GaN Marathon 2020 and Covid: message from the organizers

Considering that the SARS-Cov-2 virus is spreading quickly across several countries, and after truly spending quite some time modeling the dynamics (see here, if you are curious), we have decided that the best solution is to postpone the conference to April 2021 ( Monday 19 to Wednesday 21).

Changing to an online conference would have altered the nature of GaN Marathon, that is a lively workshop, where people meet, discuss, and spend time together with colleagues and friends in the GaN community. Postponing to September/October would have posed the risk of overlapping with other conferences, and unknowns on the status of the pandemic.

With this email, on behalf of the whole organizing committee, I warmly thank all of you for providing your abstracts, and for contributing to the success of the conference with your time and availability.

Of course, registration fees will be refunded (in case you want to give some support to the organizers, to partly compensate the losses, let me know). We are now defining the procedures with the agency in charge for conference organization, we will let you know soon.

I hope you will understand this decision, and I really apologize for all possible inconveniences, but this is something we can not avoid!

We really hope to see all of you at GaN Marathon…2021!

We wish you all the best, in these difficult times