AD 2012

Venue

criteria:
- capacity
- power available (power package at extra cost)
- wifi (sufficient capacity)
- nearby space for posters.
- space for coffee breaks
options:
- behavioral sciences (poster space problem) larger lecture hall power, but cannot serve coffee breaks
- Lory 228 (better) +204,206 combo for posters, no power, no tiered seathing
- Lory North ballrooom, no power, no tiered seating
- Clark building, posters/coffee breaks in the hallway
- "Grey Rock" room (cap. 120 people lecture w/o tables, 80 w tables, mix possible, room chart) possibly too small
Poster session:
- separate room, cost $100 per day
- Grey Rock has limited wall space
- $10 rental per poster board (4x8 feet, possible double sided space permitting) + $100 setup fee

hotels (hilton , best western, closest, Armstrong closest to old town)
- Armstrong Hotel: european, like a large b&b, also has railroad noise, can reserve only 5 rooms as moving reserve at a time , group rate: queen: $79 week, $149 weekend; suite: $115 week, $179 weekend
- Hilton: nice, as expected , has a front to railroad tracks, block rate $109 (single), $119 (double)
- Best Western University Inn: group rate? run down, quietest
package deal on campus - includes breakfast,lunch, parking, rec center access and $61.18 OCS fee

"commuter" package pp $61.18 reserved 50 (includes parking, rec center access)
conference service at Colorado State U: fee per person includes
- registration (per website) via bank transfer or credit card (3% credit card surcharge is charged to sponsor, i.e. has to be accounted for in the registration fee)
- reports on registrations
- badges?, people at a registration desk
- obtain hotel group rates
- coordination for meals, conference dinner, transportation
- conference room rental Clark A201
lunch:
- served lunches specific for the conference require booking a separate room
- alternative: local fast food places (Panda Express, Subway etc.)
- better alternative: get a meal plan from conference services for student cafeteria, said to be much better than average student dining
breakfast/coffee breaks: can be served,see menu. in the foyer of the Grey Rock room (no need to book an extra room)
total registration fee estimate: $250 - $350 (was mentioned before; need to come up with spreadsheet)

confirmed:

Lorenz Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Luca Capriotti, Credit Suisse, New York City. USA
prefers to speak on Monday or Friday
Don Estep, CSU, USA
Mary Hall. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Barbara Kaltenbacher, University of Klagenfurth, Austria
Markus Püschel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
~~Siegfried Rump. Hamburg University of Technology, Germany~~ Andreas Griewank, Humboldt, Germany
Bert Speelpenning, MathPartners, Seattle, USA

book title? "Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation"

editors:

info for LNCSE

dates in reverse for proceedings to be delivered to Fort Collins:

March 23: Send to Springer (aim for March 16, with one week of slack)
Feb 27: Final "camera ready" version due
Feb 20: major revision due
Feb 3: Notification of acceptance
Jan 27: Referee reports due
Jan 6: Papers distributed to referees (earlier if we stick with the original due date (unlikely))
Dec 21: Papers due (can be pushed back to Jan 4, with abstracts due Dec 21)