The conference proceedings will be edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin and R. Sunyaev, and will be published in the Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia".

Contributions must be formatted with LaTeX using the macro package which is available from the ESO ftp host at:

     ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/esoproceedings/latex2e/

If you retrieve these files via a Web browser, please note that you need to use the browser's "Save As..." facility.

If you are not using a Web browser to obtain the files, please do the following:

  ftp ftp.eso.org
  Name: anonymous
  Password: your e-mail address
  cd /pub/esoproceedings/latex2e
  binary
  prompt
  mget *
  quit

The files 1readme.PDF (pdf format) and 1readme.doc (MS Word format) contain detailed instructions for authors.

The file author.tex contains a sample contribution, which can be used as a template for your own text. The files author.dvi and 2demo.ps are the .dvi and .ps files generated by running LaTeX and dvips on author.tex, and the file figure.eps is a sample figure.

Figures must be provided as PostScript files and should be incorporated in your contribution using the standard Latex2e "graphicx" package as demonstrated in the demo file author.tex.

Please use the following naming convention for your files: The Latex file of your text should be called myname.tex, where "myname" (all in lower-case) is the family name of the first author. Any figures should be named "mynameF1.ps" (or .eps), "mynameF2a.ps" etc, for figure 1, figure 2a, etc.

• DO NOT change the macros, as this can cause unpredictable effects when the individual contributions are compiled together to produce the final manuscript.
• The TeX \def command is forbidden!
• The LaTeX2e \renewcommand command is forbidden!
• Personal LaTeX2e command definitions using \newcommand are allowed, but should be kept to an absolute minimum, and made uniquely identifiable by appending your name to the command.

Page limits:

The page limits are:

Please try to observe these limits. These page limits _may be_ increased upwards slightly for particularly original and interesting contributions, provided that we find an extra source of money. It is anticipated that some editorial overview will be exercised and authors may be requested to make changes to their papers.

Due to the high cost of printing colour plates, colour figures will not be accepted by default. Nevertheless, some colour illustrations will be accepted if there is a strong scientific justification, or if the authors are willing to cover the costs of the colour figures.

All the files required to generate your contribution (i.e. the LaTeX2e source file and all figures in encapsulated postscript format) should be combined in a single compressed (using gzip ONLY) .tar file,  preferably in uuencoded format.

You may communicate your file to us either by email or anonymous ftp.

• ftp: Your anonymous ftp session should proceed as follows for the file file.tar.gz:

  ftp ftp.MPA-Garching.MPG.DE
  Name: anonymous (or ftp)
  Password: your e-mail address
  cd upload/bh-grow
  binary
  put file.tar.gz
  quit

After ftp submission, it would be very helpful if you emailed us that the upload had been completed.

• email: Please send everything in ONE email message, as an attachment, to

bh-grow@mpa-garching.mpg.de