Gravitational Waves with GStreamer Workshop

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

November 8–11, 2010

Held in association with the 20th Annual Midwest Relativity Meeting

Building Location

CITA is located on the 13th and 14th floors of the Burton Tower, part of the McLennan Physics Building, at the corner of Russell and Huron Streets in downtown Toronto.

Room Location

The workshop will be held in the CITA conference room on the 15th floor of the Burton Tower.  Ride the elevator to the 14th floor, turn left when you exit the elevator, follow the hall around the corner and enter the stairs on your left.  Walk up one floor.  The conference room is on your left as you exit the door at the top of the stairs.

Links

All links take you to pages maintained elsewhere, use your back button to navigate back here!

• The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
  • Directions & Maps
  • Nearby accomodation. This list is maintained by the Fields Institute, which is one block from CITA, so everything they say about distances and travel times holds for CITA.
  • Temporary accomodation. This list is maintained by UofT student housing service.
• The University of Toronto
  • Parking
• Pearson International Airport
  • Travelling to the U.S.
• Toronto Transit Commission
  • System Map.  These can be obtained as a printed booklet, free of charge, from the ticket agents in subway stations.
• Bicycle rentals:
  • Community Bicycle Network
  • Bikechain rental information.  Bikechain is a service offered to UofT students only, but they maintain a list of other rental shops in the city.
• One Zone
  • WiFi ISP.  One month of service is about $34.
  • Coverage map

Tips

• TTC:
  • There is a single flat fee for one-way rides within the city.  If you will be transfering from one route to another you must obtain a paper transfer ticket when you first get on the system.
  • Bus and streetcar drivers cannot give change.
  • Tokens (coins that look like miniature twonies) can be purchased at subway stations.  These are accepted system-wide, and are required to operate the automated turnstiles at unattended subway entrances.
  • Day passes can be purchased at subway stations and most convenience stores for $10 (a bit less than four rides).  A day pass is valid for unlimited rides for one adult on weekdays, unlimited rides for two adults on weekends.
  • Weekly passes can be purchased at subway stations for $36 (approximately 13 rides), and are valid from Monday to Sunday inclusively.  They are sold up to the Tuesday of their week of validity, and are valid for unlimited rides for one adult (but are transferrable, you can give or sell it to somebody else if you don't want it).
• Car:
  • When driving in the city, remember it is illegal to pass the open doors of a streetcar.  You could hit somebody stepping off or running to catch it from the sidewalk.
  • Parking is strictly enforced.  Despite what any sign says, nothing can remain parked in the same location on city streets for more than 3 hours without a permit.
  • Motorcycles can park free-of-charge in metred spots (but are still restricted to 3 hours max).
• Air:
  • Travellers returning to the United States by air will be required to pass through "pre-clearance" (US customs and immigration) here in Toronto.  Include time for this in your departure schedule