Welcome to Luxemburg
The Council of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL)
and
the National Natural History Museum Luxemburg
invite all SEL-members and interested lepidopterists to attend
the XVIIth European Congress of Lepidopterology
to be held in Luxemburg from 9 to 13 May 2011.
*final programme available now!*
The Council of the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) and the National Museum of Natural History Luxemburg invite all SEL-members and interested lepidopterologists to attend the XVIIth European Congress of Lepidopterologyheld in Luxemburg from 9 to 13 May 2011. The venues are two governmental cultural institutes, the Natural History Museum of Luxembourg (www.mnhn.lu) and the Centre Culturelle de Rencontre Abbaye Neumünster (www.ccrn.lu) situated close to each other in the downtown of the grand duchy Luxembourg (some general information about Luxembourg here).
On Monday May 9th the registration desk will be open in the MNHN. The congress will be opened by the welcome party at the MNHN. From Tuesday (May 10th) to Thursday (May 12th) the conference will be held at the CCRN, coffee breaks will be in the MNHN. Lunch and dinner will be at the restaurant Melusina, close to the CCRN.
Conference language
The conference language is English
Talks and posters
Talks will have slots of 20 minutes including 5 minutes of discussion. Computer and beamer will be available in the lecture hall. Please bring your presentation on a compact disc or memory stick. It will not be possible to use your personal laptop.
Posters should be in A0 format; poster walls size is 100 cm width x 180 cm height. Material for poster mounting will be made available.
Invited speakers
- Hans Van Dyck – Behavioural Ecology and Conservation, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- James Mallet – Galton Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, UK
- Zoltan Varga – Department of Evolutionary Zoology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Debrecen University, Hungary
- Niels Peder Kristensen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark
- Niklas Wahlberg, Laboratory of Genetics Department of Biology, Turku University, Finland
Local organizing committee
- Marc Meyer, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
- Jan Christian Habel, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
- Myriam Simon, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
Contact
- Myriam Simon, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg (mail)
Scientific board members (in alphabetical order)
- Jaroslaw Buszko, Torun University, Poland
- Konrad Fiedler, Vienna University, Austria
- Yves Gonseth, CSCF, Switzerland
- Jan Christian Habel, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg
- Wolfram Mey, Natural History Museum Berlin, Germany
- Marc Meyer, with staff of the MNHN, Luxembourg
- Kauri Mikkola, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Finland
- Gabriel Nève, Marseille University, France
- Zoltan Varga, Debrecen University, Hungary