Workshop: Inflation and the dark sector — Current challenges and future perspectives, June 3-7, 2019

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Venue

Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä.

Wednesday afternoon will be dedicated to informal discussions and social activities, including a steam ship cruise on the lake Päijänne, where a buffee luch will be served.

Directions

Jyväskylä may be reached by flying either to Helsinki-Vantaa airport or to Tampere Airport .

Helsinki-Vantaa airport to Jyväskylä:

From the Helsinki-Vantaa airport you can either travel to Tikkurila railway station (located in Vantaa) or the central railway station (located at the centre of Helsinki) by either train (Ring Rail Line, P/I trains) or bus. The timetables and routes can be found here. You can also use the interactive Helsinki Regional Transport journey planner. You can purchase a single ticket from a ticket machine, R-kiosk, bus driver, or on your mobile phone (HSL Mobile ticket app). You should find all relevant information at https://www.hsl.fi/en.

A cheap and fast way to get to Jyvaskyla is as follows:

1. Take the P-train to Tikkurila railway station - you can find the timetable and departure platform from journey planner (or the printable pdf, which is a slightly more cryptic. The right column on first page is the timetable for Helsinki-Tikkurila-Airport, and the left column on second page is Airport-Tikkurila-Helsinki). The Tikkurila connection is fastest, but if you like, you can also go to the Helsinki central railway station instead (take P- or I-train or a bus from airport).

2. Take a train from Tikkurila or Helsinki to Jyvaskyla (3-4 h). Here is the train timetable.

3. From Jyvaskyla railway station to the Alba hotel is a pleasant walk along the lakeshore (1.8 km): see blue path in the map. You can also take a cab from the railway station to the hotel. See the interactive Google Map (below) for the location of the physics department.

From Helsinki-Vantaa airport it is also be possible to fly to Jyväskylä. If you do so, we advise to take a cab from Jyväskylä airport to the Alba hotel. It costs approximately 50 euros.

Tampere-Pirkkala airport to Jyväskylä

1. Take a bus to the Tampere railway station. Here you can find general information and the timetables for buses in here.

2. Take a train from Tampere to Jyvaskyla (about 2 h). The train timetable is here.

3. From Jyvaskyla railway station to hotel Alba see above.

Please do not hesitate to ask us for assistance, by sending an email to us.

Accommodation

We have made block reservations from moderately priced hotel, regularily used by Jyväskylä University to accommodate its guests (Alba). Those of you to whom we have promised local support, need only send us information of your exact dates of stay, and we take care of the booking. Others should contact the hotel directly and make their own reservations using the reservation code: IDS conference / Kimmo Kainulainen. NOTE that this code does not work in the automatic web-page booking. It works is you call the hotel or send them an e-mail.

Hotel Alba: https://www.hotellialba.fi/en/
Hotel Alexandria: (5 rooms) Original Sokos Hotel Alexandra

The standard rate for 1 person room in Alba is roughly 100 euros per night. The 5 rooms we managed to reserve from Alexandria are 109.5€ per night. Usual prices are much higher.

You are of course free to make your own arrangemens in other local hotels as you find convenient. Conveniently located hotels and hostels are for example:

Hotels

Urban Hotel Verso (1 person room, ~200 euros/night)
Original Sokos Hotel Alexandra (1 person room, ~240 euros/night)
Original Sokos Hotel Paviljonki (1 person room, ~240 euros/night)
Hotel Scandic Jyväskylä City (1 person room, ~150 euros/night)
Hotel Scandic Jyväskylä Station (1 person room, ~150 euros/night)

Hostels or airbnb (the Time Hostel and apartments is also a reliable airbnb dealer.)

Time Hostel and Apartments (1-3 person room, ~80-100 euros/night)
The Local Culture Hostel (1-4 person rooms, ~75-120 euros/night)

Here is a map of the south-central area that indicates your hotels, university and the harbor and the exact place where the cruise will be taking off.

Click for larger image. You can also use the official Jyväskylä city map or Google Maps.

Workshop site

Below find maps of the department with the location of entrances, lecture room, restaurants and the dedicated work ares. Again, click for a larger image. The orientation of the building is such that the upper side of the building is facing the lake. There will be signs guiding you towards the lecture room on all entrances as well as graduate students to gently point you the right way if you still manage to get lost ;D.

There is a very nice area for discussions with a lot of tables, couches and sofa's just outside the lecture room. Also the library is just across the lobby if you need more quiet for your work. In addition we have reserved several negotiation rooms for your use. The rooms are indicated in the map above, and they are available for us as follows:

Monday 3.6.	15:00-18:00	FL244, FL 220
Tuesday 4.6.	15:00-18:00	FL244, FL 220
Wednesday 5.6	12.00-15.00	FL349
Thursday 6.6.	15:00-18:00	FL244, FL 220
Friday 7.6.	12:00-13:00	FL244
Friday 7.6.	12:00-15:00	FL220

Of course, if *less* quiet was what you needed, there are convenient "negotiation areas" with service provided in walking distance; just across the lake on the Alba's terrace and on several nice establishments on board ships parked in the harbour.