VI International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei “EXON - 2012”
Vladivostok, 1 - 6 October 2012

Co-organized by FLNR JINR (Dubna), GANIL (Caen), RIKEN (Wako-shi), GSI (Darmstadt), NSCL (Michigan)

This Symposium will continue the series of EXON meetings previously held  in Irkutsk (on the Baikal Lake),  Peterhof (St.Petersburg),  Khanty-Mansiysk (west Siberia)  and Sochi (on the Black Sea). It takes place every two years in the most exotic places of Russia. The EXON-2012 will be held on 1-6 October 2012 in Vladivostok, Russia, in the modern campus of the Far Eastern Federal University (http://dvfu.ru/en/), located on Russky Island just after the APEC-2012 Summit. The Symposium will be devoted to the investigation of nuclei in extreme states and, in particular, at the limits of nuclear stability (from very light neutron- and proton-rich up to superheavy nuclei). The Topics to be discussed are:

• Methods of production of light exotic nuclei and study of their properties
• Superheavy elements. Synthesis and properties
• Rare processes and decays
• Radioactive beams. Production and research program
• Experimental set-ups and future projects

The preliminary list of the Symposium Scientific Programme will be soon compiled on the basis of the received Abstracts and published on the EXON2012 web-page. So we are ready to accept your abstracts up to 10 April, 2012. It will include oral talks and a poster session.

ABSTRACTS
The MS WORD or PDF typewritten format of the abstracts are preferable. The abstracts should not exceed 1 page (A4) and must be sent in the camera-ready form (17 cm x 25.5 cm). The list of registered participants (speakers) will be available on the site of the Symposium. If you have any questions concerning the Scientific Programme please addresses them to the Organizing Committee. The Scientific programme will be finally completed by 15 May; after that all the speakers will receive personal invitations.

VISA INFORMATION
Official letters of invitation will be sent.to the participants of the Symposium as well as to their accompanying persons after their personal data submitted to the Organizing Committee. You can use our Application Form and Visa Registration form which are available on the site of the Symposium: http://exon2012.jinr.ru/Visa_Form.php and http://exon2012.jinr.ru/Application_Form.htm. Those participants who need additional time before or after the Symposium for sightseeing should inform the Organizing Committee so that we could book the hotel for the required period of time. Please contact Olga Korotchik on all the questions connected with visa obtaining e-mail: korotchik@jinr.ru.

TRANSPORT
To maximize the benefit of your full participation in the conference please plan to arrive in Vladivostok by the 30th of September and stay there at least till the 6th October. Air routes connect the Vladivostok International Airport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok International Airport with Japan, People's Republic of China, South Korea and Vietnam. There are more than 9 regular airlines to Vladivostok including Alitalia(AZ), Korean Air Lines(KE), Siberia Airlines(S7), Aeroflot(SU), Transaero Airlines(UN) etc, from Bangkok, Denpasar, Harbin, Moscow, Seoul, Shangi (Hong Kong), Singapore, etc. You can find more detailed information in the web pages http://vvo.aero/, http://www.vladivostokavia.ru/en/passengers/ or http://www.amadeus.net/.

Traditionally for EXON, the Organizing Committee arranges delivery of all the participants from the Vladivostok International Airport to the venue of the Symposium on Russky Island. Please inform the Organizing Committee exon2012@jinr.ru well before hand on the date of your arrival/departure and your flight number. On 6 -7 October (end of Symposium) all the participants will be delivered back to the airport.

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee,
Yuri Penionzhkevich (Chairman) and Yuri Sobolev (Scientific secretary).