Thanks to all of you who have sent abstracts already or have expressed an interest to participate.  The deadline for receiving abstracts is pretty close (Friday March 6), so in order to provide a bit of extra time, and have more participation, please notice that we will be accepting abstracts until Sunday March 15 (midnight), however this will be the absolute final deadline, so please relax and take a bit of extra time to comfortably write your abstract.

For your abstract, please consider a text between 150–200 words.  Please use the format:  Title, authors (Name, Last name, super index for institution), Institution(s) and e-mail(s), text.  We recommend to have oral presentations prepared in Power Point.  If you are preparing a poster presentation, it should fit a surface of 95 x 120 cm (we recommend 90 x 120 cm).  We will provide adhesive materials to hold the poster on the board.  Please submit your abstract text to <isn2015@st.ib.unam.mx>.

We recommend that you arrive on the 11th of May, so that you are ready by morning of the 12th to be transported to the university campus where the symposium will take place.  Also, please plan carefully your departure flight.  If you are not attending the field trip, you may be able to depart on the 16th (of course, please stay longer if you wish to see some more of Mexico City or some other place in the country).  However, if you will travel to Los Tuxtlas, please consider leaving late on the 20th (evening flights), as we will be travelling from far away and any delay might be critical.  We should be able to drop you at the airport upon returning from Los Tuxtlas that late afternoon (May 20th).  If possible, we strongly recommend staying one more night (the evening of the 20th) and depart on the 21st, so you would need to arrange that night of hotel upon registration, or at least before departing to Los Tuxtlas.

If you have not registered, you may be able to do it on site.  We will have a credit card terminal on site, however you will be welcome to pay in cash (US dollars) as well.  No checks will be accepted.  Please notice that hotel registration is separate and you should arrange that directly with the host hotel.  We are asking for your T-shirt size (S, M, L, XL, male or female), so be sure you have sent to us that information in advance.  Also, if you have any special preferences or restrictions regarding food, or any other special concern, please let us know in advance as well.

Once you are at the airport in Mexico City, you will see several (probably many) places for exchange of money.  It is advisable that you buy some Mexican currency at this time (1 USD = 15 Mexican pesos, approximately).  Although you will be most of the time with the symposium group, anything you wish to buy, except if your are paying with a credit card, will need  a transaction in pesos (it is rare, quite unusual to nearly impossible, for any one to pay with USD or Euros in Mexico City)..  Across the street from the host hotel, there is a shopping mall, which has a couple of exchange houses, so you may be able to buy a little more pesos there later.  The first commercial operation you will need would be to buy a taxi ticket (easier if you do it with cash in pesos, although you could probably pay with a credit card, or perhaps with US dollars).

An important consideration for transportation from the airport to your hotel is that you have the hotel address at hand, as taxi tickets have different prices depending distance to destination.  You will need to buy a taxi ticket at the airport (they are sold at various locations within the airport, at the area close to where you pick up your luggage, or outside in the hallways of the airport, almost anyone would assist you regarding where to buy a taxi ticket, only one ticket is needed for a vehicle).  When you buy your ticket be sure to mention if you ask for a car (one to three people might fit, typically one or two) or for a van or suburban (a bigger vehicle, a little more expensive, but four or five people might be able to fit, in case you are travelling in a group).  Different companies offer taxi services, most likely with a similar cost, so company is not a big difference (however one traditional and reliable company is called “Sitio 300”).  It is crucial that you travel from the airport only in authorized taxis, buying a ticket inside the airport terminal.  Under no circumstance walk out of the airport terminal to take a taxi on the street.

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