• Lunches will be served in the restaurant of Le Corum (included in the registration fees).
• The welcome reception will be held on Monday, May 10 from 18.00 to 20.00 at Le Corum in room Sully Central.
• The conference dinner will take place on Tuesday, May 11 at 20.00 at Domaine de Verchant, Castelnau le Lez. 

Montpellier is one of France's leading tourist destinations, welcoming its visitors with huge enthusiasm throughout the year and encouraging them to try some of the host of opportunities available.

This ancient city's reputation is based on a number of factors: first and foremost, its geographical location at a crossroads on the Mediterranean, an advantage that has encouraged trade and intellectual curiosity since the city was founded.

It is not by chance that Montpellier is one of the leading university towns in the South of France: learning is a real vocation here, as can be seen from the reputation of the Universities of Law and The Arts, and the venerable Faculty of Medicine - the oldest in the Western world.

Business parks, science and technology institutes flourish here, contributing to the advance of Research (biology, agronomy, etc.) and creating high-level seminars and conferences - a constantly increasing number of prestige events.

The capital of Languedoc-Roussillon is eternally dynamic, looking to the future and, above all, reflects a Mediterranean way of life that is inspired by a rich past that can be seen in its monuments and surrounding follies.

Take a stroll through Montpellier... you will be walking through a town centre that lived through medieval times, lined with 17th and 18th Century private mansions sitting alongside new districts designed by well-known contemporary architects, such as Bofill, Vasconi, Chemetov, etc.
Born at the beginning of the year one thousand, Montpellier sets out on the third millennium, enriched by two centuries of history sometimes tumultuous, sometimes dramatic, often brilliant, and always out of the ordinary.

In the plains of the Languedoc (South of France), of which she sits in the middle, Montpellier stands out as an exception : it is the only large city that does not date back to Antiquity. This singularity will give the city the dynamics of the youngest. While the old cities, remains of the Roman Empire, never cease to decline, Montpellier, in the Middle Ages, develops with surprising rapidity. Within a few centuries, she develops from a simple agricultural domain into a first-class economic and cultural capital. Despite occasional eclipses, Montpellier succeeded in maintaining and developing the role of capital of the Bas-Languedoc. In this, the 18th century was a profitable period for the city.
The Mediterranean beauty thus received a rich inheritance. Many lordships, often from far away introduced here the taste for liberty. Visitors from all horizons made it a country of tolerance. Its scholars taught respect for culture and knowledge. In more recent times, the flow of new populations, the privileged geographical situation and the large potential of gray matter have given Montpellier a new lease of life and enabled her to project an image true to reality, as a young and enterprising city. This new and rapid growth seems to reach a hand out thru the ages to the most dynamic times of the history of Montpellier.