If you want to devote some time to learn about Hungary you may visit:

                                       http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/intro.html  for tourists, or more bussiness-like:
                                       http://www.hungary.com.

  Similar sources about Budapest, the conference city are:           

            http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/budapest.html, and
            http://www.budapest.com .

   Once in Budapest, you may visit the Where to go in Budapest pages
   of the City Hall.

Orientation in Budapest

You may retrieve a searchable map of Budapest: http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/cgi-bin/search

The river Danube roughly follows a North-to-South direction (a feature which I am missing in all other cities). It divides Budapest into two parts: Buda, on the right bank, with hills, and Pest, on the left side, quite flat. (The two towns has joined in 1872, since only then we can speak of Budapest.).

On the Pest side there are three concentric semi-circles of roads, other main roads starting in radial directions. The innermost semicircle follows the old city walls of Pest.

The Buda side has no remarkable simple structure, the roads go as the hills allow. Good luck!

The roads from Wienna, Bratislava, Zagreb and Ljubljana arrive on the Buda side, while those from Kiev, Bucharest and Beograd on the Pest side.

Most international trains arrive onto the Pest side, either to the Keleti or to the Nyugati railway station (on the map both in the box: row 2, coloumn 3).

The Déli pályaudvar (railway station) is a good orientation point for the conference venue, on the Buda side (map:2,2).

You may have a nice view of the city from either the Halász bástya (fishermans' bastion) or from the Citadella (a fortress on the Gellérthegy, on the map: both 2,2).