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Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear / Particle Astrophysics (VI). Physics with small accelerators

June 26 - July 09, 2016 @ Sinaia, Romania

The conference will be held in Sinaia, a year-round mountain resort in the heart of the Carpathians, about 130 km north of Bucharest, about 1.5 hours drive from the main international airport of Romania.

During the school, we shall organize excursions and social events to give the participants the chance to know the Romanian landscape and culture. Sinaia is "the Pearl of the Carpathians", a prime tourist attraction and in close proximity to many first class natural and historical attractions of Romania. Extra activities, from visiting the Sinaia monastery and the Peles Castle (with its beautiful art collection or the open-air folklore exhibit and market), to dinning and wining at restaurants with live Romanian and international music, to mountain climbing, are all available within walking distance. Visits to old Transylvanian cities, like Brasov, Sibiu and Sighisoara, or to the Bran castle ("Dracula’s castle") and Poiana Brasov, are possible by car, bus or train.

The venue of the school will be Hotel International**** (http://www.international-sinaia.ro), a four star complex, where most of the participants will be accommodated in single and double rooms and in luxury flats at the following prices:
Double room in single occupancy: 60 euro/day, about 270 lei (RON=Romanian currency),
Double room in double occupancy: 34 euro/ person/day, about 150 lei
Deluxe double room: 75 euro/day, about 340 lei
There will be also a limited number of suites available. [ junior suite 83, executive junior suite 90 and one bedroom suite 125 euro/day, respectively.]
These prices are offered only if the participants are registered via the organizers.

Breakfast is included in room's price.
Lunches will be served at the same hotel and are included in the fee.
Dinners can be pre-arranged at the same hotel at about 16 euro each, or the participants can chose to manage by themselves with these meals at other restaurants that are available around, in walking distance. A limited number of places in youth hostels will be available at lower rates for students. Please contact the organizers for advice on such arrangements.

Sinaia is a well known Romanian resort located at 130 km North from Bucharest (about 110 km from the Henri Coanda International Airport) in the Carpathian mountains. There are good connections by car, bus and train from Bucharest (about 2 hours).
During the school, we shall also organize excursions and social events in order to create a nice atmosphere and to provide the participants with a flavour of Romanian landscape and culture. Sinaia is "the Pearl of the Carpathians", close to the geographical centre of the country, itself a prime tourist attraction and in close proximity to many first class natural and historical attractions of Romania. Extra activities, from visiting the Peles Castle with its beautiful art collection or the open-air folklore exhibit and market, to dinning and wining at restaurants with live Romanian and international music, to mountain climbing, are all available within walking distance, in Sinaia.
Visits to old Transylvanian cities, like Brasov, Sibiu and Sighisoara, or to the Bran castle ("Dracula's castle") and Poiana Brasov, are possible by car, bus or train.

You can reach the Bucharest-Otopeni airport (OTP) (“Henri Coanda” International Airport) by one of the numerous flights that connect the Romanian capital with the major Europeans airports. OTP is close to Bucharest and on the highway to Sinaia at ~100 km.

Arrangements for airport transfer are offered to participants:
Participants who wanted assistance with transportation to/from Sinaia were asked to express this request and provide organizers with the exact dates/times of their arrival and departures. The cost will be 25 euro/way. If this assistance is confirmed by us, a driver will wait for you at the “Information” booth in front of the arrival gate.
Sunday June 26^th, two buses will leave from the airport at 15:00 and 19:00, respectively. Volunteers (young students from the host institute) will wait in the arrival area of the airport with placards showing the CSSP16 poster. Look for them if you want to board the buses.
Saturday July 9^th buses will take the participants to the airport or to the city center in Bucharest.
On request special arrangements were made to transfer the lecturers that do not come from the beginning from the Airport to Sinaia and back.

If you have reserved a car, or you want to rent one with the many agencies present in the airport, after you pick the car, you have to drive out of the airport complex, then turn right on DN1 (E60) in direction Ploiesti-Brasov. After about 110 km you reach Sinaia. Hotel International is on your left hand side on str. Avram Iancu, corner with M. Kogalniceanu str.

SINAIA is a major station on the main railway routes from West and Central Europe to Bucharest.
The schedule of trains Bucuresti to Sinaia is at http://www.cfrcalatori.ro/ and below:


If you arrive at the Bucharest (Otopeni) airport and do not have an arrangement for bus/car to Sinaia, you can take a taxi to the "Bucuresti Nord" railway station (ask the taxi-driver for "Gara de Nord", ~15km and ~15 Euro), then the train until Sinaia (~125 km).
Or, you may take the city bus no. 780 to Gara de Nord (you go down to the ground level at airport, buy a two-way ticket to town for 7 RON (<2 Euro) and board buses circulating 5:20 to 23:05 with ~ 30 min frequence) to the end station.
Bus no 783, from the same location at the airport and same cost, takes you to the center of Bucharest. You can find more details below.

At the train station in Sinaia you can pick a taxi (1-2 Euro), or climb a flight of stairs from the station to the city level, then walk to your left for a few hundred meters to the hotel (which is going to be on your right).