Padre Soler Building
Auditorium
Aula de Grados (Graduate's room)
Torres Quevedo Building
Other information of interest

Padre Soler Building

The Padre Soler building (nº 5) hosts both of the principal rooms of DC-2005: the Auditorium and the Aula de Grados (Graudates' Room). Both are located upstairs in this building. To get to them, use the entrance that opens onto the campus. This leads to the entrance hall of the "Auditorio Padre Soler" where the secretariat and registration for DC-2005 will be.

Main entrance of the Padre Soler building

This entrance is situated together with the door to the "Torres Quevedo" building, as the general campus map shows.

Both the auditorium and the Aula de Grados (Graduate's room) are equipped with video projectors, transparency projectors (converting to video), projectors from computer, for TV images (satellite / terrestrial), and systems for videoconferencing and simultaneous translation.

Auditorium

The Auditorium is the location for the plenary sessions of the conference, as well as the tutorial on application profiles, on thursday 15. It can seat more than 1000 people, and is usually used for all types of musical and theatrical events as well as various conferences througout the year.

It has four places for wheelchairs, with four places for companions.

The Auditorium

More information about the "Padre Soler" Auditorium (only Spanish)

Aula de Grados (Graduate's room)

The Aula de Grados (Graduate's room) is the place normally used for defense of doctoral theses and academic presentations at the Leganés campus. For DC-2005 it is the space we have chosen for the tutorials (except Application Profiles), as well as the Special session of the corporate group Monday afternoon, and the product presentations on the morning of Tuesday 13. Room 5.1.A01 of the campus, it is next to the auditorium (The doors of both open onto the same floor) and has a capacity of 176 people.

Inside of Aula de Grados (Graduate's room)

More information about the Aula de Grados (Graduate's room) (only Spanish)

Torres Quevedo Building (nº 4)

The building is connected to the sports centre (nº 6) and the Rey Pastor library. The building has a ground floor and four more.

"Torres Quevedo" building.
Passageway to the rooms used for DC-2005.

Room in the Torres Quevedo building
where workshops and special sessions
will take place.

In the various floors of the Torres Quevedo building, besides normal classrooms there are teaching and research laboratories, computer rooms, seminar rooms and staff offices. The activities of the conference will take place on the first floor (above the ground floor), which is connected to the Padre Soler Auditorium.

You can see the conference locations for each day (click on the active rooms in the maps to see the schedule for each room).

Other information of interest

The entire area used for DC-2005, the rooms in the Padre Soler building and the Torres Quevedo, hallways, etc. are covered by a Wi-Fi network. The connection is free, and participants will be informed on registration how they can freely connect, although use is of course bound by the security and usage restrictions of the University Carlos III.

Basic connection to the WiFi net includes Web access, i.e. Internet browsing. This service is available wherever the computer detects the WiFi-UC3M wireless network. If you want to use secure Web (https) it will be necessary to modify the proxy configuration in your Browser. The configuration data are:
Proxy server: proxy-u2.uc3m.es
Port: 80

If you need more network capabilities, ask to DC-2005 staff at conference desk (Auditorium Hall). To get full connection it is necessary to set up a coded Virtual Private Network based on L2TP/IPSec clients between the computer to be connected and the University network. Thus, the integrity and confidence of communications can be guaranteed.
More information about WiFi configuration (only Spanish)

All areas used for the conference are wheelchair accessible.

All the tutorials, plenary sessions, and daily summaries of the conference will be rebroadcast via UC3M-TV for DC-2005 web page, where you can choose the streaming format for receiving the transmission. Depending on bandwidth you can choose between Windows Media format (less bandwidth) or MPEG-2, where IPv6 tagged options will be broadcast through Internet 2.

Other useful information about the Leganés Campus

There is a number of other services available on the campus itself, including:

• The Conference Secretariat will be in the main hallway of the Padre Soler Auditorium. The offices of CONGREGA (spanish) - the conference organisers - are in the Sabatini building (nº 2). For any adminstrative questions please contact Sergio Santiago Benito, in office 2.0.C.11 (Building 2, ground floor, zone C, office 11).
• Cafeteria - restaurant: on the ground floor of the Padre Soler building, with a separate access a few metres from the main entrance. All conference meals during the days will be served here. There is also another cafeteria on campus, at the Sabatini Building (nº 2).
• Sports Centre (nº 6): The entrance is a few metres from the door of the Padre Soler building. There is a covered court for basketball, indoor football, etc. and an indoor 25m swimming pool. The facilities are available for use by the participantes of DC-2005 (student prices: 3,30 €). More information in the descriptions of facilities (spanish). To use the sporting facilities please contact the Conference Secretariat.

  
  "Alfredo Di Stefano" sports centre

• Banks: there is an office of the Banco Santander, with an ATM, and an ATM of the Cajamadrid. The bank branch and both ATMs are on the ground floor of the Agustín de Betancourt Building (nº 1).
• Shop: there is a gift shop (catalogue in spanish), called "Galenas", on the ground floor of the Agustín de Betancourt Building (nº 1).
• Copy centre: on the ground floor of the Agustín de Betancourt Building (nº 1), there is a copying service including colour and black/white photocopying, fax, transparencies, etc. It has its own entrance 25 metres across the campus from the entrance of the Padre Soler Building.
• Library: in the Rey Pastor building (next to Torres Quevedo). The meeting of the Advisory Board will take place on the third floor of the library, on Friday 16 September.

  
  Sala de Juntas (Meeting Room) (3.3.B01)

  The WG Meeting COLLECTION DESCRIPTION will take place in the Video Conference Room at the Library, ground floor.

  
  Video Conference Room at the Library.
  Ground floor.

  
  Video Conference Room at the Library.
  Ground floor.
  
  
• Location of the campus: the University Carlos III is in the urban centre of Leganés. Within 300 metres of the university are various restaurants, bars, banks, a taxi rank (in the Plaza de España, 10 minutes walk from the campus), as well as travel agents, pharmacies and other shops that may be of interest.
• The Renfe Cercanías train station Leganés (líne C-5) and metro station Leganes are about 5 minutes walk from the conference location. See information about getting there.