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| 20-22 October 2005 | CERN |
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If you wish to stay in a CERN hostel, indicate your choice on the workshop registration form. Full details are now given on the arrivals page: http://oai4.web.cern.ch/OAI4/Arrival.html#cernhotels
Access to the CERN site [Top] Please see the arrival procedure for information on how
to obtain your access card. After 7:00 pm and at weekends Entrance A (the entrance nearest to the hostels and workshop location) is closed. Between 7:00 pm and 7:00 am you must use Entrance B (main entrance).
Contact Persons for Logistics [Top] Joanne Yeomans and Susanne Schaefer are responsible for the running of the workshops. You can contact them at oai4-organisation@cern.ch or at the phone number +41-22.767.24.31 from outside Switzerland (022-76-72431 from within Switzerland or 72431 from inside CERN). Susanne's office is located in building 3/1-017 near the OAI4 conference rooms. Moving around in CERN [Top] A printed plan of the CERN site will be available from the welcome desk or ask at the CERN reception or entrance. Bus terminus: CERN Reception: Hostel Reception: Main workshop room: OAI4 Organisation Team (office 3/1-017): Meals, drinks and food [Top] A self-service restaurant is available on site,
where you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Drinks and other
snacks are served outside meal times. Coffee/tea and croissants will be served to participants in the morning break
and coffee/tea in the afternoon break. Restaurant 1 Opening hours Monday-Friday: 07:00 am – 01:00 pm Saturday-Sunday: 07.00 am- 11.00 pm. Coffee and a small snack will be served during the breaks in the workshop programme. Souvenirs and Chocolate
shop Other service points The petrol station opposite CERN entrance B sells a small selection of food, newspapers, drinks (including alcoholic drinks) and cigarettes and is open later than the CERN shop and at weekends. For later-opening shops it is necessary to go further from CERN using the bus.
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Money and Communication [Top] Currency and exchange rate CERN Post Office
Location: Building 63 (Main Building) BANK and Automatic Teller Machines (ATM)
UBS SA There is a branch of the Union de Banques Suisses (UBS) SA on the CERN site (Bldg. 500). It provides the full range of normal banking services such as over-the-counter operations, consultancy and sales (loans, investment and back-up services) and also Swiss Franc and Euro cash dispensers, with a very wide credit card range. Bank office hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Telephone Phone cards can be purchased at the Post Office (Bldg. 63), and at the newspaper stand (Bldg. 501-Main Building) Using the telephone: Fax All about CERN in … 7 sentences! [Top] Did You Know ?... • That antimatter is routinely produced at CERN (more than 10 million particles per second). • That the world's largest magnet, weighing more than the Eiffel tower, is at CERN. • That the vacuum in the Laboratory's accelerators is the best between CERN and the moon. • That CERN's biggest accelerator is 27 kilometres around, and particles travelling near the speed of light lap it over 11000 times each second. • That CERN's detectors are the size of four-storey houses. • That over 1800 physicists work on the biggest experiment being prepared for CERN's next accelerator. This experiment will generate data at a rate about equal to everyone on Earth simultaneously making 10 telephone calls each. Interesting books: · Infinitely CERN (Memories from fifty years of research 1954 – 2004 / Sciences & Histoire – Editions Suzanne Hurter Histoire: Editions Suzanne Hurter 2004. · Antimatter, the ultimate mirror / Fraser, Gordon. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000. - 213 p. · How the Web was born: the story of the World Wide Web / Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert. - Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. - 372 p. · The quark machines: how Europe fought the particle physics war / Fraser, Gordon. - Bristol: IOP, 1997. - 210 p. · The search for infinity: solving the mysteries of the universe / Fraser, Gordon; Lillestøl, Egil; Sellevåg, Inge; Hawking, Stephen William. - New York: Facts On File, 1995. - 144 p.
... or you can read the science fiction story by Dan Brown: Angels and Demons
What to do while at CERN [Top] CERN Microcosm Exhibition Microcosm takes you into the hidden corners of the universe. On the site of the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, the exhibition has models, videos, computer games, and original pieces of equipment - something for everyone. Entrance is free. Open: Monday to Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The exhibition is located in Bldg. 33 (CERN General Reception). The Globe of Innovation The Globe is CERN's new landmark, situated across the road from the Reception building. It is open on Wednesday and Saturday afternoon from 2-5pm and the exhibition taking place during the OAI4 workshop will be "100 years after Einstein" which celebrates the hundredth centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis and the Year of Physics. Geneva Tourist Information [Top] The Old City Hidden away in the Old City's picturesque narrow streets you'll find a multitude of art galleries, antique shops, bookshops and charming cafés. Leading off from the Cathedral, cobbled streets and connecting passageways entice you to stroll around the Bourg-du-Four, along the Promenade de la Treille or the Terrasse Agrippa d'Aubigné. http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/
525 acres of public parks to relax in. As you walk along the quays from the Botanical Gardens, past the Flower Clock and the Water Jet all the way round to the beautiful rose gardens in the Parc des Eaux-Vives and the Parc de la Grange, all Geneva's different facets will unfold before you - from its gardens and buildings to the Lake. Shopping All sorts of shops from small boutiques (in the Rue du Rhône neighbourhood and the Corraterie, in the Old City) to department stores in the Rue de la Confédération, de la Croix d'Or, du Marché ("downtown") and Coutance. Opening hours: You can change money in the main Geneva banks, stations and foreign exchange offices. Restaurants Geneva has many restaurants, brasseries and cafés. Most of the museums and department stores have cafeterias as well: Le Barocco at the Musée d'art et d'histoire and the café de l'Ariana Museaum are particularly charming. Further Information on Geneva [Top] Arcade d'information de la Ville de Genève Closed on Sundays.
Office du Tourisme Closed on Sundays from 1 September to 15 June.
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