The Summer School will take place at the university of the Aegean and the accomodation will be at Hotel Merope (www.hotelmerope.gr), Karlovassi, Samos.

Karlovassi can be reached by ship from the ports of Piraeus or other islands. The Organizers will take care of the transportation, from the airport Aristarchos of Samos, of the participants that will arrive there on the July 3rd, before 19.00 p.m., and they will be transferred back on July 9th, about 7.00 a.m. The airport of Samos has direct flights from/to Athens, Germany, Netherlands, England, Belgium, Scandinavian Countries, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, etc.

Samos  is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the 1.6-kilometre (1.0 mi)-wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region.

In ancient times Samos was a particularly rich and powerful city-state, particularly known for its vineyards and wineproduction. It is home to Pythagoreion and the Heraion of Samos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes the Eupalinian aqueduct, a marvel of ancient engineering.

Samos is the birthplace of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, after whom the Pythagorean theorem is named, the philosopher Epicurus, and the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, the first known individual to propose that the Earth revolves around the sun. Samian wine was well known in antiquity, and is still produced on the island.

The island was governed by the semi-autonomous Principality of Samos under Ottoman suzerainty from 1835 until it joined Greece in 1912.