Location
Edinburgh (Sep 7-15)
George Square Campus
The meeting's homebase is George Square Campus [map] of University of Edinburgh which hosts several units of the School of Informatics as well as the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences.
How to get there?
With public transport from Edinburgh Airport to the Campus (or
Newington in general).
Take the Airlink airport bus (aka bus no.
100, £3 single, £5 return) and only get off at the
terminal which is on Waverley
Bridge (ca. 25 min). Take any bus on Northbridge (most simply
walking up Cockburn street to the Royal Mile) that is going south and
get off near Nicholson
Square (ca. 5 min., price is £1.10).
Or take a cab
from the airport (ca. £18).
Within the campus
Lunch and talks
Within the central area,
talks, tutorials, and lunch will take place in the Informatics
Forum (07/09, 12/09, 15/09) and the Chrystal
Macmillan Building (08/09 – 12/09).
Coffee (11:00) and
lunch (12:30) will take place in the Informatics Forum, in the
Miniforum 1 or in the café.
Project work
The project work will be in Appleton Tower (across the street from the Informatics Forum), rooms 4.12, 4.13, and 4.07.
Visitors
Visitors and their hosts are listed below:
| Bill Byrne: | Miles Osborne |
| Hal Daumé III: | Sharon Goldwater |
| John Hale: | Frank Keller |
| Marc Swerts: | Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser |
Visitors' offices
The invited speakers and Saarbrücken staff will be based in rooms 3.23, and 4.18B in the Informatics Forum. Moreover, hotdesking space is available in the Forum on levels 2, 3, and 4.
| 3.23 (one person) | 4.18B (two people) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 07 | Hale | ||
| Sep 08 | Swerts | Byrne | Hale |
| Sep 09 | Swerts | Byrne | Hale |
| Sep 10 | Swerts | Byrne | Daumé |
| Sep 11 | Crocker | Klakow | Daumé |
| Sep 12 | Crocker | Klakow | Daumé |
| Sep 13 | Crocker | Klakow | Daumé |
| Sep 14 | Crocker | Klakow | Daumé |
| Sep 15 | Crocker | Daumé | |
Presentations and equipment
Invited talks (all non-student talks) are 60 min. in length;
please budget 45 min. for your talk and 15 min. for
questions and discussion.
Student talks are 30 min. in
length; please plan to talk for 20 min. and leave
10 min. for questions.
We will provide a data projector with a PC running Acrobat Reader and Powerpoint; if you plan to use this, please bring your presentation on CD or memory stick. You can also use your own laptop.
Computer accounts
For all participants, temporary accounts on the Informatics system have been arranged. You will receive your account information on arrival, which will enable you to access the computers in the computing labs (so as to be able to do project work). Invited speakers can use their accounts to access the computers in the visitors' office.
If you have brought your own laptop, you will be able to connect to the Informatics (wired) network and the University's Central wireless network, which covers both the Informatics Forum and Appleton Tower. You will receive your wireless account information on arrival, as well as information on how to connect to the wireless network. Note that the username and password for the wireless are different from your Informatics username and password. For more information about the wireless, please follow this link.
