Workshop Venue
The workshop will be hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and will take place in Campus North (Hermann-von-Helmholtz- Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen). Campus north is located 10 km outside the city, next to the town of Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen. It can be reached by car or bus from the center of Karlsruhe (~25 minutes).
On the first day of the workshop a special workshop bus transfer from Karlsruhe City to Campus North in the morning (at 8 am), to be able to register at the entrance gate and receive Campus North Access Cards, and in the after the poster session (around 8pm) is organized (and included in the conference fee):
Details for the workshop bus transfer (Monday):
The bus will start at 8:00 am on Monday, June 12th close to the castle of Karlsruhe Palace, the exact location for the start of the bus you can find here with google maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/cgx8DMjv6ynh9tDq8
From the city center you can walk there, or use a tram until "Kronenplatz", than it will take about 5 minutes to walk to the location, where the bus starts.
For the other conference days (Tuesday and Wednesday)
If you already have the access card to Campus North, the most convenient way to reach Campus North is with the tram. There is one time in the morning a tram of the line S1 going from Karlsruhe Main Station, through the city center and ending on Campus North (not through the main gate, so you need the Campus North Access Card before, you will receive the access card on Monday morning when entering Campus North through the main gate). The name of the tram stop is "KIT-Campus Nord Bahnhof, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen".
The following list shows the stops and times (in the city center, please check which stop is closest to your hotel):
- 7:55 am: Karlsruhe, Hauptbahnhof (Vorplatz)
- 7:57 am: Karlsruhe, Augartenstraße
- 7:58 am: Karlsruhe, Kongresszentrum (U)
- 8:00 am: Karlsruhe, Ettlinger Tor/Staatstheater (U)
- 8:01 am: Karlsruhe, Marktplatz (Pyramide U)
- 8:03 am: Karlsruhe, Marktplatz (Kaiserstraße U)
- 8:04 am: Karlsruhe, Europaplatz/Postgalerie (U)
- 8:06 am: Karlsruhe, Mühlburger Tor
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- 8:42 am: Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, KIT-Campus Nord
Going back to the city center, the late afternoon (before the conference dinner), the tram leaves at the KIT-Campus Nord tram stop at 5:29 pm (and relevant for Wednesday additonally at 4:29 pm).
More public transport access to Campus North:
Besides the trams going diretly onto Campus North, it is also reachable by public transportation, but it takes considerably longer. From the center one can take the tram (S1/11 or S2) and change into the bus number 195 to reach the stop “KIT-CN Südtor”. The buses run 2-3 times per hour in both directions. Furthermore, there is a KIT shuttle service (stop location, timetables) from Campus South to Campus North, however, there is is usually very crowded (in the morning and later afternoon).
workshop rooms:
The workshop will take place in the KARA seminar room (Building 348, West entrance).
For the workgroups:
WG 3 will stay in the KARA seminar room;
WG 1 takes place in small seminar room next to the main seminar room;
WG 2 in building 242, room 413;
WG 4 in building 329, room 301;
there is an additional seminar room in building 345, room 113 reserved, in case an additional groups needs it.
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart, and Mannheim. Its 308,436 inhabitants make it the 21st-largest city of Germany. On the right bank of the Rhine, the city lies near the French-German border, between the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen conurbation to the north, and the Strasbourg/Kehl conurbation to the south. It is the largest city of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden- Baden. The city is the seat of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) as well as the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice (Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof).
Please visit this website for information about events in the city, hotels, transportation, etc: https://www.karlsruhe-erleben.de/en
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and a national research center in the Helmholtz Association that is one of the largest educational institutions and the largest research institution by funding in Germany. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (Universität Karlsruhe), founded in 1825 as a public research university and also known as the "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), which had originally been established in 1956 as a national nuclear research center (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, KfK). This part is now called Campus North.
KIT is a member of the TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology. As part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative KIT was one of three universities which were awarded excellence status in 2006. In the following "German Excellence Strategy" , KIT was awarded as one of eleven "Excellence Universities" in 2019. KIT is among the leading technical universities in Germany and Europe and established the first German faculty for computer science in 1972. According to different bibliometric rankings, KIT is the German university with the strongest research in engineering and natural sciences.
Travel Information
There are several options to reach Karlsruhe:
- Bus and train (ICE) connections are provided by the Karlsruhe main train station.
If you travel by train and book a ticket via Deutsche Bahn, please check the "Helmholtz Veranstaltungsticket". You will receive a link for this ticketduring the payment process (for the workshop) with fixed rates from any location (in Germany).
- There are three main airports in the vicinity of Karlsruhe:
- Frankfurt Airport (direct train connection to Karlsruhe, ~1 hour)
- Stuttgart Airport (Bus/S-Bahn to Stuttgart Central Station and then direct train to Karlsruhe, ~1.5 hours)
- Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport (Bus to Rastatt or Baden-Baden central stations and then direct train to Karlsruhe, ~1 hour)
