Local Information

Travel to/from Edinburgh

Edinburgh is well connected by air, rail and road, and the venue is in the center of the city. More details of travelling to UK and Edinburgh are here.

Getting to the Conference Venue

The conference is being held in the headquarters of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), which is at 15 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA. Edinburgh has a compact city centre and ICMS is within reasonable walking distance of the main rail and bus stations. The map below marks the location of the conference (with the icon

), the location of the conference dinner (with the icon) and the main transport in Edinburgh. More details of the parking information and the options of bus travel are available here.

If you are walking then the easiest way to access the venue is via the A7 (South Bridge/Nicholson Street). The entry for South College Street is between the Old College of the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Arts and Picture Framers shop (opposite the Black Medicine coffee shop). The ICMS building will be half way along South College Street, on your left. There will be a blackboard at the entry labelled with AVoCS/AI4FM.

Restaurants

Edinburgh is not short of restaurants, bars and cafés. The map below also provides a list of Restaurants (with the icons such as

and), which are within 10 minutes walking distance from the workshop venue. Further options can be found on http://www.list.co.uk/ .