From owner-sc22wg5 Tue May 21 20:23:10 2002 Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA76345 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 20:23:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from walt@fortran.com) Received: from fortran.com (pcp01309891pcs.sabrna01.az.comcast.net [68.63.197.249]) by taka.swcp.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4LINADY048478; Tue, 21 May 2002 12:23:11 -0600 (MDT) Sender: walt@swcp.com Message-ID: <3CEA8E2E.1E951F7E@fortran.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:13:02 -0700 From: Walt Brainerd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Reid CC: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2409) 2003 meeting of WG5 in Dresden References: <200205081547.RAA16893@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) John Reid wrote: > > 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: 135.6% > > Approximate likelihood of coming if the meeting starts August 4: 134.8% Barring problems like we had last time! > 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 ----- -- Walt Brainerd +1-520-256-1455 The Fortran Company +1-520-760-1397 (fax) 6025 N. Wilmot Road walt at fortran dot com Tucson, AZ 85750 USA http://www.fortran.com