Venue and Facilities
The various conference activities will be held in the colloquium room of the University of Michigan (UM) Physics Department. This room has auditorium style seating and a mixture of seats with and without a desktop. Contiguous space is available for poster sessions and coffee breaks. Free internet will be available to all conference participants. The UM central campus has three high quality museums open to the public. The conference banquet will be held in the Museum of Art, which in 2009 opened a landmark $41.9 million expansion and major restoration of its Beaux-Arts historic home, Alumni Memorial Hall. The Exhibit Museum of Natural History features, among many things, a unique-in-the-world collection of prehistoric whale fossils that document the unusual evolution of a land animal to an ocean-going animal. This collection was made by renowned UM paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich. Sixty-five percent of the collection of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology derives from important UM excavations in the Mediterranean conducted during the 1920s and 1930s. It also includes Egyptian scarabs and seals collected by former UM Physics faculty member Samuel A. Goudsmit. The UM Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library has a Special Collections branch that houses an internationally acclaimed collection of rare books and manuscripts, including the originals of a draft of a letter from Galileo to Leonardo Donato, Doge of Venice, in August, 1609, and Notes on the Moons of Jupiter, January 1610. Ann Arbor is located approximately 30 minutes from the Detroit International Airport (DTW), which has non-stop international flights to Europe and Asia and good non-stop national service. DTW is roughly half way between Ann Arbor and Detroit. |