Oral and poster contributions to the conference will be made available in several forms:

Posters	Conference webpage: poster link, in pdf-format.
Contributed and review oral presentations	Presentation files on the program page in ppt- or pdf-format. Contributions in an ASP proceedings volume. The abstract appearing in the volume will be referenced by the Astrophysical Data Systems (ADS). After three years, the entire volume will become public domain and will be posted on the ADS.

Submission of articles based on oral presentations:

Email (file sizes up to 50 MB):

Ftp: ftp ftp.mpia-hd.mpg.de Login as anonymous with your email as password cd pub/DNF08/incoming/Proceedings put FirstName_LastName.tar confirmation email to

Proceedings Details:

Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Page limits:

Review talks:	15 - 20 pages
Contributed talks:	6 - 10 pages

Strict deadline: November 15th, 2008

Formats: Text in LaTeX, figures in eps
Please note that the ASP package currently does not support the use of BibTex.
If you want to use it nevertheless, you have to edit the first line of the .bbl file by deleting the number in the last brackets (thanks to B. Draine for this fix).


Preparing the contribution:

• Download the file DNF08.tar.gz (LaTex users) or DNF08w.tar (word users) and untar/decompress.
  (Version 8th of Oct., 2008, older versions had a corrupted style file)
• Figures and images will be printed in black & white, unless the authors explicitly ask for color printing (cost of $975.00 for the first image in the volume and $500.00 for each additional image, covered by the authors).
• The first author fills out and signs the copyright form also included in DNF08.zip.
  - Use as title for the proceedings: "Cosmic Dust - Near and Far", Th. Henning, E. Grün, J. Steinacker (eds.)
• Fax the form to +49 6221 528 246 marking the fax with "c/o J. Steinacker/DNF08"