Global Earth Observation and Monitoring
of the Atmosphere

Data Management Commitee meeting
Paris, Jussieu, 10-11 July, 2007

The meeting will start on Tuesday July 10 at lunch time and finish on Wednesday July 11 July around noon, a joint dinner is planned for the evening of the 10th.

Location

The meeting will take place in the Pierre et Marie Curie University (more commonly known as Jussieu. Also sometimes listed as Denis Diderot University on some maps...). The university is conveniently located in the center of Paris, in the 5^ème arrondissement (5^th district, zip code 75005), that is part of the Quartier Latin area.

The nearest métro station (right in front of the University, and 2-3 minutes walk from the meeting room) is Jussieu, on métro lines 7 and 10.

Getting to Jussieu from...

You can get tickets and route information on the SNCF and RATP (SNCF and RATP are the public transports operators in the Paris area).

The directions you get from the RATP and SNCF online route finders can be a bit confusing so, unless you know what you are doing, the easiest ways to get to Jussieu are listed below. And then you have to hope that you will not be delayed by a strike (grève), suspicious abandonned luggage (colis suspect), suicide (incident de personne), severe storm (intempéries), ... :-)

From Roissy Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport, option 1:
take any RER B train towards Paris till you reach the St-Michel Notre-Dame station. There, make a connection to métro line 10 going to Gare d'Austerlitz and exit at the Jussieu station.
Note: try to catch a direct/faster RER B train from the airport to Paris (there should be -almost- no stop before your reach the Gare du Nord station in Paris).

Note: getting back to CDG from Paris. Not all northbound RER trains go to the airport (there is a fork before the airport)... You have to make sure that your train goes to Aéroport Charles de Gaulle, check the screen at the train station!
From Roissy Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport, option 2:
(if you want to be a bit more comfortable because you have spent a bad night on the plane, and you don't mind being stuck in a traffic jam, or you arrive on Sunday when there is no traffic jam): take the Roissybus from CDG to Place de l'Opéra (in the center of Paris), then catch métro line 7 in front of the Opéra building. Ride a métro (heading towards Villejuif Louis Aragon or Mairie d'Ivry) and exit at the Jussieu station.
From Orly (ORY) airport, option 1:
take the Orlyval train to the Antony station. There, take RER B towards Paris till you reach the St-Michel Notre-Dame station. Then make a connection to métro line 10 going to Gare d'Austerlitz and exit at the Jussieu station.
From Orly (ORY) airport, option 2:
take the Orlybus bus to the Denfert Rochereau station. There, take metro line 6 to Place d'Italie, change to metro line 7 and exit at the Jussieu station.
Note: getting back to Orly from Paris. Not all southbound RER B trains go to Antony (there is a fork before Antony)... You have to make sure that your train stops at Antony, check the screen at the station!

Buying RER/métro tickets:

You can buy tickets in any RER/métro station. The vending machines will take credit cards and coins. If you plan to move around a bit in Paris, but know that you will not have much time (because of a very interesting workshop), you can buy a carnet de tickets (10 tickets at 20% off the base price, that will allow you to travel downtown).

Note: you can go as far as you want, and make connections in the métro. But you will need one ticket for each bus you take (and you can't go from bus to métro or métro to bus with the same ticket)!

Finding the meeting room in Jussieu

The meeting will take place ?to be determined. From the Jussieu métro station, walk to the university main gate, then ...? (see maps below).

jussieu map

Lodging information

The Jussieu University has no special lodging agreement with the hotels in the area.

Each participant has therefore to take care of her/his own hotel reservation! Do not wait till the last minute, because July is a busy season in Paris and the hotels in the area around Jussieu can be expensive...

Useful tips

It is more convenient to stay in walking distance of Jussieu (and it is a nice and typical area of Paris, near lots of museums and interesting places to visit). Otherwise, using the métro is very easy and cheap, and a métro ride takes at most 2 minutes between 2 stops (not including the connections). Métro stations are never far from one another (this is not London :p), 2-5 minutes by foot.
It is now forbidden to smoke inside public places in France, but it is still a good idea to explicitely request a non-smoking/smoking room.
You should not expect air conditionning in all the hotels...
Breakfast is not included in the hotel rate. The price seems to be around 10 euros, so if you feel adventurous you might as well find a bakery or a bar between your hotel and the meeting room (you can count on at leat one bakery every 200 meters!).
Taxes may or may not be included in the hotel rates, so better ask...
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A few hotels...

There are lots of hotels around Jussieu. Here are some tips (thanks to Jean-Yves Peterschmitt!), but of course, we can't guarantee the quality of service or anything...

Best Western Quartier Latin, 71 rue Monge, 75005 Paris
This hotel is next to the Monge métro station Place Monge (line 7), and a 5-10 minutes walk from Jussieu.
Timhotel Jardin des Plantes, 5 rue Linné, 75005 Paris
This hotel is very close to Jussieu and has been recently remodelled.
Closest Métro station : Jussieu (line 10 and line 7), then Place Monge (line 7).
Hôtel Vendôme Saint Germain, 8 rue d'Arras, 75005 Paris
This hotel is close to Jussieu. This hotel is simpler looking than the others, but is also cheaper (and claims to have free wifi access).
Closest Métro station : Cardinal-Lemoine (line 10), then Jussieu (line 10 and line 7).