Venue & Info
ECSJ 2022 will take place in the Kamerling Onnes Building (in Dutch known as KOG: Kamerling Onnes Gebouw). It's a university building in the centre of Leiden.
How to get there? It’s a 20-minute walk from the train station. Alternatively, head to the bus station in front of the train station and take bus 2, 4, 6, 7, 169, 182, 183, 187 or 400. After ~12 minutes get off at bus stop Korevaarstraat. From there, it is a 3 minute walk to the KOG.
- Emailinfo@ecsj2022.eu
- AddressKOG Gebouw, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES Leiden
About the Kamerlingh Onnes Building
The Kamerling Onnes building contains a lot of history. It’s named after the Dutch physicist and Nobelprizewinner Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who once had his laboratory here.
The lab was built in 1856 on a location that was known at the time as the Little Ruin, after a gunpowder ship had exploded in the area in 1807. Through the years the lab has been expanded.
Early twentieth century Kamerling Onnes succeeded in making helium liquid, cooling it down very close to absolute zero ( -273,15°C). It got him the Nobelprize and his lab the nickname ‘Coldest place on earth’.
Another fun fact: Albert Einstein gave lectures here as well.
Nowadays the building houses the Faculty of Law of the University of Leiden.
(source: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/locaties/kamerlingh-onnes-gebouw#tab-2)
