9th Workshop
Physical and Cultural Weed Control
Samsun, Turkey, 28 – 30 March 2011
Venue
The Workshop will take place at the congress centre on the campus of Ondokuz Mayıs University in Samsun, Turkey. Samsun is located on the Black Sea coast, midway between the western and eastern borders of Turkey. Samsun has an international airport and you can easily reach Samsun via Istanbul using Turkish Airlines, Onur Air, Pegasus and Sun express. Since most international flights go through Istanbul, it would be an excellent opportunity for you to take some extra days sightseeing this spectacular city. Istanbul has a long history and great variety of religions, cultures, people and traditions and sits at the border between Europe and Asia. (Direct flights to Samsun from some European cities to Samsun are possible but mostly during the summer period).
Ondokuz Mayıs University is located in Samsun, the largest city on the Black Sea coast in the North of Turkey, with a population of approximately 1.2 million. Samsun is a major commercial port, an industrial and agricultural city. The university is a modern regional state university established in 1975 with faculties and schools distributed over Samsun and 8 counties. The university, located on 8,500 acres, houses 10 faculties, 2 schools, 9 vocational schools, 4 graduate schools and 12 study and research centers and one conservatoire. Ondokuz Mayis University has 151 departments and programs with about 21,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students.