{"id":10,"date":"2009-06-08T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/site\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2010-02-21T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T14:54:42","slug":"location","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/registration\/location\/","title":{"rendered":"Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usi.ch\/en\/\">Hosted by the University of Lugano<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=Lugano,Switzerland\">Lugano, Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>USI Location<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conference talks will be held in building no. 1, first floor &#8216;Auditorium&#8217;.  See the campus map: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usi.ch\/en\/universita\/campus_lugano\/university_campus_lugano_mappa.htm\">English<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usi.ch\/universita\/campus_lugano\/university_campus_lugano_mappa.htm\">Italian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to Lugano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nearest hub<\/em>: The airport Milano Malpensa (code MXP).  From there to Lugano is 75 min.  Travel via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugano-tourism.ch\/en\/61\/default.aspx\">taxi<\/a> and two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starstation.ch\/\">shuttle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malpensaexpress.ch\/index.asp\">buses<\/a> is available, leaving straight from the airport.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/?hl=en\">GoogleTranslate<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<em>Local airport<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugano-airport.ch\/\">Lugano Airport<\/a>, which has flights from Zurich and other cities.<br \/>\n<em>Extra (English) help<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lugano-tourism.ch\/en\/32\/tourist-information.aspx\">Lugano Tourism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Switzerland, by Juergen Schmidhuber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Switzerland is a good place for scientists. It is the origin of special relativity (1905) and the World Wide Web (1990), is associated with 105 Nobel laureates, and boasts far more Nobel prizes per capita than any other nation. It also has the world&#8217;s highest number of publications per capita, the highest number of patents per capita, the highest citation impact factor, the most cited single-author paper, the biggest and most expensive machine ever, etc. As of 2009\/2010, Switzerland is again the most competitive country, according to the World Economic Forum. It also got 2 of the 3 most livable cities (source: Mercer Consulting 2009) and the highest ranking in the list of happiest countries (1990s average), according to the Happiness Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Lugano-illustration1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248 alignleft\" title=\"Lugano pictures\" src=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Lugano-illustration1.jpg\" alt=\"Lugano pictures\" width=\"702\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Lugano-illustration1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Lugano-illustration1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lugano.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-482\" title=\"lugano\" src=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lugano-300x195.gif\" alt=\"lugano\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lugano-300x195.gif 300w, https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lugano.gif 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sl4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-483\" title=\"sl4\" src=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sl4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sl4\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sl4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sl4-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sl4.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/san_salvatore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-484\" title=\"san_salvatore\" src=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/san_salvatore-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"san_salvatore\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/san_salvatore-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agi-conf.org\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/san_salvatore.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictures above by\/suggested by Juergen Schmidhuber<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted by the University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland USI Location The conference talks will be held in building no. 1, first floor &#8216;Auditorium&#8217;. See the campus map: English, Italian. Getting to Lugano Nearest hub: The airport Milano Malpensa (code MXP). From there to Lugano is 75 min. 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