Parallel Session Location of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting ->

How to get from the UNESCO building to the site IHP, ENS, CP (Montagne Ste Geneviève) by Metro ->

The MG12 morning plenary sessions and some of the afternoon parallel sessions, as well as the conference banquet will take place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in two nearby buildings.

Halls I, III, V, VII, VIII, IX at Fontenoy

• Hall I
• Hall III (61 seats)
• Hall V (20-22 seats)
• Hall VII (42 seats)
• Hall VIII (42 seats)
• Hall IX (96 seats)

Halls XIII, XV, XVI at Bonvin

• Hall XIII (80 seats)
• Hall XIV (42 seats)
• Hall XVI (56 seats)

Some of the parallel sessions will occur in some of the most celebrated academic institutions in the "Latin Quarter" including:

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) [map]
98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris

Paris Observatory (OP) [map]
Access via IAP, 98bis boulevard Arago

Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) [map]
45, rue d’Ulm, 75230 Paris

Institut Henri Poincaré [arrive] [map]
11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris

Halls at IAP

• Hall 1 Amphitheatre, ground floor (120 seats)
• Hall 2 Seminar room, basement (45 seats)

Halls at OP

• Hall 1 Salle de l'Atelier (50 seats)
• Hall 2 Salle du Conseil (30 seats) Monday only

Halls at ENS (50-70 seats)

• Hall 1  salle Celan (ground floor) 
• Hall 2 salle Cavailles (1st floor)
• Hall 3 salle des Resistants (1st floor)
• Hall 4 salle de Conference (ground floor)
  [across the street at 46, rue d'Ulm]

Halls at/near IHP

• Hall 1
• Hall 2
• Hall 3 (Monday only)
• Amphitheatre Lacassagne (next to IHP) (40 seats) W, Th, F only

UNESCO to OP and IAP

• Walk along Lowendal avenue from UNESCO
  to subway station Cambronne (10 minutes).
• Take subway line 6 in the direction of Nation,
  and get off at station Saint-Jacques (10 minutes).
• Walk to Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
  98bis boulevard Arago (5 minutes).
  
  One enters the Observatory of Paris from IAP.

The remaining institutes are also reached from the same
Saint-Jacques Metro stop, proceeding across Saint-Jacques Boulevard
to rue Saint-Jacques as above, but continuing north on
rue Saint-Jacques as described below.

UNESCO to ENS

• Walk along Lowendal avenue from UNESCO
  to subway station Cambronne (10 minutes).
• Take subway line 6 in the direction of Nation,
  and get off at station Saint-Jacques (10 minutes).
• Walk* up rue Saint Jacques (same initial direction as IAP)
  and turn right at rue des Ursulines,
  continue on Rue des Ursulines then right at  rue d'Ulm
  [click here for the Google Maps walking route graphic]
  (18 minutes).
  

UNESCO to IHP/AL

• Start as in the preceding section UNESCO to ENS
  for first 3 steps to rue d'Ulm, but instead
  turn left and then again left at rue Pierre et Marie Curie
  for  IHP/AL (3 minutes extra).
  
  *NOTE: alternate bus route.
  For those who wish to try the bus north to the ENS/IHP/AL,
  get off one Metro stop earlier (Denfert Rochereau)
  take Bus Number 38 direction Chatelet,
  get off at stop "Val de Grace" and walk as indicated in
  this Google Maps walking route [click here].

OP and IAP to ENS and IHP/AL

• Walk east to rue Saint-Jacques (see above graphic), turn left
  and follow instructions above from UNESCO to ENS, IHP/AL.