Location

The meeting will be held in the Yellow Auditorium, ground floor, in the IFT building.

Address: Nicolás Cabrera 13-15, Campus de Cantoblanco, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

In the morning there is a free shuttle service from point 17 in the map (near the train station) to the IFT building.

The shuttles will depart at 9:00, 9:10 and 9:20. (there is no shuttle to go back to the train station in the evening)

Transportation

The following information is meant to give practical instructions on how to get around in general, to your hotel and to the university.

Means of transportation

• Metro:
  

  Madrid has an extensive and convenient metro system (see map). Tickets can be bought at stations either from a machine (accepting cash, including notes, bank and credit cards) and usually also from a ticket office. A single trip includes any number of transfers. A single trip costs between €1,50 and €2, depending on the number of stations. A 10 trip card (10 viajes) costs €12,20 the latter is also valid for the local EMT buses. See this link for more information on ticket prices. Trains typically run from 6am to 2am.

  Airport Supplement: There is a €3 surcharge for trips from and to the airport subway stations: the easiest thing to do is to buy a combined fare+supplement ticket (Billete Sencillo Metro+Suplemento Aeropuerto) that can be bought at any subway station. Should you forget to pay the supplement, then you can buy a supplement ticket (Billete Suplemento Aeropuerto) at the machines located near the exit of the airport's subway stations.

• Cercanías Renfe:
  

  Local trains, running regularly withing the province of Madrid (see map). The tickets look very much like the metro tickets, but are NOT the same. Tickets can be bought at stations either from a machine (accepting cash, including notes, bank and credit cards) or from a ticket office. There is a zone system, most of the center is in zone 0, the university in B1, the third zone. Single tickets (for 3 zones) are €1,70 and 10 trip cards (Bonotren) €12,85.

• Taxi:
  

  Taxi's are numerous and for European standards, reasonably priced. A ride from the airport to the center from 6am to 10pm, costs between €25 and €30 (incl. the airport supplement), to Chamartín is slightly cheaper. Supplements: from/to airport €5,25, from trainstations €2,75.

• Bus:
  

  There are two type of buses, the local ones of the EMT (red or blue) and the Interurbanos (green). For the EMT buses you can buy a single in the bus for €1,50 or use the 10 trip metro card. The interurbanos use separate tickets, which can be bought on the bus. Most bus drivers don't like notes bigger than €5.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

A map of the Campus can be found above. The Instituto de Física Teórica, is the number 41 on the map. The 20 minutes walking route from the train station is indicated with a red line.