Useful links
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Housing in Munich and Garching
- WG gesucht: flat-sharing community; free online submission and no intermediaries
- Mitwohnzentrale (MWZ): mainly temporary (2weeks-12months) offers; free registration required, offers will be sent by email
- SZ Mietmarkt: probably the largest selection of advertisements available online
- Kurz & Fündig: large national classifieds-only weekly; free online submission
- ImmoScout 24: large well-organized national collection
- a larger collection of links compiled by the city of Garching
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Registration
- Paperwork (forms for Anmeldung, Abmeldung, Lohnsteuerkarte in Munich)
- same stuff for Garching
- Tax return forms (Finanzamt München II, click on "Downloads") or here
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Doctors, Insurance, Telephone, Utilities
- List of english (and other languages) speaking doctors in Garching and surroundings compiled by the MPQ
- List of spanish speaking doctors in Munich courtesy of the European Patent Office
- Health insurance in Bavaria: a comprehensive comparison
- Fixed-line telephony: cost comparison
- mobile phone contracts: cost comparison
- Are you getting cheap electricity?
- Phone book for Germany
- current accounts (Girokonten): comparison including fees, transaction fees, and interest rates
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Transportation
- public transportation in Munich: fares and timetables (MVV)
- Deutsche Bahn (German Rail, timetables)
- public transportation in Garching
- Mitfahrgelegenheiten: join someone who's going your way for affordable transportation
- Mitfahrzentrale (a similar service)
- Routenplaner Travelling in Europe? Get suggestions how to best get from A to B by car.
- Travel Overland: an online travel agency
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Survival (in Garching)
- Pizza Delivery Services that deliver to MPQ (please add more and add ratings ;-)
- Classico (Tel: 089-3201414 (or 3206420); Fax: 089-3201414)
- La Pergola, (Garching, Tel: 089/3261899)
- Pizza Taxi (Garching, Tel: 089/3262175 (or -76))
- Pizza Delfino (Eching, Tel: 089/31859697, minimum order: 14EUR)
- For more restaurants click here
- SB Waschsalon Garching: Niels-Bohr-Strasse 11, Tel.: (089) 32668242
- Autovermietung Garching: Sixt Autovermietung, Gutenbergstrasse 4, Garching-Hochbrück, Tel.: +49-1805-252525
- a searchable list of shops and companies in Garching Gewerbeportal Garching
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Living & Leisure
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...in Munich
- today's Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich's major newspaper)
- Munich weather
If you don't like it: check here instead and hope for the best. - map of Munich
- Cultural Events in Munich (monthly calendar)
- Museums in Munich
- Cinema Program Munich: Here and here.
- city map Munich
...in Garching and surroundings
- Sportverein MPQ Quantenkick, the institute sports club
- cultural events in Garching
- Lake Garching, Lake Eching, Lake Mallertshof
- swimming pool Ismaning, swimming pool Neufahrn
- Wellness Wochenende,
- Squash center Neufahrn (Tel 08165/61010)
- Map of Garching (Flash required)
...in general
- TV program
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Moving / Umzug
- GLS delivers parcels around the world. Useful for moving in and out of Germany.
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Online Science Resources, ScienceBlogs etc
- QIP teaching links (a collection of lecture notes)
- European QIPC roadmap
- US quantum computing roadmap
- Complexity Zoo (all complexity classes you've ever wanted to know about and more)
- Quantiki (a quantum information wiki project)
- open problems in QIT
- Michael Nielsen's blog
- Scott Aaronson's blog and the Complexity Zoo
- John Baez' "This week's finds in Mathematical Physics"
- MATLAB Digest | Academic Edition (Newsletter)
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Other useful Links
- wordreference.com (dictionary English<->{German, Spanish, Italian,French})
- selfHTML: a HTML guide and reference
- Sending free SMS from your computer (free registration required)
- Online LaTeX Handbuch (Teil I) (pdf, 1.2MB, dt.) Teil II (pdf, 1,4MB, dt)
- (not so short) Introduction to LaTeX (pdf, 0.8MB, engl.)
- Detexify (If you don't know the LaTeX command for a symbol - here you can draw it and get helpful suggestions.)
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Around the MPQ
- Webmail (mail access via the WWW, click here for the old version)
- RZG Benutzerverwaltung
- Today's lunch in the IPP canteen
- The MPQ Library (note the two catalogues: MPQ library and theory group library; "portal search" allows to search in both simultaneously)
- Zeitschriften mit Volltextzugriff für das MPQ
- Garching campus map