Jena is a university city with about 100,000 inhabitants (of which about 25,000 are university students), located in the central part of Germany (zoom out to get an overview), in the state of Thuringia, between Berlin (250 km), Frankfurt/Main (310 km), Leipzig (100 km), Dresden (190 km), and Munich (380 km). Jena is proud of having won the all-German competition to get the title "City of Science 2008". More information about Jena can be found at www.jena.de.

All sessions will take place in the conference room of the Physics and Astronomy Department (G). The room is located in the faculty's main building (Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena; main entrance, right staircase, one level up), about 15–20 min walk from two railway stations and about 10 min walk from downtown.

We will arrange standard equipment (audio-visual aids, a telecon-capable phone, a Linux/Windows laptop with OpenOffice and PowerPoint, internet connection via ethernet cable with DHCP).

All hotel rates are for single rooms (with bath/shower and WC) per night and include breakfast. Most of the hotels offer special university rates. If you want to make use of them, please let us know and we will make a reservation for you. For details on individual hotels, click on the list or on the markers on the map.

The listed cafés and restaurants are all inexpensive. In addition, there is a bunch of fast food restaurants that sell and serve everything from kebap to pizza.