Registration and Accommodation
Local Arrangements
CONGRESZON LTD
is the official congress office of the Logic Colloquium 2003 and
is in charge of
registration,
the social program,
accommodation
and all remaining practical matters.
The contact person is Ms. Riitta Tuominen.
Address: Itälahdenkatu 22 A, FIN-00210 Helsinki, Finland,
Tel: +358 9 5840 9359,
Fax: +358 9 5840 9555,
Email:
riitta.tuominen@congreszon.fi
(Note! Please write LC2003 in the subject of your email).
Registration Procedure
To register for the Colloquium, to reserve hotel accommodation and/or to book
social events and tours, please complete the registration form
(available in
PDF)
and send it to
Congreszon Ltd by email attachment or fax.
If you pay by credit card
and have written your credit card number on the form,
we recommend that you fax the form for security reasons.
After receiving the registration form and payments,
Congreszon will send you a confirmation letter.
An
on-line registration form
is available.
Registration fees
The full fee is € 200 before May 31
and € 250 after that.
Accompanying person's fee is € 70 before May 31
and € 90 after that.
There is no fee for
- students who have been granted financial support,
- invited speakers and
- members of the Program Committee.
The registration fee includes:
admission to all sessions, receptions
and the conference proceedings published by ASL
in the series Lecture Notes in Logic,
to be sent to the registered participant afterwards.
The accompanying person's
fee includes receptions
and the special half day tour for accompanying persons
on Friday, 16 August.
Children under 18 years
are exempt from the accompanying person's fee,
and they can obtain tour and banquet tickets
at half price.
Payment
All payments should be made in euros.
Payment can be made
either by sending a bank transfer or by credit card
(Visa, Eurocard and Mastercard are accepted).
Bank: Sampo Bank plc, 00075 SAMPO, Finland
Account holder: Congreszon Ltd
Account number: 800010-70766853
Swift code: PSPBFIHH
Please check that your
name and LC2003 are clearly indicated in the remittance
to ensure that the payment will be correctly registered.
To be eligible for early registration the
payment should be received by May 31, 2003.
Bank transfers should be made net
of all bank charges and commissions.
Lunches
Participants can purchase lunch tickets in advance
(see the registration form).
Lunch is served at University Main and Porthania buildings
(Porthania is next to the Main building).
Different lunch alternatives will be available, also for vegetarians.
Lunch tickets cost € 5 each and are valid on 13 - 21 August,
2003.
Accommodation
Accommodation during the Colloquium has been reserved at the hotels listed
below. Please note that when reserving a double room both names should be
listed on the form. Congreszon Ltd cannot guarantee late reservations.
The rate includes VAT and breakfast.
Tutorial, plenary and special session speakers need not make a hotel reservation. Unless notified otherwise, the organizers will book accommodation
for them at Cumulus Kaisaniemi, Cumulus Seurahuone or the University Guesthouse.
Students and young researchers with accommodation support will be housed
by the organizers in Hostel Satakuntatalo.
Hotel / Hostel Deposit
To guarantee your hotel reservation a deposit of &euro 150 for hotels
and € 60 for hostels is required.
The deposit should be paid together with the other registration payments.
The rest of the accommodation payment should be
paid directly to the hotel and the deposit paid will be credited on your final
hotel bill when checking out. Your hotel reservation will be confirmed when
Congreszon has received your deposit. All alterations or cancellations to
accommodation reservation should be addressed to Congreszon in writing.
| Name |
Class |
Single room |
Double room |
| Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre
| ****
| € 114
| € 176
|
| Cumulus Seurahuone
| ***
| € 102
| € 155
|
| Cumulus Kaisaniemi
| ***
| € 98
| € 138
|
| Hotel Anton
|
| € 82
| € 102
|
| Hostel Academica
| |
€ 53
| € 75
|
| Eurohostel
| |
€ 36.50
| € 44
|
Social Program
| Day |
Date |
Time |
Cost |
Event |
| Thursday
| 14.8
| afternoon
|
| Opening Ceremony and Reception hosted by the Rector of the University.
|
| Saturday
| 16.8
| 18.00 - 22.00
| € 60 |
Sauna evening (minimum no. of participants is 30).
|
| Sunday
| 17.8
| afternoon
| € 35 |
Architectural tour of Helsinki and classical music concert,
featuring the world-renowned Finnish opera singer
Jorma Hynninen.
The concert will take place in a Helsinki landmark building,
the
"Rock Church", a modern church carved into a small hill of granite.
|
| Monday
| 18.8
| 18.00 - 23.00
| € 25 |
Banquet in restaurant Walhalla on the island of Suomenlinna.
Suomenlinna is in the Helsinki harbor and also a World Heritage Site. The fee
includes transportation by boat to the island.
|
Tours for accompanying persons:
| Day |
Date |
Time |
Cost |
Event |
| Friday
| 15.8
| 10.00 - 13.00
| € 0/€ 50* |
Tour for accompanying persons.
|
| Saturday
| 16.8
| Day trip
| |
Excursion to Tallinn, Estonia.
|
* The tour is included in the accompanying person's fee;
an extra ticket costs € 50.
Post-Colloquium tour to St. Petersburg, 22 -24.8.2003
Colloquium participants and the accompanying persons are offered the
possibility of attending a post-colloquium tour by train to St. Petersburg, the
old capital of the Russian Empire. The tour includes half-board accommodation,
city sightseeing, visits to the
Hermitage,
Catherine Palace
and Yusupov Palace.
Price per person € 757/sgl and € 630/dbl.
Note:
Another logic conference,
the 2nd St. Petersburg Days
of Logic and Computability
will take place in St. Petersburg on August 24-26.
Cancellation Policy and Liability
Cancellation of registration: 75 % of the registration fee
will be refunded if a written notification of cancellation
addressed to Congreszon Ltd is received by July 1, 2003.
No refund will be issued for cancellations received after this date.
Cancellation of tours: 50 % of the fee
will be refunded for cancellation addressed to Congreszon Ltd by
June 15, 2003. No refund will be issued for cancellations
after this date.
Cancellation of hotel: 50 % of the payment will be refunded
for cancellation addressed to Congreszon Ltd by May 31, 2003.
No refund will be issued for
cancellations received after this date.
Liability:
The LC 2003 Organizers and Congreszon Ltd act as agent only in securing
hotels, transport and travel services and shall in no event be liable for acts
or omissions in the event of injury, damage, loss, accident, delay or
irregularity of any kind whatsoever during arrangements organised through
contractors or the employees of such contractors in carrying out services.
Hotel and transportation services are subject to the terms and conditions under
which they are offered to the public in general. The Colloquium Organizers
and the Congreszon reserve the right to make changes where deemed necessary,
without prior notice to parties concerned. All disputes are subject to Finnish
Law.