Please find the tentative program here for download (PDF, as of 20 August 2010, 616 KB).
Tentative_Programme_PBM2010.pdf
A few notes on the social program:
We recommend, depending on the weather, weatherproof jackets and comfortable shoes!
Dinner at restaurant Luise, September 14th, 2010
The restaurant Luise is located in the heart of the district Berlin-Dahlem, next to institutes of the Freie Universität Berlin and to some institutes of the Max Planck Society.
Therefore especially students and staff of the university and nearby research institutes often visit the restaurant. Our dinner in the restaurant is of informal character, it is intended as a welcome meeting.
In the garden of the restaurant there is a beer garden, where we can sit outside in fine weather. The restaurant Luise offers a wide range of hot and cold meals and beverages from salads, pasta, pizza, steak, fish to typical bavarian food, wine, beer and soft drinks.
Prices range from 7,00 EUR to 12,00 EUR per dish. It takes a 20 minutes walk from Harnack House to restaurant Luise.
Website restaurant Luise
Guided Berlin Highlights tour, September 15th, 2010
The sightseeing tour will be an English-guided walking tour through the historical and political centre of Berlin. The city guides will pick us up at the Harnack House and will accompany us via public transport to the start of the tour: the new main station Berlin-Hauptbahnhof.
From there we walk through the parliament quarter, we pass the federal chancellery building and the Reichstag / Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament).
We will visit the Brandenburg Gate. From there we will walk or ride by public transport (depending on the time remaining) to a restaurant in the heart of the district Berlin-Mitte.
The guided tour will take about two hours from Berlin-Hauptbahnhof to the restaurant.
Guided tour Hackesche Höfe, September 15th, 2010
The sightseeing tour will be an English-guided walking tour through the historical centre of Berlin. The city guides will pick us up at the Harnack House and will accompany us via public transport to the start of the tour: the S-Bahn station Hackescher Markt.
From there we will walk around the Hackesche Höfe in the very heart of Berlin and visit its neighbourhood, the Scheunenviertel. Berlins' Hackesche Höfe is a heritage site consisting of eight communicating, restored rear courtyards. They offer a vivid variety of restaurants, shops, cultural activity, offices and flats.
Scheunenviertel means Barn Quarter and refers to a neighborhood of Mitte in the centre of Berlin. Until the Second World War it was regarded as a slum district and had a substantial Jewish population with a high proportion of migrants from Eastern Europe.
The guided tour will take about two hours, afterwards all participants meet in a restaurant in the heart of the district Berlin-Mitte.