From owner-sc22wg5 Wed May 8 17:47:04 2002 Received: from nameserv.rl.ac.uk (nameserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.129]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA16883 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:47:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jkr@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk) Received: from jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk [130.246.8.20]) by nameserv.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25902 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:47:04 +0100 Received: (from jkr@localhost) by jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id QAA18861 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:50:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:50:20 +0100 (BST) From: John Reid Message-Id: <200205081550.QAA18861@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: 2003 meeting of WG5 in Dresden MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WG5 members, Appended, please find a message from Wolfgang about the meeting in 2003, which he has very kindly offered to host. He suggests two alternative dates: either the week of July 28 to August 1 or the week of August 4 to August 8. I would like to choose between one of these by the end of this month, so please may I have your straw votes by then? Thanks, John. ....................... Name: Approximate likelihood of coming if the meeting starts July 28: Approximate likelihood of coming if the meeting starts August 4: I prefer (state which): ....................... ----- Begin Included Message ----- From wwalter@math.tu-dresden.de Wed May 8 16:18 BST 2002 From: Wolfgang Walter Subject: Re: 2003 meeting of WG5 To: jkr@rl.ac.uk (John Reid) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:15:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: wwalter@math.tu-dresden.de (Wolfgang Walter) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John, I fail to see the problem. We can have the meeting during either of the 2 weeks that I proposed, and I do not foresee any problems in organizing the meeting. Realistically, there won't be more than 20 participants (is that true??). Since there are not too many tourists visiting Dresden during the months of July and August, it is easy to get a room in just about any hotel. Furthermore, the university has a new guest house where I can easily block a set of rooms. I called them recently and they had no reservations yet for that time period. It is a modern building with good facilities including a restaurant. All rooms are double rooms. The price is currently 50 Euros for single occupancy and 65 Euros for double occupancy - breakfast included. From there it is 10 to 15 minutes on foot or 1 or 2 bus stops to get to our meeting place in the math building. For those who prefer to be closer to the city center there are a number of hotels that are easily accessible (among them the one at which most WG5 members stayed during their last visit). They are close to the train station and to the most important shopping area, about 20 to 25 minutes on foot or 3 bus stops from our meeting place and just a bit more expensive than the guest house (all approx. between 60 and 90 Euros). All the sources I have tapped into so far indicate that there will be no big events at the university or in Dresden those weeks, just a few annual festivals (music, etc.). The really active months are definitely May, June and the beginning of July and then again September through November. I would like to leave the choice of week up to the members of WG5: either the week of July 28 to August 1 or the week of August 4 to August 8. Flights to/from Dresden are no problem except that they are mostly Lufthansa flights which often go via Frankfurt or Munich if you fly internationally. Besides the local airport, there are airports in Leipzig (80 minutes by train) and, more importantly, in Berlin (2-3 hours by train); Frankfurt is about 5-6 hours by train. I hope that this gives you enough detail at the moment. Best wishes, Wolfgang ----- End Included Message -----