Registration
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of TUe will cover all the expenses of the meeting thus the registration will be free (this will include the documentation, coffee breaks and the dinner in honor to Ruud). Anyway we will need your data for administrative purposes so please fill in this form. Registration will close after February 14; please register as soon as you know that you will attend to simplify our planning.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the city of Eindhoven, North Brabant.
Information of how to reach TU/e is available here. Zaal 5 is in the ground floor of the Auditorium building, building 1 (in quadrant B4) on the campus map.
Accommodation
The university is very close to the train station and the city center, any central hotel will be suitable. You can find more information at the Tourist Office of Eindhoven.Travel and Visas
If you need a visa please contact Tanja Lange with the required details. Check out the official government page first to see whether you need a visa (search for the "Do I need a visa?" section and check out the pdf file).
Eindhoven has direct train connections to Amsterdam, Amsterdam Airport, Rotterdam, and Den Haag to the north/west and to Venlo and Maastricht to the east/south. The closest airports are Eindhoven airport, Rotterdam airport and Schiphol (Amsterdam airport); these can be reached by public transportation. Weeze is reachable by car.
Some years ago all public transportation got unified to accept a form of electronic payment, the OV Chipcard. While the card is quite famous in crypto and security as a subject of research, it can also be used for public transportation. The card costs 7.50 EUR but saves you 1 EUR on every train ride (fee for the paper card) and around 1.50 EUR for short bus rides. You need to check in at the start of your journey and out at the end of it. Fees are based on distance.
Amsterdam airport to Eindhoven
Eindhoven is about 1.5 hours by train from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport), the biggest airport in the Netherlands with good connections to everywhere in the world.
The airport has a train station (called Schiphol) and direct trains serve Eindhoven
twice per hour during daytime; there are also two rides per hour involving a change in
Utrecht.
Train tickets are available from the yellow ticket machines in the main hall of the train station. There are also some in the luggage hall, so you can make use of the time waiting for your luggage. There is also a ticket office in the central hall of the station, but they charge extra for serving you.
Single-ride tickets cost 1 EUR extra and they charge an extra fee for using credit cards. You can take trains using the OV
chip card. Cards are available at the station as well. A card costs
7.50 EUR + fare; you need to have at least 20 EUR on them in order to take
trains. This only pays off if you intend to take many train rides or use
busses.
The Dutch train company http://www.ns.nl/en sells online
tickets but require a Dutch bank account to purchase the ticket. You
are not bound to the timeslot that you selected but to the date and
the routing.
The Belgian train company https://www.b-europe.com/EN
sells online tickets for the Dutch trains. The price is slightly
higher than on the Dutch site but includes credit card fees and is
cheaper than the one-time ticket+credit card fee (and saves you the
wait if the machines are crowded).
Eindhoven airport
Eindhoven also has its own airport which is served by some low-cost airlines. From the arrival hall at Eindhoven airport you can walk to the bus stop. With bus no 400, starting at Eindhoven Airport, Eindhoven Central station is accessible in 21 minutes (24 min for bus 401). You can buy a ticket in the bus or use an OV chip card.
International trains to Eindhoven
You can purchase international train tickets at https://www.nsinternational.nl/en. Sometimes https://www.bahn.com/en/ offers better prices (or credit card fees).
Local transportation
Details on public transportation can be found at http://9292.nl/en. Note that you can search for connections between street addresses. TU/e is very close to the train station and city center, so likely you won't need to take any bus in Eindhoven.