EU/MEeting 2010 - 10th anniversary of the metaheuristics community

Location

The workshop will be organised at the University of South-Brittany in the building of the Faculty of Science (Saint Maudé - Science 2)

Click here for a map of the campus.

Getting there

Lorient is a medium size city located on the south coast of Brittany (west part of France). You can access Lorient by

TRAIN: 6 to 7 connections from Paris, Nantes, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nice, Marseille.
Paris/Lorient by high-speed train (TGV): 3 hr 40
For train timetables, go to the French railways website.

PLANE: 4 flights per day Lorient/Paris, 55 minutes
3 flights per day Lorient/Lyon, 1 hr 15 min.
Lorient Lann Bihoué airport code: LRT
For more information, go to the airport website

BY ROAD: Lorient, located on the Nantes-Brest expressway (RN 165) is:
60 km [38 miles] from Quimper and Vannes
130 km [81 miles] from Brest and St Brieuc
160 km [100 miles] from Rennes and Nantes
500 km [312 miles] from Paris

Once in town, you can easily reach the University by bus.
Lines 1a, 22, 30 and 31 will drive you from city center (Bus stops: "Gare d'échange", "Cours de Chazelles", "Alsace-Lorraine", "Faouédic" and "Sécurité Sociale") to the university (Bus stop: "Saint Maudé").
You can find a map of the network and information about the timetables here.

About Lorient

At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India had established warehouses in Port-Louis. They later built additional warehouses across the bay in 1628, at the location which became known as L'Orient (the Orient in French). Later, the French East India Company, founded in 1664 and chartered by King Louis XIV, established shipyards there, thus giving an impetus to the development of the city. In 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession, Britain launched a Raid on Lorient to destroy French shipping. In attempts to destroy German submarine pens (U-boat bases) and their supply lines, most of this city was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II (see section below). Thus, today's Lorient reflects an architectural style of the 1950s.

More information on Lorient here.