Map
Airport Codes
SHAShanghai Hongqiao International Airport SHA
Shanghai Pudong International Airport PVG
Beijing Capital International Airport PEK
Hangzhou Airport HGH
Qingdao Airport TAO
Lodging Places and Meals
Unless you requested special housing in your original application, all students will be housed in a double room in the hotels we have reserved. Bed sheets, pillow cases, soap, shampoo, etc. will be provided with your dormitory room. If you want to reserve other hotels, please refer to this webpage: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/hotel/
Breakfasts (7:00am - 8:30am), lunches (11:00am - 1:30pm) and dinners (5:00pm - 6:30pm) will be provided if you have paid registration fees including meals. Otherwise you can have meals at the restaurant. China offers a large selection of cuisine, which you are urged to take advantage of.
Lecturers will be provided with meal tickets (free of charge), which they can use to pay for their meals and banquets. Family and significant others who are not participants or lecturers will need to purchase meal tickets in order to attend any of the meals in the Dining Hall.
We will book hotels for all the speakers, because it’s a better way for us to pay it from the funds. If you would like to book the hotels yourselves, please keep the receipts, then we will reimburse you.
Hangzhou:
Zijingang Hotel: $30/room for two persons, not including breakfast, for more information, see http://www.zjgbg.com/zjghotelen/index.html (We will reserve for you).
Or you can reserve the following hotels by yourselves:
Beijing
The Institute of Physics hotel/dormitory: $30/room for two persons.(We will reserve for you).
Or you can reserve the following hotels by yourselves:
Orange Hotel - Zhongguanxun Branch, Beijing
Shanghai
Motel 168: $32/room for two persons, see http://www.motel168.com/hotel/hotel.aspx?hotelID=212 (We will reserve for you).
Or you can reserve the following hotels by yourselves:
Yalong International Hotel, Shanghai
Novotel Atlantis Hotel, Shanghai
Qingdao
Hotel which belongs to Ocean University of China: $44/room (We will reserve for you).
Or you can reserve the following hotels by yourselves:
Paradise Inn Haiyi Hotel, Qingdao
Opportunity of Total Solar Eclipse Viewing
Join Dr. Doug Duncan, ex-National Public Radio “Science Guy” and China experts from “A Bridge to China” for and unforgettable experience: dynamic China and fascinating Tibet. Add in Nature’s most astonishing spectacle: a total eclipse of the sun on July 22, 2009. During the I-CAMP Summer School in Beijing, Dr. Duncan and his colleague will give talks on physics education and we will visit Beijing Planetarium.
The following picture shows the track of total solar eclipse. For more details, please see http://www.abridgetochina.net/Home/Total+Solar+Eclipse+2009/default.aspx and http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html
