The conference will take place on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. UBC is one of Canada’s largest universities. It consistently ranks among the worlds top 40 universities and counts many notable individuals among its current or former faculty and alumni, including 7 Nobel prize winners. It is a research-intensive university and some of the important recent developments happening at UBC can be found on its news website. For an overview of UBC at a glance, check you the facts and figures page. In 2015, UBC celebrated its 100th-year anniversary. UBC’s main campus, in Vancouver, is extremely large, with a size of over 400 hectares, and is situated in an environment of stunning beauty, being surrounded by forest and ocean on all sides. The location is the traditional territory of the Musqueam people. The campus is home to over 50,000 students from over 140 countries around the world, and is like a city in itself, offering a wide variety of athletic and cultural activities, as well as accommodation, shopping and dinning options. The campus is a 25-minute drive from the Vancouver downtown and a 25-minute drive from the Vancouver International Airport (YVR), and there are convenient and frequent public transit options connecting the campus to downtown, the airport and other areas in Vancouver.
Vancouver is one of the world’s most beautiful and desirable cities to live in, as well as a top tourist destination. It is the largest city in British Columbia and one of the largest in Canada. It is well known for its incredible natural beauty, blending ocean, forest and mountain, and extremely multi-cultural environment and diverse cuisine. It has a mild climate year-round and there are even times of the year when one could do boating and skiing on the same day, and within half-an-hour of drive from each other.
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