Dear Conference Participant,

1. After your arrival at Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion airport please get a taxi to the "Grand Beach" hotel, see http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~farberm/transport.html
Your expected arrival time is known to the hotel, and your room will be available from the time of your arrival to the hotel.

2. Each morning there will be a special bus taking the participants of the conference to the campus of Tel Aviv University. The bus will depart at 8:30 from the entrance of the hotel. Please be ready. The bus will leave you at the Diaspora Museum Gate from outside of the campus.

3. The lectures will take place at the Melamed auditorium and the Holcblat auditorium, which are in Shenkar building. They are in the long corridor connecting several buildings of the Faculty of Exact Sciences. The best way to get to the Melamed Hall is to enter the campus from the Diaspora Museum Gate, passing between the Diaspora Museum and the computational center and turning left. See campus map and red pointing signs at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~farberm/campus.jpg

4. On Monday afternoon there will be a guided bus tour to Caesarea and Zikhron Yakov. It will commence at 14:00 from the Diaspora Museum Gate. It will end around 19:00 at the entrance to the "Grand Beach" hotel. The tour is free for the conference participants.

5. On Tuesday, August 7, there will be a conference dinner in honor of Jerome Levine.

6. Room 020 of Schreiber building will serve as a temporary office for the conference speakers. It will have a few computers and will allow you to telnet to your home account. If the office is locked, please ask the superintendent (inside the Schreiber building, near the entrance).

      Regards, Michael Farber