Second Announcement

IMSF 2008 - Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Workshop-Conference

at Dept. of Maritime Studies of Wismar University

and Maritime Simulation Centre Warnemuende (MSCW)

Rostock-Warnemuende / Germany ; Sept 8 (Mon) – 12 (Fri) 2008

Dear IMSF Members,

We are very glad to inform you that AGM 2008 of IMSF will be held at Wismar University ,

Dept. of Maritime Studies, specifically at the Maritime Simulation Centre Warnemuende (MSCW) in Rostock , GERMANY ,  from Sep 8th (Mon) to 12th (Fri) of 2008.

During the meeting, we will have the Annual General Meeting, Technical workshops, a Field Trip /Technical Tour and social/technical programme. There are also some very interesting events e.g. Hamburg Maritime Fair and “Oktoberfest” shortly after IMSF 2008.

We are providing information on travel, hotel and other necessary information, the preliminary program and a call for papers down below and at our provisional website

http://t3-hwi-sf.rz.uni-greifswald.de/index.php?id=409&L=1

Additional announcements and information will be sent to you regularly by email.

We would appreciate if you could register at our website, whether you are considering attending this meeting and if you have any accompanying persons as we are planning a spousal programme.

Should you have any immediate questions, please feel free to contact the Organizing Committee:

-                     Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Dr. Knud Benedict

Email: knud.benedict@hs-wismar.de   Tel : +49 381 498 5891

-                     Registration for the conference: Sören Bolz

Email: soeren.bolz@hs-wismar.de Tel : +49 381 498 5822

We would welcome any information on your contribution for the workshops (see our web site / Call for papers) which should be sent until May 2008 via e-mail to set up for the final programme.

We look forward to hosting this meeting and seeing all of you in September 2008.

Best Regards, and all my best to you and your family for the Easter holidays!

Knud Benedict  

Preliminary Schedule IMSF 2008 at MSCW (subject to change)