A Montefiore/CCLab Seminar

Sponsored by
Institut d’Electricité Montefiore
(Université de Liège)

March 22-25, 1999 Liège, Belgium

GENERAL INFORMATION

Dates and venues of the Seminar
Monday 22 - Tuesday 23 March : Mercure Hotel, boulevard de la Sauvenière 100 - 4000 Liège
Tel. 32 (0)4 221 77 11 - Fax 32 (0)4 221 77 01
Mercure Hotel is situated in the center of the city. It can be reached from the Liège-Guillemins station by regular bus services (routes 1 and 4).
Wednesday 24 - Thursday 25 March : CCLab (Control Center Laboratory), University of Liège - Montefiore Electrical Institute. The Montefiore Electrical Institute is situated on the Sart Tilman University Campus (Parking 32). A shuttle transportation will be organised : registered participants will receive relevant information together with their confirmation.

How to get to Liège
By air : travellers arrive at Brussels International Airport : shuttle trains operate between the airport and the centre of Brussels where frequent direct trains to Liège can be taken.
By rail : numerous international trains are routed via Liège-Guillemins railway station.
By road : six international highways enter the city of Liège from all the major European towns.

How to get to University of Liège
Information about how to reach the campus of the University of Liège may be found in the following website: http://www.geo.ulg.ac.be/stage98/acces/index.html

Registration fee
The registration fee is 35000 BEF. The following reductions are granted :
 3 participants or more from the same company/institution : 30000 BEF/participant
 universities : 25000 BEF
 students : 15000 BEF
This registration fee includes : the seminar notes, the lunches and the refreshments during the breaks, the shuttle service to join the CCLab and return on 24 and 25 March.
Partial registration is possible: for the first two days or the last two days of seminars the registration fee is half price. Please indicate partial registration on your registration form.

Payment
Payment is required in advance of the Seminar. Monies should be made
 by credit card VISA or EUROCARD/MASTERCARD, all others excluded
 by bank transfer - Générale de Banque, rue Saint-Gilles, 4000 Liège - account n° 240-0435648-25 in name of A.I.M.BR
 by crossed eurocheque made payable to A.I.M.

Cancellations
For written cancellations received by the Seminar Secretariat by :
15 February at the latest, 85% of the registration fee will be refunded
15 March at the latest, 70% of the registration fee will be refunded.

Accommodation
Rooms have been reserved at preferential rates in two hotels in the center of Liège.
single double
Mercure hotel 2900 BEF 3400 BEF
Ibis hotel 2250 BEF 2550 BEF
Prices are indicated per night and include breakfast, taxes and services.

Banquet
A banquet will be offered to the seminar participants on Tuesday 23 March. Additional tickets for accompanying persons can be purchased (see registration form) - price per person : 2200 BEF.

Touristical tour
A touristical tour to Brugge, well-known as the ‘Venice of the North’, will be organised on Friday 26 March. Participants interested in taking part are kindly requested to register (see registration form). Price per person : 3500 BEF. This price includes the transportation, the guided visits, the entrances and the lunch.
Departure from Liège : 8.00 hrs - Stop at Brussels National Airpot : about 17.30 hrs - Return to Liège : about 19.00 hrs

Additional Information
 IBM Chair 1999 - International Professorship in Computer Science on Data Mining has on 25 March a day of tools demonstrations at University of Liège, Institute Montefiore. It consists of presentations followed by demonstrations / hands-on sessions on industrial Data Mining soft, industrial case studies, research institutes and universities. The registration is free.
 The following books :

 Transient Stability of Power Systems. Theory and Practice, M. PAVELLA – P.G. MURTHY, Wiley, 1994
 Automatic Learning Techniques in Power Systems, L. WEHENKEL, Kluwer Academic, 1998
 Voltage Stability of Electric Power Systems, Th. VAN CUTSEM – C. VOURNAS, Kluwer Academic, 1998
cover a large part of the presentations of March 24-25. These books will be available for sale on site at preferential prices.

Seminar Secretariat
A.I.M. Rue Saint-Gilles, 31 - B-4000 LIEGE
Tel. 32 (0)4 222 29 46 - Fax 32 (0)4 222 23 88
e-mail : aimulg@misc.ulg.ac.be

WEB SITE
For further information,please visit our Web site
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~cclab/seminars/1999/




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