WEEK ONE (Sep 6-10)
George Square Campus
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, GBP 3 single, 5 return) and only get off at the terminal which is
Waverly station (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 at Saint
Patrick Square (ca. 5min, price is 80p).
Or take a cab (ca. GBP 15).
Within the
campus
Lunch and talks
Within the campus [maps: html, pdf] lunch
and talks will take place the
conference suite at 4 Buccleuch
place (building number 42 on the campus map).
To get to the conference suite enter
No. 4 and take
the small stairs to the basement. Lunch is served in the foyer every
day at 1pm.
Visitors' office
Visitors' office is room 3 on the groundfloor of 2 Buccleuch Place
(building number 42 on the campus map).
Project work
Project work is in the Computing
Lab South on level 5 of Appelton Tower (building
number 30 on the campus map).
Presentations
and equipment
Invited
talks (all non-student talks) are 75 min in length; please budget 50
min for your talk and 25 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.
Project presentations on Sep 6 are 15 min long.
At both Edinburgh and Firbush, 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 floppy, CD, or memory stick. You can
also use your own laptop.
At Edinburgh, there will also be an overhead projector (at Firbush,
this will probably not be the case; let us know if this is a
problem).
Computer
accounts
For
student participants, visitors' account will be arranged. You will
receive your account information on arrival, which will enable you to
access the computers in the computing lab (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
University's wireless network, which covers both Buccleuch Place and
Appleton Tower. However, you will first have to register using a
username and the password which you will receive on arrival.
Please note that this password is not the same as the password you use
to access your Edinburgh account. To register, please go to this page.
WEEK TWO (Sep 13-17)
Firbush Point
Field Centre is situated on the banks of Loch Tay near the village
of Killin in the Southern Highlands, about 80 miles north of Edinburgh [map].
It is administered and staffed by members of the Centre for Sport and
Exercise, at the University of Edinburgh. There is also a travel
map.
Its beautiful location offers a
wide range of outdoor
activities.
A coach has been arranged for transfer
from Edinburgh to Firbush and back. The coach will leave fromoutside 2
Buccleuch Place at 9:00am on Monday Sep 13th. It will return from
Firbush at 11:00am on Friday Sep 17th. There will also be a transfer in
private cars from and to Firbush on Wednesday around lunch time.
How to get back?
If the times for the coach are not
suitable for you, you can use public transport from Killin to
Edinburgh. First
take the bus
from Killin to Sterling. Then take the train
from Sterling to Edinburgh (runs every 15 min, takes about an hour).
Presentations and equipment
Invited
talks (all non-student talks) are 75 min in length; please budget 50
min for your talk and 25 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.
Project presentations on Sep are 15 min long.
At both Edinburgh and Firbush, 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 floppy, CD, or memory stick. You can
also use your own laptop.
At Edinburgh, there will also be an overhead projector (at Firbush,
this will probably not be the case; let us know if this is a
problem).
Computer
access: none
There are no computing facilities or internet access of any kind
in Firbush.