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For infos on hotels and walking distance or bus routes to the conference from the hotels go to the hotels page. For any further information or questions about travel issues do not hesitate to contact: VenueThe ITS 2010 Conference will be held in the conference room of the Saarbrücken Castle (local name: Saarbrücker Schloss View Google Map). The easiest way to reach the castle is by foot from the inner city centre. Different bus lines also go to the castle, but it is in most cases easier and fast to cross the "Römerbrücke" (Roman bridge) and take the stairs up to the castle. The hotel list has information on which buses go to the castle from the respective hotels. The tutorial, the doctoral symposium and the demo session will be held at DFKI on the university campus. Information on how to travel to the university. The conference dinner will take place at a very special place. We will visit the Völklingen Ironworks. In 1994, it was declared by the UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. In the image below: Travel InformationTo Saarbrücken by planeSaarbrücken-Ensheim airport is located approximately 15 km from Saarbrücken city centre. There are scheduled flights to Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Luxembourg. From the airport you can take a taxi to Saarbrücken. The travel time is about 20 minutes and the price should be about 25 Euro. You can take the bus as well which usually takes about 30 minutes and costs 2.40EUR. Take line R10 to the center (about one bus per hour). For exact times use the VGS Route Planner. Other airports in the region:
To Saarbrücken by trainBook a train to Saarbrücken Central Station (German: Hauptbahnhof):
For more information, use the website of the Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railways): To university (from Saarbrücken Central Station)The bus routes 112 or 124 run by the Saartal Bus Company (to "Dudweiler-Dudoplatz" or "Uni-Campus") will take you from Saarbrücken Central Station to the University (in about 20 minutes), as well a number of other bus services run by companies within the Saarland Public Transport Association (VGS). Or you can take a taxi (about 10 minutes) The bus routes 102, 111, 109 and 150 take you from town hall (Saarbrücken Rathaus) to university in 15 minutes. (source and further information: Tourist Information 2010 Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken is a city of approximately 190,000 inhabitants and hence has a pleasant size. Picturesque rural attractions and places of historic interest offering the perfect destination for a hike or a daytrip are in the close vicinity and even within the town itself. The cultural palette attracts visitors from far and wide. But Saarbrücken is also the economic centre of the region. With its more than 15.000 business enterprises, the state capital of the Saarland is the economic heart of the area and has become an important point of reference for the Saar-Lor-Lux region. Many industrial corporations and service providers are headquartered in the state capital. The successful economy of the area is built on a highly skilled workforce. The Saarland has frequently changed hands between France and Germany during the last 200 years. Since 1957 the region has been an integral part of the Federal Republic of Germany, but the common passion for all things French is unmistakeable. A certain “savoir vivre”, a “live and let live” mentality permeates the region’s atmosphere. Further information: Saarland UniversitySaarland University is a campus university located in Saarbrücken and Homburg (Medical Faculty and University Teaching Hospital). 16,900 students study at the university in eight faculties. The university was founded in November 1948. Saarland University was originally established as a bilingual university that combined French and German educational traditions while offering a unique European perspective. The university, which was established with the support of the French Government and the University of Nancy, was the first to be founded west of the River Rhine after the Second World War. At the time Saarland found itself in the special situation of being partly autonomous and linked to France by economic and monetary union. Prior to the foundation of the University, clinical training courses for medical students had been introduced at the state hospital in Homburg/Saar in January 1946 with the "Centre Universitaire d'Études Supérieures de Hombourg" established on 8 May 1947 under the patronage of the University of Nancy. Source and further information: http://www.uni-saarland.de/en/information/university/) Computer Science at Saarland UniversitySaarbrücken is an international research-oriented center for computer science. Researchers at Saarland University cooperate closely with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Center for Bioinformatics and the Visual Computing Institute. These internationally renowned research institutes are co-located on the Saarbrücken University Campus, neighbours to the Computer Science Department with its 19 chairs. All in all, more than 300 researchers in Computer Science have made their academic home in Saarbrücken. Many work on common projects funded by the German Government, the European Union or industrial partners. In October 2007, Saarbrücken Computer Science was awarded two major grants in the framework of the Initiative for Excellence of the German federal and state governments: the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction and funding for the international Graduate School of Computer Science, which will help us continue to build and secure our international scientific and academic standing. Many national and international Scientific Awards have been granted to members of our faculty. Source and further information: http://www.cs.uni-saarland.de/ |
