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Post-conference trips

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If you are interested in any of the below trips, please register your interest in order to secure places.

British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

www.antarctica.ac.uk
No: 30-40 delegates
Distance from Central London: 98km
Transport: Delegates to arrange – rail from London

Delft University Water Research Centre

www.water.tudelft.nl
No: 15 delegates
Transport: rail/underground-air-bus
Delegates to arrange transport to London City airport, free travel from London City airport to Delft for delegates
N.B. 15 delegates are required for the trip to go ahead.
Caution: The UK and mainland Europe require separate visas. So if you want to join the excursion to the Water Research Centre or the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands, please click here to check if you need to apply for a Schengen visa (valid in all 24 Schengen countries) in your country of origin.

Delft University Kavli Institute of Nanoscience

www.ns.tudelft.nl
No: 15 delegates
Transport: rail/underground-air-bus
Delegates to arrange transport to London City airport, free travel from London City airport to Delft for delegates
N.B. 15 delegates are required for the trip to go ahead.
Caution: The UK and mainland Europe require separate visas. So if you want to join the excursion to the Water Research Centre or the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands, please click here to check if you need to apply for a Schengen visa (valid in all 24 Schengen countries) in your country of origin.

LGC

www.lgc.co.uk
No: 30-35 delegates
Distance from Central London: 4.5km
Transport: Free coach for delegates

Norwich Research Park

Institute of Food Research – www.ifr.ac.uk
John Innes Centre including Genome Analysis Centre – www.jic.ac.uk
The Sainsbury Laboratory – www.tsl.ac.uk
University of East Anglia – www.uea.ac.uk

No: 50 delegates
Distance from Central London: 182km
Transport: Free coach for delegates

Oxfordshire Research Facilities

Diamond Light Source – www.diamond.ac.uk
Central Laser Facility – www.clf.rl.ac.uk
ISIS – www.isis.rl.ac.uk
JET (Joint European Torus) – www.jet.efda.org

No: 50 – 100 delegates
Distance from Central London: 100km
Transport: Free coaches for delegates

Royal Society Summer Show, London

More information coming soon...

Further trips being arranged include the UK's Rothamsted agricultural research centre www.rothamsted.ac.uk, shorter half-day trips within Central London and trips to Ireland and Italy.

If delegates have particular requests for visits these may be able to be arranged on request to the conference office.