Venue

The meeting will take place in The Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. The University campus is in the city centre and is easy to reach on foot from city centre hotels, or via the Metro (Newcastle's light rail transport system) to Haymarket station. The city centre is compact: walking somewhere never takes longer than 20-30 minutes. 

Maps are available here. The Armstrong Building is number 22 on the campus map.

Registration, posters and breaks all are in the Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre on the ground floor. It is easiest to use the entrance marked by a yellow arrow to the right of the building name on the map. Go through the main doors, behind a statue of Martin Luther King, and turn right.

Talks are in Lecture Theatre 2.16 on the second floor. The easiest entrance to use to get there is the one marked by a red arrow and then use the spiral staircase to get to the second floor.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 12th at Turknaz, a Turkish restaurant on the seafront in Whitley Bay. The cost is £30, which you will need to pay *in cash* when you register (we'll give you a receipt). When you register you will also need to tell us which *main course* you would like (from the list in the email of 3rd June). 

We will travel to Whitley Bay by Metro. It takes 30 minutes and a return ticket costs £5.20. 

Leisure time on Wednesday afternoon

There is no organised excursion, but we will finish early on Wednesday afternoon to have some time for sightseeing. If the weather is good, going to the coast by Metro would be the thing to do. There are several beautiful beaches, a historic and dramatic Priory and Castle, pubs: it's a lovely place for a walk and we will end up at the restaurant. If the weather is bad we will recommend some places to visit in the city centre. Locals will be on hand to give advice.

Travel to Newcastle

There are direct flights to Newcastle Airport from many European cities and regular connecting flights from Schiphol, Heathrow and Paris CDG. The Airport is on the Metro system and the journey to the city centre takes about 30 minutes.

Newcastle Central train station has frequent connections to London Kings Cross and Edinburgh, is in the city centre and is on the Metro system.

There is a daily DFDS ferry from Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to North Shields (just down the river from Newcastle): departure in the early evening and arrival in the morning. 

Accommodation

There are lots of hotels across all price ranges in the city centre, accessible via the usual on-line hotel resources. Outside of the city centre, the suburb of Jesmond is home to many University students and staff, has several low cost hotels and is one or two Metro stops or a 30 minute walk away from the University. Unless you know Newcastle well, we recommend staying in either the city centre or Jesmond. 

The Premier Inn is a reliable, inexpensive UK hotel chain that does not advertise on Expedia, Booking.com etc. Their hotels at Newcastle City Centre (The Gate) and Newcastle Quayside are in the city centre. Pricing is "dynamic" and depends on demand, but can be as low as 30-40 pounds per night. The hotel at Callerton Parkway may have low prices and is near the airport and a Metro station.