For international travellers:
All large international airlines fly into at least one of the major international airports in the surroundings of Göttingen, Frankfurt am Main and Hannover. In Frankfurt direct trains to Göttingen run from the airport's train station.
We have made arrangements to facilitate your travel.
International attendees might check out special airfares with Lufthansa using the following reference: GGAIRLHCONGRESS code: LH06FRA776 (PDF). You will need to contact a Lufthansa representative with this code, in North America you call toll free: 1-800-645 3880.
Train tickets from all German airports to Göttingen can be purchased via "Rail & Fly" together with your flight ticket. Alternatively you might purchase your ticket at the train station in the airport or online. For online purchase use "Goettingen" as destination and your arrival airport as departure, for Frankfurt Airport use "281" as departure.
For national travellers:
The easiest way to reach Göttingen is by train. The main train station is located at the center of the town, a few walking minutes from the "Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude", where the conference is. The accommodation possibilities are mostly in walking distance as well or some require taking one of the buses that stop at the train station.
Upon arrival in Göttingen you should first go to the registration desk, in walking distance to the train station (locations in the city for Google Earth and Google Maps). There you will get your participants ID which allows you to use the city busses to get to your hotel. The exact adress of the "Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude" is: Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen.
Göttingen offers a wide range of accomodation possibilities in all price ranges. To ensure availablity and better rates we have blocked rooms. Please use the link here for your reservation. The website also includes information about where the hotels are located.
Accomodations in the Youth Hostel are available for 16,90 Euro per night. Please eMail us for a reservation after your registration. For your reservation we need to know when you are going to arrive and how long you are going to stay.
The surroundings of Göttingen offer an impressive wide range of excursion destinations. For the excursion on wednesday afternoon we have put together some possibilities:
For accompanying persons we will put together additional (different) excursions during the week. The fee for accompaning persons includes all travel and entrance/guided tour expences for the excursions.