This is the Last minute information for the participants of the JMC2000
Péter Körtesi
Junior Mathematical Congress 2000
2000, July 3-8, Miskolc
ON-LINE REGISTRATION
http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/uni/dept/gepesz/matematika/junior/registration_form.html
CONGRESS WEBSITE
http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/uni/dept/gepesz/matematika/junior/
We are happy to have received your registration for the Junior Mathematical Congress 2000. If you have not registered yet and you intend to take part in the meeting please register on-line, either by e-mail or by fax. We call your attention to the fact that all of this information and more (list of participants, preliminary program, abstracts, schedule of talks) are or will be available at our website given above.
On site registration and registration desks
On-site registration as well as the participants' registration packages and additional information will be available at the registration desks as follows:
Sunday, July 2
- in the Calvinist School (Kalvin street 2-4), between 14.00-21.00.
Monday, July 3 to Saturday, June 16
in the Calvinist School (Kalvin street 2-4)
each day between 8.00-18.00.
During the conference for information, or to send messages to the participants one can use one of the following addresses:
Institute of Mathematics,
University of Miskolc
H 3515 Miskolc - Egyetemváros
POB. 10.
Hungary
phone: 36 - 20 - 9 826 766,
phone/fax: 36 - 46 - 565 146,
e-mail: matjun@gold.uni-miskolc.hu, OR
O r g a n i z i n g y o u r t r a v e l
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 290 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 some money at the airport or railway station upon arrival, though the exchange rate may not be the best. In addition however there are lots of cash machines which process all major cards. The weather in July 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 1600 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 3000 HUF. Public transportation in Budapest is quite reasonable. Trams, subways, suburban trains and city buses operate with the same pre-purchased tickets. One ticket costs 95 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 "medium size" 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 cities /residential areas. Seat-belts in the car must be used and lights should be on outside cities 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 Pályaudvar). 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 or EC train roughly each three hours. We marked them by * , note that for them you need seat reservation as well.
Departures from Budapest (valid from May the 28, 2000):
6.05 *7.00 7.10 8.05 *9.35 10.05 *11.00 12.05 *13.00 14.05 *15.00 16.05 *17.35 18.05 *19.00 20.05 21.05
Departures from Miskolc:
5.30 6.30 *7.00 7.05 7.25 *9.00 *10.30 11.30 *13.00 13.35 *15.00 15.30 *16.40 17.30 *19.00 19.45
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. For economy reasons we recommend 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 code 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 code 06. For example you will dial 06-20-9826 766, to contact the mobile phone of one of the organizers and get help if "you are lost".
Tickets
If you want to purchase tickets and/or seat reservation- -which is compulsory for every IC train- at the East Railway Station, 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 where he 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 in the dotted space \ \ . . . \ \ the departure time 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 for 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 a second class ticket is appr. 3500 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 notified about the conference sites) or any trams (use prepaid tickets available near the tram station or you may purchase tickets from the driver 85-100 HUF). If you come by tram you should get off at the 5th stop called VÁROSHÁZTÉR, come back along the tram lines to the first small square - Erzsébet tér. 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 at 30 m. There will be notices, maps, and more information available at the porter. Go direct to the registration desk for details.
Looking forward to seeing you in Miskolc,
Péter Körtesi,
Miskolc, June 25.