Welcome to Karlsruhe

Conference Venue

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Campus Süd
Kaiserstraße 12
76131 Karlsruhe

The conference will take place in the following building complexes:

  • Audimax:
    Hörsaal-Gebäude am Forum (Straße am Forum 1), Building 30.95
  • Physics:
    Physik-Flachbau (Engesserstraße 7–9), Buildings 30.21, 30.22
    Physik-Hochhaus (Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1), Building 30.23
  • Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (ETIT):
    Elektrotechnik-Hörsäle (Engesserstraße/Fritz-Haber-Weg), Buildings 30.33 – 30.35
  • Chemistry:
    Chemie-Hörsäle (Fritz-Haber-Weg 2–6), Building 30.41
  • Mathematics:
    Kollegiengebäude Mathematik (Englerstraße 2), Building 20.30

For further information, please refer to the menu and the explanations below.

General Information about Karlsruhe

With around 309,000 inhabitants, Karlsruhe is the third largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as a baroque planned city and was the capital and residential city of the former state of Baden. The city owes its nickname “fan-shaped city” to its layout. Since 1950, Karlsruhe has been the seat of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice and since 1951 of the Federal Constitutional Court, which is why the city is also known as the “Residence of Law”. Karlsruhe is one of the most important European locations for information and communication technology, with the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) as one of the most important cultural institutions. In 2019, UNESCO included Karlsruhe in its network of creative cities as a “City of Media Art”.

Science in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe is nationally and internationally renowned and popular for higher education – not least thanks to the more than ten universities and about 40.000 students that shape the city’s image. These include, for example, the first and largest informatics department in Germany as well as exceptional degree courses such as music informatics and media design. With its numerous research and development facilities, Karlsruhe is the ideal location for research enthusiasts. The topics and fields are as diverse and wide-ranging as Karlsruhe’s university landscape.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is one of 13 “Universities of Excellence” in Germany. KIT was founded in 2009 as a merger of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and the Karlsruhe Research Centre. KIT combines the missions of the two predecessor institutions: a university with a teaching, research, and innovation mission and a large-scale research institution in the Helmholtz Association. Research and teaching at the KIT Department of Physics can be divided into five major subject areas: Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Quantum Materials and Systems, Optics and Photonics, Geophysics, and Meteorology and Climate Physics.

Places of Interest

Information about Karlsruhe is available at: https://www.karlsruhe-erleben.de