Time & venue
Time
The 10th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications starts on Monday, 12 May 2008, and finishes on Thursday, 15 May 2008.
Venue
The School will be held at Imperial Hotel in Sopot. This Baltic resort, located between Gdańsk and Gdynia constitutes Tri-City - the agglomeration with a population of nearly one million. With its clean, sandy beaches and Art Nouveau architecture, Sopot is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Poland. The hotel is situated in the vicinity of the beach next to the promenade and characteristic Chinese restaurant, between the fishing harbour and famous Sopot Pier - the longest European wooden pier (511.5 m). You will enjoy here a unique microclimate of the spa resort. As the town offers a wide range of entertainment, you can find here a lot of interesting things and places to see.
For more information, see an excellent web page of Sopot.
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Address of the conference place
Imperial Hotel
ul. Ks. Augustyna Kordeckiego 10
Sopot, Poland, EU
How to get there
The conference place can be easily reached by any means of transportation.
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by plane
At the Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport in Gdańsk-Rębiechowo take a taxi or a bus (line B or 110) . If you take a bus, get off at Gdańsk Wrzeszcz railway station (Wrzeszcz PKP bus station). It takes around 26 minutes. The scheme of bus lines in Gdańsk is given here. Some useful information can be found also here and here. Bus tickets are available at the airport as well as at the bus driver. Then, take the SKM train (with characteristic yellow-blue carriages) - platform 1 at Gdańsk Wrzeszcz railway station and get off at Sopot railway station. After that take a 10-minute walk from Sopot railway station to the conference venue (Imperial Hotel) by following the route provided below.
Courtesy of: Tri-City map from www.trojmiasto.pl
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by train
All the long-distance trains stop at Sopot railway station. To get the Imperial Hotel from the railway station, you need only 10-minute walk. Please follow the map given above.
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by car
The Tri-City is surrounded by a bypass, which offers an easy access to Sopot from Gdańsk and Gdynia.
A map of the Tri-City is available here.
Practical information
The official language in Poland is Polish. Polish złoty (PLN) is the currency in Poland so you can exchange currencies at banks or exchange offices. The weather forecast for Sopot can be checked here.