Contacts for the ORNL Research Exhibit are Betsy Riley (booth coordinator), Tim Jones (technical), and Debbie McCoy (administrative). Note: this year Betsy is on the conference PR committee and will have conference-wide responsibilities both before and during SC2001 (also means Betsy gets insider tips on stuff going on at the conference).
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Special concerns: The Denver loading dock is VERY narrow and there are only two rollup entrances to the show floor (for the first two days we can only use ONE door). This will most likely create congestion (i.e., BIG delays) during setup. We need to carefully plan our logistics so that the first stuff off our truck is the first stuff we need for setup.
About the venue: Everything is closer together in Denver than at Dallas. See the photos. The walk from the closest hotel (Holiday Inn) to the show floor is shorter in Denver than the walk from the bus drop point to the show floor in Dallas! There are bunches of restaurants, brew pubs, and coffee houses just a block or so from the convention center. There are free trams that run continuously along that main drag (just over a block from the convention center) that cover 10-12 blocks of just about anything (food, drink, shopping, entertainment, exercise). Prices are not bad at all. The most expensive burger we saw was $7.50 at Wolfgang Puck's. The variety is impressive (from Mongolian barbeque to Peruvian seafood).
Housing tips: Looks like VERY FEW govt. rates for any of the conference hotels! Govt. rate for Denver is $86, the "plus half" would be $129 -- very few that even meet that. Looks like we will need exception letters all around! The conference headquarters hotel is the Adams Mark. (Note that for QoS reasons, I would NOT recommend staying at the Adams Mark!) Very close walking distance to the convention center (conference rate $149 for one person, $164 for two). The only place closer is the Holiday Inn. Note that the suites at the Adams Mark are not very big. To get a bigger bathroom (unless you LIKE having the toilet wedged in between the sink and tub) ask for a double QUEEN room (both the Kings and the double DOUBLEs have the teeny bathrooms). The Holiday Inn rooms (especially the bathrooms) are bigger than the Adams Mark rooms. Basically the Adams Mark has a fancier lobby and more restaurants, but the breakfast buffets had the same content. The Holiday Inn is the conference hotel to fall within the "plus half" range (their conference rate $95). The farthest lodging on the conference list is the Embassy Suites, they say it is about 5 blocks--I thought it was more like 10 (but most of that is on the main drag where there are the continuous trams). It's not a bad walk. Their breakfast buffet is the same as the others (but it's FREE). The rooms are very nice. They do NOT have a govt. rate! They only offer the conference rate of $159. They are the ONLY hotel that offers high-speed internet access in the rooms. Also on the conference hotel list are the Marriott and the Hyatt; both are very nice. The Marriott is 3 blocks straight back from the main entrance to the convention center; the Hyatt is a block to one side of the Marriott (and was the only hotel that still had govt. rate rooms if you went around the housing bureau). The Marriott conference rate is $151. There is a Courtyard by Marriott about a block farther that is $99 on weekends and $175 on weekdays (no conf. rate). There is a Townplace Suites about a mile away (also operated by Marriott) that has studios that ARE govt. rate ($79 for a one bedroom, $109 for a two bedroom)-- they are not on the conference list and only have about 9 rooms available as of 5/23).
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