Dear Organizers,

one general question on the proceedings deadline:

Are you sure that it is good practice to put a deadline on a Sunday?

At the end of the day, you force plausibly all authors to work during weekend (which does not matter)... and thus generate an unwanted impact on their families... (which does matter).

Putting the deadline on a working day does not come with extra cost and effort, no?

Please consider this as feed-back and not as a criticism.

Best regards

Michael Deveaux

Am 08.09.2017 um 23:36 schrieb sqm2017@nikhef.nl:

Dear Michael Deveaux,

The SQM 2017 conference proceedings will be published in European Physical Journal: Web of Conferences https://www.epj-conferences.org/ and you are invited to submit your contribution.

The deadline for submission is *15 October 2017*. Papers submitted after the deadline will in general not be included in the proceedings.

The proceedings information and instructions for authors are available here http://www.epj-conferences.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136&Itemid=184&lang=en_GB.utf8%2C+en_GB.UT.

The page limit is

• 8 pages for 25-30 minutes plenary talks;

• 6 pages for 15-20 minutes plenary talks;

• 4 pages for parallel talks.

Please upload your contribution *in pdf format *on the Indico webpage

https://indico.cern.ch/event/576735/papers/

and also fill in and sign the License agreement http://www.epj-conferences.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=276&lang=en_GB.utf8%2C+en_GB.UT and upload it via the Indico webpage.

It is important to ensure that when you submit your paper, it is in *its final form print-ready for publication*, and has been thoroughly proofread.

For any questions, please contact the Local Organising Committee via sqm2017@nikhef.nl mailto:sqm2017@nikhef.nl?subject=Strangeness%20in%20Quark%20Matter%202017.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Best regards,

SQM 2017 Local Organising Committee