Third Announcement of the Conference

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
29 August - 2 September, 2005
Scientific Program

• The scientific program will consist of 50 minute plenary lectures and short talks in two parallel sessions. Contributions will also be presented in poster form. The lectures will run from Monday, August 29 till Friday, September 2. By the end of July more than 120 participants from 27 countries had registered (see the list of registered participants) and more than 100 contributions had been announced.
  Schedule of talks (as of August 25): dvi, pdf or ps.
  Abstracts: dvi, or ps.
  
  
• Plenary speakers:
  • Peter Gilkey (University of Oregon, USA)
  • Julian Lawrynowicz (University of Lodz, Poland)
  • Peter W. Michor (University of Vienna, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics)
  • Gudlaugur Thorbergsson (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
  • Joseph A. Wolf (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  
  
• Sections and section organizers:
  • Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds (János Szenthe)
  • Finslerian geometry and its applications (László Kozma)
  • Geometry of submanifolds (László Verhóczki)
  • Lie groups and symmetric spaces, Lie theory of loops (Péter Nagy)
  • Applications in physics (Zalán Horváth)
  
  
• Organizing Committee
  • B. Csikós (chairman), Z. Horváth, G. Moussong, J. Szenthe, R. Szõke, L. Verhóczki (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
  • Z. Perjés (1943-2004), I. Rácz, L. B. Szabados (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest),
  • S. Bácsó, L. Kozma, P. Nagy, J. Szilasi, L. Tamássy (University of Debrecen)

Conference Venue & Lecture Room Facilities

• The lectures will take place in Building C of the Lágymányos campus of the Faculty of Science of Eötvös University. Address: 1117 Budapest, XI., Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C. (See location 1 on the map.)


• The lecture rooms are equipped with both data projectors for laptops and overhead projectors for ordinary transparencies. There is also a built-in PC in each lecture room with Windows XP OS. Thus, if you have a standard Power Point presentation, you do not have to carry your laptop, it is enough to bring the ppt file on a (1.44MB) floppy, pen drive, or CD. If you want to use special software, Linux or another OS for your talk, then it is more advisable to use a laptop on which the presentation has been tested to work properly.
  

Talks and posters

• Short talks will be 25 minutes long including discussion and there will be a 5 minute break between talks to set up the equipment for the next talk.


• Participants who want to present a poster are asked to prepare their contributions on at most four A4 or letter size printed pages.
  

Payments by Late Bank Transfer

• We kindly ask everyone paying the participation fee via bank transfer to pay additionally the total cost of the transfer, otherwise the banks subtract it from the transferred amount, and only a part of the registration fee will arrive on the conference account.


• As the registration fee appears on the account of the conference with some delay, we ask those who transfer the participation fee after 10 August to bring a proof of transfer.


• To avoid the above inconveniences, those who have not transferred the registration fee yet are requested to pay the registration fee in cash upon arrival.

Registration Desk

• On 28 August 1pm - 8 pm a registration desk will operate at the Bolyai College. There will be registration period also in Hotel Ibis Budapest Centrum on Sunday 5 pm - 8 pm. Registration will continue on Monday from 8 am in Building C of the Lágymányos campus (conference site).


• Participants who wish to have the organized lunch are asked to register in time in order to receive the lunch tickets.


• Payments in cash at the registration desk are accepted only in Hungarian Forints (HUF).

Transportation

• Arrival by air
  A convenient way to reach your destination from the airport is to use the Airport Minibus service. You can find the Airport Minibus desk in the Arrival Hall of the airport.
  The departure of the buses from the airport depends on the number of passengers. If the time of waiting for departure exceeds 20 minutes you will be informed by the staff accordingly. Airport minibuses are transporting passengers directly to their destinations, so please keep at hand the address of your hotel:
  
  

  Hotel Peregrinus H-1056 Budapest, Szerb u. 3.	Hotel Mercure Budapest Duna H-1095 Budapest, Soroksári út 12.
  Hotel Ibis Budapest Centrum H-1092 Budapest, Ráday u. 6.	ELTE Bolyai College H-1117 Budapest, Nándorfejérvári út 13.

  
  You can take the Airport minibus also to get to the airport from your hotel. The minibus will arrive at the previously requested address on time to take passengers to the airport via the shortest way. Buses can be ordered in advance by the phone number (+36 1) 296 8555, but not later than 12 hours before the departure time of your flight. Calls by phone will be served every day between 06.00-22.00
  
  Airport minibus tariffs within Budapest:
  
  • One way ticket: HUF 2300
    
  • Roundtrip ticket: HUF 3900
    
  
  To reach your hotel by public transport take the Airport Bus (with prepaid a ticket, see below) at the Airport and change at its terminus (Kõbánya-Kispest) to the blue Metro line (M3). The blue Metro line takes you to the center, where you can
  • change to tram No. 4 or 6 at the station Ferenc körút and travel until the stop Boráros tér to reach Hotel Mercure Budapest Duna;
  • get off at the station Kálvin tér from which Hotel Peregrinus and Hotel Ibis Budapest Centrum are at walking distances;
  • change to tram No. 47 at Kálvin tér which you leave at its stop Etele utca to reach Bolyai College. You can change to tram No. 47 also at Deák tér. Then the travel becomes a bit longer, but since Deák tér is the terminus of tram No. 47, you cannot take it in the wrong direction. (See map.)


• Arrival by train
  International trains arrive at one of the main Railway Stations: Keleti pályaudvar = Eastern Railway Station, Nyugati pályaudvar = Western Railway Station, and Déli pályaudvar = Southern Railway Station. The map shows the location of these Railway Stations as well as the location of the conference venue and that of the hotels at which the organizers made preliminary reservations for the participants. One can move from one location to the other, using the following means of public transport:
  • The Red Metro Line (M2), drawn by red continuous line on the map. It terminates at Déli pályaudvar and stops at Keleti pályaudvar. It crosses the blue Metro line and Tram No. 47 at Deák tér and intersects the route of Trams No. 4 and No. 6 at Blaha Lujza tér.
    
  • The Blue Metro Line (M3) drawn by blue continuous line on the map. It stops at Nyugati pályaudvar and at Kálvin tér, which is at walking distance from Hotel Peregrinus and Hotel Ibis Budapest Centrum. The blue Metro line crosses the red Metro line at Deák tér; the route of Tram No. 47 at Deák tér and at Kálvin tér; the route of Trams No. 4 and No. 6 at Ferenc körút.
  • Trams No. 4 and No. 6. The routes of these lines are almost identical. They are drawn by light green dotted lines on the map and labelled by T4 and T6 respectively. These lines branch only after crossing the Danube from Pest to Buda. Trams No. 4 and No. 6 stop at Nyugati pályaudvar, at Boráros tér, near Hotel Mercure Budapest Duna and at Petõfi híd, budai hídfõ, from which the conference venue is at walking distance. The route of these trams crosses the red Metro line at Blaha Lujza tér, the blue Metro line at Ferenc körút, and the route of Tram No. 47 at their respective termini Móricz Zsigmond körtér (T6) and Fehérvári út (T4) = Bocskai út (T47).
  • Tram No 47 (magenta dotted line on the map). This tram stops at Kálvin tér, the closest tram stop to Hotel Ibis Budapest Centrum; at Fõvám tér, the closest tram stop to Hotel Peregrinus and at Etele utca, from which Bolyai College is at walking distance. Between its terminus Deák tér and Móricz Zsigmond körtér it goes on the same track as tram No 49., between Móricz Zsigmond körtér and Etele utca it shares its track with trams No. 18 and No. 41.
  Tram and bus stops are marked by red circles on the map. Please plan your own trip using the linked map and the information above. If your train stops at Kelenföldi Railway Station and you will stay in Bolyai College, then you can make a short cut by getting off the train there and taking Bus No. 103. (see blue dotted line on the map).
  


• Arrival by car
  If you arrive by car on one of the motorways, notice that drivers have to purchase motorway stickers for the motorways M1, M3, M5 and M7. Stickers can be bought at border crossing points and at petrol stations. The speed limit is 50 km/h in built-up areas; 90 km/h outside built-up areas and 130 km/h on motorways.
  The city of Budapest, as most of the big old cities, is not driver friendly. Many small streets in the center are one-way. Sometimes it is difficult to find a parking place. At most places in the center parking fee must be paid from 8 am - 6 pm Mon. to Fri., and 8 am - noon on Sat. Cars parked illegally are likely to be clamped and it is a complicated and expensive procedure to get rid of the wheelclamp. Traffic jams in rush hours are also common. If you arrive by car, please ask your hotel about the parking facilities offered by the hotel or available near the hotel. For travel within Budapest we recommend using public transportation.
  
  


• Public transport
  For detailed information on the public transport in Budapest we refer to the web page of Budapest Transport Limited (BKV Rt.). You can read there about available tickets and passes and about the general travel conditions. The most important rule is that you can travel in public transport vehicles only with pre-purchased ticket or pass that you validate when starting your trip. Here are some ticket types and their prices:
  
  

  Single ticket	170 HUF
  Discount coupon book (10 Ps)	1450 HUF
  Discount coupon book (20 Ps)	2800 HUF
  Seven-day travel card	3100 HUF

  
  
  The whole range of available tickets and passes can be bought at BKV ticket offices, which can be found at Metro stations. There are BKV ticket offices also at the HÉV (green suburban train) terminus at Boráros tér, across the street from Hotel Mercure Duna and at Móricz Zsigmond körtér. Single tickets and discount coupons are sold also at tobacconists and newspaper stands.

Internet

• There will be free internet access in Building C.
  

Electricity

• Hungary's electricity network operates at 230 Volts, 50 Hz. Electric sockets are of standard continental type. (Type C and Type F on the web page Electricity around the world.)

Links

• List of registered participants
• Preliminary Schedule of Talks: pdf or ps
• Abstracts: dvi, or ps.
• Rooming list for participants staying in Bolyai College
• Preliminary announcement of the conference
• Second announcement of the conference
• Welcome to Budapest (Useful touristic information)
• Quick currency converter
• The Weather in Budapest by weather.com, by CNN.com
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