Practical Informations
The events in Caen take place at the Science 3 building of the Campus 2 of the University. On this page you will find informations about: the hotels, the travel to Caen, the transportations in Caen, internet access on the campus.
Participants staying more than one week in Caen will be
accomodated at
the Appart'
City hotel.
Participants to the conference in Clermont will be accomodated
at
the Citéa hotel in Clermont.
Participants to the workshop in Caen will be accomodated at
the Hôtel
du Château and at
the Hôtel
Bernières. The reception of the Hôtel du Château closes at
11pm, and the one of the Hôtel Bernières at 10pm: please
contact Roland,
or the hotel, if you plan to arrive later.
Finally, short-time visitors might also be accomodated at
the Hôtel
des Quatrans.
The most convenient way to come to Caen is to travel first to Paris, and then to take the train at the Saint-Lazare Station in Paris. If you have a flight to Charles-de-Gaulle airport, best is to take the RER B to Gare du Nord, and there the RER E to Saint-Lazare (cf this map of the subway in Paris). The trip from Saint-Lazare to Caen takes approx. 2 hours (±15 min depending on the train). Once at the train station in Caen, take the Tram directly in front of the main exit in direction of "Caen Campus 2" or "Hérouville Saint-Clair".
Once in Caen you can use the tram between the train station, the hotels and the campuses. Tickets can be bought from machines at each tram stop (but not in the tram itself). We recommend that you buy a "10 trips" ticket if you are staying a whole week. There are two tram lines (A and B) which both go through the train station and the center of the town (Saint-Pierre stop) where the Hôtel du Château and the Hôtel Bernières are located. Cf also this map of the lines. For the Campus 2 or the Hôtel Appart'city take the tram line A in direction of "Caen Campus 2". The Science 3 building lies directly on the left of the terminal stop. For the Hôtel Appart'city you can get off e.g. at the Claude Bloch stop. The journey from the train station to the Campus 2 takes approx. 25 minutes.
Wireless internet access is available in some parts of the
buildings of the University. If you have an eduroam account, you
can connect to the "eduroam" network. Otherwise, you can connect
to the "unicaen" wireless network. Connection to this network is
not protected, however you will have to specify a login and
password in your web browser to be able to access the
internet. This connection data has been prepared for each
participant.
Here are the technical details. Your browser
must connect to the internet through a proxy: you must tell him to
automatically detect the proxy settings of the network, or to use
the configuration file http://wpad.unicaen.fr/proxy.pac. You will
then be asked for your login and password at your first webpage
request. You should better tell your browser to remember this
data, since the identification will expire after some time.