Workshop on
COMPUTABILITY AND RANDOMNESS
Heidelberg, Germany, April 25 and 26, 2003
On leaving the main station at the shorter side of its main hall, you see a combined bus and tram station. Take Bus 34 in direction Heidelberg-Wieblingen, i.e., you have to cross the tracks. After a few stations, leave the bus at the stop Bonhoefferstraße, this is the first stop overlooking the river. Cross the street and go to the bus stop in direction Heidelberg. Follow the short footpath, i.e., walk away from the river. After 10 meters, on reaching Maria-Probst-Straße; turn right and follow this street for about 200 meters until you reach the junction with Bonhoefferstaße, which is blocked by red-and-white half-spheres. Walk through the half-spheres, after about 50 meters on Bonhoefferstaße you reache a zebra crossing. Turn left in direction parking lot P3. After another 30 meters you see a modern building on the left, this is the reception, and an old bouilding on the right, this is the hotel.
Here is a map of the SRH campus in Wieblingen.
The bus stop Bonhoefferstraße is served by Buses 34 and 35. They stop, for example, on either side of the Alte Brücke, at Bismarckplatz, and at Betriebshof.
The workshop will be held in the Institute of Mathematics, INF 288. The pavement of the central square of the campus in front of the student cafeteria (Mensa) shows concentric circles that form the solar system; the building for Reine Mathematik is the oldest and lowest building on this square, about 50 meters away from the center of the circles, the entrance is on the orbit of Uranus.
To reach the Neuenheim Campus from downtown Heidelberg, you have the following alternatives
Here is a map with all relevant sites on the Heidelberg Neuenheim Campus.
On leaving the hotel turn right and go straight on to the bus stop Bonhoefferstraße, and the river. At the bus stop turn right and walk in direction Heidelberg, i.e., walk East, up the river. After a couple of hundred meters, you reach a small bridge for pedestrians only. Cross the bridge, then turn right. After walking about 80 meters up the river you reach a junction with another foot path; turn left and follow the foot path. Walk straight on, away from the river. After about 400 meters and passing several shops and the student cafeteria, you reach the square with the planetary system.
Take Bus 34 or 35 to Betriebshof, which for Bus 34 is one stop before the main station. The two bused stop in different parts of the stop Betriebshof, if you came with Bus 34, walk over to the part of the stop where the tracks are straight. Take Tram 1 or 4 in direction Handschuhsheim. Get off at the second stop Bunsen-Gymnasium, which is at a gas station. Walk 20 meters back, at the traffic light turn right and walk away from the gas station towards the parking lots. Walk straight on towards the buildings of the campus, after 200 meters you reach the square with the solar system and the workshop site to the right.
Within the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN), which includes Heidelberg and Mannheim area, there are uniform tickets for public transportation tickets that are valid in all buses, trams and slow trains (Note that genuine train tickets issued by the Bahn are not valid for buses or trams and that you must purchase VRN tickets before entering trains.)
A single ride within Heidelberg is 1.90 Euro if you buy the ticket at the driver and 1.60 if you buy 5 tickets in advance. There is for 6 Euro that is valid for 24 hours and is valid for up to 5 persons (except on workdays before 9 am). If you buy a Ticket-24-plus ticket on Saturday, it is valid for the whole weekend. There are more expensive version of the Ticket-24-plus for 10 Euros that covers also the connection to Mannheim and one for 14 Euro that covers the whole area, which includes for example the adjacent parts of the Neckar valley and the Pfalz up to Kaiserslautern. The train ticket "Schönes Wochenende", which costs 28 Euro and is valid for up to 5 persons for one Saturday or Sunday in all slow trains, is also valid for buses and trams within the whole area of the VRN.
