SIMUMAT  summer school 2008

 CIEM, Castro Urdiales, Cantabría, Spain, July 7-18, 2008.

CIEM (International Center of Mathematical meetings) is an initiative promoted by the University of Cantabria and the city-hall of Castro Urdiales jointly, whose main objective is to promote mathematical investigation on quality, both on its basics, applieds and computacional ways, taking special care to its multi and pluridisciplinar investigation, by means of  conferences and researchers meetings  support.

CIEM is one of the nodes of i-MATH proyect.

 

How to get there

By plane. The best arrival airport is the one at Bilbao (Spain). Castro Urdiales is 35 km far from Bilbao. You can reach Castro from Bilbao by bus or taxi.

From Bilbao to Castro by bus: Regular buses from Bilbao to Castro leave from Bilbao Termibus (Bilbao coach station). To reach the termibus from the airport, see below. The company Bizkaibus-Encartaciones (tel:  34-946 363 424) connects Bilbao to Castro. There is a bus each 30 minutes and the price is 2.42 euros, which lasts around 50 minutes. This bus makes several stops in Castro. You can ask the drive about the best stop to go to the Hotel Las Rocas and/or Miramar (or to the Beach Brazomar, see the street guide).

From Bilbao airport to Bilbao Coach station: To go from the airport to the Termibus, take either a taxi (20 euros; teletaxi: 34-944 800 909) or the bus. Frequence: every half an hour, price: 1,50 euros, duration: half an hour; more explanations (in english) here.

Another option is coming from Bilbao to Castro by taxi: around 50 euros. Tel: 34-944 800 909).

By bus. The company ALSA (tel: 902 422 242) have routes to Castro (coach station) from Bilbao, Oviedo, Santander, San Sebastián, the french border (Irun), Vitoria, Pamplona and Zaragoza. It is also possible to travel by Bilbao by bus from many spanish cities (e.g. Madrid, Barcelona) and some other european cities. Much information is available on the web site of ALSA.

By car.Use mappy or via Michelin to plan your trip.

 

 

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Last date, January 2008.