The conference will take place in Lugano, within the red building (2) of Università della Svizzera Italiana:

Full Address: USI Main Campus, Room A32
Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano (CH)

How to reach Lugano:

Airport – by shuttle

There is a shuttle bus service connecting Malpensa Airport to Lugano. You can reserve a seat on a minivan at your arrival (30 CHF but it takes only 1 hour). The phone numbers for reservations is available at:

Airport – by train

You can reach Lugano from Malpensa also by train. 

Trains from Malpensa Terminal 2 and Terminal 1 to Lugano (direction Bellinzona) depart every hour, the cost is 21 Euros (from T2 the first train is at 6.13, from T1 at 6.19, then 7.13-7.19, 8.13-8.19 and so on till 23.13/23.19…)

The timetable is available at https://www.sbb.ch/en/buying/pages/fahrplan/fahrplan.xhtml
You can buy tickets directly at Malpensa train station.

Train from Milano Centrale

Lugano station is directly connected with Milan Central Station and with Zurich.

Timetables are available on the Swiss and Italian railway websites:

https://www.sbb.ch/en/

https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html

Accomodation

A list of hotels/accommodation can be found on this map:

Other accommodation options are available on Airbnb, Booking.com and Hotels.com