Announcement & Call for Papers

The 7^th Biennial European Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be held in the small town Røros, Norway, on August 17-19. Røros is located 35 km south-south-east of the Hessdalen vally in Sør-Trøndelag county. The Hessdalen vally is most know for its many sightings of the strange "Hessdalen Phenomena" (which many people call UFO or Earth Lights). There will be a tour to Hessdalen during the meeting.

Contributed papers on any topic of interest to the Society are, as always, welcome.

Titles and abstracts for contributed papers should be sent to the Program Director:
Erling Strand, Østfold College, Remmen, NO-1757 Halden, Norway.
E-mail: [email protected], Cell.Phone: +47-92268256
The program committee consist of: Erling Strand, Jens Tellefsen, Brenda Dunne and Tore Wessel-Berg.

Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Submissions sent by surface mail should include "ATTN: SSE PROGRAM" on the envelope. Titles should be short and informative: abstracts should be at most 500 words (under 300 preferred). Electronic submissions should consist of plain text as the body of the e-mail if at all possible. If special formatting is absolutely required for intelligibility, please submit a Word document.

The cutoff date for submissions of a title and abstract is May 24, 2007. Submissions received subsequent to that date may be considered for presentation subject to the availability of time in the program. A full text version of the paper must be received before June 23, 2007, if it shall be included in the proceedings.

Hotel reservation

You must make your own reservation at the hotel before June 19. We cannot guarantee a room at the hotel after that day. A large block of rooms has been reserved for the SSE at a special conference rate: ask for the SSE block when making reservations.

Room rates include three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even the banquet on saturday evening are included. The room rates also include two coffe breaks a day during the meeting, and the cost for the meeting rooms with facilities.
Double room: NOK 900 per night per person.
Single room: NOK 1120 per night per person.
If someone bring a person (wife/husband) who not will attend the meeting, just stay at the hotel during the night and only eat breakfast at the hotel, the room rate for that person is NOK 350 per night. If that person want dinner, he/she must pay extra NOK 180 per dinner. You pay directly to the hotel.

If someone want to stay at another hotel (not recomended), they must pay NOK 395 a day. That include admission to the meeting, lunch and two coffe breaks.
21.December 2006: 100 NOK = 16.57 US.

If someone want to share a room with someone, so it will be cheaper, please e-mail me: [email protected], and I can make the connection between you. You must tell me if you are a man or woman.

Meeting Registration

Please pay the conference fee to account:
Account name: SSE
Account Address: Erling Strand, Bukkholmveien, NO-1747 Skjeberg, Norway
Account no.: 0539.50.47282
Bank: Postbanken, 0021 Oslo, Norway
BIC: ��DNBANOKKXXX
A/C for international payments:
IBAN: NO23 0539 5047 282
IBAN: NO2305395047282

You must inform us where you are stayin. Those who are not staying at the Quality Hotel & Resort Røros must pay an attending ticket of NOK 395 a day, which cover the lunch, coffe breaks, and the cost for the meeting rooms with facilities.

Meeting Registration Form

Please print, fill out, and mail or FAX the registration form:

Registration Form (pdf) (doc)

The program

Preliminary time schedule

Conference meetings starts Friday morning at 9:00, in the hotel.
Lunch break between 12:00 and 13:30.
The SSE traditional Friday afternoon recreational excursion will be by bus to the Hessdalen valley. Pickup time 16:00 (4 PM) at the hotel. In Hessdalen you will be served a small traditional food. Stories about the sightings and the life in Hessdalen will be told. Bring your camera. It is always a possibility to see the phenomena when you are in Hessdalen. We will be back at the hotel around 20:00 (8 PM). Dinner from 21:00 in the hotel.

Conference meetings starts Saturday morning at 9:00, in the hotel.
Lunch break between 12:00 and 13:30.
The Saturday evening banquet at 20:00.

Conference meetings starts Sunday morning at 9:00, and end at 12:00.
Lunch is served from 12:00. This is also included in the room price.

The program (pdf)

Transportation from and to Oslo

All days exept Saturday. No plane on Saturday
From Oslo airport at 16:35
Arriving Røros at 17:25

Going back
All days exept Saturday. No plane on Saturday
From Røros airport at 17:55
Arriving Oslo airport at 18:45

Train from Oslo airport.
Train company (http://www.nsb.no)

The train station is located at the Oslo airport. You need to change train at Hamar.
Oslo-Røros-Trondheim

Depart Oslo airport	Arrive Hamar	Depart Hamar	Arrive Røros
07:05	07:59	08:10	11:30
11:05	11:59	12:10	15:29
15:05	15:59	16:10	19:30
18:05	18:59	20:15	23:34

Going back on Sunday:

Depart Røros	Arrive Hamar	Depart Hamar	Arrive Oslo airport	Arrive Oslo City
12:18	15:46	16:05	17:07	17:34
14:11	17:41	19:07	19:07	19:34
16:22	19:46	20:08	21:07	21:34

Going back on Monday:

Depart Røros	Arrive Hamar	Depart Hamar	Arrive Oslo airport	Arrive Oslo City
08:24	11:46	12:08	13:07	13:34
12:18	15:46	16:05	17:07	17:34
16:22	19:46	20:08	21:07	21:34

 
Bus from Oslo city.
The bus company: Nor-Way Bussekspress

The bus leave from Oslo City at 09:30 and from Oslo airport at 10:15. The bus arrive at Tynset 15:00. You must move to a new bus at Tynset. This bus arrives at Røros at 16:45.

Transportation from and to Trondheim

Train from Trondheim. Train company (http://www.nsb.no) Oslo-Røros-Trondheim Depart Trondheim Arrive Røros Day 05:40 08:15 Mon-Fri 09:50 12:12 Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun 13:50 16:15 Sun 16:15 18:45 Mon-Fri

Train from Røros. Train company (http://www.nsb.no) Depart Røros Arrive Trondheim Day 05:10 07:35 Mon-Fri 07:05 09:30 Sat 15:35 18:00 Mon-Fri 16:30 18:55 Sat, Sun 19:35 22:00 Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun

 

Bus from Trondheim. Bus company (http://www.gauldalbillag.no) Depart Trondheim Arrive Røros Day 08:08 11:10 Mon-Fri, Sat 12:38 15:50 Mon-Fri 15:08 18:15 Mon-Fri, Sat 20:08 23:35 Sat 21:50 00:30 Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun

Bus from Røros. Bus company (http://www.gauldalbillag.no) Depart Røros Arrive Trondheim Day 04:25 07:10 Mon-Fri, Sat 08:15 11:15 Mon-Fri, Sat 10:45 13:45 Mon-Fri 16:45 19:45 Mon-Fri, Sat 17:45 20:45 Sun

The weather in Røros

How is the temperature in August?

It can change a lot. Below you see a temperature graph from Røros airport August 2006.

Translation from Norwegian language:
Døgntemperatur = the mean temperature this day. (The red graph)
Døgnnedbør = the rain this day.
Nedbør = Rain   Lufttemperatur = Temperature in the air
The normal temperature in August is the border between the light yellow and light blue. In 2006 we see that the temperature was mostly warmer than normal

E-post: Erling P. [email protected]

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