 Good morning everyone, I would like to welcome you to your equipped 2,000 2019 in Darmstadt. This is the 38th edition of your equipped an ICR conference And for sure it's one of the biggest one. So yesterday we had 547 registrations and I just was just notified that we have actually two more this morning So it's 549 now and And the noteworthy fact about this is that we almost have 40% student registrations So we're looking into a bright future and In case you happen to be around on Saturday and Sunday The number of registration was even topped by the number of workshop participants In total we had 631 workshop participants roughly 300 on each of the two days now organizing such an event is not It's not a single person who can manage to do this and I must thank all my team my research group most of them lined up there to the left and There's one particular person. I need to especially thank and this is Andrea Puschner She's the person sitting at the at the registration desk So she made my life tremendously much simpler. She negotiated contracts in case you need an invitation letter You probably got an email from her She was responsible for the catering and all these things and she did a Marvelous job, and I'm very happy that that she supported us here now Would also like to thank my workshop chairs Felix Günther and Christian Janssen both are standing there for organizing a very good workshop days two days of Interesting talks. They made a very good job. Thanks for that And of course, this is the main conference I need to thank the program chairs and the program committee you Valisha and Vincent Reimann who's sitting front here For compiling this scientific program. You'll about to experience in the next few days now a Lot of companies support this event This is funding which goes into for example travel support for students Let me just highlight two of our diamond sponsors. One is the Our collaborative research center here in Darmstadt crossing and the other one is the Horst Gertz Foundation for the generous donation now Now about the conference you will notice that basically almost everything is happening in here in this Darmstadt Yom conference center For example, even the lunches will take place outside of these buildings even in the behind the wall of this room There will be seating during lunch So in fact you can think about everything is in here now The talks of track a and all of the joint sessions like this one here, this will happen in this room This is called spectrum for example the invited talks The best paper talks the membership meeting the ICR membership meeting on Wednesday. This will all happen here and then we have Track B track B will happen in the ferrum lecture hall, which is if you leave there and you go up the stairways And if you want to visit the first Session of track B. I think you should follow Vincent because he's supposed to go there and chair the session there Now this is only on Monday and Tuesday Basically, we were lucky to switch because we got a certain high number of registrations switch to a bigger room But on Wednesday and Thursday. We are in a different room called titanium Which is if you pass ferrum and keep on walking then you'll Find this room. So this is on Wednesday and Thursday now On Tuesday, we have the rum session This is chaired by Dan Bernstein Tanya Lange If you follow the link on the homepage of the your crypt home page, you can actually now submit papers Or proposals should not say papers proposals for talks for the rum session And I think the deadline is tonight at 9 p.m. On Wednesday. We have the conference dinner this is going to happen in Frankfurt and The buses will leave in front of this conference building at 6 p.m They will take you to Frankfurt and Then we'll have a nice dinner and buses will return around at around 10 p.m Or you can venture out yourself in Frankfurt if you want to stay a little bit longer and then take the train back here about the talks and presentations So for the presenters, please be here in time Upload your slides. This is important especially if you are speaker of the first session The next session and you haven't uploaded your slide yet Now it's about the time to come from to the front here Get here a little bit earlier to get your microphone fixed. There are people helping you in this small room to the right They will set up your microphone. So come a few minutes earlier before you talk for the audience It doesn't look that crowded at this point but Because of the high number of registrations this you can expect that the joint sessions will be full. So please be here in time move to the middle of the row switch off your cell phones, of course and In case you have questions to the talks we set up microphones to the left and right. Please use them then we can record them and That's basically everything from my side So I hope you enjoyed the conference and now you have a few minutes to change rooms if you like