Location
Edinburgh (Sep 6-10)
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, 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 1 pound).
Or take a
cab (ca. GBP 18).
Within the campus
Lunch and talks
Within the campus
[map] talks,
tutorials, and lunch will take place at the conference suite at 4
Buccleuch place. 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
The invited speakers and Saarbruecken staff members will be based in the training suite, basement of 4 Buccleuch Place. For participating students, the basement meeting room in 4 Buccleuch Place (next to the conference suite) has been allocated as space for quiet working during week 1.
Project work
Project work is in the Computing Lab South and Computing Lab North of Appelton Tower (building number 24 on the campus map)
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.
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 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 university's Central wireless network, which covers both Buccleuch Place and Appleton Tower. You will receive your 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. In order to log in to the wireless, please follow this link.
Firbush (Sep 10-15)
A coach has been arranged for transfer from Edinburgh to Firbush and back. The coach will leave from outside 2 Buccleuch Place at 9:30am on Monday Sep 11th. It will return from Firbush at 11:00am on Friday Sep 15th.
With public transport?
If the times for the coach are not suitable for you, you can use public transport (bus & train) between Edinburgh and Killin via Sterling. Search for connections from "Edinburgh" to "Killin, Sterling".
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.
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.