PIMS Algebra Summer School 2009

University of Alberta

May 25 -- June 3, 2009

 
 

Practical information

Duration

The summer school will begin on Monday, May 25, in the morning, and end on Wednesday, June 3, in the afternoon/evening. So you should book your flights on May 24 (in) and June 4 (out), respectively.

Accommodation

You will be staying either at St Joseph's College or Lister Centre. You will be told which one it is in an indidivual e-mail. Please check out their web sites and familiarize yourself with the location of these places relative to the U of A campus.

Arrival

You will most likely arrive at Edmonton International Airport (YEG). There are two options to get to the university campus: you can take a taxi cab (approximately $55 one way) or the Sky Shuttle ($15 one way). For taking the Shuttle you go to their booth in the airport's arrival hall and tell them your destination (if they don't know Lister Centre or St Joseph's College, just say university campus). The shuttle ride will take approximately 45 minutes, the taxi about half that much. Both Sky Shuttle and taxi issue a receipt upon request.

The taxi will bring you to the front door. The Sky Shuttle may as well if you ask. In case the driver proves resistant to your begging, the official university stop is on 87 Avenue, immediately east of 112 Street, in front of Earl's (a restaurant) and Campus Tower Hotel.

From there, Lister Centre is two blocks west on 87 Avenue (ca. 800 m), past Jubilee Auditorium and Butterdome (a yellow structure north of 87 Avenue), at the south side of the intersection 87 Avenue/116 Street.

To get to St Josephs's College from the stop, cross 87 Avenue at 112 Street and walk north on 112 Street into the university campus. The road will eventually make a left turn (past the HUB mall and the below ground LRT station (rail transit). Follow the road (now west) for 300m; on the left side there is a large red brick building. This is St Joseph's College (it is the last building before the road turns left again to go south).

To find your way around campus, please have a look at the campus map. You will find Lister Centre at G/H 1/2, and St Joseph's College at F5, and the shuttle stop (Campus Tower) at G7.

Lecture room

All lectures will take place in 657 Central Academic Building (CAB, at D5 on the map). CAB is located east of the central Quad, as the name suggests, in the centre of campus. Room 657 is on the sixth floor facing north west.

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