The Junior Mathematical Society Miskolc and the Borsod Division of János Bolyai Mathematical Society will organize the Mathematical Camp and Junior Mathematical Conference '99 for high school aged or near students in cooperation with the Mathematical Institute of Miskolc University, Herman Ottó Grammar School and Földes Ferenc Grammar School.

The organizers of the Junior Mathematical Congress '96 Miskolc, (official satellite conference of the 2nd European Congress of Mathematics - Budapest) wish to fill in the gaps of the odd years between the edition '96 of the JMC, the edition 1998 held in Potsdam and the edition 2000 planned around the 3rd European Congress of Mathematics in Barcelona. We organized in 1997 the first time a Mathematical Camp and Junior Mathematical Conference, and it is a pleasure to see the interest for the
actual edition.
 
We are happy to have received your registration for the Junior Mathematical Conference ' 99 and Mathematical Camp. If you have not registered yet and you intend to take part in the meeting please register either by e-mail or by fax. We direct your attention to the fact that all of this information and more (list of participants, schedule of talks) will be available at our www site in about 2 weeks:

ANJMC99.

P r e l i m i n a r y   p r o g r a m

Sunday, August 15

Arrival of the participants, accommodation.
There will be a  group of students at the Calvinist School to meet the arriving participants.
Walk to visit the center of Miskolc - free programme.
Registration, conference materials on Sunday are available at the Calvinist School.
19.00 GET TOGETHER PARTY in the meeting place of the Calvinist School.

Monday, August 16

10.00   OPENING CEREMONY
10.30 - 12.00 Invited lectures
13.30 - 15.00 Student presentations
15.30 - 17.30 Problem oriented seminars
18.30  Conference dinner

Tuesday, August 17

  9.00 -10.00 Student presentations
10.30 - 12.30 Invited lectures
13.30 - 15.00 Student presentations
15.30 - 17.30 Problem oriented seminars
18.30  Cultural evening

Wednesday, August 18

9.00 -10.00 Student presentations
10.30 - 12.30 Invited lectures
13.30 - 15.00 Student presentations
15.30 - 17.30 Problem oriented seminars
18.30  Folk dance party

Thursday, August 19

  8.00 -9.00 Student presentations
  9.30 - 12.30 Invited lectures
13.30 -  21.00     Trip to Eger and  Szilvásvárad

Friday, August 20

  9.00 -10.00 Student presentations
10.30 - 12.30 Invited lectures
13.30 -  21.00       Festivities related to August 20, fireworks in Diósgyõr castle

Saturday, August 21

  9.00 -10.00 Student presentations
10.30 - 12.30 Invited lectures
13.30 -           Closing ceremony

Respectively
14.00 -    Optional trip to Zemplén and Tokaj

Sunday, August 22
  Optional trip to Zemplén and Tokaj
 
 

C o n f e r e n c e   p l a c e   a n d   a d d r e s s e s

The Conference will take place at the Herman Ottó Grammar School, Miskolc, Tízeshonvéd út 21.
The invited speakers and the participants will be accommodated the guest rooms of Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in the Calvinist School of Miskolc (Kalvin str. 2-4).
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T e c h n i c a l   r e m a r k s

The lecture room will have a blackboard and an overhead projector, and computer
projection will be possible as well.
There will be no internet connection available in the lecture halls, and the available
computers are PC CPU K6-266 with Win98, 36X CD, and MacIntosh LC475, both with LCD projection. NOTE:
We cannot guarantee the software you want to present, for software based presentation you have to provide the given software. We have some versions of  Maple and Mathematica available, but not the newest ones. The mailing address of the conference is the same as that of the Institute of Mathematics given on the letterhead.

A d d r e s s e s

One can send a message for the participants using the addreses given in the letterhead.
At the Herman Ottó Grammar school we have the phone/fax 36-46-349888 available as well.

For URGENT messages you can use the e-mail address given above, or call the mobile phone
36-20-9 826 766.

C o n f e r e n c e   o f f i c e   a n d   r e g i s t r a t i o n

For early registration please come to the Calvinist Shoo,. there will be an information and accommodation office on Sunday, August 15, from 10.00 to 22.00.
The conference office will be set up -in the hall of the main building of the Herman Ottó Grammar School  - starting from 8.00 on Monday, August 16, and will close on Saturday, August 21, at noon.
Each day you will find assistance here from 9.00 to 17.00 except Wednesday and Friday afternoon.

G e n e r a l   i n f o r m a t i o n   a b o u t   H u n g a r y

Citizens of the United States and European countries (with the exception of Turkey) do not need visas to enter Hungary. Citizens of other countries may need one, but this can be done at the airport or at the border. Please note that you cannot get a visa on a train. In Hungary the local currency is the Hungarian Forint (HUF, forint). The present exchange rate is: one US dollar is about 250 forints. Please note that the banks and money exchange offices are usually open only in the morning and early afternoon. It is best therefore if you change money at the airport or railway station upon arrival. The weather in August is mostly sunny and warm with the average temperature between 20-28 degrees Celsius. However, rain and cold weather is also conceivable.

I n s u r a n c e

Please check whether your stay is covered by your current insurance policy.

T r a n s p o r t a t i o n   i n   B u d a p e s t

We strongly recommend you to use the Airport Minibus which can be booked upon arrival at the airport. It costs about 1500 HUF. Taxi cabs are usually available, but the prices are not fixed and foreigners may be cheated. Presently you must pay about 90 - 200 forints per kilometer plus about the same initial fee. To reach the railway station from the airport may cost about 2600 HUF. There is a quite reasonable public transportation in Budapest. The trams, subways, suburban trains and city buses operate with pre-purchased tickets. One ticket costs 90 HUF. You can buy these tickets at newspaper stands and the ticket offices which usually can be found at the entrances of subway stations. When
boarding the vehicles or entering the subway stations you must validate a ticket. You can rent a car at the airport, the rate with unlimited mileage is about USD 100/600 (daily/weekly) for a compact or USD 180/980 for an "intermediate" car (plus insurance appr. 20-25USD/day). If you drive only automatic American models you should be prepared to pay much more. Try Budget at the airport. NOTE. Drivers in Hungary are not permitted to drink alcoholic beverages at all. Fines are high and checks are frequent. Speed limits are 120 km/h on motorways, 80 km/h on other highways and 50 km/h within city limits/residential areas. All seat-belts in the car should be used and lights should be on out of city limits
even during daylight.

H o w   t o   g e t   t o   M i s k o l c   f r o m   B u d a p e s t

All trains for Miskolc depart from East Railway Station (Keleti Palyaudvar). Although, there are lots of trains, we highly recommend you to use only Inter City (IC) trains between Budapest and Miskolc. There is an IC train roughly each three hours. We marked them by* , note that for them you need seat reservation as well.

Departures from Budapest (valid starting on May the 30, 1999): (see attached German language information as well)
6.05 *7.00 *9.35 10.05 12.05 *13.00 14.05 *16.00 16.05 *17.35 18.05 *19.00 20.05 *21.05
Departures from Miskolc:
5.35 6.35 *7.00 7.05 7.25 9.35 *10.30 11.35 *13.00 13.35 15.35 *16.40 17.35 *19.00 19.47

If you arrive so late that you cannot take the last train, we advise to spend the night in Budapest and come to Miskolc next day. In Budapest you will find plenty of accommodation, fro economy reasons we suggest you the Kiss Gellért Panzió - Budapest, Otthon u.14. a small, clean and cheap pension. Phone: + 36-20-9332 236, or + 36 - 1-3715000, where you have to add the prefix + or 00 or other valid for international calls when calling from abroad Hungary. Phone calls in Hungary In Hungary you have to use a prepaid phone card or coins, and start instead of 36 with the national 06. e.g, the emergency "if lost" calls from Hungary will use 06-20-9826 766, the mobile phone of one of the organizers. If
you want to purchase tickets and/or seat reservation- -which is compulsory for every IC train- at the East Railway Station then you have to find the ticket offices. This may be rather more awkward than you expect. So, when you arrive at the Station by the Airport Minibus or by taxi please ask the driver how to get to the ticket offices from the point he where drops you. At the ticket office please show the following Hungarian sentence to the cashier if she, he does not speak English:

Kérek egy II. osztályú retur jegyet Miskolcra és helyjegyet a . . . órás IC-re NEM dohányzó, ablak mellé!

In the Hungarian sentence above please write the departure time over \ \ . . . \ \ of the Inter City train you want to travel by. This means in English that you need a second class return ticket to Miskolc with seat reservation to a NON smoking seat by the window. If you need smoking seat please erase the word `NEM' from the Hungarian sentence above. If you need first class ticket please replace `I' from `II' in the Hungarian sentence above. The price of such second class ticket is appr. 3400 forints (16 USD). In Miskolc you arrive at the railway station: Miskolc Tiszai Palyaudvar. In this case you should take either a taxi in front of the Railway Station (we recommend the yellow-black line called HELLO taxi as the
cheapest one, and they are notifyed about the conference sites) or any trams (use prepaid tickets available nearby the tram station or you may purchase tickets from the driver 75-90 HUF). If you come by tram you should get off at the 5th stop called Városház Tér and  you'll get to the  right stop for the accommodation. To go there you have to come back along the tram lines to the first small square - Erzsébet tér, where you'll find the guest rooms of Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences http://www.miskolc.hu/Miskolc/latnival/e_mta.html Erzsebet square 3. For the Calvinist School dormitories you have to cross the small square, turn left walk about 100 m and cross the
street at the first traffic signal, you'll be at the corner of the building. The entrance is in the small drive in front of you at30 m. There will be notices, maps, and more information available at the porter in both places.