Useful Information

How to get there

The colloquium will take place on the University of Exeter Streatham Campus, starting in the afternoon of the 23rd June and ending at lunchtime on the 26th June. Events will be held in the Forum, as well as at the Peter Chalk Centre / Newman Building. A map of the Streatham Campus can be found here, and general information about the venues can be found below.

The main railway station in Exeter is St. David’s (not Central), and Streatham Campus is a 20-minute walk uphill from St. David’s station. The campus is connected to both the city centre and St David’s station by the No. 4 bus. More details of how to get to campus, parking etc are available here.

Information for presenters and session chairs

Detailed information for presenters and chairs is available via this link.

Other information

• A list of local restaurants
• Information about the Forum
• Information about the Peter Chalk Centre
• How to get to main (Streatham) Campus
• Things to do on campus:
  • Sculpture Walk
  • Horticultural Highlights
  • Tree Trail
  • Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
  • Northcott Theatre
• Visit Exeter – visitor information, things to do, food and drink etc

Organizing committee

• Mark Holland (chair)
• Chris Lazda (lead for BMC)
• Andrew Gilbert (lead for BAMC)
• Demi Allen
• Peter Ashwin
• Nigel Byott
• Layal Hakim
• Andrew Hillier
• Alison Hume
• Henri Johnston
• Gihan Marasingha
• Tony Samuel
• Tanja Schindler
• Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova
• Jimmy Tseng
• Kyle Wedgwood

Code of Conduct

The organisers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:

• Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
• All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
• Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organisers without a refund of any charge.

Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to the conference organisers.

This code of conduct is based on the “London Code of Conduct“, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code of Conduct was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse.