Short courses will be held at the conference site, Flagey.
Lodge 10, 2nd floor.
conference site plan here

*Only for participants who have registered and paid for this option.

Short courses description & registration here

Internet will be available free to participants :

- in the PC room (studio 3, ground floor) : ethernet access

- in the WiFi areas

Please note that the use of personal laptops will be strictly forbidden in the conference rooms, out of respect for the speaker.

Coffee breaks

Coffee, tea & soft drinks, accessible to every registrated person, will be offered at 10:15 and 15:15, in the "coffee corners" (see the plan).

Apart from these free coffee beaks, a coffee shop will be opened in the conference area.

Lunch

Lunch time from 12:20 to 14:00.

Lunch is not included in the registration fees. You will find many restaurants, snacks, "friteries" in the surroundings of the conference.

Welcome Reception will be held in a highly prestigious place of Brussels city on Monday 10, from 20:00 to 22:00.
Who ? Everybody who is registered to the conference
Where ? Surprise !

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The conference 'Banquet' will take place on Thursday 13th evening. It will be held in the Cercle Gaulois which is located in the beautiful Park of Brussels, right in front of the Royal Palace.

Who ? Everybody who registered as a full participant, and accompanying person. Please go get your ticket at the option desk before Monday 5:30 pm.

Students will have the opportunity to buy tickets for the conference banquet on Sunday and Monday.
(Cash Desk - limited number of tickets)

Dress code : Appropriate decent clothing is highly recommended.

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Accompanying person's programme
Accompanying person can either join the full accompanying persons programme, either only on activity. More information here.

You can register for these activities at the option desk at the conference center (1st floor). If you are registered at the ECASIA '07 conference as accompanying person, you can join these activities.

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Attention : your personal badge is your "passport" for all the activities of the conference. Don't leave it in your room !

The ECASIA '07 logo makes a link between the capital of the European Union, surface spectroscopy principle and the Atomium, one of the most astonishing building in the world, and touristic attraction with Manneken Pis and the Grand Place of Brussels.

Atomium, one of the most astonishing building in the world

Built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58), the 103-metre (335-foot) tall Atomium monument represents a unit cell of an iron crystal (body-centred cubic), magnified 165 billion times, with vertical body diagonal, with tubes along the 12 edges of the cube and from all 8 vertices to the centre.

Nine steel spheres 18 metres in diameter connect via tubes with escalators as long as 35 m, among the longest in Europe. Windows in the top sphere provide a panoramic view of Brussels. Other spheres have 1950s exhibitions.

Planned originally to last only six months, architect André Waterkeyn's design has survived to become a popular tourist attraction that some feel is a Belgian national icon rivalling Manneken Pis. It sits beside the King Baudouin Stadium in Heysel Park. Just next to it also lies the congress centre, and the Mini-Europe park.

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Flagey, where the conference will take place

The pioneering days of the Belgian radio were over with the creation of the National Institute for Radio Broadcasting (INR-NIR) in 1930. Given the importance of radio at this time it became obvious that a new building was required for broadcasting.

In 1933, as the result of a competition, the project of the Belgian architect, Joseph Diongre, was selected. His proposed designs offered architectural rigour combined with a response to the stringent technical and acoustic constraints whilst also envisaging a space intended to welcome the general public. Diongre was equally attentive to details such as the materials used and the creation of specially designed furniture.
The much-needed « sound factory », started in 1935, and saw the light of day in 1938.
It was one of the earliest radio buildings in Europe.

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