Millennial Conference on Number Theory

Travel Information

Travel by air to Champaign

Note about US Airways: US Airways used to have flights between Pittsburgh and Champaign, but stopped this service about a month ago, and is no longer servicing Champaign. If you have booked a flight on US Airways, please check with your travel agent or the airline that made the reservation; they will likely rebook your flight onto other airlines at no additional cost.

Transportation from the Champaign airport to Champaign-Urbana. The airport is located in Savoy, about 8 miles from the University of Illinois campus and the center of Champaign-Urbana. The Quality Hotel has a free shuttle service between the airport and the hotel; to request a shuttle, call the hotel at 1-800-322-8282 or 384-2100 when you arrive at the airport. For those staying at the Busey-Evans residence halls, we will provide transportation. We expect to be able to meet most flights on Saturday, and possibly some flights on Friday. Our drivers will be graduate students (mostly in number theory) and will be easily identifyable by T-Shirts and signs. If you miss our vans, or arrive at an earlier or later date, we suggest that you use the A-1 Airport Transportation service, which operates a door-to-door van service between the airport and any address in Champaign-Urbana. The company has a stand near the baggage area of the airport and usually has at least one van waiting for every incoming flight. The cost is approximately $10. (It is also possible to call a taxi from the airport, but since taxis are not allowed to wait at the airport, it may take 10 - 15 minutes for a taxi to arrive.) Of course, if are staying at the Quality Hotel, you can use the free hotel shuttle.

Travel by air to Chicago

For public transportation between O'Hare airport and Champaign there are several options. The most convenient, but also most expensive of these is the Bluebird Charter, which operates directly between O'Hare and Champaign. Traveling by train or Greyhound bus is less convenient and more time consuming, as the train and bus stations are located in downtown Chicago, some 25 miles from the airport. However, if you are planning to spend a day or two in Chicago before the conference, taking the train to Champaign may be a good option.

• Bluebird Charter: This is a bus line with direct service between O'Hare airport and Champaign. Buses leave at the International Terminal (Terminal 5) at O'Hare at 8:45 am, 11:45 am, 5:45 pm, and 9:45 pm, and at the Domestic Terminal 15 minutes later. The trip takes about 3 hours and is $35 one way. Reservations are required and must be made at least one day in advance by calling 1-800-400-5500 (630-961-5500 from outside the U.S.). Once you are in Champaign, transportation to the hotel or residence halls is readily available.
• Amtrak Train: There are two daily trains from Chicago to Champaign, the first leaving at 4 pm, and the second leaving at 8 pm. The trip takes about 3 hours, and costs $15 one way. Note that some trains require advance reservation; for details see the Amtrak web site. In order to take the train, you first need to get from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago, where the train station is located. You can do so by subway (see the Chicago Transit Authority web page for maps and schedule information) or by taking the Continental Airport Express, a scheduled bus line which leaves the airport every 5 - 10 minutes and stops at downtown hotels and at the train station. The trip takes about an hour. Taking a taxi to Chicago is also possible, but quite expensive as the airport is located about 25 miles from downtown Chicago. For transportation from the Champaign train station to the hotel or residence halls see below, under "Travel by bus or train"
• Greyhound Bus: Greyhound operates a bus line between Chicago and Champaign. Buses leave from a terminal in downtown Chicago; see above for information on transportation between O'Hare Airport and downtown Chicago. For fare and schedule information click on the above link. The Champaign bus station is located next to the train station; for transportation information see below

Travel by bus or train

Travel by car

• Quick directions to the Quality Hotel: From I-74, take the Lincoln Avenue exit in Urbana, go south on Lincoln for about 1.5 miles to the light on Green Street, turn right (west) onto Green Street, go about one mile west on Green Street, crossing Goodwin, Wright, 6th, 5th, and 4th Streets, turn left (south) on 3rd Street. The Quality Hotel is a high rise building half a block to your left. If you are staying at the hotel, you can park your car in the hotel`s parking garage. From I-72 and I-57, follow the directions to I-74 east, and then continue as above.
• Quick directions to Busey-Evans Residence Halls: From I-74, take the Lincoln Avenue exit in Urbana, go south on Lincoln for slightly more than 1.5 miles, about 1/4 mile past the Green Street intersection (see above), to the stop sign at the intersection with Nevada. Then turn right (west) and proceed two blocks. Busey-Evans will be on the left hand side (south). Use on street metered parking to check in and request a parking permit ($2 per day, $9 per week); the parking lot is located one block north of Busey Evans, but a permit is required before you can leave the car there.
• Parking information: Those staying at the Quality Hotel can park their cars at the parking garage of the hotel. The hotel is located a short walk from the conference site. Those staying at Busey-Evans Halls can park, with a permit, at a designated University lot, located located one block north of Busey-Evans. General parking information at the University of Illinois is available under this link.
• Directions to the Quality Hotel from the Choice Hotel web site
• Detailed driving directions and maps from the UIUC web site
• General driving directions and interactive maps from Mapblast

Local Information

• Altgeld Hall: This historic building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now houses the Mathematics Department and the Mathematics Library. Altgeld Hall is the site of the famous Chimes Tower, on which chimes concerts are played on weekdays when the University is in session. Altgeld Hall will serve as the primary conference site; registration, book exhibits, copying and computer facilities (for email and telnet access) will be in Altgeld Hall. The plenary talks will be given in Room 314 Altgeld, a large banked auditorium equipped with excellent multimedia facilities. A smaller room, Room 245 Altgeld, will be used for the two satellite conferences, the Workshop on the Interface of Probability and Number Theory, May 29/20, and the Transcendence and Diophantine Problem Workshop, May 27/28.
• Everitt Building: This building, located across from Altgeld Hall at the north side of Green Street, is home of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Lecture rooms in Everitt Hall will be used afternoons for parallel sessions of invited and contributed talks. Note to speakers: Although all rooms will have blackboard facilities, the size of the expected audience makes the use of blackboards impractical, and all speakers are urged to prepare transparencies for their talks. All lecture rooms are equipped with an overhead projector, and we will try to provide a second projector for each room.
• Levis Faculty Center: Located a short distance east of Altgeld Hall, the Levis Faculty Center will be the site of the Reception on Saturday evening and the musical and theatrical performances on Monday evening.
• Illini Union: Located next to Altgeld Hall on Green Street, the Illini Union is the most prominent building on the campus, and serves as the focal point of the University with dining areas, meeting rooms, study space, guest rooms, and various University offices. The conference banquet on Thursday evening will be held in the ballroom on the second floor of the Illini Union.
• Busey-Evans Residence Halls: The Busey-Evans Residence Halls are two adjacent buildings which serve as dormitories for women while the University is in session and are used for conference housing during semester breaks. They are located near the south-east side of campus, about a 5 minute walk from Altgeld Hall, diagonally across the "Quad".
• Quality Hotel: The Quality Hotel (formerly the University Inn) is a high rise building, located 4 blocks west of Altgeld Hall, at the corner of John and Third Streets.

Meals

Local Weather

Useful links

• General Information about Champaign-Urbana
• Campus map
• Visitors Guide to the University of Illinois
• UIUC Mathematics Department
• UIUC Mathematics Library
• UIUC Number Theory

• Conference Program: A preliminary Conference Program is now available, as is an alphabetical index of all speakers, along with the dates and times of their talks. We have tried to avoid conflicts as much as possible and we hope we have accommodated all specific scheduling requests. In case we have overlooked something, please let us know.

• Transparencies: While the lecture rooms will have blackboard facilities, we strongly encourage speakers to prepare transparencies. This is especially important for plenary talks which will be given in a large auditorium where using a blackboard would not be very practical. All lecture rooms will have at least one overhead projector, and the larger rooms, including the room (314 Altgeld Hall) used for plenary talks, will have two projectors. For those who have not prepared transparencies in advance, a limited supply of blank transparencies and pens will be available at the registration desk. When preparing transparencies for a talk, we recommend following the Guidelines of the American Mathematical Society for presenters at AMS meetings.

• Submitting a paper for the conference proceedings: The Conference Proceedings will be published by A K Peters in a projected set of two volumes totaling approximately 1000 pages. All speakers are invited to submit a paper for these proceedings. Papers submitted for the proceedings should normally be based on the talk given at the conference, though in exceptional cases we may consider other papers. In addition to original research papers, we welcome well-written survey papers. Because of restrictions on the size of the volume, shorter papers are preferred, and we may not be able to consider excessively long papers. (Plenary speakers do not fall under this restriction.)

  Research papers will be refereed using the standards of journals such as the Journal of Number Theory, Acta Arithmetica, the Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, and The Ramanujan Journal. We will make every effort to ensure timely refereeing, and we thank in advance the referees (many of whom will be selected from among the conference participants) for their work. If possible, papers should be prepared in LaTeX, with a font size of 10 points (the default), and textheight and textwidth set to 42pc and 27pc, respectively.

  Submission procedures: Papers can be submitted either electronically or as a hard copy. For hard copy submission, send two copies of the paper to the member of the Organizing Committee (B.C. Berndt, N. Boston, H.G. Diamond, A.J. Hildebrand, and W. Philipp, all at the Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Mathematics, Urbana, IL 61801) most appropriate for the paper. For electronic submission, send your tex file(s) to millennial-submit@math.uiuc.edu, along with a brief email cover letter. Papers received electronically will be processed and passed on to an appropriate editor. Please do not send submit both an electronic file and a hard copy. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is September 30, 2000.

• Library: The Mathematics Library at the University of Illinois is one of the three largest in the country, and has an excellent collection of journals and books. The library, located in Altgeld Hall, will be open for extended hours during the conference period. Conference participants are welcome to use the library during the conference.
• Computer access: A computer lab in Altgeld Hall will be available to conference participants for the period of the conference. Participants can use the computers to connect to their home accounts through telnet or ssh. Some limited printing is also possible. Graduate students who will be staffing the lab can provide assistance if needed.
• Copying: Coin operated copying machines are available in the library. Additional copying may be arranged through the conference staff.
• Book display: Several major publishers have sent us books to display at the conference. A room in Altgeld Hall has been reserved for this exhibit.
• Rare book exhibit: In conjunction with the Special Year in Number Theory, the Rare Books Library at the University of Illinois is holding a special exhibit of rare books in number theory.

• Hotel accommodation: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Quality Hotel - University Center, 302 E. John St., Champaign. This hotel, located a few blocks from the University campus, is a 20 story high rise building with large and comfortable rooms, many of which offer a great view of the University campus and the cities of Champaign-Urbana. The hotel was formerly known as the University Inn, but is now part of the Quality Inn hotel chain. The rates for conference participants are $50 per night for a single room and $62 per night for a double room, plus 11% tax. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel, by calling the hotel at 800-322-8282 (from the U.S., except Illinois), 800-252-1368 (from Illinois), or 217-384-2100. From outside the U.S., you should use the last number. You can also fax your request to the hotel; the hotel's fax number is 217-384-2298. When making the reservation, please identify yourself as a participant of the Number Theory Conference in order to obtain the special conference rate. The deadline for reservations is April 20, 2000; after that date, the rooms will be released and may no longer be available.
• Dormitory accommodation: We have also reserved rooms at the Busey-Evans Halls, 1111-1115 W. Nevada, Urbana, two connected buildings on the University campus, which are used as student dormitories during the semester and as housing for conference guests during semester breaks. These residence halls are among the nicest on the UIUC campus and are fully air-conditioned. Conference guests have a choice of single rooms at $32.44 per night and double rooms at $21.09 per night and per person; these rates include tax. The rooms will have sheets, blankets, pillows, and towels, and there will be daily exchange of towel and washcloth. Bathroom facilities are single sex and centrally located on each floor. Each room has free local phone service, guests may use a calling card to outgoing toll calls and can receive calls directly to their room phone. To make reservations, call the Housing - Conference Services at 217-333-1766, or use the online reservation form at http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/conference/millennial.html. The deadline for making reservations is April 18, 2000.

Conference Poster

Satellite Conferences

• Workshop on problems at the interface of probability and number theory, May 19 - 20, 2000: This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the probability and number theory communities who are interested in problems that lie at the interface of these two areas. The themes of the workshop include probabilistic number theory; uniform distribution and discrepancy; probabilistic methods in additive number theory; probability theory on algebraic and combinatorial structures; and probabilistic models in number theory. The workshop is organized by A.J. Hildebrand and W. Philipp.
• Transcendence and Diophantine Problem Workshop, May 27 - 28, 2000, organized by Michael Bennett.

Organizers: The Organizing Committee for the Conference consists of B.C. Berndt, N. Boston, H. Diamond, A.J. Hildebrand, from the University of Illinois Mathematics Department, and W. Philipp of the Statistics Department of the University of Illinois.

More information: If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, using the address below. Updates to this information will be posted on this web page (http://www.math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial) as it becomes available.

Conference web page: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial.

Mailing address:

Millennial Conference
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois
1409 West Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

Last modified Tue May 30 16:30:26 2000 ajh@uiuc.edu