ICMS

Access

14 India Street is a historic building with steps at the entrance and therefore not accessible to wheelchairs. The seminar room is on the first floor and there is no lift. If you are attending a meeting think you will have difficulty in entering and using the building, please let us know. If any visitor anticipates having problems with access we will make every effort to move the event to a different venue (probably Edinburgh or Heriot Watt University ).

Rooms

The first room on the right as you enter the building is known as the Exhibition Room and houses memorabilia of James Clerk Maxwell. This is often used as the Registration room at the start of workshops. Evening receptions are also held in this room. The room at the rear of the ground floor is a breakout room with one public computer, a small whiteboard and casual seating. There is also a cloakroom and toilet at the foot of the staircase.

The first-floor drawing rooms are used as a seminar room and coffee room. The seminar room seats around thirty five people. It is equipped with whiteboards, data projector and dedicated laptop, overhead projector, DVD and video playback. There is a small kitchen, for staff use, and another toilet on this floor.

The room at the top of the stairs to the second floor is the Library. It can also be used for small meetings of six or eight people and has a large white board. The next room on your right is the main computer room with PCs – also equipped with a white board. The rooms at the rear of the second floor house the main ICMS offices.

Computing facilities

We have wireless internet access throughout the ICMS building for those bringing their own laptops. There are six PCs with broadband internet and a shared laser printer in the Computer Room as well as the single PC on the ground floor breakout room. If you are attending a workshop at ICMS, you will be given information about wireless access and use of computers.