Locations

The workshop will be held in Rennes, at the address: Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, Bilding 28, Ampithéatre K.
The Department of Mathematics and Irmar Institute are located in Rennes at the address: Campus Beaulieu, bilding 22-23.
Campus map

Rennes

Rennes is a vibrant university city and is the administrative capital of Brittany.

Key figures

Population: 209,860

About 60,000 students, including 6000 international students

1 hour from Mont Saint-Michel bay, 1 hour from St Malo, 2 hours from Paris by train

Websites

Tourism in Rennes

Tourism in Brittany

IRMAR

Rennes Map

Getting to Rennes

By plane

Rennes has its own small airport. Rennes airport operates flights to over 70 destinations but mostly with domestic flights (some low cost to/from the UK and Ireland).

From Rennes airport, you can reach the city center:

  • by bus: number 57, bus stop "Republique" (terminus, in the city center), 1.50€. There is a bus every 20 minutes from 5.30 to 0.11 (timetable).
  • by taxi: the airport is about 10/15 minutes from the conference site and the city centre, 15€ before 19:00; 25€ after 19:00.

By train

It is also possible to take a flight with final destination Paris airport and take a train (TGV) from Paris to Rennes ( French national railway company website for booking tickets) . From Charles de Gaulle Airport rail station to Rennes, there are between 4 and 6 trains a day (direct, 3h to reach Rennes). From Montparnasse railway station (Paris) to Rennes, a train every 30 minutes (direct, 2h05 to reach Rennes).

Getting to IRMAR

The IRMAR Insitute is located in the north-east of the city within the Beaulieu campus.

By bus

The bus is probably the most practical way to reach the IRMAR. Rennes has a large bus network (see here) and the bus ticket (1.50 euros in the subway stations or directly to the bus driver) can be used during one hour. From the city centre you need to take either bus C4, C6, 40Ex or 41Ex and stop at Tournebride or Résidence Universitaire.

Accommodation

Most of our participants are accomodated in:

Cité internationale Paul Ricoeur
Cité universitaire Beaulieu
Adagio apart'hotel

There are plenty of other possibilities for staying in Rennes (e.g. booking.com).

See below instances of hostels:

Downtown

Near Irmar