Information for Participants

Welcome to WHEPP X! Here is some general information about the conference and about moving around Chennai.

About the conference

List of Talks A schedule of plenary and non-overlapping working group talks is included here. The schedule of other working group talks will be announced at appropriate times.

Venues

Plenary and Non-overlapping WG Talks

 
Ramanujan auditorium, in this campus itself.

Working group Activity

 
Chandrasekhar Hall (Main building)
Room 423 (New Building)
Room 326 (New Building)
Room 117 (New Building)

Food

 
Lunches and dinners will be served at IMSc. Breakfast is served at Esthell and the Service Apartments. All others will be served breakfast at IMSc. There will be no dinner available on 7th January, 2008.

Cultural Activities

December is the season for classical music and dance in Madras/Chennai, although some remnants can be caught in January. Details are available at Chennai Online. WHEPP-X has the pleasure of presenting two cultural programmes during the workshop:

Variety Dance Programme presented by Kalakshetra, the renowned school of music and dance, founded by the legendary Smt Rukmini Devi Arundale, at the Kalakshetra Auditorium on Jan 4th, 2008, at 18:00. Transport will be arranged both ways, and dinner will be served late, after the programme.

Carnatic/fusion Music Programme presented by M/S Ganesh and Kumaresh brothers at 18:00 on 9th January, 2008, at IMSc in the Ramanujan Auditorium. This violin-duo hail from a musical family and their musical calibre has been recognised all over the world.

Mahabalipuram visit: A trip to the GRT beach resort Temple Bay at the historic city of Mahabalipuram (now called Mamallapuram), 35 km south of IMSc, has been arranged on 7 Jan, 2008. Please sign up before 5 Jan to ensure lunch and a place in the bus.

Director's Dinner The Director's dinner will follow the music programme on Sciences at 19:30 on 9th January, 2008.

Transport Arrangements

will be made to transport people to and from the hotels and guesthouses to the venue of the meeting daily.

• MSSRF and SAMEER are in the same campus and within walking distance to IMSc. Participants residing at IMSc, MSSRF and SAMEER will walk (!) to the venue.

• From Service Apartments (Indira Nagar), Esthell, and Service apartments (Gandhi Nagar) respectively, the bus will leave at 8:45, 9:00 and 9:10 to arrive at IMSc by 9:30. On the first day, the bus will leave half-an-hour earlier.

• From IIT and CLRI respectively, the bus will leave at 8:15 and 8:30 respectively, to reach IMSc at 9:00, in time for breakfast. On the first day, the bus will leave 15 minutes earlier.

• The buses will return daily after dinner. The schedule will be announced later.

Facilities at IMSc

Computer/WiFi Facility

Computer terminals will be kept in the 2nd floor lounge of the New Building. About 10 windows machines are available; another 10 are linux machines. The login id and password will be made available at the workshop venue.

Access to the Los Alamos archive is through the mirror which is located in IMSc
Please do not access LANL directly to conserve bandwidth.

Most of the Institute is wireless-enabled, including seminar halls. Please ensure that your power cable is compatible with the C/D/M plug types used in India.

For those staying in the IMSc guest house, the rooms have ethernet connections. Please bring your own patch cords!!

For those in other guesthouses/hotels, we are not sure of the availability.

Library

The IMSc Library will be open (for reference only) for all participants from 9:30 to 21:00 during the period 2-13 January, 2008. Entry permitted on presenting the WHEPP name-badge.

Photocopying

Photocopying requests may be handed in at the Registration Desk.

More help

For more help/information, contact the Registration Desk. You can also approach any of the organizers. In particular, please contact the designated people for specific problems, as follows. Their internal telephone numbers are given in brackets. Outside IMSc, you can contact them by prefixing 22543 to the numbers given.

• Guest House : M.V.N. Murthy (326), S. Jayanthi (GH manager)
• Food: Rahul Basu (311), Sanatan Digal (259)
• Computer : Raveendra Reddy (222)
• Transport etc: S. Vishnu Prasad (151), K.P. Sankaran (155), D. Indumathi (302)
• Library usage: Basudha Mishra (118)

Some useful phone numbers

Rahul Basu (Convener): 2243 1878
Sanatan Digal (LOC): 98408 96702
D. Indumathi (LOC): 2448 8138
M.V.N. Murthy (LOC): 2257 0652
Rahul Sinha : 93828 22258
At IMSc Admin:
S. Vishnu Prasad (Admin. Officer): 94444 47832
K. P. Sankaran (Junior Admin. Officer): 98401 18684
V. Parthiban (Transport-in-charge): 94447 20256
IMSc reception: 2254 3100

In and around Chennai

Tourist Information and Maps The Hello Madras booklet in your bag has information about places of interest in and around Chennai (including Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram) and a small map of the city. TTDC (Tamil Nadu Tourist Development Corporation) and ITDC (Indian Tourist Development Corporation) have guided bus tours to Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram everyday (7:00-19:00). They also have half-day tours of the city.

For people who would like to take off on their own, information about hiring taxis is also available at the Registration Desk or at the Institute office with Mr Sankaran.

Eating out in Chennai.