St.Petersburg (the former capital of Russia) with about 5 millions inhabitants is recognized as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Various guided tours over St.Petersburg and suburbs including visits to Tsars' palaces and museums will be organized during both the Conference days and the weekend.
St.Petersburg is known not only for its palaces and museums. It is a historical scientific center of Russia, where the 1st Russian University and Russian Academy of Sciences were founded in 1724. Among first professors of St.Petersburg University were Leonhard Euler (who lived in St.Petersburg for 30 years and wrote his best papers there) and Daniil Bernoulli. Therefore in addition to sightseeing tours we are planning to organize historical scientific tours including visits to historical buildings of St.Petersburg University and Russian Academy of Sciences. You will have unique possibility to see houses where L.Euler, P.Chebyshev, A.M.Lyapunov, A.A.Markov lived and worked.
A few sightseeing tours will be organized for the Conference participants and accompanying persons:
City tours:
 | July 4, 16:00 - Survey bus tour of St. Petersburg |
| July 5, 19:00 - Waterbus tour |
| July 4, 8 and during the Conference - Hermitage |
Tours over suburbs:
| July 8, - Bus tour "Peterhoff fountains" |
| July 8 - Bus tour "Pushkin - Pavlovsk" |
Survey bus tour is included into the Conference fee. Tours over suburbs are not included into Conference fee and should be paid on arrival (US$ 25-30) at the registration desk.
The Conference Banquet will take place on Friday 7, July, 19:30. Restricted amount of banquet tickets will be available at the registration desk.
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