The venue is very close (~5 minutes walk) to the Karlsplatz subway station. Therefore, consider staying near a U1 (red) or  U4 (green) subway station, and getting around Vienna by subway (U-Bahn).
Note that there are five subway lines in Vienna: U1 (red), U2 (violet), U3 (orange), U4 (green) and... U6 (brown)!

Also tram lines 1 and 62 stop near the workshop location.

Vienna can be reached in the following ways.

• By train

You should arrive at Vienna Central Station (Wien Hbf), which is directly connected to the U1 (red) subway (U-Bahn) station Südtiroler Platz. From there, the Leopoldau direction takes you to the city center (and the workshop location).

• By plane

The airport in Vienna is called Flughafen Wien-Schwechat.
From there, there are trains every ~15 minutes going to the center of Vienna in ~25 minutes. You can buy tickets at the ticket machine that will suggest the next available train. Usually, REX7 or S7 are good options. You can then stop at (not all the trains make all stops):

-Wien Mitte and then change to U3 (orange) or U4 (green)

-Praterstern and then change to U1 (red) or U2 (violet)

-Wien Hbf and then change to U1 (red)

Bus/Tram/Subway: if you plan to get around Vienna via public services, consider the WienMobil App and purchase a 24/48/72 hours ticket that can be used for any public service.

Accommodation

Some suggested hotels, close to the workshop venue, are:

• Hotel Johann Strauss: walking distance ~3 minutes (path)

• Hotel Kaiserhof Wien: walking distance ~3 minutes (path)

• Hotel Erzherzog: walking distance ~4 minutes (path)

• Suite Hotel 900 m zur Oper: walking distance ~7 minutes (path)

• Hotel Beethoven: walking distance ~10 minutes (path)

• Hotel Secession an der Oper: walking distance ~11 minutes (path)

• Hotel Theresianum: walking distance ~12 minutes (path)

Scam alert

We are regularly notified that participants to our events are contacted by external companies pretending to act on our behalf. Please note that the University of Vienna and TU Wien are the only institutions organizing this event; no external company has been authorized to arrange anything to this event, hence you can assume that most of these contacts are scams or phishing tentatives. Please let us know if someone different from us (organizers or SFB scientific manager) contacts you about hotel accommodation, travel refunds or conference fees.

This scam is made by private companies targeting in particular people participating in conferences, workshops, etc. The scam follows normally the following path:

• People from these companies monitor websites of research conferences, workshops, research centers, etc. for new participants.

• Since participants provide often either their websites or affiliations, or both (this is the case of our workshop), it is then relatively easy to find their office phone number or their email address.

• Participants are then contacted before most of them have fixed their travel details and/or booked an accommodation.

• Participants are then convinced that the private company is acting on behalf of the organizers, and that if they book their accommodation at a certain hotel, they will get that cost reimbursed by the organizers.

• Lastly, participants are convinced in providing either personal infos, or copies of passports or ID cards, or even the complete credit card number and security code. Normally participants are required to provide these infos either by telephone, or by filling some documents containing some details about the workshop (simply copy-pasted from the website of the event).

Sometimes the companies and websites associated to them exist, but this is not a proof that they are acting on our behalf. As general rules:

• You should be contacted only by the organizers of this event (or by the scientific manager of the SFB). All other emails and phone calls are probably scam.

• Also if you are contacted per email by one of the organizers of the event (or by the scientific manager of the SFB), please be careful in replying, if the email includes requests of some personal data as the ones mentioned above. The most safe way of dealing with that would be to write a separate email to one of the addresses mentioned at the end of the homepage of our workshop, instead of replying to the email directly (since the sender of an email can be often easily counterfeited).

• We will never contact you by phone or email in order to ask you to pay online for your accommodation/board before your arrival at our workshop.

• We will never ask for a credit card number by phone or email.

• We will never ask you to fill in a form sent to you as an attachment (.pdf or .doc).

• In case you are not sure whether it is a scam or not: it is most likely a scam. Please let us know in this case.