Colloquium on the occasion of Klaus Fredenhagen's sixtieth birthday  
 
Colloquium to be held at the University of Hamburg, on the occasion of Klaus Fredenhagen's sixtieth birthday.  
 
Date Friday, 7 December 2007
Location      DESY, Hamburg
Building Lab.1b, Seminar Room 4
 
 
Program       14:15 Welcome
14:30-15:30     Robert Wald (Chicago)
Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Short talks
17:00-17:30 Break
17:30-18:30 Klaas Landsman (Nijmegen)
The principle of general tovariance
 
 
Participants    A list of participants is available here.
 
 
Registration   If you wish to participate, please send an email to Frau Ullmann (lastname at math.uni-hamburg.de).

If you plan to attend the joint dinner taking place at the Stadtcafe Ottensen in the evening at 19:30, please send an email to Frau Ullmann before November 9 , also indicating whether you will be accompanied.


Travel Information   
  • Getting to DESY.
    Also have a look at this map of the surroundings of DESY.
    This is a map of the DESY grounds. You will find the building Lab.1b slightly to the left of the map's centre.

  • To reach the restaurant Stadtcafe Ottensen (Behringstraße 42) from DESY:
    Click here for a printable map and instructions how to reach the restaurant.
    Take the bus no. 1 at the bus stop "Zum Hünengrab/DESY" (at DESY's main entrance Notkestraße) in the direction "Bahnhof Altona", get off (after approx. 10-15 minutes) at the stop "Kreuzkirche", continue to walk along the Behringstraße for 1-2 minutes.
    The single fare for the ride is 2,60€, daily tickets "9-Uhr-Tageskarte Großbereich Hamburg" valid also to get to DESY from the train stations (after 9 o'clock) cost 5,10€. Daily tickets for groups (up to 5 persons) cost 8,60€.
     
    New: For the participants from outside Hamburg, a bus is organised to take people to the restaurant. Later at night it will go once from the restaurant to the Altona train station and back to DESY.
    Note that parking in the vicinity of the restaurant might be difficult.

Accommodation    Click here for a map of Hamburg that provides the location of hotels and booking information.

To find the part of Hamburg called Ottensen where we will have dinner, click on the map's left arrow four times. The restaurant Stadtcafe Ottensen is located close to the corner Behringstraße and Hohenzollernring.

Hotels in Ottensen/Altona:

Click here for a list of hotels close to DESY.

The deadline for registration at the DESY hostel (located on the DESY grounds) has passed. It may still be possible to individually book a room there via the hostel's web page.


Organization    Dorothea Bahns, Jochen Bartels and Christoph Schweigert