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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

Broderick Royale & Broderick Victorian
Check in: Friday Jan. 21 Check out: Friday Jan. 28
Address: 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

  1. Bus (buy a 7-day citypass)
  2. Driving & parking
  3. taxi $15
  4. walking (45 minutes)

Directions by Bus
Broderick Victoria Moscone Center From House to Moscone:

  1. Take 31 bus at Turk St. Broderick St (around the corner) towards Steuart Terminal
  2. Get off at Market St. & 4th St. (after Market & 5th, 15-20min)
  3. Walk south to Moscone on 4th (5-10min)

From Moscone to House:

  1. Walk to Market St. & Power St. (two large blocks, 5-10 min);
  2. Take 31 Bus (on the north/going west/left) side of st) towards Cabrillo & La Playa (18min)
  3. 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.
  1. Go to SPIE's Photonics west registration site:
  2. Choose Symposium registration;
  3. log in if you have an SPIE account
  4. In the registration information section, enter discount code: PW11MU
  5. Follow though the rest of the steps for registration.
  6. 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


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