A healthy balance between research and teaching, pure and applied science has made Unicamp one of the most distinguished Brazilian academic Institutions. Unicamp receives undergraduate and graduate students from all over Brazil and also from abroad.
   In Europe and even in the American Continent, the history of the oldest universities spans over centuries, while in Brazil it can still be counted in decades. Furthermore, if the history of the Brazilian university is recent, that of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) is even more. Unicamp had its campus officially opened on October 5th 1966, but only a few years later it was already recognized as one of the leading Brazilian and Latin American institutions of higher education, conducting advanced research and tackling important social issues. Today, Unicamp can be considered as a fully consolidated university.
    Unicamp combines its youth to a strong experience in producing new knowledge in virtually all areas. In effect, today, the University concentrates 15% of the total scientific production in this country and approximately 10% of the graduate courses. The result is its capability to maintain areas of scientific and technological compatibility with the main research centers in the world, through numerous international cooperation agreements. Unicamp is an autonomous autarchy of the São Paulo State. Financial resources are obtained mainly from the state government. Funding is also provided by national and international research funding agencies. Students do not pay tuition fee, since the University is financed by state funds.

    Here we present the installations of the conference venue known as Ciclo Básico I. This place is about 12 kilometers north from Campinas downtown. The conference rooms are connected to high speed internet and and have all necessary infrastructure for the Positron 2005 meeting.