We thank all speakers who have confirmed their contribution to the volume of European Journal of Physics -- Special Topics (Springer publishing). We plan to start editing the papers immediately after the seminar in order to get the book printed before the end of this year. Hence, we would very much appreciate if you sent your chapter before the seminar. We have to set the final strict deadline for your papers on October 15, 2007.

Please prepare your manuscript (about uo to 15 pages in print) using the Springer latex style (style 'svjour' with option 'epj-spec'). The style file and a latex template file ('template.tex'), as well as PDF instructions can be found in this ZIP file. There are only little deviations from the standard 'article' style. Things should work well if you copy all files to your working directory and edit 'template.tex'. Please ask as soon as possible if you have problems using this Springer style for your manuscript.