Dear colleagues,
last Thursday I had a meeting with Prof. Hu Dao-Yuan. We discussed the conference ICCT 2000 which is part of the IFIP world congress (a separate mail for that will follow) and the organisation of the IFIP TC6 meeting immediately after ICCT 2000.
Prof Hu will not be able to attend meeting 1/2000 in Paris. After our discussion last week I can give you the following proposal and some more information about the meeting 2/2000.
Prof. Hu will need informations about attendance as early as possible since the meeting location is highly booked due to its attactiveness. It would be best if he gets your reponse until the end of June at the latest in order to make the necessary room reservations.
The proposal is as follows:
- TC6 meeting 2/2000: Friday, 25 August + Saturday, 26 August
- Location: at the Great Wall, Mutianyu section; extremely beautiful but less crowded than the other Great Wall locations such as Badaling. The venue is some 60 km in North-East direction of the centre of Beijing. It is very convenient that the airport is also North-East of the centre (23 km from the centre); thus participants who cannot use the bus transportation for time reasons may take a taxi (which is rather cheap) from/to the airport. I got a flyer from the hotel and will bring it to meeting 1/2000 in Paris. The hotel appears to be excellent. It has a lot of nice facilities (large swimming hall, bowling area,...) and it is comparatively very cheap (approx. US dollar 60 per night). It would be possible to share rooms without problems since the rooms are spacious. Thus you might try to find another delegate for room sharing in order to save some cost if you want so.
- Transportation: Thursday, 24 August in the afternoon at the end of ICCT 2000 by bus from the Beijing convention center. Return by bus on Sunday, 27 August in the morning to the airport; many flights (SAS, Malev, Swissair, Lufthansa, JAL,...) depart on Sunday in the late morning; in particular cases a taxi would have to be used. In the "standard case" you would then need three nights in the meeting hotel; if you attend ICCT 2000 then you may select out of the hotels in Beijing which have been recommended for IFIP with special rates.
- Meeting schedule: Friday: full day for the meeting Saturday morning: visit the Great Wall section at Mutianyu (this is *** absolutely *** phantastic and not to be missed!!!!) Saturday afternoon: continuation of the meeting.
To my opinion, this will be a perfect arrangement of the meeting. I'll keep you informed. Please inform Prof. Hu (Email hdy@tsinghua.edu.cn) as early as possible about your travel schedule. I can only recommend to attend that meeting and, of course, the preceding conference ICCT 2000.
Best regards Otto
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