Sage Days 13 Update

[Jonathan Hanke]

Dear SAGE DAYS 13 participants,

We are looking forward to seeing you shortly, and appreciate your interest in Sage!  Attached is a tentative schedule for the Sage Days 13 conference at UGA from Saturday Feb 28th through Monday March 2nd. 

Please feel free to look at the SD13 Wiki (http://wiki.sagemath.org/days13) for updated information, and to add you arrival and departure information when you have it.

We have a block of rooms for the conference reserved at the Georgia Center on campus.  They already have a list of confirmed participants, but everyone should confirm their arrival/departure date with the reservations office by calling (706) 542-1181 and mentioning either that you are with "Sage Days" or event number 68207.  Only single rooms are available, and all rooms are non-smoking.  If we are covering your hotel expenses, then they will be directly billed to the conference (but no room service please!).  Also, there is complementary wireless internet throughout the hotel.

We recommend that you arrive on Friday Feb 28th, and there will be an informal dinner at a local restaurant for those who arrive on/before the 6:30pm shuttle (departing ATL at 4:45pm).  The dinner will be at 7pm at an Italian restaurant "La Dolce Vita" on 323 E Broad Street in downtown Athens, which is about a 20 minute walk from the Georgia Center.  We will meet at the front desk at 6:40pm and walk over together.

The preferred way of getting to Athens is to fly into Atlanta (ATL), and then take the AAA Shuttle express shuttle to the Georgia center.  The shuttle takes about 1.5 hours and costs about $45 each way.  Since the shuttle sometimes fills up, it is recommended that you call ahead and make both arrival and departure reservations.  The shuttle phone number is (800) 354-7874 or (404) 767-2000.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail or call either myself (jonh...@gmail.com, 919-636-0206), William Stein (wst...@gmail.com, 206-419-0925), Gonzalo Tornaria (torn...@cmat.edu.uy) or Michael Abshoff (mabs...@googlemail.com).  See you soon!

-Jon
 =)

[William Stein]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Hanke <jonh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear SAGE DAYS 13 participants,
>
> We are looking forward to seeing you shortly, and appreciate your interest
> in Sage! Attached is a tentative schedule for the Sage Days 13 conference
> at UGA from Saturday Feb 28th through Monday March 2nd.
>
> Please feel free to look at the SD13 Wiki (http://wiki.sagemath.org/days13)
> for updated information, and to add you arrival and departure information
> when you have it.
>
> We have a block of rooms for the conference reserved at the Georgia Center
> on campus. They already have a list of confirmed participants, but everyone
> should confirm their arrival/departure date with the reservations office by
> calling (706) 542-1181 and mentioning either that you are with "Sage Days"
> or event number 68207.

They are only open M-F 9am-5pm, but you can fill out a web form here:

https://secure.georgiacenter.uga.edu/hotel/hotelregform.phtml?ResTime=fy2009

I'm not sure if this actually makes the process easier, since you
evidently still have to call them to give them our credit card number.

-- William