The Events During the First Days

ICM'98 is a huge event with many activities throughout the days and several in parallel. You may feel "swamped" with information material upon arrival, and it may happen that some event is already over before you have discovered that you would like to attend it.

For detailed information about the schedule, please consult the program, online available in interactive and in printable form.

Here we list a few of the events of general interest (also for accompanying persons) that happen during the first days of the congress, such as openings of exhibitions and the like.

Monday, August 17

19:00 Opening of the exhibition "Mathematics Cartoons": in the Mathematics Library of TU Berlin
(1st floor in the math building of TU Berlin).
20:00 Opening of the art exhibition "(Innovation)^3": at Ludwig-Erhard-Haus

Wednesday, August 19

12:15 Opening of the exhibition "Terror and Exile": at TU Lichthof
19:30 Lecture by Andrew Wiles (for a general public) "Twenty Years of Number Theory": at the Auditorium Maximum H 105

Thursday, August 20

12:15 Presentation of Lehto's book on IMU: at the Springer booth
18:30 Opening of the exhibitions in the Urania: "Mathematik zum Anfassen - Hands-on Mathematics"
"Mathematics and Ceramics"
"Stone Sculpturing"
"Schülerarbeiten"
19:00 Opening of the VideoMath Festival: in the Urania

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