The January 2024 MicroBooNE collaboration meeting at the University of Manchester will run from Tuesday, 16th January to Friday 19th January. For those of you from the US who will also be attending the DUNE collaboration meeting at CERN the following week, this therefore provides you the opportunity to travel across the Atlantic once for both meetings.
You can choose to fly into Manchester Airport, or to fly into London Heathrow and then get a train up to Manchester. Some flights from Chicago go via Dublin. Costs for trains vary greatly with time of day and you should reserve the ticket online if you want a reasonable price. Do not buy the ticket on the train. See for example:
https://www.thetrainline.com/
Both Manchester train stations (Piccadilly and Oxford Road) are within walking distance from the meeting venue.
If you wish to get to CERN after the MicroBooNE meeting, then there are plenty of direct EasyJet flights from Manchester to Geneva. Alternative flights are via London Heathrow.
Information for travel to the University is here:
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/
We will be holding the meeting on campus in the Schuster Building, on Brunswick Park.
Participants need to check their visa requirements. If you need a visa, then send a request for an invitation letter to [email protected] asap. US citizens, EU citizens, and citizens of Switzerland do not need a visa to enter the UK.
WiFi access is through eduroam. Please contact us if you do not have eduroam and need a WiFi guest account.
We will organise a collaboration dinner on Wednesday at the Wharf. Payment/registration details will be sent out later. There are plenty of lunch options in the vicinity of the meeting venue.
The closest hotels to our building are the Hyatt Regency and Hyatt House. They do offer preferential rates for people attending a university event. To get these preferential rates:
Hyatt Regency: Visit Hyatt Regency
Click on 'Book Now'; in 'Special Rate' choose 'Corporate Code'. Our code is 138884.
Hyatt House: Please email reservations ([email protected]) or call +44 161 359 5556 and quote The University of Manchester.
You may also choose to book yourself a hotel in the centre of town: we are in walking distance of the town centre.
Budget hotels close to the venue:
The agenda and slides are in the MicroBooNE docdb (password protected).