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National Taurida V.Vernadsky University (Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine), announce the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference on Biophotons and Coherent Systems in Biology, Biophysics and Biotechnology to be held from September 27th to October 2nd, 2004, in Simferopol and Partenit (Crimea). Alexander Gavrilovich Gurwitsch (1874-1954), one of the most outstanding biologists of XX century, was in 1918-1924 a Professor of Histology in Taurida University. Right there he made his most important discovery of an ultraweak photon emission from the living systems (which gave rise to the biophotonics) and submitted a first sketch of the morphogenetic field theory. The conference is adjusted to the 130 anniversary of Gurwitsch’s birthday and, at the same time, to the 100 anniversary of Academician Gleb Frank, a founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Attending in 1920-24 the lectures in Taurida University, Frank was one of the closest Gurwitsch’s students and made an important contribution o the biophotonics. By a happy occasion, a house of the first Gurwitsch Laboratory in Simferopol is still preserved and will be decorated by a Memory Desk during the opening of the Conference. Two preceded Gurwitsch Conferences took place in Moscow State University in 1994 and 1999 correspondingly and got a wide international audience. The papers presented at the conferences have been published as the following volumes: Biophotonics (L.V.Beloussov and F.-A. Popp eds) BioInform Services, Moscow, 1995. The contributions to the 3rd Gurwitsch conference will be published by Kluwer publishing house. The announced Conference will include the following topics: The working language of the Conference is English. The opening and the Plenary session of the Conference will take place in National Taurida University (Simferopol). The Conference will continue its work in the rest-house of Partenit, a picturesque place located at the Black Sea shore. Planned are excursions and cultural entertainment. A daily cost (including meals) ranges from 45 to 75 EUR. Registration fee for full participants is 200 EUR, for students and accompanying persons 100 EUR. The fee includes the costs of Abstracts, transportation, excursions and other expenses. The Organizing Committee of the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference invites all the interested persons to send their applications before March 1st, 2004., and, in the case of acceptance, to send Abstracts before May 1st, 2004. Planned are both the oral presentations and the posters. The application should be sent to the electronic address csc@science-center.net or to the Internet page. |
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