San Luis Potosi, January 7 1999 First mail to Attendees of the SELEX MEETING in San Luis Potosi =============================================================== Dear Collaborators, this note goes to all people who told us that they will attend the meeting in San Luis Potosi on February 21-23, 1999. We provide some more detailed information about the organization. Their will be another note about 1 week before the meeting where we will provide you with last details. All information is also available on the Web via the "selex at work" page. Up to today 21 people will attend the meeting. None of you told us yet their detailed travel plans, and nobody will come with his/her spouse. We ask you to tell us your travel details (flight numbers, arrival time, departure, etc.) as soon as possible, and also notify us afterwards if something changed. We have a block of about 15 rooms reserved in the Hotel "Real Plaza". To facilitate the individual reservations, we will handle them for you, as early as you tell us your travel plans. The hotel has single rooms for 310 Pesos, and double rooms for about 10% more. The rooms have either one king size bed or two smaller beds. Please tell us if you would like a single room or share a room and with whom. Actually up to 4 people can occupy one room (we have to find out the rate for this case). The hotel accepts all major credit cards. The Hotel is located just outside the historical city center. If you will arrive at the airport in San Luis Potosi, we will provide transportation to the hotel. For people arriving at other airports, we have to see how many will come at the same time to decide how to transfer you to San Luis. We will transfer you every morning from the Hotel to the Institute and back in the evening. We plan to have a coctail-reception on Sunday night at Jurgen's place, an official dinner (including a presentation about the history of San Luis) on Monday night, and a sight seeing tour of the colonial center on Tuesday around lunch time (depending on the meeting schedule -- we might move this to Sunday). We asked the University to provide us with funds for all these activities, but we have no reply yet. We also think about organizing tour(s) to nearby locations like Zacatecas or Real de Catorze. These are 2-3 hours driving, so these trips are for a whole day. Please let us know what you like to do. The meeting itself will be in the Auditorium of the Instituto de Fisica. Within the Institute you will have access to computers (account name "selex" with a well-known password). Please be aware that we have no color printers in the institute -- you have to prepare your fancy transparencies before you come. The agenda for the meeting is handled by Jim; an up-to-date version is available on the Web. Important phone numbers: The country code for Mexico is 52, the area code for San Luis 48. Within Mexico (and outside San Luis) you have to dial 01-48-... Hotel Real Plaza: Phone 146055 or 146969, Fax 146639 Instituto de Fisica: Phone 262362, Fax 133874 Jurgen Home: 150324 Antonio Home: 186486 Jurgen Cell Phone: 291669 If we can help you in any way, just let one of us know. We hope to see you all here in San Luis Potosi. Jurgen and Antonio