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How to get to Greifswald

The closest and most important airports to Greifswald are Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Schönefeld as well as Hamburg. Rostock-Laage is an option for national flights.

When you arrive in Germany you can hire a car to drive to Greifswald or you can use the train service of Deutsche Bahn. From Berlin to Greifswald you need app. 2.5 hours by train. Please disembark at the station “Greifswald” (the main station), not “Greifswald Süd”.

Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics Greifswald (Conference location)

The Branch Institute of IPP at Greifswald was founded in 1994. Here the fusion experiment Wendelstein 7-X operates since 2015 http://www.ipp.mpg.de/2285/en.

Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum (Excursion)

The A4 rocket, which was developed in Peenemünde can be considered the prototype of all later booster rockets, both military and civil. It is the emblem of modern rocketry, whose humanitarian and utopian roots stand in stark contrast to the suffering of its victims. There are few sites where the gains and risks of technological progress are as intimately intertwined as at Peenemünde. The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum attempts to explore and address the ambivalence of this technological development http://www.peenemuende.de/index.php?id=42&L=1.

Water mill Hanshagen (Conference Dinner)

After the tour to Peenemünde busses will take you directly to Hanshagen, the conference dinner will take place in an old water mill (1524) located 15 km east of Greifswald http://wassermuehle-hanshagen.de/wassermuehle/.

City of Greifswald

Greifswald is situated in the northeastern part of the German federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, close to a most beautiful water sports area between the two large islands Rügen and Usedom. The old university town and Hanseatic city offers visitors, Greifswald’s inhabitants, students and scientists an inviting, creative atmosphere http://www.greifswald.de/en.html.