SPARS 2011: Travel and Accommodation

Conference Venue:

The conference will be held in the city centre of Edinburgh, at the historic Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh whose address is: 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, United Kingdom.

Travel:

The primary locations to arrive in the UK are the Edinburgh Airport (EDI) and the central train station "Waverley Train Station". Upon arrival at the airport, a taxi (about £20) can be taken to the city centre, or a bus (about £4) can be taken to the Waverley Train Station which is conveniently the last stop of the bus. The conference venue is about a 12 minute walk from Waverley Train Station.

Further information on travel to Edinburgh is available at the sponsoring mathematics institute ICMS travel website.

Accommodations:

There are many hotels as well as bed and breakfasts in the city centre of Edinburgh; a convenient search engine for these is "orbitz.com", which allows searching by address. There is not a preferred hotel. The sponsoring mathematics institute ICMS has a suggested list of accommodations, note that the list for "Central" (list item 2) are closest to the conference venue.