This Week
Monday Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to address the UN General Assembly in New York. Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios visits the prefecture of Viotia. To Wednesday. The 42nd Pan-European congress of the International Association for Dental Research begins at the Ioannis Vellidis congress center in Thessaloniki. To Saturday. Tel. 2310.997.158 or visit www.adrthessaloniki2007.gr. The first workshop on «IP Multimedia Subsystems: Present and Future,» begins at 9 a.m. at the University of Patras. To Tuesday. For details, log on to www.www.converged-networks.eu. Tuesday Doctors of the World holds a press conference to present the results of a survey, carried out by the European Observatory, on access by undocumented migrants to healthcare services. At 12.30 p.m. at the Athens Bar Association, 60 Academias. The second anti-nuclear festival begins on the island of Rhodes and will run through Saturday. An international exhibition on Gothic architecture, «GothicMed» opens at 8 p.m. at the Byzantine and Christian Museum, and will run through October 21. For details log on to www.gothicmed.com. Wednesday New Parliament members to be sworn in. The consular section of the US Embassy in Athens will remain closed to the public today for internal administrative reasons. University of Patras hosts an international conference on «Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation,» at 9 a.m. at the university. To Friday. For details log on to www.ece.upatras.gr. The Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) is hosting a conference on «Alternative Raw Materials and Fuels in the Cement Industry,» at 5.30 p.m. at its premises. Tel. 210.322.6015 or log on to www.tee.gr. Thursday Parliament to elect its new speaker. The third Pan-Peloponnesian medical symposium on the role of the general practitioner, begins at 5 p.m. at the Poseidon Resort in Loutraki. To Sunday. For details log on to www.elegeia.gr. The National Technical University of Athens hosts the 5th interdisciplinary conference on «Education, Research and Technology: Past and Perspectives,» at 6 p.m. at the Pindos conference center in Metsovo. To Sunday. Tel. 26560.290.40 or log on to www.ntua.gr/MIRC. Friday Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University hosts the 5th international congress on «Forensic Medicine and Toxicology» at the Auction House of Kastoria. To Sunday. Tel. 2310.999.257 or log on to www.gfss.gr. The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki hosts a three-day event titled «European Days of Cutural Heritage 2007» and dedicated to the history of residences in ancient Macedonia. Tel. 2310.830.538. To Sunday. Saturday The Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) in cooperation with the local authorities of Chios island host a conference on «National and Regional Road Network: Traffic Problems and the Safety of the Citizens,» in Chios. Tel. 22510.408.47 or log on to www.tee.gr. The Hellenic Center for the Promotion of Volunteerism, anthropos.gr, hosts an event promoting volunteerism, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the pedestrian street of Apostolou Pavlou in Thisseion. For further information, tel 210.883.8914 or log on to www.anthropos.gr.
