Climate
The Drakensberg experiences hot summer days and refreshingly cool evenings. The following table provides the maximum and minimum temperatures in centigrade and average rainfall figures for the Royal Natal section of the Drakensberg:
MONTH MAX TEMP MIN TEMP AVERAGE RAIN
(mm)
JANUARY 26.2 15 241
FEBRUARY 25.8 14 231.5
MARCH 24.2 12 171.2
APRIL 22.6 9 68.1
MAY 20.4 5 26.1
JUNE 18.8 2 16.1
JULY 18.3 3 11.5
AUGUST 20.2 5 34.1
SEPTEMBER 24.4 9 56.6
OCTOBER 23.8 11 108.5
NOVEMBER 25 12 151.5
DECEMBER 26 14 195.1
Health Information
No international immunisation is needed when entering South Africa. The only inoculation requirement is a yellow fever vaccination certificate from travellers over one year of age entering South Africa within six days of leaving an infected country. Visitors who travel through or disembark in these areas are advised to be inoculated against the disease before visiting South Africa.
Malaria is basically under control in South Africa. There are some affected regions (Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Northern Natal and Zululand), see KwaZulu-Natal Malaria Risk Map, but these regions are far away from Durban and Didima Camp. In any way, this conference takes place in winter where there are no mosquitos. Therefore, participants who do not plan to travel to the affected regions need not take any precaution.
List of Participants
- Dharms Baboolal (South Africa)
- Jacek Banasiak (South Africa)
- Erwin Bruning (South Africa)
- Lawrence Michael Brown (Turkey)
- Bruce S. Burdick (USA)
- Jiling Cao (New Zealand)
- Szymon Dolecki (France)
- M. Isabel Garrido (Spain)
- David Gauld (New Zealand)
- Valentin Gutev (South Africa)
- Melvin Henriksen (USA)
- Eliza de Jager (South Africa)
- Jesus A. Jaramillo (Spain)
- Heikki Junnila (Finland)
- Masaru Kada (Japan)
- Giuseppe Di Maio (Italy)
- Pieter Maritz (South Africa)
- Enrico Meccariello (Italy)
- Jan van Mill (The Netherlands)
- Mohammad Reza Molaei (Iran)
- P. P. Murthy (Ethiopia)
- Jozef Myjak (Italy)
- Tsugunori Nogura (Japan)
- Johson Olaleru (Nigeria)
- Dusan Repovs (Slovenia)
- Biagio Ricceri (Italy)
- Ahmed Abd El-Kahlek Salama (Egypt)
- Manuel Sanchis (Spain)
- Hlengani Siweya (South Africa)
- Josef Slapal (Czech Republic)
- Vesko Valov (Canada)
- Yukinobu Yajima (Japan)
- Yevhen Zelenyuk (Ukraine)
Arrival in Durban
It is anticipated that all participants from overseas will arrive in Durban either on Saturday (July 10, 2004) or Sunday (July 11, 2004). The organizing committee will arrange people to meet the participants at Durban International Airport, and free transportation to The Westville Hotel, see the recommended accommodation below. Please inform the organizing committee by e-mail (organizers@maths.za.net) about your date of arrival, your flight number, and the arrival time as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can use the form below.
Your Arrival at Durban International Airport
Local Accommodation in Durban
We have arranged some number of rooms for July 10-11, 2004, in The Westville Hotel at the following rates for you: Single R440 (per night Bed & Breakfast), sharing R280 (per person per night Bed & Breakfast), see the current exchange rate. If you didn't pay your conference package yet, please consider to pay your accommodation for July 10 or July 11 together with it, prefebly till the middle of June. If you do that, please advise us for your payment, and your preferences if you are going to use a shared accommodation. You can book yourselves accommodation in the same hotel for your stay after the conference at the same rates. In any case, contact urgently the organizing committee (organizers@maths.za.net) if you are interested to stay in The Westville Hotel. Alternatively, you can use the form below.
Your Local Accommodation at The Westville Hotel
Transportation to Didima Conference Centre
Didima Conference Centre is more or less 2.5 hours from Durban, the transportation is included in the conference fee. Depart for Didima camp at 9h in the morning of Monday (July 12, 2004) by bus of Olympic Bus Lines.
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