ICM98-CL34 (98/08/07): Arriving in Berlin/Registration at TU Berlin/....
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E-mail information service of the
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS
Berlin, Germany, August 18 - 27, 1998
34th Circular Letter
Subject: ICM98-CL34: Arriving in Berlin/Registration at TU Berlin/
Opening Ceremony/MBone Transmission/
Events During the First Days
Dear colleague:
This is the last circular letter before the opening of ICM'98 on
August 18, 1998. I would like to give you information that will,
I hope,
- help you at your arrival in Berlin,
- direct you to the Technische Universitaet (TU)
and the International Congress Center (ICC),
- inform you about registration for ICM'98 at TU and will
- guide you through the first days in Berlin.
In particular, the APPENDIX of this e-mail contains
- the program of the Opening Ceremony.
Please tell your friends and colleagues
who are unable to attend ICM'98 that
they can participate in the
OPENING CEREMONY VIA INTERNET!
The technical details are described below.
1. Arriving in Berlin
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It is impossible to provide here detailed information about how to
get to your hotel from your point of arrival in Berlin. Participants
of the Congress lodge throughout the city, and Berlin has a
rather decentralized inner city transportation structure.
A few hints: There are three airports, Berlin Tegel (aviation code
TXL), which is the busiest airport and where passengers from Western
Europe and America are likely to arrive. Berlin Schoenefeld (SXF) is
the former East Berlin airport; thus, it is mostly served by Eastern
European airlines. Small airplanes (propeller and turboprop) arrive at
Berlin Tempelhof (THF). There are also three major railway stations:
Zoologischer Garten, Lichtenberg and Hauptbahnhof (a few weeks ago this
was renamed into Ostbahnhof). The station Zoologischer Garten is close
to TU Berlin, about 10 to 15 minutes walking distance (or one subway
station of line U2 in direction Ruhleben). We regret that we are
unable to provide "welcome committees" at all airports and train
stations - as was requested by a several participants.
The Second Announcement contains detailed information (including a map)
describing how you can get from the airports and railway stations to TU
and the International Congress Center (ICC) where the Opening Ceremony
will take place. We recommend that you take the Second Announcement
on your trip to guide your arrival in Berlin. An alternative is to
consult the ICM'98 server and print out the relevant pages and maps.
If you want to use public transportation upon arrival you have to buy a
ticket at a counter or a vending machine. The standard price is DM
3.90. Such a ticket is valid for all busses, subways and the S-Bahn for
two hours after the beginning of your trip. Once you have registered
for ICM'98 at TU Berlin, you are relieved from further ticket
purchases. Your registration package includes a public transportation
ticket that is valid from August 17 through 27 within the
Berlin/Potsdam area for all means of public transportation. (You can
buy additional tickets of this type at registration for accompanying
persons for DM 47. This is a special ICM'98 deal, such tickets are not
generally available).
For those arriving on Monday or earlier, we recommend that you first
go to your hotel and that you afterwards register for ICM'98 at TU
Berlin. (Please observe that you get your hotel voucher - if you have
booked accommodation via DER CONGRESS - only at on-site registration
with your Congress documents. The hotels, however, have been informed
that you may arrive without voucher.)
If you arrive on Tuesday morning make sure that you don't miss the
Opening Ceremony, see below.
2. Registration
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2.1 Registration Counter, Conference Office:
Registration for ICM'98 is only possible at one location:
in the MAIN BUILDING OF TU BERLIN. (If you go directly to the
International Congress Center on August 18, you will not be able to
register there!) The registration counter is located in the
TU "Lichthof" on the first floor above the ground level. Please
follow the signs.
The conference office (H 2036) is in the same building one storey above
the registration counter. The opening hours of the registration counter
and the conference office during the first three days are:
Monday, August 17 14:00 -- 20:00
Tuesday, August 18 8:00 -- 20:00
Wednesday, August 19 8:00 -- 20:00
(Please don't come to the registration counter on August 17 before
14:00; we will work "just in time"; the proceedings volumes and
many other items are delivered Monday morning and we will be busy
packing and setting up the counters!)
On the first three days the registration counter will have the
following booths:
1. Registered Participants Check In - settled accounts
A - B, C - F, G - H
I - K, L - M, N - O
P - R, S, T - V, W - Z
2. Registered Participants - unsettled accounts
A - K, L - Z
3. New Registration
4. Hotel / Private Accommodation
5. Tourist Program / Opera Tickets / Bus Tickets
6. Souvenirs / Proceedings Special Sale / Urania Tickets
7. Footloose Tours
8. Congress Bag / Congress Proceedings
(this counter is in the entrance hall)
In general, we recommend that you bring along the registration
documents you received from DER CONGRESS so that possible
inconsistencies can be settled immediately. Please
contact the booths according to the following guidelines:
EVERYTHING PAID:
Every participant who has paid (or overpaid) his/her fees should go
to the booth "Registered Participants Check In - settled accounts".
LATE PAYMENT:
If the payment was done during the last days it may not have reached
DER CONGRESS yet. Therefore, please bring along the corresponding
documents and contact the counter "Registered Participants -
unsettled accounts".
SOMETHING NOT YET PAID/CLARIFICATION NECESSARY:
If some payment still has to be made or if some clarification is
necessary your first contact should be the counter "Registered
Participants - unsettled accounts".
NOT REGISTERED YET:
Participants who have not registered or did not receive any
response from DER CONGRESS are kindly requested to start the
registration procedure at the counter "New Registration".
If you need accommodation please contact the booth "Hotel / Private
Accommodation". A few opera tickets are stiil available. These
and additional public transportation tickets for accompanying
persons can be bought at counter 5.
DER CONGRESS operates counters 1 through 5 At these counters
you may pay in cash or by the following credit cards: VISA, Eurocard,
Mastercard, Diners Club. The only currency accepted is DM.
SOUVENIRS / PROCEEDINGS SPECIAL SALE / URANIA TICKETS
At counter 6 you can buy the ICM'98 souvenirs, see ICM98-CL32,
the ICM'98 proceedings at the special Congress price, see ICM98-CL33,
and you can get tickets for the evening talks and the VideoMath
performances at URANIA, see ICM98-CL26 and the P.S. below. This
counter is only prepared for payment in cash.
FOOTLOOSE TOURS
Here you may register for one or more of the footloose tours
described in ICM98-CL32, if they are still available. The daily
footloose program will be on display at this counter.This
counter also provides some touristic information. In particular,
accompanying persons might want to meet people with similar
interests here and make appointments.
CONGRESS BAG / CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS
At this counter you will receive the congress bag and, except
in case of student registrations, volumes II and III of the
congress proceedings - in exchange for the vouchers that you
obtain at registration (counters 1 - 3). This counter is in the
entrance hall of the TU Main Building (ground floor).
At registration, participants will receive their badges, congress
documents (the final program, the two abstracts books, volumes
II and III of the ICM'98 proceedings, the Berlin Intelligencer, a
writing pad, the public transportation ticket, a subway and S-Bahn map,
etc.) and the vouchers for all events they have booked. REGISTRATION
MATERIAL WILL NOT BE HANDED OUT UNLESS ALL FINANCIAL MATTERS ARE
SETTLED.
2.2 Participants receiving Financial Support
All PARTICIPANTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL SUPPORT from the ICM'98
organization are requested to go FIRST to the Financial Support Office
(at room H 2037) and NOT to the registration counter.
2.3 Information Counter at ICC
On August 18, the opening day, the congress organization operates an
additional INFORMATION COUNTER AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS CENTER.
This counter is open from 9:00 to 18:00. This is nothing but an
information counter, you cannot register and you cannot receive
your personal congress documents at this location.
2.4 List of Participants / Address Correction
We will not distribute a printed participants list with the
congress bags. A complete list of participants will be included in
volume I of the proceedings which will be shipped to your home address
after the end of ICM'98.
We believe that it is more helpful to maintain an up-to-date version
in the ICM'98 server, that is, e.g., accessible at the Computer Lab
in room MA 241 where you will have access to e-mail, the World Wide
Web, etc. We do, however, ask every participant to check his/her
mailing address carefully and report corrections on an ADDRESS
CORRECTION FORM available at the conference office H 2036 where a
printed list of participants is kept for corrections.
2.5 Message Board
There will be a message/mail board at the conference office H 2036
where messages to ICM'98 participants can be posted. Messages to
participants can be sent by mail, see address in appendix, or
faxed to +49/30/314-25300. They will be posted soon after arrival.
For urgent messages to a participant, the phone numbers
+49/30/314-23400
and +49/30/314-22800
can be called. Only simple messages will be accepted to avoid
mistakes. They will be posted at the message board.
3. Opening Ceremony, the First Day
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The scientific program of ICM'98 takes place at TU Berlin - except for
the first day. During the first day the ICM'98 participants gather at
the International Congress Center (ICC). Please consult the Second
Announcement or the ICM'98 server to find descriptions of the various
ways how you can reach ICC.
(Here are some hints: To reach ICC by subway take line U2 and get off
at stop Kaiserdamm; the ICC can be reached from two S-Bahn stations:
Witzleben (S 45/46) and Westkreuz (S 3, S 7, S 75, S 9), from there
follow the signs; several busses stop right in front of ICC (X21, X49,
149, 204). The ICC is a huge building (very close to the Berliner
Funkturm that looks like a small copy of the Eiffel Tower) and is hard
to miss.)
Flags of the 96 countries that are represented at ICM'98 will greet
the participants on the ICC plaza in front of the entrance.
The ICM'98 organizers do not want to bother those participants who
arrive in the morning of August 18 with requiring to register before
attending the Opening Ceremony. Thus, REGISTRATION PRIOR TO THE OPENING
CEREMONY IS NOT NECESSARY. Everybody wishing to attend the opening
ceremony is welcome (in particular all accompanying persons). They are
also invited to attend the buffet lunch after the Opening Ceremony at
ICC.
The program of the Opening Ceremony has been decided. Please find the
program of the Opening Ceremony (10:00 - 12:30) in the APPENDIX of
the letter. The buffet lunch will be from 12:30 to 14:30. Detailed
laudationes on the prize winners will be read from 14:30 to 16:00.
The scientific program for ICM'98 starts with the first plenary
lecture by Juergen Moser at 16:15.
The highlight of the Opening Ceremony will be the PRIZE AWARDS. The
pages on the Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize in the ICM'98 and
in the IMU server have been updated recently. In particular, you can
find detailed descriptions of the medals and their history. The server
also shows photos of the medals to be presented at the Opening
Ceremony.
Of course, following a long tradition, the names of the Fields
medalists and the winner of the Nevanlinna Prize are kept secret
until the Opening Ceremony.
4. Opening Ceremony via MBone in the Internet
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The ICC installed proper equipment during the recent days so that we
are able to transmit the Opening Ceremony to the Internet. Hence, we
will be able, for the first time in ICM history, to show an opening
ceremony live to a worldwide audience. The transmission will be done
via MBone during the following periods of time
Tuesday, August 18 10:00 - 12:30 Central European Summertime (CEST)
14:30 - 16:00 Central European Summertime (CEST)
Thus, we will show the whole Opening Ceremony and the speeches on
the achievements of the prize winners.
To give you an orientation,
Berlin 10:00 (this is CEST) corresponds to
Los Angeles 1:00 am
New York 4:00 am
Johannesbourg 10:00 am
Moscow 12:00 pm
Bombay 1:30 pm
Bangkok 3:00 pm
Beijing 4:00 pm
Tokyo 5:00 pm
Sydney 6:00 pm
These are pleasant viewing times for countries east of Germany.
To give mathematicians in America a chance to view the ICM opening
during daytime, we will REPEAT THE TRANSMISSION from 18:00 to 22:00
Central European Summertime (CEST) (leaving out the break).
Please inform your friends and colleagues who do not have the chance to
experience the Opening Ceremony in person about this service. We hope
that this way many mathematicians throughout the world will have a
chance to participate in one of the most important events in
mathematics.
We are unable to explain the MBone technology here. If you are familiar
with using MBone you will have no problem anyway to see the session.
We suggest to all others to contact their local ISPīs (internet service
provider) to make the necessary configurations. Good information sources
on MBone are: http://www.mbone.de/ or http://www.mbone.com/ .
5. The Events During the First Days
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ICM'98 is a huge event with many activities throughout the days and
several in parallel. You may feel "swamped" with information material
upon arrival, and it may happen that some event is already over before
you have discovered that you would like to attend it.
It is impossible here to review the Plenary and Invited Lectures and to
give a glimpse of the short communications and poster sessions. Please
consult the program for this. I would simply like to list here a few of
the events of general interest (also for accompanying persons) that
happen during the first days of the congress, such as openings of
exhibitions and the like.
Monday, August 17
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19:00 Opening of the exhibition "Mathematical Cartoons"
in the Mathematics Library MA 163
(1st floor in the math building of TU Berlin).
20:00 Opening of the art exhibition "(Innovation)^3"
at Ludwig-Erhard-Haus, Fasanenstr. 85
Wednesday, August 19
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12:15 Opening of the exhibition "Terror and Exile"
at TU Lichthof
19:30 Lecture by Andrew Wiles (for a general public)
"Twenty Years of Number Theory"
at the Auditorium Maximum H 105
Thursday, August 20
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12:15 Presentation of Lehto's book on IMU at the Springer booth
18:30 Opening of the exhibitions in the Urania
"Mathematik zum Anfassen - Hands-on Mathematics"
"Mathematics and Ceramics"
"Stone Sculpturing"
"Schuelerarbeiten - school competition: Art and Mathematics"
19:00 Opening of the VideoMath Festival in the Urania
I sincerely hope that you will have a pleasant trip to Berlin and
that you will enjoy ICM'98. I am looking forward to seeing you
at the Opening Ceremony on August 18.
Sincerely
Martin Groetschel
President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee
P.S. Detailed information about the VideoMath Festival is now
available. Please consult the URL
http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/VideoMath/
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APPENDIX
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International Congress M C M
of Mathematicians X C V
Berlin, Germany I I I
August 18-27, 1998 I C M
Opening Ceremony
International Congress Center, Berlin
Tuesday, August 18, 1998,
10:00 -- 12:30 International Congress Center
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Program
Music: W. A. Mozart, Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Movement 4
David Mumford, President of the International Mathematical Union
Martin Groetschel, President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, President of the German Mathematical Society
Friedrich Hirzebruch, Honorary President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee
Music: Paul Hindemith, Clarinet Quintet Op. 30, Movement 3-5
Wilhelm Staudacher, Head of the Office of the Federal President
and State Secretary
Words of Welcome of the Federal President Roman Herzog
Juergen Ruettgers, Federal Minister of Education, Science, Research,
and Technology
Eberhard Diepgen, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Hans-Juergen Ewers, President of the Berlin University of Technology
Hansgeorg Hauser, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal
Ministry of Finance
Presentation of a Commemorative Stamp on the occasion of ICM'98
Music: W. A. Mozart, Divertimento K. 287, Movement 6
Presentation of the Fields Medals and a Special Tribute
Yuri Manin, Chairman of the Fields Medal Committee
Presentation of the Nevanlinna Prize
David Mumford, Chairman of the Nevanlinna Prize Committee
(Music performed by soloists of the ENSEMBLE ORIOL BERLIN)
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Opening Reception
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12:30 - 14:30 International Congress Center
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This complimentary opening reception is offered to all participants of the
Opening Ceremony. A light buffet lunch and beverages are served.
Laudationes
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14:30 - 16:00 International Congress Center
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Addresses on the work of the Fields medalists and the Nevanlinna Prize
winner.
Plenary Lecture
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16:15 - 17:15 International Congress Center
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Juergen Moser, ETH Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland
Dynamical Systems - Past and Present
Chair: Friedrich Hirzebruch, MPI, Bonn, Germany
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