Workshop venue
The workshop will be held in the "Amphi Recherche" of the Physics department of the Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand, on the Cézeaux campus.
The LPC (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire) is also hosted on the Cézeaux campus.
Plan Campus Cézeaux (go to Pôle Physique, nr. 8 on the map)
Arrival information
Clermont-Ferrand is located 420 km on the south of Paris and 200 km on the west of Lyon. Accessing Clermont-Ferrand is easy by car, train or plane. The Clermont-Ferrand airport is located 7 km away from the University. It provides several daily flights from/to Paris Orly and Charles de Gaulle. Several daily trains from Paris and Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand are available. It takes about 3 hours from Paris and about 2 hours from Lyon. Traveling from CERN is easy via Lyon by train (about 5 hours). Participants can be picked up at the railway station or at the airport by the Local Organizing Committee (on request, don't forget to specify your arrival date/time and further information in the Registration form).
Local transportation
Access to/from the advised hotels from/to the University and from/to Clermont-Ferrand downtown is easy and quick by tramway (or bus A during maintenance on the tramway line). The tramway station "Cézeaux-Pellez" is located 50 meters away from the workshop location (Web site of the local transport company : http://www.t2c.fr)
Accomodation
Find below a list of hotels with easy access by tramway to the workshop location.
Confort Hotel Clermont Saint-Jacques, 18 Boulevard Winston Churchill, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tel: +33 (0)4 73 26 24 55
Maison Internationale Universitaire, 9 Rue Kessler, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tel: +33 (0)4 73 29 36 00
Holiday Inn Clermont-Ferand Centre, 59 Boulevard François Mitterand - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tel: +33 (0)4 73 17 48 48
Support for students
The mission fees for a limited number of students will be covered by the workshop budget. Please send a mail to the workshop organizers (gaz2016@clermont.in2p3.fr) for applying.
