Cherenkov Telescope Array An advanced facility for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy

CTA Barcelona 2008

This is a local website for the meeting, with information about the venue, registration, accommodation and transport. For information about the scientific program and presentations, please go to the CTA meeting website. For general information about the CTA project visit the CTA homepage.

The meeting will be hosted by the Cosmos Science Institute (ICC-UB) of the Faculty of Physics of the Universitat de Barcelona. The meeting will consist in plenary sessions open to all participants and parallel sessions of the working groups.

Program of the meeting.
List of participants.
Registration form.

Local organizing committee:
Josep M. Paredes (ICC-UB), Marc Ribó (ICC-UB), Carme Baixeras (UAB), Juan Cortina (IFAE), Manel Martínez (IFAE), Diego F. Torres (IEEC-CSIC).
Secretariat of the meeting: Ariadna Frutos.

Location of the meeting:
Facultat de Física, Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona. How to get there.
Lecture room(s): Aula Magna del la Facultat de Física. The rooms for the parallel sessions can be found "here". All rooms will have wifi internet connection (except V12M), as well as data projectors.

Accommodation:
A limited number of rooms (single and double) have been reserved in University and Research Council residences.
Requests for University residence accommodation can not be considered anymore. However, you can contact the residences directly.
You can also make your own accommodation arrangements in other hotels. The following two links are provided just to help you (we cannot guarantee the quality of the quoted hotels): Barcelona Hotels and Booking.

Fee and social activities:
There is a registration fee of 30 Euros, payable in cash upon arrival.
A dinner for participants has been arranged on Thursday 24th at the cost of 40 Euros, payable also upon arrival.

Coming from and going to the airport.
Local info on Barcelona.
Transportation in BCN.

The Spanish Institutions involved in the CTA projects are: Universitat de Barcelona (ICC-UB), Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC).

This meeting is organized by: