Venue 

MCS 2013 will be held at Nanjing University (Xianlin Campus), China.

About Nanjing. 
Located in southwest Jiangsu, Nanjing lies on the southern bank of the Yangzi River, surrounded on 3 sides by a range of hills known as the Purple and Gold Mountain. Spanning approximately 6,500 sq km in area, and with more than 4.5 million population, it is the region's largest city and its capital. The city's wide streets lined with beautiful plane trees and a bunch of historic and cultural sites, which make it one of the most popular tourism destinations in the region. From the 3rd to the 14th centuries the city acted as the regional capital, and in 1368, under the first Ming emperor Hongwu, Nanjing became capital of a united China. During his reign, emperor  Hongwu constructed a 130 sq km city including a magnificent palace and massive city wall with 13 gates.

Coming to Nanjing.
It is convenient to come to Nanjing. There are direct airlines between Nanjing and Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Macao, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, etc.

It is also convenient to transfer at other cities of mainland China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. There are direct airlines between Nanjing with almost all the main cities of mainland China.

Nanjing is very close to Shanghai: from Shanghai Pudong airport, you can take the shuttle bus "line 4" at the Pudong airport to the Shanghai railway station. The trip is about 40 minutes and costs about 18RMB. Trains from Shanghai to Nanjing dispatches about every 30 minutes in daytime. The fastest train will take about 1.5 hour from Shanghai to Nanjing, the slowest will take about 5 hours. The tickets are about 45-145RMB, depending on the type of the train and the rank of the seat. Better trains are named as "Gxxx" ("xxx" is a number").

Coming to Conference Venue
The workshop venue is Computer Science Building in Nanjing University (Xianlin Campus).

• Find the campus on Google map and Baidu map (in Chinese)
• The metro station "Nanjing University XIANLIN Campus" is close to the gate of the campus
• Print and show the following picture to taxi drivers in order to take you to the gate of the campus

For participants living in the New Era Hotel and Nanjing University Xiyuan Hotel, there will be shuttle buses transferring between the hotels and the conference venue.