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Practical information

There is a map of all the important spots here.

Venue

The conference will take place at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, at Olof Wijksgatan 6, Göteborg. The registrataion desk will be at the second floor just above the stairs. The lecture hall and the baggage room will be on the third floor.

Travelling to Göteborg

By air: There are two airports in Göteborg. The main one is Landvetter Airport (GOT). From Landvetter Airport there are regular coaches taking you to Korsvägen, very close to the conference site (we suggest you take the stairs from Korsvägen, please see map) and a ten minutes walk to the hotel Panorama. The coaches are around 100 SEK and will accept credit cards, but not cash. The trip takes 20 minutes. A taxi from the airport should be around 400 SEK.

The second airport is Göteborg City Airport servicing Ryan Air and Wizzair.

By train: If you’re traveling by train, you should take a tram to Korsvägen and then walk to the conference site, see the map.

Travelling in Göteborg

Regular buses and trams are servicing the city. One ticket is 22 SEK and will keep you going for 90 minutes. Tickets can be bought on the trams using coins.

Accomodation

All the speakers will get rooms in the Hotel Panorama which is just a ten minutes walk from the conference site.

Lunches

The lunches for Saturday and Sunday will be served at the conference site. It will be free for all the speakers, others will have to pay.

Dinners

The Friday and Saturday dinners will be at restaurants in Göteborg. It will be free for all the speakers, others will have to pay. On Friday we will go to Restaurant Taras, and on Saturday Restaurant Familjen, both close to the conference venue.

Coffee

Coffee and Tea together with fruits and biscuits will be served during the conference.

Links
The NY Times recently wrote about Göteborg. You can find the article at the link below.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/travel/36-hours-in-gothenburg-sweden.html

The official homepage of Göteborg can be found here: http://www.goteborg.com/en/