Wednesday, September 22, 2004 -- Welcome Reception

The Welcome Reception will be held on Wednesday, September 22 at 18:00 in the Representation Rooms of Johannes Kepler University located in the Uni-Center (building #2 on the campus map).

Thursday, September 23, 2004 -- Visit of Monastery St. Florian

Organ Concert - Guided Tour - Conference Dinner - Florianer Tanzlgeiga

There will be a bus transfer from the university to St. Florian. Buses will leave on Thursday, September 23 at 15:30 at the Management Zentrum (on University campus). After the conference dinner busses will return delegates to the conference hotels.

Additional tickets for the visit of the monastery and the conference dinner can be purchased at the registration desk.

	The monastery of St. Florian is an Austrian Baroque jewel and a landmark of the entire region. The Baroque building is the most memorable and one of the few completed Baroque monasteries - an achievement of the Italian architect Carlo Antonio Carlone and the Austrian architect Jakob Prandtauer.
Guided Tour: We will visit the Library (about 140,000 volumes), the Imperial Marble Hall, the Emperor's Rooms, and the "Altdorfer Gallery", a collection of 14 paintings by Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538), which represents the greatest treasure of the monastery.
The Conference Dinner will be held in the 'Sala Terrena' of the monastery.