Abstracts of all contributions (invited reviews, contributed talks, posters) will be published by the St. Petersburg University as a booklet that will be made available to participants at the conference begin (and electronically through our Web site about one month in advance). A copy of the conference abstracts will be provided to the Astrophysics Data System (ADS).

For this booklet, each author MUST prepare his/her abstract in LaTeX, using the TEMPLATE. A package being a gziped tar archive includes this template and a resulting postscript file.

The abstract may not exceed 4 pages. Contributors should strictly stick to the guidelines given within the template; else problems could arise when their abstracts are processed.

The abstract LaTeX file together with figures in postscript format must be sent back to ELS9@astro.spbu.ru.

Documents prepared in Word will be considered in exceptional cases.

The abstracts should be sent as soon as possible.