Logistics

Accommodation for outstation participants is being arranged from 21st August to 26th August. Accommodation is being arranged at the following places: (please CLICK HERE to see the room allocations)

1) Quality Hotel Sabari Classic
No. 33, Old Mahabalipuram Road
Chennai, IN, 603103
Phone: +91 44 24735030, 47445030
Fax: +91 44 27435868

The banquet will be on Tuesday, August 23, and will be held in the same hotel.

2) IIT Taramani Guest House (Map)
IIT Chennai.
Office : +91 (44) 2257 8450, 8449
Entrance : +91 (44) 2257 8470

3) IMSc Guest House (Map)
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
CIT Campus, Taramani,
Chennai 600113.
Tel: +91 (44) 22543144

4) SETS Guest House (Map)
MGR Knowledge City, CIT Campus
Taramani Chennai - 600113.
Tel: +91 (44) 66632500 - 30

How to reach your hotel/guest house: You may take a prepaid auto from Central railway station or a taxi. There is a pre-paidtaxi service called FAST TRACK available at the airport and also at Central railway station which is convenient and hassle free. Just tell them where you need to go to. The fares are fixed and reasonable.

For people going to IIT Guest House ask for IIT Madras, guest house.
For people going to IMSc guest house ask for Film city, Taramani (close to Tidel Park)
For people going to SETS guest house ask for IIT Madras Research park, Taramani (close to Tidel park)
For people going to Hotel Sabari Classic ask for Quality Hotel Sabari Classic, near Navalur Toll gate, on Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR, also called Rajiv Gandhi Salai)

The more adventurous may of course take a local bus from central and get to Adyar. You may then look up the maps and instructions given below to reach your destinations.

When coming by auto to IMSc/ SETS: The auto/taxi driver would know how to get to Madhya Kailash temple near CLRI - from there you will need to come South, down OMR, towards Tidel Park. You will have to come all the way to the Tidel park junctions and make a U turn. Then tell the auto driver go into the service lane - you will soon see a turn on the left for IIT-M Research Park - there is prominent sign for SETS too there. Slightly further down (just before a walk-over-bridge) is a left turn for IMSc. That is the road going to the Modern Bread factory, Womens Polytechnic. Both SETS and IMSc are not more than 500 meters of the main road.

For people going to IIT, mention IIT (and if the driver seems perplexed say CLRI, Madhya Kailash which is 5 minutes from IIT) and as soon as he gets you to the IIT gate, there is a security gate. They will direct you to Taramani Guest House. Alternatively you may look up the IIT-M website for instructions.

For people coming to Sabari Classic, it is a long travel from the airport, about 20 kn. The Hotel is close to the toll booth (at Navalur) on the Rajiv Gandhi Salai/ OMR. Many busses are available from Madhya Kailash that goes to Navalur.

Vehicles to and from CMI: CMI will organise transport to/from the hotel, IIT Taramani guest house, IMSc guest house and SETS guest house to the Institute during the workshop. Traffic can get very heavy in the morning, so please make sure you make it to your bus on time. We expect the vehicles to reach CMI by 8:45am. Partipants can have breakfast at CMI.

The following are the pickup timings from different locations:

(a) A vehicle will pick up participants from the hotel at 8:45am.
(b) Two twelve seater buses will leave IIT Taramani guest house every morning at 7:45 am.

(c) Two twelve seaters will leave from SETS guest house at 7:40 pick up particpants and reach IMSc guest house at 7:50. The vehicle will leave IMSc at 8:00 am.These vehicles are intended primarily for participants staying in SETS, IMSc and for IMSc faculty and students.

All the vehicles will return after the last talk of the day.

In addition there is a regular shuttle between IMSc and CMI throughout the day. The timing for the shuttle can be found at the CMI webpage.


Dinner
We have not made arrangements for dinner except on Tuesday 23rd, when all participants are invited for a banquet at Hotel Quality Sabari Classic. Transport will be availabe to take you back to your guest houses after the banquet.

For those staying in Taramani Guest house and IMSc guest house, there is dinner available on payment. Please check at the respective guest houses if you need to inform them earlier about having dinner. Alternatively you may wish to check out some of the restaurants in the vicinity - the IMSc website has a detailed review of some of the restaurants in the vicinity.

For those staying at SETS please note that there is no dinner service available at the SETS guest house. However the research park has a number of food courts where you can try out various cuisines.