Workshop Announcement – THIRD Circular
New World Luminescence Dating Workshop
at UCLA in West Los Angeles, California, Sept 6 – 9, 2012
DEADLINES:
ABSTRACTS: August 15
E-mail to: UCLA_luminescence@ess.ucla.edu
Detailed format instructions below
REGISTRATION: August 31
The secure webpage is now operational. See notes at: http://www.ess.ucla.edu/luminescence/, and use the link to the secure site.
Registration: Registration is via a single secure on-line procedure, located via a link on our workshop website http://www.ess.ucla.edu/luminescence. Registration is $80 for students and $150 for professionals, with one day registration for $80. Please send any enquiries to UCLA_luminescence@ess.ucla.edu.
Dinner: We will host a workshop dinner on Friday evening (Sept. 7), $45 per head.
Field trip: There will be a one-day field trip on Sunday Sept. 9, cost $40 including packed lunch. We will visit the San Andreas fault, scenic Vasques Rocks, the Santa Monica Mountains, and finish up on the beach at Point Dume. We will discuss issues relating to luminescence dating, geologic considerations and bleaching controls. We will aim to get at least one minivan back to LAX by 4pm for anyone flying out Sunday evening. Let us know any further travel requests for this day, and we will attempt to accommodate these.
Dates: Thursday Sept 6 2012 to Saturday Sept 8, with an all-day fieldtrip on Sunday Sept 9, 2012. Our plan is to have an introductory workshop on Thursday morning covering the basics of luminescence dating for the uninitiated (e.g. new students, interested potential users), and start the workshop proper in the afternoon, with talks continuing through Friday and Saturday. At this time of year we are able to make use of UCLA teaching rooms, equipment and accommodation at special rates, and keep costs to a minimum, and the weather is typically warm and sunny.
Invited speaker: We are very pleased to have an invited presentation by Dr Mayank Jain, from the Riso National Laboratory, Denmark.
Presentations: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be restricted to a single letter page size, and include the following information:
Title, Authors (e.g. Rhodes, Ed J., etc),
Authors’ affiliations and email addresses (email optional but encouraged),
Abstract text,
Figure or Table (optional), References cited (optional).
Please use a 12 point font size for the main text, and 10 point for the affiliations and references. Please make it clear whether you would prefer an oral or poster presentation, and email these to UCLA_luminescence@ess.ucla.edu as a word or plain text document, so that they can be edited if necessary, by August 15. We will select oral presentations (15 minutes plus 5 mins discussion) to provide a wide range of topics, and hope to include as many student talks as possible. Poster boards are 4’ x 4’, so please aim to stay within these dimensions when creating your poster.
Travel: It should be possible to fly in Thursday morning and stay 2, 3 or 4 nights. (LAX is around 25-30 mins. away by cab, and there is a “Westwood Flyaway” bus to UCLA every hour on the hour for $10). Other travel options include Burbank and Long Beach airports, though these are further from UCLA.
Accommodation: Accommodation options in UCLA housing are shared twin rooms (i.e. two people sharing) for $70 each person per night including breakfast, and single rooms for $120 per night (breakfast included for both). On the registration form, you may select 2, 3 or 4 nights. Note that Sunday night (Sept. 9) accommodation in these UCLA rooms is not available. On the registration form, please tell us the full name of the person that you would like to share with for the twin rooms, but both people must complete the booking process individually. If you would like a place in a shared room, but don’t have someone to share with, we can allocate these, so please tell us whether you are male or female. Double room: air-conditioning, cable TV, high-speed Internet connections, in room-telephone, twin beds, shared bathroom with other suite; daily housekeeping. Single room: air-conditioning, cable TV, high-speed Internet connections, in room-telephone, one twin bed; daily housekeeping.
There are two further UCLA accommodation options, and these are the UCLA guest house (www.hotels.ucla.edu/, nightly room rate c. $148, possibilities for sharing) and Tiverton House (http://tivertonhouse.ucla.edu/, nightly rate c. $139, sharing possible), a small UCLA hotel close to campus. Please contact these accommodation options directly to make reservations. Phone numbers and email addresses are on their websites. Both are within 10 minutes walk from the meeting venue.
There are also plenty of choices provided by private hotels around Westwood and close to campus, starting a little higher than the UCLA accommodation options. These include:
Hilgard House Hotel & Suites, 927 Hilgard Avenue, (310) 208-3945, c. $149
The W Hotel Los Angeles – Westwood, 930 Hilgard Avenue, (310) 208-8765, c. $379
Hotel Palomar, 10740 Wilshire Blvd, (310) 475-8711, c. $209
Hotel Angeleno, 170 N. Church Lane, (310) 476-6411, c.$335
Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, 11461 Sunset Boulevard, (310) 476-6571, c. $249
Holiday Inn Express, 11250 Santa Monica Blvd, (310) 478-1400, c. $210
Sponsorship: Sponsorship suggestions or donations welcome!). Please contact Ed Rhodes (erhodes@ess.ucla.edu) with any offers or suggestions.
Other matters of interest: There are many things for families to do nearby (beach, mountains, Hollywood, Disneyland, Universal Studios etc), so you might want to tack on a few extra days and family members! Also, don’t forget the excellent Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits (30 mins by bus from UCLA) with their exceptional Pleistocene mammals.
Please forward this flier to anyone who may be interested who may not have been included in the circulation. We look forward to welcoming you at the workshop!