A PHYSICA D SPECIAL ISSUE dedicated to the 60th birthday Symposium in honor of Serge Aubry will be published.

Special Issue Editor: T. Lehman

Guest Editors: T. Dauxois, R. S. MacKay, G. P. Tsironis

Deadline for submitting manuscripts: June 30, 2005

Tentative date for publication of the Physica D special issue: March 2006

GUIDELINES for this PHYSICA D Special Issue

1. Standards for publication in Physica D will generally be higher than for presentation of a paper at a meeting. The standards of Physica D must be respected as much in the preparation of special issues as in normal editorial work.
   
2. Physica D aims to publish papers that develop new nonlinear phenomena. Papers that merely extend existing arguments and techniques in a familiar direction are seldom sufficiently novel.
3. Research papers and review papers are welcome but not short communications.
4. Manuscripts should conform to the Physica D journal format. See the “Instructions to Authors” in each issue, or on the internet at www.elsevier.com/locate/physd.
5. In the interest of prompt publication, authors will have no second chance to revise, with the possible exception, at the discretion of the guest editor, of small changes that do not require the author to rethink any of the manuscript's major arguments. Such changes must be made in a few days.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The manuscripts should be submitted by June 30, 2005.

The complete article should be sent by email in a pdf format to Maria Mataliotaki (auvol@physics.uoc.gr)  and a carbon copy (CC) to G. P. Tsironis (gts@physics.uoc.gr). If the authors do not receive a receipt acknowledgement within a week from the submission, they should inquire with the volume editors. 

After the referee process is ended (presumably October 2005), the authors will have to upload their article in the Physica D webpage. Specific instructions will be given at that point.