, please send it to the conference address: wpltn2012@ipa.nw.ru.

Problems? If you have any problems or questions about the process, please contact Nadia Shuygina: wpltn2012@ipa.nw.ru.

30 March 2009	Second announcement
15 May 2009	Registration and submission of abstracts
15 June 2009	Third announcement. Program of the Conference.
21-25 September 2009	The Conference ACH-2009
6 November 2009	Submission of papers