Travel info


Kielce is located in Central Poland between Warsaw and Cracow, the present and former Polish capitals.

The venue of the 18th International Conference of Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI 2016):
Jan Kochanowski University
Kielce, Świętokrzyska 15
building G, Lecture Hall B


GPS coordinates:
latitude: N50° 52' 52.0" (50.881101)
longitude: E20° 39' 23.3" (20.656483)

Travel to Kielce:

By plane

You can fly to Poland to Cracow Airport or to Warsaw Chopin Airport.

On Sunday, September 11, 2016 the conference bus transportation from Cracow/Warsaw to Kielce (to the hotels) was arranged.

The bus departures:

WARSAW Chopin airport (Warszawa Lotnisko Chopina)
Meeting point: arrivals hall, look for person with HCI-2016 sign
15.00 – this bus will stop at Jan Kochanowski University (where you can stay for welcome reception)
18.00 – may leave the airport with a small delay (in the case of a flight delay)
21.00 – the last bus (it will eventually wait for delayed flights)

CRACOW airport (Kraków Lotnisko)
Meeting point: passenger terminal, look for person with HCI-2016 sign
15.00 – this bus will stop at Jan Kochanowski University (where you can stay for welcome reception)
18.00 – may leave the airport with a small delay (in the case of a flight delay)
21.00 – the last bus (it will eventually wait for delayed flights)

In a case of any problems please call: +48 668 418 488 (Darek Banas – co-chair).

On Friday, September 16, 2016 bus transportation from Kielce to Cracow will be organized to allow participation in the SPARC workshop.

Alternatively you can travel from Cracow/Warsaw to Kielce by railway. In this case one has to reach Cracow Central Station (Kraków Główny) or Warsaw Central Station (Warszawa Centralna):

From Cracow Airport (Kraków Lotnisko) it is convinient to take a train to Cracow Central Station (15 minutes, every half an hour, timetable), where you can change a train to Kielce. You can buy a ticket to Kielce in Airport .

From Warsaw Chopin Airport (Warszawa Lotnisko Chopina) it is convinient to take:

By train

The train timetable of Polish railways (PKP) is available on http://www.rozklad-pkp.pl/en.

By car

Kielce is situated at a crossing of roads with numbers S7 (North – South) and 74 (East – West).
Please check the way close to the University:

UJK

Local transport in Kielce

Please check a detailed map and schedule of a public transport to/from the conference venue and to/from the recommended hotels: Download

The TAXI stop is located at the exit of the Kielce Railway Station. Taxi can be also ordered by phone. Typical price of the TAXI from Kielce Railway Station to the conference place (Jan Kochanowski University, Swietokrzyska 15) is about 25 PLN (5-7 Euro):

Public transport from the Kielce Railway Station to the conference place:

 

Important information:

Proceedings:
Proceedings of the HCI-2016 were published in the Special Issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Gallery:
Selected conference photos: View!

Book of Abstracts:
The final version of the HCI-2016 Book of Abstracts:
Download (low resolution)

Announcements:
1st Announcement: January, 2016
Final Announcement: August, 2016

Sponsors: