The 49th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society

September 27 - 30, 2005

School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia

Transport from the Airport to UWA

Taxi: From either the International or Domestic terminal to UWA will cost between $35 and $40. Ask to travel via the Causeway, as it is a bit more scenic than other routes, and may even be cheaper.
Shuttle Bus: The Fremantle-Airport Shuttle departs both the International and Domestic terminals and stops at the University Colleges. See their website for details. There is also a shuttle service from both terminals to the city centre.
Public Transport: The 37 bus from Domestic Terminal stops at Westralia Square on St Georges Terrace. Here you can change for the 24 or 103 to outside Trinity, or you can walk down to the Busport (5 minutes) and catch the 102 to St Georges College or the university.
Car: There are the usual suspects of car rental companies at the airport.

Registration

Registration (handing out of conference bags, lunch and dinner tickets etc) will take place in the foyer of the Maths Building on Monday 4pm-5:30pm and on Tuesday morning from 8:30 to 10am.
(Around the time of the registration, more precisely, 9:30-10 Tue in MLR3 - Maths Lecture Room 3 downstairs -, there will be a short demo, intended for Session Chairs, of the computer to video projection system as standard in *all* the venues. It's easy, but we would prefer you to be prepared, as with up to 10 parallel sessions, there are likely to be delays in us getting to you to fix things.)

Laptops for use in Special Sessions
Bring Your Own, if possible

News, added Fri 23 Sep. UWA Maths will be putting desktop machines in the 5 venues in the Maths Building. However there are 5 venues outside Maths where laptops may be needed.

If you need a laptop computer in your presentation, we would prefer you to bring your own as the School of Maths has just one ageing laptop. (Two UWA Maths staff have also volunteered their ageing laptops too.) Read on, though: it isn't a total disaster.

acroread with modest sized pdf files should be no problem, and
PowerPoint is available on two of the three laptops too.

(We are looking into replacement memory for one of the ageing laptops as it only has 128Meg of working RAM now. As at Fri 23rd, it still hasn't arrived.) Anyway, large graphics files are known to have failed on these laptops.
Video projection from computers here is standard in all lecture theatres, so at least some of the technology is there. For modest tasks, the old laptops will work, and your own better ones will work even better. There are sometimes 8 parallel sessions, so we know that we don't have enough laptops for every lecture room.

Here is some information for the Chairs of the Special Sessions.

There will be short demos of how to run the computer- video connections as detailed above at the Registration heading. Some key points are on the printed flyer advertising the demo.
In the event of a speaker in a Special Session being prepared to allow subsequent speakers in that Session to use a laptop already set up, it would save a bit of time and hassle to do this.

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