Meeting Logistics

Meeting Registration

The registration covers snacks at the meeting, lunch on Friday, and the meeting logistics.

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place HLRS (http://www.hlrs.de/), Seminar room, Allmandring 30, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany (Green Marker)

Meeting Cost

$0 per person to cover meeting logistics costs. This will cover snacks, and lunch on Tuesday

Hotel Room Block

A block of rooms is reserved at the Commundo Tagungshotel (formerly Telekom Hotel - Red Marker). The nightly rate is: double room 91 Euro, single room 74 Euro, weekend rate (Sat+Sun) 70 Euro (double) and 53 Euro (single) per night. This includes breakfast. To reserve a hotel room at this hotel, please - indicate the total hotel stay at the EuroMPI registration, - or if you come only to the Forum meeting, indicate on the meeting registration form which nights you would like to stay at the hotel. Reservations will be done by HLRS. For all who answered already Rolf Rabenseifner’s e-mail about the hotel’s deadline, he has already done the right reservation for you.

Reservations by attendees must be received on or before Friday, July 30, 2010. For late registrations without prior e-mail to Rolf Rabenseifner, the participant has to book the hotel by him/herself.

Hotel web site: http://www.commundo-tagungshotels.de/en/stuttgart/overview-stuttgart.html

Travel information: Best is to fly in to Stuttgart Airport (STR, which is connected to most European hubs), e.g., flying directly from US to Frankfurt, Munich or Zurich with a connecting flight to Stuttgart (e.g., with Lufthansa, or Swiss). At the airport, you can use all “S-Bahn”s in the direction to Stuttgart (with final destinations Backnang or Schorndorf) leaving every 10/20 minutes 5:08am :18, :38, :48 until 10:08pm and then every 30 min until 0:08am.

Another option is to use the only one direct USA-Stuttgart flight which is from Atlanta to Stuttgart (Delta). From Stuttgart Airport to the hotel, the best and cheapest way is the “S-Bahn (Blue Marker)”, i.e., our light rail system that directly connects the airport with “Stuttgart University” station (17 minutes ride). This station is 2 minutes from the hotel (purple line) and about a 15 minutes walk from HLRS (green line). Single ticket: 2 Zones = 2.45 Euro. The ticket machines can return the change and accept also 5 Euro bills.

A third option is to fly in to Frankfurt and to use the train to come to Stuttgart “Hauptbahnhof” (main station). The main station is also directly connected with “Stuttgart University” (11 min ride). (This third option may cause trouble because of ongoing construction work at the main railway station and therefore late or missed trains to Frankfurt!)