Members of the DELPHI Collaboration are hereby invited to attend the DEPLHI Week in Uppsala, Sweden, September 14-19, 2000.
The DELPHI Week in Uppsala will start with registration in the evening of Thursday 14, a plenary meeting in the morning of Friday 15, parallel team meetings in the afternoon of Friday 15, all of Saturday 16 and in the morning of Sunday 17 and continue with plenary meetings on Monday 18 and a Collaboration Board meeting Tuesday 19, finishing around 12.30. See the meeting schedule for details.
Uppsala is a small city and most hotels are within 10-20 min walking of the meeting venue. You can find the location of the meeting venue and of the hotels on the map. Some of the low price accomodations are located outside the city and will require bus transportation. Participants are asked to make contact themselves with the hotels of their choice and make their own reservations. E-mail addresses and phone and fax numbers for all hotels are available under Hotel information.
Uppsala is situated 35 km from Sweden's main airport Stockholm/Arlanda. There is an airport-bus every 30 min (bus number 801), price is 75 SEK (about 14 CHF or 9 EUR) one-way. For a map of the airport terminals and the bus timetable see the section on Arlanda Airport. The bus arrives in Uppsala at the bus station which is indicated with the letter D on the map. Participants are asked to make their own air travel reservations.
We advice you to make both the hotel reservation and the travel reservations as early as possible.
On Sunday 17 September 14.00-20.00 there will be a boat excursion for the DELPHI Week participants with accompanying persons down the river Fyris and out on lake Ekoln to visit Skokloster Castle. A banquet will be served on the boats on the way back. As the maximum number of participants is limited we advice you to register as early as possible. There is no extra charge for this excursion.
If you wish to make additional excursions or visits to interesting places in Uppsala with surroundings in connection with you stay in Uppsala, please consult the information available under Excursions and museums.
There is an online registration form available. We ask you to register and pay the conference fee at your earliest covenience.
Below we give some brief information about the city of Uppsala. We look forward to receiving you in Uppsala and wish you most welcome.
The Uppsala DELPHI Group
Uppsala University was the first to be founded in Scandinavia in 1477. Several well-known scientists like von Linné, Celsius, Scheele, Ångström and Siegbahn have been affiliated to our University. The University has about 35 000 students who represent a visible community in the rather small (100 000 inhabitants) and old city of Uppsala. There a many green areas and historical buildings in the center of the city. Among them the University House, built in the 1880s, shown below. The Old University House from the 17th century, now an academic museum, is a beautiful post-renaissance building situated just across the University Park.
The renaissance Castle of Uppsala was founded by King Gustav Wasa, who united Sweden in the 16th century.
Uppsala is the seat of the archbishop of Sweden. The Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in Scandinavia. Its construction started in 1260 and the church was inaugurated in 1435. Many famous Swedes are buried here, among them Carl von Linné.
Old Uppsala is the cradle of the Swedish kingdom. Under the hills three ancient kings are buried. The Old Uppsala church was erected in the 12th century, according to some sources at the site of a temple of the ancient gods of the vikings.
Near the center in Uppsala lies the original botanical garden and "orangerie" of Carl von Linné.
We will make a boat excursion during the DELPHI week. We will travel on one of the old steam boats from the harbour in central Uppsala down the river Fyris out on the lake Ekoln and make a visit to the Skokloster Castle. The old small castle building dates from medieval times but the dominant building with its four towers was built 1654-1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, one of the victorious Swedish field commanders during the 30-year-war. This castle contains rich collections of art and armour and is nearly intact from the time of Wrangel.
