TOP 2018 Bad Neuenahr, Germany Tentatively September 16 – 21, 2017
TOP 2018 announcement 1 Bad Neuenahr in the Rhineland region
TOP 2018 announcement 2 Organizing Universities in North-Rhine-Westphalia
Local organizing committee Ian Brock Markus Cristinziani Michael Czakon Martin Erdmann Ivor Fleck Dominic Hirschbühl Kevin Kröninger Wolfgang Wagner Malgorzata Worek
TOP 2018 announcement 3 Conference venue
The Steigenberger hotel in Bad Neuenahr
§ The Ahr valley is famous as wine growing area, in particular for red wine. § The Steigenberger has 202 rooms.
§ Bad Neuenahr is a small resort town at the Ahr river, a tributary to the Rhine river. § The town has 12,000 citizens and is part of the municipality Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
TOP 2018 announcement 4 Location of the hotel in Bad Neuenahr
Ahr river lecture hall casino
park
hotel complex
spa
TOP 2018 announcement 5 The lecture hall: the grand hall
§ Size: 490 m2 § Class-room setting (includes tables) § Fits maximum 290 people TOP 2018 proposal 6 Poster session Grand hall
Coffee break
TOP 2018 announcement 7 Ahr-Thermen spa
§ Next to the Steigenberger hotel there is a large public spa. § The spa is directly reachable from the hotel (underground connection). § Reduced entrance fee for hotel guests.
TOP 2018 announcement 8 Excursion on Wednesday
Visit to the former federal government bunker located close-by. Witness a monument of the cold-war period with nuclear blast-proof gates. 1.5 h guided tour. The complex featured 936 bed rooms and 897 offices and had a total length of 17.3 km.
§ Short walk through the vineyards. § Wine tasting at a local winery § Dinner at the Adenbach cabin. § The excursion will be organized by the agency Ahrtours.
TOP 2018 announcement 9 Travel to Bad Neuenahr
Airports in reach:
§ Köln-Bonn: 1 h 15 min by train with 1 transfer via Bonn main train station airport § Düsseldorf: 2 h 10 min by train with 1 or 2 transfers Düsseldorf § Frankfurt: 2 h 20 min by train via Bonn (1 or 2 transfers) § Frankfurt/Hahn (Ryanair and other low cost airlines): bus connection to Koblenz 1 h 10 min (six connections per day), then take train from Koblenz to Bad Neuenahr (45 min with 1 transfer) airport Köln/Bonn Train connections: § Paris Gare du Nord – Bad Neuenahr: 5 h 30 min § Berlin – Bad Neuenahr: 6 h 30 min
§ Amsterdam – Bad Neuenahr: 4 h 30 min Bad Neuenahr § Geneva – Bad Neuenahr: 8 h
TOP 2018 announcement 108 Train station in Bad Neuenahr
§ Distance from train station to the hotel: 1 km § Can be covered either by foot or by taxi. § Will organize transfers for main arrival hours.
TOP 2018 announcement 11 Looking forward to welcome you in Bad Neuenahr at TOP 2018!
TOP 2018 announcement 12