PHYSMOD 2009

Venue

The workshop will be hosted at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Sint-Genesius-Rode, a suburb south of Brussels near the Zonienwoud forest (http://www.vki.ac.be). A visit of the von Karman Institute laboratories will be organized during the course of the conference ( VKI's facilities).

The PHYSMOD2009 workshop will not have parallel sessions, enabling the participants to follow all presentations.

The VKI conference room is equipped with 130 seats, projection facilities for video and computer signals, an overhead projector, a video cassette player, a slide and cine-projector, the latter to be booked in advance. The von Karman Institute has a cafeteria, a restaurant, and three meetings rooms for 8, 14 and 20 people, respectively.

Bus transport will be provided between VKI and the Place Rogier (5` walk from all suggested hotels each morning and evening (included in the fee).

The point of departure of the VKI bus and location of recommended hotels are downloadable: VKI bus - Recommended hotels.

Accommodation

Participants are advised to make hotel reservations as early as possible through VKI in order to benefit from the special rates. The recommended hotels are within walking distance from the Center of Brussels. A train service links the Brussels International Airport Zaventem with the Gare du Nord (15' journey), which is within walking distance of the hotel area.

The banquet will be organized within walking distance from the recommended hotels. The banquet will take place at "La Manufature", Tucked away in Rue Notre-Dame du Sommeil... It's a place crammed with history. A former printworks, this was also the hideout of the Delvaux leather factory. Until it took on a new apparel, clad in leather, wood, cobalt blue stone, red granite, with itsbrick walls exhibiting the contrasts of softly filtered lights. Flavours of Old World culinary tradition are juxtaposed with the lightness of Asiatic cuisine.

• Suggested hotels
• Hotels' price list