====== SPIE Photonics West 2010 Group Trip Planning ======

===== Travel Dates and Flight times =====
^  Name      ^  YYZ - SFO    ^  Time          ^  SFO - YYZ    ^  Time          ^
^  Qiyin     |  Fri Jan 21  |  8:00 - 10:43   |  Wed Jan 26  |  21:45 - 5:35   |
^  Joe       |  Fri Jan 21  |  17:45 - 20:20  | | |
^  Tom       | | | | | 
^  Mike      | | | | | 
^  Brent     |  Fri Jan 21  |  8:00 - 10:43   |  Sun Jan 30  |  13:35 - 21:15  |
^  Zhaojun   |  Fri Jan 21  |  8:00 - 10:43   |  Sat Jan 29  |  21:45 - 5:35   |
^  Derek     |  Fri Jan 21  |  8:00 - 10:43   |  Fri Jan 28  |  19:45 - 6:55   |
^  Mohammad  |  Fri Jan 21  |  10:00 - 12:40  |  Tue Jan 25  |  11:30 - 19:20  | 
^  Baochang  |  Fri Jan 21  |  8:00 - 10:43   |  Sat Jan 29  | 21:45 - 5:35    | 


===== Accommodations =====
[[http://www.boutikia.com/home/4_bedrooms/Pages/Broderick_Royale.html|Broderick Royale]] & 
[[http://www.boutikia.com/home/4_bedrooms/Pages/Broderick_Victorian.html|Broderick Victorian]] \\ 
**Check in:** Friday Jan. 21   **Check out:** Friday Jan. 28 \\ 
**Address:** 
[[http://tinyurl.com/258byl5|828 Broderick St.]]\\
Room assignment: coming soon! 

===== Transportation =====

==== Hamilton/McMaster to/from YYZ ====
Option 1: Airport shuttle \\ 
Option 2: Taxi/Limo \\ 
Zhaojun is organizing taxi for early Friday morning flight. \\ 
Option 3: Bus \\ 
Mac -Square One: Go #47/47A/47B \\ 
Square One - YYZ: Mississauga bus # 7\\ 

==== SFO to/from Rental house ====
Option 1: Taxi ~ $60 \\ 
Option 2: BART (train) with Bus connection \\ 

==== Rental House to/from convention center ====
  - Bus (buy a 7-day citypass)
  - Driving & parking
  - taxi $15
  - walking (45 minutes)  

**<hi #ffff00>Directions by Bus</hi>**\\ 
{{ :public:sf_direction_house.png?350x300|Broderick Victoria}}
{{ :public:sf_direction_moscone.png?350x300|Moscone Center}}
**From House to Moscone:** \\
  - Take 31 bus at Turk St. Broderick St (around the corner) towards Steuart Terminal
  - Get off at Market St. & 4th St. (after Market & 5th, 15-20min)
  - Walk south to Moscone on 4th (5-10min)

**From Moscone to House:** \\ 
  - Walk to Market St. & Power St. (two large blocks, 5-10 min); 
  - Take 31 Bus (on the north/going west/left) side of st) towards Cabrillo & La Playa (18min)
  - Get off at Turk St. & Broderick St (after Divisadero St/Eddy St.)

===== Group Registration =====
We are organizing a registration group with 20% discount for full registration fees, i.e. student registrations will not be discounted and will not need to enter discount code.  

Please do the following: 
  * Advanced registration deadline is Jan. 10.   
  - Go to SPIE's [[http://spie.org/x14624.xml|Photonics west registration site]]: 
  - Choose Symposium registration; 
  - log in if you have an SPIE account
  - In the registration information section, **enter discount code: PW11MU**
  - Follow though the rest of the steps for registration.  
  - [[qiyin.fang@mcmaster.ca|E-mail Qiyin]] indicate you will be in the group; 
  * Please note that you need to do this before pre-registration ends (Jan. 10) and there will be no refund if you use this code.  

===== Presentations =====
Enter your presentation date, time, room from SPIE's schedule \\ 

Brent - Oral Presentation - Sat. Jan 22nd at 10:50 am \\ 
Session 2 of Optics in Bone Biology and Diagnostics Conference \\

Zhaojun-Oral Presentation: Tue,24 Jan at 1:30pm  \\ 
An integrated time-resolved fluorescence and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy instrument for optical biopsy \\
Session 3 of Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems IX

[[:public:ECS_Seattle_2012|ECS 2012]]