Bochum is situated approximately 50 km from Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), about 100 km from Cologne Airport (CGN) and about 300 km from Frankfurt Airport (FRA). All three airports have excellent train connections to Bochum. Participants should plan to arrive on September 12 to be able to attend the lectures on Monday morning.


The talkes take place in the building of the Ruhr-University Bochum, namley the HZO 90. The university is located south of the town - by subway it takes 10 minutes to get there. So it is not withing walking distance from the center. If you take the subway from downtown Bochum you go in direction "HUSTADT" and leave at "RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM". Mount the stairs and turn right. You cross the bridge and proceed walking straight on and then a little bit to the right where you descend another stairs. The HZO building is then to your left. The day of the summerschool we will put pointers along the way so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

For a map of the university click here.

It's hard to find a map showing the university, to get a feeling about the distance check here. The university is at numbers 2 and 18 on the map.

To find out more about the university like where to drop a car, please visit the RUB homepage.