Schedule of the congress

The Congress will open on Sunday, August 5, at 16.00, and it is expected to close on Friday, August 10, at 13.00. Possible satellite meetings will be organized on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The congress is organized in 6 parallel sessions, with some joint meetings, following the above schedule. The plenary lectures are scheduled as the opening lectures of each day. The keynote lectures (40 min) will be given by distinguished scientists. The lectures (L) will be of 20 minutes, including discussion, and will be selected from the presented abstracts. The room availability will permit more than 50 keynote lectures, and about 230 lectures, over the 10 sessions of the Congress. The poster sessions could accommodate more than 500 posters each.