Conference QUANTUM GROUPS: practical information




1. Travel Information. Plane: There is an airport in Clermont-Ferrand with many daily flights by Air France French/English and from/to Paris Orly and Charles de Gaulle and Lyon, and a few more from/to Nantes and Nice.

Train: there are about 8 daily roundtrips by train between Paris Gare-de-Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand (3:00 to 3:30 hours), and about 7 daily roundtrips between Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand (2:00 to 2:30 hours, no reservation needed). You can quickly check timetables on CFF's website and slowly book your ticket on SNCF site.


2. Accommodation. We plan to accomodate the speakers at the following hotel:
Citéa Clermont Ferrand **, 9, rue Giscard de la Tour Fondue - 63100 Clermont Ferrand.
Tel. 04 73 17 46 00 ; Fax. 04 73 17 46 01 ; clermont-ferrand@citea.com
Here is their website CITEA Clermont

Other participants have to take care of their accomodation. An extensive list of reasonably priced hotels in Clermont-Ferrand can be found here.


3. Schedule. The talks will begin on Monday, August 30 and finish on Friday, September 3 (12:00). See here for the precise program.

4. Venue. The talks will take place at the campus des Cézeaux, at the ''Ampithéatre Recherche'' of the "pôle physique", no. 8 on the map of campus.
See here: situation of campus, map of campus, photo of the maths building (number 7 on the map).

5. Access to the campus. General information can be found here (in french)
Access to the campus is simple from downtown by using the tramway (direction La Pardieu, stop Cézeaux-Pellez or stop Campus).
See here : tramway for campus.

Caution: tramway does not go to the rail station!

>>>> To go from the rail station to the campus, a simple method is to take the bus at the rail station up to place de Jaude (ligne B, direction Royat Place Allard, about 10 minutes), and then take the tramway the stop Jaude (direction La Pardieu, to stop Cézeaux-Pellez or stop Campus, about 20 minutes).

>>>> To go from Citéa Hotel to the Campus, take the tramway at one of the stations Jaude or Lagarlaye, direction La Pardieu, and stop at one of the stations Cézeaux-Pellez or Campus (15-20 minutes), see here.

>>>> To go from the rail station to Citéa Hotel, take the bus from rail station to place de Jaude (ligne B, direction Royat Place Allard, about 10 minutes), and finish by walking (3 minutes).

Some tramway/bus tickets will be given to the participants.
Here is the full map of the tramway line.


6. Food : a list of restaurants in Clermont-Ferrand can be found here .