Workshop "The Phonetics of Laughter" 2007

The laughter workshop will take place in the Centre for Language Research and Language Technology on the campus of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The campus is located in the woods and is 5 km from the town centre of Saarbrücken.
	If you click on the left image, you can see the conference location via Google Maps. Please apply the follwoing two steps in order to show the relation of the university to the city in Google Maps: Change the type of presentation by selecting "map" instead of "satellite" in the right top corner. Then you can scale the size of map selection by pressing the plus and minus buttons in the left top corner.

The workshop takes place in the Centre for Language Research and Language Technology, building C 7 4.

Here is a map of the campus.
We recommend to print this map!

Getting to Saarbrücken

• Traveling to Saarland University by plane: There are several possibilities.
  • The main airport serving Saarbrücken is Frankfurt Airport. It is a big international airport that is easy to reach from many locations. The train from there to Saarbrücken takes about two and a half hours.
  • The airport Frankfurt/Hahn is not in Frankfurt, despite its name, but in the middle of the woods. It mainly serves flights from Europe. There are buses from there to Saarbrücken several times a day.
  • Also in the vicinity: Luxemburg airport and Strasbourg airport.
  • Saarbrücken itself has an airport, but it has planes mainly to and from very few holiday locations, and some connections to Berlin.
  
  
• Directions for traveling to Saarbrücken:
  • Traveling to Saarland University from Frankfurt Airport:

    The train from Frankfurt to Saarbrücken takes about two and a half hours.
    Frankfurt airport has two train stations: for regional trains (''Regionalbahnhof'') and IC/ICE trains (''Fernbahnhof''). As there are both regional and IC/ICE trains to Saarbrücken, go to whichever train station is closer and use the information terminal there to find out where the next train leaves. These terminals also sell tickets.

  • Traveling to Saarland University by car, by train, or from Saarbrücken airport? See the Saarland University location page.

You can buy a 3-day ticket (''3-Tages-Karte Stadt'', 9 Euro) for the local buses in the Saarbrücken main train station: Inside the train station, coming from the trains, turn right at the bakery. The tickets are sold in the VGS shop (''Verkehrsverbund''; green and black sign).
Alternatively, you can buy single tickets on the bus.

For timetables of the Saarbrücken buses and trams, please see the page of Saarbahn.

Getting to the workshop

Getting to the university by bus
The university campus is outside the city, at maybe 5 kilometers' distance. In general, the buses no. 61, 49 and 69 (to Dudweiler/Dudoplatz or to Universität) leave from the main station, the buses no. 11 and 19 (to Dudweiler/Dudoplatz or to Universität) leave from the city center, and all of them pass "Haus der Zukunft". For more specific information please ask at your hotel.
For the easiest way of reaching the workshop location, please get off at Universität Campus.

Hotels

Please see the accomodation page.

Restaurants and Pubs - some recommendations

• Café Kostbar (pub and food)
  Nauwieserstraße 19, Tel. 0681 / 37 43 60
• Feinkost Schmitt (pub)
  Nassauer Straße 14
• Hellmut (pub)
  Bleichstraße (next to disco Garage)
• Krua Thai (Thai restaurant)
  Mainzer Straße 71, Tel. 0681 / 6 46 95
• Kurze Eck (pub)
  Nauwieserstraße 15, Tel. 0681 / 3 68 64
• Kyus (pub)
  Bleichstraße (opposite disco Garage)
• Michelangelo (Italian restaurant, expensive, go to first floor)
  Rathausplatz 6, Tel. 0681 / 37 27 31
• Mono (pub)
  Nauwieser Straße 38
• Pizzeria Da Mario (Italian restaurant, good and reasonably priced)
  Sulzbachstr. 27, Tel. 0681 / 9104288
• Star of India (Indian food, tiny restaurant)
  Johannisstr. 17b, Tel. 0681 / 31168
• Stiefel (regional food, restaurant)
  Am St. Johanner Markt, Tel. 0681 / 93 64 50
• Stiefelbräu (regional food, pub)
  next door to Stiefel
• Synop (pub)
  Mainzer Straße 1
• Tante Maja (pub and food)
  St. Johanner Markt 8, Tel. 0681 / 3 05 89
• Tante Anna (pub)
  Türkenstraße 3, Tel. 0681 / 39 81 78
• To Steki (Greek food, vegetarians beware)
  Nauwieserplatz 5, Tel. 0681 / 36710
• Ubu Roi (café)
  Cecilienstraße 15 (corner to Försterstraße)