16th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems

Dear colleagues!       

The Organizing Committee of the 16^th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems (16th ICINS 2009) invites you and your colleagues to take part in this conference. 

       Note: Cheques are not accepted for payment. 

       Payment by bank transfer
The conference fee to our bank, please use the Bank Details indicated below: 

• Please indicate the code 16ICINS and the conferee's name in the bank document
• Note that commission and charges of our Bank and correspondent banks are paid by the conference participants
• To confirm the money transfer please report the bank document number by e-mail, fax or by phone

       Payment by credit card
       The following credit cards are accepted:
EuroCard/MasterCard, edc/Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron, Diners Club. 

       Note: in this case the conferees pay $400 (students and post-graduates $200).

       Note that payment for the Business Invitation formalities via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is not included in the Conference fee. 

       To enter the Russian Federation, all conference participants and all accompanying persons must get a Russian Visa.
       It can be either a Tourist or Business Visa. 
       Please remember that a Visa is required for all persons who have passports. 
       The passport must be valid at least 6 months past the date of your departure from Russia.

       The service-agent of the Conference - Monomax Ltd. Company, a member of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), will render the conferees and their accompanying persons the services:

       Please order these services on the web site of Monomax Ltd. Company.

       As the White Nights season attracts many tourists, the city authorities and hotel administration had to set exacting requirements concerning the period of time over which the guest is going to stay at a hotel, terms of payment and cancellation of reserved hotel rooms. 

       The Organizing Committee strongly recommends that you should start visa formalities in proper time according to the specified dates, as in the previous years some presentations were cancelled because the speakers had some reasons to execute Business Visa instead of the Tourist Visa and failed to get their Invitations and Visas in time. 
       So please find out beforehand what kind of visa you need. 

       If you reserve a room in the hotel not included into the list of hotels submitted by Monomax Ltd.
cannot guarantee your transportation from the hotel to the Institute and to/from the banquet. 

       NOTE:
       In accordance with new requirements in the regulations for foreign citizens visiting territory of enterprises in Russia all conferees-to-be are kindly requested to let us know by e-mail ICINS@eprib.ru and elprib-onti@telros.net, or by fax 7 (812) 232 33 76 the following personal data:

• full name,
• nationality,
• full name of company/organization,
• position,
• full birth date (dd/mm/yyyy,)
• passport number.

       The Conference is traditionally held in the White Nights season. The sight-seeing tour of St. Petersburg on 25 May after the evening session will allow you to see our city in its unique charm in the evening hours. 

       Please bear in mind that metro station Gorkovskaya is closed for repairs.
The nearest metro stations are:
       Ploschad Lenina (tram No. 6 or bus No. 49 up to the stop called Ulitsa Chapayeva) 
and 
       Petrogradskaya (tram No.40 up to the stop called Ulitsa Kuybysheva, or bus No. 46A).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

• Navigation, Control and Guidance Systems, and Components
• Integrated Navigation Systems for Marine, Land, and Aerospace Applications
• Inertial Systems and Sensors
• GLONASS, GPS, Galileo, and Augmentation Systems
• MEMS
• Algorithms and Software
• Testing and Metrology

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for abstracts submission 1 December 2008
• Program Committee's decision concerning papers selected for the Conference program and papers rejected placed on the Conference website: 16 February 2009
• Conference Preliminary Program on the website after 27 February 2009
• Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers included into the Conference program 1 April 2009
• 24 April 2009 deadline for Registration forms submission